[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

[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.]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaw.

[thelightbringer]

Hello, Xerxes.

Let the grown ups talk.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

That's funny. There seems to be only one person having a tantrum in this post, and I don't think it's me.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

[Really Lucifer?

That's the worst way of getting anyone to listen to anything, and it's not even creative, much less threatening.

Not even replying to that.]

[thelightbringer]

[Of course really, and Mayuri should be flattered. Most people don't get a warning. But of course he's like all the other 'gods' and shinigami, arrogant and dense, so not pressing the message further. Even talking to these creatures feels like teaching physics to plankton.

Instead, have a more amiable topic:]

But if you'd like to volunteer to go under the knife for once, well, maybe you really would learn a thing or two.