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[orangetoughguy]

[This is an audio click--SMACK!!] What the fuck was that for-- [SMACK!!]

Take it like a man.

[Some rustling noises.]

Motherfucker I'm trying to...shit it's on.

[Actually spoken into the device.] Everything's cool. Pink's a son of a bitch.

[Then a click off.]

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[orangetoughguy]

You get'em from strange places.

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[adamantined]

Right now they're worth about as much as a crayon.

What are you doing, anyway?

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[orangetoughguy]

I dunno who told you that but don't let'em make you believe it.

I had to check up on the guy.

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[adamantined]

I saw he was in the hospital. Complaining about the food. Is that where you were checking up on him?

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[orangetoughguy]

Yeah, it's a pain in the ass.

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[adamantined]

What happened?

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[orangetoughguy]

He got shot.

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[adamantined]

Getting shot doesn't exactly feel good. Was it bad?

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[orangetoughguy]

It coulda been but it wasn't.

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[adamantined]

What happened?

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[orangetoughguy]

Shot in the belly.

It was my fault.

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[adamantined]

[Claire's end of the line presents with a long stretch of silence, because she wasn't expecting an answer.]

The kind of 'my fault' where you were in trouble or the kind of 'my fault' where you dropped a loaded firearm?

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[orangetoughguy]

Neither. I just...I just had this thing where I couldn't remember where I was, you know? It wasn't no curse or whatever the fuck you wanna call that shit. It was somethin' else.

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[adamantined]

It's been going around. I forgot how to bake. [Among other things, or thing, namely the reason for her recent bitchiness.] You forgot where you were and your natural reaction was to start shooting?

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[orangetoughguy]

[Now he sounds surprised.]

Really? [Not quite relief.] Something happened, it put me in a real bad place, I just went off. Then after all that everything started comin' back.

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[adamantined]

Yeah. [She sounds dismissive.] I've seen regular curses like that. They change who you are completely and when you come out of them at midnight, all you're left with is this sick feeling. And blood, in your case.

But you're alright now?

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[orangetoughguy]

Yeah, I'm alright.

[He's going out on a limb with this one.] You?

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[adamantined]

Peachy keen.

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[orangetoughguy]

You sure?

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[adamantined]

I haven't been shot recently, if that's what you're asking.

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[orangetoughguy]

i know you ain't into that, I'm talkin' baking accidents. I mean, you do have'em right? You ain't a master baker.

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[adamantined]

What, like burning myself? [It happens all the time, it's just broadcast less often.] I haven't had any explosions or anything, but I burn myself all the time.

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[orangetoughguy]

You shoulda told me that earlier I woulda got you mitts.

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[adamantined]

I don't need mitts.

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[orangetoughguy]

So what you're like one of those girls who likes to get burned? I'm not judgin' or anything...

[Just weird to have your kink in the food place fffff.]