[video, voice] what goes around comes around

[maddest]

[The device flicks on. Static.

Then, purple- only purple. White. Break's coat, the beautiful off-the-shoulder, white one that he lost almost a year ago during that episode with all of the blood. It's back in one piece.]

What-

[Then the feed flicks off. On again, very briefly, as he bangs it on the table. Sound.

Then to video- there's Break's elbow, Emily's dress.

On. Rap rap rap. Someone's knocking it against a table to see if it can be broken open.]

-why does it keep chirping, Emily?

[This is almost exactly how he arrived, nearly two years ago to the day. And here we are, come full circle, about to smash the PCD on a table corner in idle, non-technologically oriented curiosity.]

Comments

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

Relatively well, in a sense.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Friends, then?

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't call it that.

But I dissected you, and I don't think you ever got over it. Stubborn. Still, it didn't keep you from coming back.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

You did what?

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

Dissected you, is your hearing gone too? Well, vivisected, you were alive the entire time. I'm a scientist.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Why precisely didn't I kill you?

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

You couldn't. Without your chain here, there's little you could've done. Though you were still interesting without it, rest assured.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Without my-

I see.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

Has that changed? I always thought I'd been missing out on an interesting experience.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Come find out. I'll give you a new experience, one way or another.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

...You have me curious, but I have no intention of dying.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Dilemmas, dilemmas.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

[Is still only at half-power, and more paranoid for it.]

Isn't it? But would you actually use it to answer a grudge I had to remind you of?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Do you not know me very well?

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

I know you're rather unpleasant.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

[Chortling.]

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

-Is it that amusing?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Maybe not quite yet, but the day is about to get better.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

What do you mean?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

You're tempted.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

Obviously. But I'm not yet suicidal.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I won't kill you. I promise.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

And why should I trust that?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

You shouldn't, I'm lying.

[thelightbringer]

[And then Lucifer dons his Buttinski cap...]

A friendly warning, Mayuri, from one neighbor to another. I know you're brilliant for what you are [which is like complimenting an aphid on how it eats leaves, but whatever] and I know how eager you are to unearth all the secrets of existence.

But if you do try dissection, vivisection, or any form of experimentation on him, I will leave you as a helpless heap of scraps. When I'm done killing you, over and over and over, all your memories will be lost. Forever. If I ever get bored with torturing you, I can promise it will only be after you've forgotten how to pick up a scalpel.

[And then he smiles calmly, like a mayor inviting the underlings to discuss.]