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[He's so bored, he can't take it anymore. Asking for trouble, maybe, but there's all kinds of excitement he's missing with the new arrivals, and he's not used to missing out on it. He keeps the video feed off, unlike usual, because both his cell and he himself are a mess. His voice is only slightly hoarse, recovering from a first week in custody that was spent screaming.]

So what's the deal with all you new guys? Usually I do this in person but I'm, uh, a little tied up right now. Anyway, lemme hear it. Where you from? Whatcha usually get up to? How you feeling about being in this skanky shithole up on the moon?

Hope the rest of you guys didn't leave 'em starving.

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i know. i should've asked but i wasn't exactly planning on telling her i just needed her to stay away from him.

i'm sorry.

[She sets down the tablet for a good five minutes to pace around her room, running her hand over her face. She's really shaken by it, really deeply shaken, and can't fully articulate even to herself why that is.

Finally she comes back.]

Never again without asking me. Understood? Ever

[Steph knows why; because it's a breach of trust and it was really fucking shitty. She'd hate someone that did it to her, but she did it anyway.]

i understand

[A moment.]

The only reason it's even remotely close to okay is because it was to help this kid. Which it was. Yeah?

yeah

i just need her to be safe.

but she's not gonna abandon him while it seems like everyone else is

Oh, he's still got plenty of supporters

it doesn't look like that from her perspective

especially not when i've cut him out, too

Well then maybe she should open her fucking eyes

do you know what it's like to have everyone you care about leave? by choice or not

[Because she doesn't think Sonya does, not when she's still got family back home.]

What the fuck kind of a question is that

an important one

cause unless the answer is yes, you'll never really get where me and ellie are coming from

[Sonya is still sort of bristling, so she's harsher than she intends:]

I don't appreciate emo bullshit. Everyone's had bad shit happen to them. Not everyone channels that into rampant self-destruction.

emo bullshit. nice.

it's not self-destruction, it's just really fucking hard to let go of the people you do find

[this isn't the first time they've had this conversation]

Yeah, if the people you do find destroy you, that's self-destruction

i'm tired of arguing, sonya. you wanna make things worse, be my guest

but i hope you realize that you're starting to look like the bad guy. the more you act like this towards jesse, the more people are gonna take his side over yours, cause from their perspective you're just some woman with a grudge against a man who's been kind to them. this isn't how you're gonna change their minds, and if that isn't why you're doing this, then you really need to take a step back for your own sake

Did you miss the part where he called me a bitch about eighteen times? The more he talks, the worse he looks. I'm just keeping him talking.

no, it looks like he's angry at someone who's harassing him. he looks like the wronged party

the more you talk the worse you look. so stop. he'll dig his own grave easily enough, all you're doing right now is giving him a ladder to get out

You're just straight-up wrong. Sorry.

[She's so fucking done with people.]

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