IC Contact

[depthlesslock]

[Hey, this is York. M'not around right now so leave a message.

If this is a client, please leave your details and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

If this is one of the others, I'll get back to you whenever.

If it's Florida, I didn't do it.
 

Aaaand if it's anyone else... Just leave a message. I'll get back to you if I recognise you. Or even if I don't, and you sound cute.]

Comments

[protective_logic]

I suggest that, in hopes of fostering a superior relationship with Omega, the two of you find a job you might work together. One that will allow you to demonstrate, at the very least, your ability to fight and use a gun so that Omega can be more easily assured that you are capable of protecting yourself and Sigma under high stress situations.

[depthlesslock]

No. While I get that it would possibly prove to him that I am in fact capable of doing my damn job, I refuse to work with someone I don't trust.

[protective_logic]

Trust cannot be developed unless one works toward it.

[depthlesslock]

I will not go out into the field with someone who would like to shoot me as mut-sh as the guard around the corner. A job is not the place to develop trust that doesn't already have some basis.

[protective_logic]

Then spar with him if you are any good.

[depthlesslock]

Delta, I've been part of the For Hires for going on six years. I'm good.

[protective_logic]

Prove it.

[depthlesslock]

Fine.

[protective_logic]

If you ever wish him to stop harassing you, stop dismissing you, and stop actively hating you, you must give him a reason to trust you with something as precious as the lives of those he loves.

[depthlesslock]

I'm so sorry that he missed my role in rescuing Sigma from Charon. My bad that he didn't notice my coming to the house to make sure you were going to be okay when Florida threatened to gut you because of Louisiana. Apologies for introducing the twins to a new game that has, as I've been told, been played several times since. How can he ever forgive me for comforting Sigma after you and Omega had a fight and you ran away? Surely he can never trust me after I helped teat-sh Sigma self defense.

[protective_logic]

I would point out that you assisted in my leaving of my home.

It is your physical skills that he questions, York. Prove them and perhaps he will be less of an ass.

[depthlesslock]

Funny. I remember trying to talk you out of it and when you refused, my only part was to ensure you had a damn roof over your head.

Did I not mention my part in Sigma's rescue? Has he never wat-shed me train? Seen my damn records? He's never seen Wash on a mission, to my knowledge, and he has no damn problem with him.

[protective_logic]

No, he hasn't seen you train, he hasn't seen your records. He judges you harder because of Sigma's relationship with you.

[depthlesslock]

Well excuse us for fucking dating then!

If he can't be bothered to see me train or look at my records, that's his problem and not mine. It's stupid and actively dangerous to not know the techniques and abilities of your teammates, so he can go fail a mission because he can't get past the front door for all I fucking care.

[protective_logic]

Alright. Don't be the bigger man.

[depthlesslock]

Wow. Really? That's what you're going to go with. The bigger man. From the shit he's pulling over me and the lack of decent reason why or any solid ground to stand his claims on, I'd say I already am.

[protective_logic]

You run away from him. That isn't bigger. Being scared of him. Which is your right. Your choice. I will no longer involve myself in this conflict.

[depthlesslock]

I'm not scared of him, I'm scared of one thing that he can do. What a coward I am for avoiding someone that I take no pleasure in interacting with and who cares nothing for whether I get hurt or not.

[protective_logic]

What is it you think he can do?

[depthlesslock]

Not give a fuck when he gives me a panic attack.

[protective_logic]

Alright. Fine. I will no longer attempt to broker peace between my older brother and my younger brother's boyfriend. I cannot see why I even attempted to, as I have proven time and time again to be poor at understanding social interactions and achieving desired results therein.

[depthlesslock]

What the hell? I answered! You asked me a question and I gave you an answer. Why suddenly leap to this?

[protective_logic]

Did he know he gave you a panic attack? Were you there in person? Did, afterward, you ever attempt to explain why what he did, and here I must presume it was the eye thing, is a problem?

Of course, in your defense, he gives no fair reason for his treatment of you. And I am tired of this entirely. The way you balk at him, the way he insults you because he does not know you. Not that you attempt to rectify that. You must be responsible for your own adult interactions. It is not my place to be a nagging parent in this. For that I am sorry. I will not interfere with this matter in the future.

[depthlesslock]

The first one I told him very definitely that he just triggered really bad memories and he proceeded to threaten me with making Sigma or I forget eat-sh other. As for the eye thing, quite apart from the fact that he's a medic, would he threaten to break your implants? Theta's hearing aids? Cut Maine's vocal chords? He's not unfamiliar with people who have impairments, Delta, he has no excuse.

[protective_logic]

York, I can honestly say that when I told him later about how the eye thing would be on that level, he was shocked. It actually hadn't occurred to him because, believe it or not, that's a relatively common threat of his. But...

Making Sigma and you forget each other?