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[stillbetter]

[Sorry, guys. She's one of those newbies.]

For God's sake. Really? This has got to be a first. Do these people even know who they're taking in? What am I even going to do here? I'm just a radio host back home, not - whatever you think I am.

[She is no soldier worth kidnapping, no, not at all, thank you very much.]

I can't do this.

I won't do this.

[Look. She's even throwing in a pause to show how serious she is.]

Besides, Fred wouldn't begin to know what to do without me. My fiancé? I have a life back home, you know, and it can't wait. So - you ought to put me back. As soon as possible, if that's not too much trouble.

[She has spoken. ... Then she starts to press random buttons because what am this technology.]

... Hello? Can anyone hear me?

[...

beep beep beep]

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[payback]

[LOUDLY,] I don't know how old you are, but it's got to be older than this!

[maddeninghatter]

How old do you think I am?

[payback]

Neither young enough nor old enough to say things like that in spite of your hair.

[maddeninghatter]

[ Each of her outbursts make him giggle, to the point that it's challenging to speak. He soldiers on, however. ]

Is that so? Hmm, how old would I need to be, do you think, to say things like thaaaat!

[payback]

[TAKE HER SERIOUSLY. TAKE HER SERIOUSLY. TAKE HER SERIOUSLY, GODDAMMIT.]

You'd have to have hit senility. Which I'm not sure you're there yet.

[maddeninghatter]

But I say things like that all the time.

Therefore I must have hit senility already. Which means, according to your logic, that I can keep saying them with impunity.

[payback]

I'm pretty sure people who are senile aren't that good in the water.

[maddeninghatter]

My goodness! Have I impressed you?

[payback]

No. I was hoping you'd get eaten by a shark.

[maddeninghatter]

Is that...

[ He seems suddenly upset. ]

Is that really what you hoped for? Why, that's not very nice!

[payback]

Oh stop. Don't act like a baby.

[maddeninghatter]

I'm not going to talk to you anymore!

[payback]

Give the poor woman a break, while you're at it!

[stillbetter]

[That was a valiant attempt.]

So I take it he's always like this.

[payback]

Just tell him right off! Just tell him right off when he does that.

[stillbetter]

Somehow he seems to enjoy that.

1/2

[payback]

I know! What a weirdo, huh?

[payback]

But it's better than being walked all over.

[stillbetter]

Oh - trust me, I am not being walked all over by - that individual.

[maddeninghatter]

But if you won't talk to me, who else will I talk to, hmm?

[payback]

[not even a second -] Collette.

[maddeninghatter]

No, I think I'll keep talking to this lady.

You did say that I ought to give her... a Break. Ehehehehe!

[ HORRIBLE GIGGLING ]

[payback]

... I can't believe you just said that.

not really here;

[retraced]

[And somewhere in the next room over, listening to only parts of this conversation out of context, Gilbert facepalms so hard that he probably leaves a hand print. He's not getting in the middle of this.]

[maddeninghatter]

[ Blissfully unaware of Gilbert's facepalming (he would be blissfully amused if he were. ]

You've got no one to blame but yourself, Rin.