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Jᴀᴄᴏʙ Fʀʏᴇ "I'm no criminal. I just do as I please." |
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Date: 2023-01-16 06:04 pm (UTC)It's not funny, but she sees the sense in not spreading too much of their business so she won't demand it change. It does rankle just enough though that she doesn't stop herself from asking, "And does that make you the big dick playboy then?"
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Date: 2023-01-16 07:38 pm (UTC)He can tell that she doesn't like it even before her eyebrows rise up to the ceiling, and truthfully, he doesn't like it much either. But people everywhere- here, home, in the millions of other universes and worlds there might well be, seem to make these assumptions about a man and a woman who talk to each other.
"I'm sorry. I should have had the presence of mind to deflect it." He says, and he does mean that. He doesn't want to swagger and posture around like people are falling over themselves to sleep with him. "But if they think you're here for that, they don't think you're here on SIN Guard business, trying to investigate them and their business, or that I'm selling them out."
He doesn't want either of them to face an angry gang of criminals.
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Date: 2023-01-17 09:18 pm (UTC)"Why can't it be that you ask me to come by because you're head over heels for me?" she poses instead, although it's rhetorical. She knows. As the dealer between them he can't be asking her for anything, she supposes. But she's been in too many of these conversations throughout her life - she's been the side slut too often - to ignore it altogether.
"Jacob, it's fine. I just won't come here anymore and it'll solve it. But the contract can't go away so easily if someone decides to try and go after you."
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Date: 2023-01-17 10:15 pm (UTC)"Rosita, if you heard a rumour that I was in love with you, you'd run a mile."
Besides, if people thought he was so utterly besotted, they might think he'd be all the more willing to sell them out. And that puts them both in a dangerous position.
Her solution is the better one, and he nods to consent.
"I think that's best. For both of us- your superiors aren't going to like you coming down here, the Rubies won't want SIN guards on their patch, and no one here starts getting suspicious. But I still want a contract with you, if you'll have me."
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Date: 2023-01-18 01:29 pm (UTC)Maybe it doesn't matter. There's only the one solution regardless, and the one major decision to make with that resolved.
"Yeah," she says, clipped. Obviously, all of that. She reaches down and taps the folder with her finger. "Any changes?"