IC contact for lastvoyages

[citizendetective]

[If I don't have an active post up, feel free to use this post to have your character call, videochat, text, or knock on Misty's door.]

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[greatoldjohn]

Yes. I wasn't sure if you wanted to hear it from me.

[citizendetective]

I'd like to hear it from both of you.

[Especially since she's not at all confident that she'll get anything at all from Natalie.]

[greatoldjohn]

She wanted to unpair from me because she thought I'd be stuck with an inmate who could never graduate otherwise. She was trying to save me from being her warden because she thinks she's unredeemable.

I told her that was bullshit and that that wasn't happening.

And I'll tell you the same thing I told her: I will get her graduated if I have to drag her every step of the way. She's not getting rid of me and I'm not giving up on her.

[citizendetective]

Good. She doesn't think that's possible right now.

So everything else she made up?

[greatoldjohn]

I don't know what she told you. But this whole thing was a total surprise.

I was trying her

Did you get the quesadillas? I told her to make sure you got some too. I'm sorry it was during our week time out. It just kind of happened after Dorian let me try cheese for the first time.

[citizendetective]

I was hurt by that too, so I told her I didn't want them. Is it true that Pagan wasn't there?

[greatoldjohn]

No. I like Pagan but I didn't want to make you feel left out or make him question the best way to show solidarity with you. So I just didn't ask.

[citizendetective]

[So she'd been honest about that, at least.]

But Lark and Dorian were.

[greatoldjohn]

Dorian is the one who was willing to let me use his sense of taste.

Lark just asked for some quesadillas because it sounded tasty. He wasn't really there long.

[citizendetective]

I know the "correct" answer is that you're allowed to invite over anyone you want, for whatever you want.

[greatoldjohn]

...but you felt left out.

I guessed as much. I tried to find a compromise by making sure you got some too.

I'm sorry it still hurt.

[citizendetective]

You think I felt left out because I really wanted some quesadillas?

That is so not the point.

[greatoldjohn]

No, Misty, I figured you felt left out because there was a gathering and you weren't invited. But given that the quesadillas were the only part I could feasibly make you a part of with the situation as it was, that was what I tried.

[citizendetective]

[... Ah.]

Thank you.

I'm sorry I didn't take them.

[But looking back, she's pretty sure Natalie only told her about them to piss her off more.]

[greatoldjohn]

They were the first quesadillas I've ever had but I liked them.

[citizendetective]

They're super good. I bet Nat was really good at making them.

I have another question.

[greatoldjohn]

Go for it.

[citizendetective]

Do you think I matter to her at all?

[greatoldjohn]

[ There's a longer pause than usual. ]

Yes, I do.

I think this was a plan to try and detach both of us from her. Potentially to get us squabbling so she could slink away from both relationships.

[citizendetective]

Which is also something she might do if she just wanted to be rid of us.

[greatoldjohn]

She *did* want to get rid of us.

I chose to tell her to fuck herself on that score.

What you decide is up to you.

[citizendetective]

I mean get rid of us because she's sick of us, not because she's guilt-ridden and has low self-esteem.

[greatoldjohn]

Oh.

I don't think that was it.

But you'd have to ask her yourself. I won't speak for her.

[citizendetective]

Okay.

How are you doing?

[greatoldjohn]

Okay now.

I've never cried before.

It was...

Different.