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[withtheoldbreed]

[Friends Filter - one friendly conversation rule applies!]

[Gene's so far from being an expert about stuff like this that he feels like an idiot for even beginning to hypothesize why things are heading the way they are, but after talking to Merlin, and all the murders, and how weird and off certain people have felt...

Anyway, he'd rather know a little more about who's been changed by it and who hasn't. Whatever it is. Maybe it's just people being strange.]

Anyone been noticing they're feelin' weird since we got back from port? Or seen anyone else been actin' kinda strange?

[Asiatic, he'd almost want to say, like being here for too long is making people depressed and angry and different, but it's not exactly the same. People got like that in the islands when they'd just been away from home and decent food for too long.]

[Private to Snafu]

[And on a completely unrelated note:] I was gonna run by the mess, you want anything?

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[badgerms]

Everybody acts fuckin' strange, Sledge. [It comes out flat and harsh, like he thinks Gene's an idiot.] This whole goddamn place is strange.

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[withtheoldbreed]

Yeah, I noticed that, Shelton.

Is somethin' wrong? [Because you've been acting strange, too. Stranger than normal, just like the rest of the people here.]

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[badgerms]

No. [Even flatter and even harsher, a door slamming on that question.]

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[withtheoldbreed]

[... Okay.

Gene's quiet for a moment before probing again, expecting the same kind of reaction, but apparently incapable of pulling away and saying hey, maybe this isn't a good idea.

Shocking.]

I'm gonna be patrollin' with Dillon until Captain Rogers feels better.

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[badgerms]

[Gene you really need better friends.]

Why?

[It's a bunch of dismissive questions in one: Why with him? Why should Snafu care? Why bother doing it at all?]

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[withtheoldbreed]

[A little wryly:] Because we need to figure out who's killin' everyone?

[And Dillon can defend himself a whole lot easier than Gene can, if someone strong enough to kill a vampire and a super soldier's out there.]

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[badgerms]

Why the fuck you botherin', Sledgehammer? Everyone just comes back anyhow.

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[withtheoldbreed]

Doesn't mean we shouldn't try and look out for each other.

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[badgerms]

Guess that's why you're a fuckin' warden and I ain't.

[For maybe the first time, that sounds like it bothers him. Like he thinks less of Sledge for their different positions here.]

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[withtheoldbreed]

I'm not askin' you to come with me. [Don't act like it's some giant inconvenience or annoying or whatever. 8v]

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[badgerms]

The fuck're you tellin' me for then?

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[withtheoldbreed]

Did I do something to piss you off you weren't plannin' on telling me about?

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[badgerms]

You gettin' all sensitive now?

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[withtheoldbreed]

No, but if you're gonna be an asshole, I wanna know why.

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[badgerms]

Go cry about it to someone who fuckin' cares, boot.

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[withtheoldbreed]

[wow rood, now gene is just offended.]

What the hell is your problem, Shelton?

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[badgerms]

Maybe I'm just sick'a your fuckin' face all the time around here. Thinkin' you know better than me just 'cause you couldn't get over Ack Ack gettin' his goddamn brains blown out, just 'cause you're a damn warden and I ain't.

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[withtheoldbreed]

When have I ever said any of that? I don't think I know better than you.

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[badgerms]

"Someone's gotta look out for you, now Burgie ain't here." [He absolutely says that in a mocking impression of Gene's Alabama drawl.]

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[withtheoldbreed]

I was kiddin' around. Now who's bein' sensitive?

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[badgerms]

I don't need some green fuckin' college kid lookin' out for me. I don't need a goddamn babysitter. Don't need you touchin' my fuckin' face when I wake you up from your screamin', don't need you to get food for me. I don't fuckin' need you, Sledge.

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[withtheoldbreed]

Y'know, Shelton, if you didn't want me botherin' you this whole time, you could've just said so after you kicked me out the first time.

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[badgerms]

I'm sayin' so now.

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[withtheoldbreed]

Fine.

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[badgerms]

Good.

[And hey, that's the connection being shut off.]