xp_communication | Email to Sofia

To: [Sofia]
From: [Nathan]
Subject: the deed is done...

One bloodthirsty psychopath, safely taken into custody... or had you heard that already? I know you have your connections.

Anyhow. Either way, I figured it was appropriate to remember my manners and thank you for the assistance. If this had happened last week, I'd have said how delighted the children will be to have their freedom back, but... well, mass comas. I'm sure that they'll appreciate it eventually. I think Kyle probably does already, all things considered.

Right now, though, I think I'm going to go use up all the hot water in the boathouse. Telepathic contact with that mind was not enjoyable.

-N.

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From:

x-viento.livejournal.com

You were on the team to take down and drop of Creed.

SMB

From:

x-cable.livejournal.com

Um... yes. Just lent a little telepathy to steer him in the right direction - I wasn't doing any fighting. I knew I wasn't up for that.

I get the sense you're annoyed with me.

-N.

From:

x-viento.livejournal.com

Oh, that's much better. You only decided to strain your brain while having pneumonia, leaving yourself entirely open to physical attacks in two ways instead of just one.

SMB

From:

x-cable.livejournal.com

There isn't actually anything I can say to keep myself from looking like an idiot, is there? But it wasn't actually much of a strain, and I got right out of there - he didn't actually know I was there. Well, he knew a telepath was there.

-N

From:

x-viento.livejournal.com

And you didn't tell me. I compiled a profile to send my only friend out to mess with a crazed serial killer's brain while he had a dying cold.

SMB

From:

x-cable.livejournal.com

Sofia, I'm sorry. The risk really was negligible, and I did weigh very carefully whether I was up to doing it. I wouldn't have chanced messing up the takedown just because I wanted to be there.

-N.

From:

x-viento.livejournal.com

Maybe. Either way, I should have known.

Don't make me explain the logic in that, but I should have.

SMB

From:

x-cable.livejournal.com

You "should have known"? What? That I'd be involved?

-N

From:

x-viento.livejournal.com

Yes.

SMB

From:

x-cable.livejournal.com

You're down to one-word answers now?

But you know, you're probably right. I'm not the strongest telepath on the team, but I had experience that qualified me for what I did today. I could do it, and I was fit to do it, so I did it.

-N.

From:

x-viento.livejournal.com

I could try an epic poem if you would prefer.

I don't have the right to tell you what you can and can not do. I just hoped that we were at the point where you would tell me. I don't know why.

SMB

From:

x-cable.livejournal.com

If the issue here's that I didn't tell you about my involvement, when I was involved acting on information you gave... I get that, actually, and I am sorry. I'm used to keeping the specifics of team business relatively close. Part of the whole illusion of normality thing.

-N

From:

x-viento.livejournal.com

Except you asked me to do that profile. At least. I did the profile because you asked me to.

SMB

From:

x-cable.livejournal.com

Sofia... I'm fine, remember? And if I get you involved in anything I then get involved in, I know now that I need to let you know.

Would you have not done the profile if you'd know that Scott was already considering using me for this?

-N.

From:

x-viento.livejournal.com

I would have maybe done it differently.

SMB

From:

x-cable.livejournal.com

Look, do I need to come over there and drag you out for some late-night tequila to prove that I'm all right and you don't need to either be carrying unnecessary responsibility or be angry at me for not letting you carry unnecessary responsibility... and I've just lost the thread of the sentence.

Tequila?

-N.