IC Contact (Snowblind)

[rubikscomplex]

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[warriorscribe]

I may. But it seems to me as if the circumstances are different. You don't like to acknowledge your own feelings, I know.

But I still want to help.

[More like, he's done all he can for Angel and Rhys and needs another outlet to keep from being pulled under by his grief and worry. Same difference, right?]

[bookofnope]

I was trying not to be too hostile, since apparently you harbour some deep dark secret related to my death. Now you've gone and made me be blunt about it. Did you kill me?

[rubikscomplex]

[He'll remember later, he'll know what happened later, but for just right now, House is going to feed him the same lie as everyone else. He lets the moments tick away before replying, giving it added emotional weight.]

it was an accident

[Sort of true. Also not answering Beckett's question, but implicating himself.]

[rubikscomplex]

[House narrows his gaze on the text.]

i'm not crying on your shoulder, blondie
get lost

[warriorscribe]

If that's what you want.

I've found acknowledging emotions and attachments to be a strength rather than a weakness. Extenuating circumstances are rare, whatever my word of four hundred years of experience is worth to you.

[And as he'd implied, he won't pester House any further unless he replies.]

[rubikscomplex]

[This is just getting him riled.]

right
because we're so attached
that's definitely a strength for us

[bookofnope]

[It's easier to believe than House deliberately killing him... but it's not exactly an answer.]

Quite the accident. A shove down stairs? Hid behind me from the wrong anomaly?

[rubikscomplex]

you really want me to say i shoved you onto a piece of rebar at the bottom of the elevator shaft
while you were trying to help get graham off of me?

[Is that really the lie you want him to tell, Beckett?]

[bookofnope]

Seriously? I'm not sure which of us this is more embarrassing for.

[Why wouldn't he believe it? It's as likely as anything in Norfinbury.]

[rubikscomplex]

[Well, thank the spider gods for such an easy acceptance.]

i'm not the one who died
so...

[sharktrash]

[ there's radio silence for maybe about an hour. then; ]


so

any particular reason you lied

[rubikscomplex]

[Welp. Whoever gave the guy up is a moron, but what else is new here?]

you kicked me to hell and back again and you actually expect me to help you find somebody?
nice job on the legwork
but you're kinda a moron for coming to me in the first place, dude

[sharktrash]

[ make sure to tell Eve that. ]

hey you got off easy we all know this

you're saying you don't have a price
or is that only for your bestest buds?

[ and there was obvious evidence they knew each other, but you just had to be such a nice, loyal guy, House. ]

[rubikscomplex]

everyone has a price
you want me
you're gonna have to figure it out on your own, hi ho silver

[sharktrash]

considering you could've asked for anything
i'd say what needs the rework is the delivery

[ you need offers you can't refuse, is that it :/ ]

[ he'll keep that in mind for the future. ]

[ also: did you just call him a ho ]

[rubikscomplex]

mommy told me i should always make the boys work for it
makes me more interesting

[This wasn't actually about Junpei. It was about protecting Quark. Who likes Junpei. So.

He totally called you a ho, bro.]

[sharktrash]

some do like the thrill of the hunt
others prefer the term "frigid bitch"

at least you're not dull, i'll give you that


[ Well, good job team, he doesn't know about that at least. Quark is safe? Probably? Unless he makes a big scene later? ]

[ b r o that is so rude ]

[warriorscribe]

[Taking a look at this after sending a message to Will and...really? He doesn't feel particularly attached to House, either, aside from his ordinary attachment.]

I meant our mutual friend, though I did once enjoy our debates.

[rubikscomplex]

[Don't you use the word 'friend' at him!]

you do realize fangs is just another pawn for me to use, right?
no idea what he's been saying to you
but we're not friends

[House doesn't even know what he is with Beckett anymore. His emotions have wound up in an obnoxious tangle somehow. One that the doctor doesn't know how to begin to undo.]

[rubikscomplex]

we're all frigid bitches here

[Have you checked the weather forecast?]

have fun doing whatever you're gonna do, bro

[sharktrash]

heh good one

[ unfortunately he totally agrees. he's even turned Harley down :( not that she was... serious... probably ]

yeah talk to you later
you know like next time i want someone to lie to me
salve

[warriorscribe]

He's said nothing.

[Just in case House decides to take this to him for any reason... And that's the only reason he's not calling House a liar, as well. Beckett is proud, and would not take kindly to being used, he thinks. If that were truly all it were he would know, and he's certain there would be much more antagonism between them.

Beckett, could, of course, then have a reason to allow it, but Enoch's battered mind can't think that far.]

I've only observed a rapport between you two.

[rubikscomplex]

you've observed us texting back and forth
congratulations
you're like everyone else here who can read

[He knows there's no real reason to be this aggressive at Enoch, but the fact that he's still trying to be nice after every cruelty the doctor has thrown at him is frustrating and strange and sets House off.]

[warriorscribe]

[He could just come up with a way to bow out, but...]

Are you trying to tell a scribe words have no meaning?

[rubikscomplex]

i'm telling a scribe
you read too much into words