Voicemail

[lovemykilt]

Hey, you've reached Priestly. Aren't you lucky! I'm not around to take your call, but you probably know what to do.

*beep*

Comments

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Noon on Thursday, Dinah's lunch break between classes. Still hadn't heard from Priestly. Sitting in the quad, watching people go by, she conducted a very heated argument with herself.

He should call or text first. So you don't come off like a stalker.

He's living in Fandom, anything could have happened.

If it was an important anything, he would've told you.

I always call him on Thursdays when I can.

You just saw him 100 hours ago.

How do you know it was 100 hours?

Not the point. You don't have anything new to tell him.

I could tell him I talked to Raven. And Jono. And Momoko.

He could hear that from them.

I could tell him about getting that mugger...

Nothing you haven't done fifty times before.

I want to know he's okay.

He'd text you if he wanted you to know that. So he's probably not.

So I should check on him!

You'll make it worse if you do.

He doesn't have to text back. It could be hours or days before he does, even.

So you can make yourself crazy worrying when he doesn't get back to you today? Or wondering if he hates you?

We have to talk about this. We have to. It won't get better if we don't.

There is nothing you can say to make this better.

.... and unfortunately, Dinah had no comeback for that.

So she was staring at her phone, trying to think of a non-stalkerish, non-psycho way to say I miss you that wouldn't get a response of I don't miss you.

Finally she sent: Thursday check-in. Let me know how you're doing. Please?

[lovemykilt]

Copacetic. dean trying to help deal.

And since it was kind of mean to just leave it at that, he added:

its creepy

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dean helping is creepy?


Dinah paused, then added:

I won't text for a while if you don't want.

In case, well, she was the one being creepy here.

[lovemykilt]

dean is creepy

Kind of in general.

glad u texted. glad ur ok

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Your roommate hides knives in your couch. you knew this

'Nuff said, really.

yay. miss you.

Moving on very fast:

everything ok here nobody hurt, no one remembers

[lovemykilt]

so hawkes not

Priestly didn't want to finish the sentence. He was pretty sure he didn't have to.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

very not.

he's Reese's dad. swhy he's alive still

In the here-and-now, and ... would that make it better, or worse?

you're not to blame

[lovemykilt]

Prieslty sighed. dont be naive Yeah, that was helpful. we both were there. we both did it.

its both our faults

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah winced, gritting her teeth.

Yeah. It is. But Kestrel pushed.

makes me feel sick

worse for you

[lovemykilt]

Yeah, Priestly had been avoiding thinking about that part especially.

rook let her push

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

how do you know?

*I* don't know.


Maybe not a fair question. But if Priestly wasn't blaming himself more than he deserved, maybe it was worth it?

the island never made you evil before this hunh

[lovemykilt]

been a douche before, Priestly noted. bsides the point. its not on just u. u have 2 deal w the truth

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

i don't know what the truth is! except we were both crazy Gotham criminals

and i don't want u to hate urself.

it was scary

[lovemykilt]

and u should? That wouldn't help anyone, either.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

no. but that's more 'cause i scared u.

i would never ever do that to you. never

[lovemykilt]

Except for how, apparently, some version of her out there would.

she was fucked up. more ways than 1

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

lots. i know better.

prof. ghanima would kick my ass from arrakis

and i

What? How could she explain why she wouldn't, couldn't do that?

would make me sick. worse than killing u did, w/vampires

[lovemykilt]

Priestly didn't know how to answer that. He knew all that. He knew she understood that the way Rook and Kestrel lived was sick and harmful.

That didn't make it better.

okay

He didn't know what else to say.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

okay

At least she'd gotten that clear? And.. he believed her. Or at least, didn't not believe her?

Yeah, Dinah didn't know what else to say, except:

where do we go from here?

[lovemykilt]

Fuck, how was he supposed to know?

not really a conversation for txt msgs

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

no Dinah agreed.

home in NG for weeks. lots of catch up.

She wouldn't be showing up unannounced, in other words.

txt more later? or talk on phone?

ur call.

[lovemykilt]

ill let u kno

Text on a Wednesday

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Head's up: Karla invited me to her birthday party, Devil's Nest, Saturday. Maybe hanging out with her & the girls Sunday at Dite's Suite, the Arms.

Re: Text on a Wednesday

[lovemykilt]

How gross was it that his best friend felt like she had to warn him that she was coming to town?

good to kno. maybe well get time 2 talk

And get past the 'gross' phase.

Or decide if they had to give up completely.

Re: Text on a Wednesday

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

that would be great.

Or awesome! Or awful, if it went badly.

But progress might be made. Had to be made. Yes? Yes. (Yes?)