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[littletonoidea]

"This is the audio log of Communications Officer Doug Eiffel of the-- previously of the U.S.S Hephaestus, leave a message and I'll see if I can bear to drag myself away from whatever utterly engaging task I must be doing to not notice my comms--"

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Re: text

[littletonoidea]

jesus christ

would you believe you're the second person who's bitched about malcolm to me in the last week

text

[cactusy]

easily

the hell is it with this place that it keeps dragging in people like him and me

trevor

dorian

who looks at any of us and says "yeah, total warden material"

Re: text

[littletonoidea]

no the thing with dorian is, he does care like a whole lot

he's also just a massive bitch and doesn't wanna tone that down for anyone

sometimes that's what an inmate needs

someone who's as fucked up as they are in all the matchy matchy ways people don't see on the surface

text

[cactusy]

malcolm is the same way

i think

except dorian didn't care what anybody thought of him to the point that it was annoying, and malcolm cares about what people think of him more than anything. to the point that it's annoying.

Re: text

[littletonoidea]

and i'm the guy who speaks in so much pop culture jargon that no-one can understand me. to the point that it's annoying

we're all annoying assholes, your style of being one is just water to malcolm's oil of caring way too much. i bet you anything dorian would've found malcolm annoying as hell too

if you need a hand talking to him without throwing him off the ship though

i dunno

maybe i can help?

text

[cactusy]

no

[The answer comes with intense lightning speed.]

Re: text

[littletonoidea]

[That gets a brief pause.]

i mean take your time thinking about it or whatever

text

[cactusy]

sorry

[This also comes immediately. Then, after she takes her time thinking about it:]

i don't think he'd agree to you doing it

and you're too close to the situation

Re: text

[littletonoidea]

i mean

not really?

i speak Shaw, i don't really give a rats about your inmate

(no offense)

and for some reason malcolm thinks i'm hot shit so he might actually listen to me

text

[cactusy]

i thought he had some kind of huge grudge against you

Re: text

[littletonoidea]

nah we talked he's over it

text

[cactusy]

[Another long pause.]

Malcolm hates the idea of doing this stuff with people he doesn't love and trust implicitly. i hate the idea of doing it with people i do. that way, there's no personal danger if it goes wrong.

i know it's not like it was with Neal. Malcolm doesn't mean to you what he meant to Neal. but the idea still really sucks.

Re: text

[littletonoidea]

wait so do you NOT want me mediating for you in case i hate you or something afterwards

text

[cactusy]

i guess

i'll do what i did with Neal where i'll say something i thought was true and still think is true, and it'll break everything. there's a reason i don't do mediation crap at home

a lot of reasons, actually

1/2

[littletonoidea]

[There is a distinct pause. Long enough that she might think he's put his phone down.]

[littletonoidea]

[Until FINALLY]

babe

did you forget im the one who got you and neal to start talking again or

[cactusy]

that's completely different

[littletonoidea]

ok?

how come

[cactusy]

because you saw the end, not the middle.

[littletonoidea]

it was only the end bc i stepped in and made you guys finish it

stuff only ends when you actually stop it

[cactusy]

this also isn't a fight that needs to be stopped so that everything can go back to normal. it's stupid, messy, annoying mediation. there is no normal.

[littletonoidea]

you know that's basically my entire job on the hephaestus at this point right

[cactusy]

and it sucks, doesn't it

[littletonoidea]

sucks more when we don't

the commander iced me for three months after she found out about my sentence

[cactusy]

still different

that's like me and neal, not me and malcolm

what happened after 3 months?