End-of-Summer Therapy

[bitten_notshy]

Classes start in a week, so, Fandom, how was your summer? Did you get a tan? Fall in love? Are you still hoping to do one or both of those things before Labor Day?

Any lingering summer trauma, including the omg-island-of-vampires kind? Share. We love it when you share.

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[raspberryturk]

You Do The Job. No matter what. Because that's what you are. If there's anything else to get about it beyond that, it's all just tied in to that line anyhow.

And I dunno. Cissnei was a pretty damn cute little Turk, too. The kind with cheeks you kinda wanna pinch right on up until the point where she rams a shuriken straight up your ass, yo.

I'm tryin' to picture you in the dark suit, Rookie. I gotta admit, I'm havin' trouble gettin' my head around it. That's one of them things you don't put on unless you're plannin' on stickin' around and earnin' your keep with it.

[intraspective]

If I ever put it on, Reno, I'd be there to stay 'till they got rid of me in a body bag--if there was even that much left of me. I know that. Right now I've already got one set of loyalties, I don't think I could handle another like that. Headbands and suits, that'd be too much for anyone to walk with. I just like wondering, sometimes, what you'd say if I did.

It's always the cute ones!

And, yeah, that line--if you don't get it, you can't really explain it. It's a gut thing more than anything else.

[raspberryturk]

I think if you ever put it on, Ino, I'd be flattered an' terrified all at the same damn time. Even now, tryin' to pick up the pieces, it ain't a clean job. An' the whole damn world wants to see us dead because of them pieces.

That's why we ain't offered the suit to anybody, yet. We need the help, but we don't wanna sign no more death warrants.

[intraspective]

And if a volunteer came knocking, would you turn them down? I'm not saying I would, especially not right now, but--sometimes people to volunteer 'cause they're good at it. 'Cause they don't got no other place that'll work for them.

'Cause it's messed up and yet messed up suits them.

[raspberryturk]

Messed up suited me just fine. If anyone really was crazy enough to do the job, if they figured it fit, an' we figured they could? We'd be crazy to turn 'em away.

[intraspective]

And you're not that crazy!

[raspberryturk]

I'm crazy an' desperate!

That just makes me unpredictable, zoto.

[intraspective]

Unpredictable makes you harder to kill.

It's only a problem when you become erratic and untrustworthy that it's a problem!

[raspberryturk]

Been there, done that, got the promotion.

My loyalty's to the Turks, so help me gods. That's how it's always been, that's how it's gonna be.

[intraspective]

You wouldn't be you any other way--and I wouldn't expect you to be.