004 VOICE LIST TWO

[deadliestviper]

So. Angels, aliens, mutants, magicians, vampires, motherfucking superheroes and a few I've got to be missing. It's getting tough to ignore exactly who our fellows are.

It's got me a little curious. How many of us are warriors? In the handful of weeks I've been here I've seen everything from bruised knuckles to plate-mail, so I figure there's no shortage of fighters around which means no shortage of fighting styles. Following up on that, one more question: How many of us – or of you – might be willing to share your knowledge? A girl can never know too much self-defense.

[It's a sorry excuse for a supplication like that, and she amends it.]

Whatever your preferred weapon or style, please, I'd like to learn. Anyone who'd take on a student or a not-entirely-green sparring partner, I'll offer you a trade. You show me what you know, and I'll be your punching bag.

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[lastmanstanding]

Recognized boy in blue. Award winning. Medal of Valor winning. But I won that for saving a life, not for shooting the guys I had to shoot.

You have issues with cops.

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[deadliestviper]

They never give out medals for shooting the guys you have to shoot.

Not especially.

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[lastmanstanding]

..No. But there's such a thing as law and order and justice.

You know the technical term is peace officer? I always found that kind of funny. what do you do-Beth, besides violence?

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[deadliestviper]

There is. It's just that the law and justice so rarely coincide.

It's like they knew it'd be a joke before they coined it.
I worked in a used record store with my fiancé.

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[lastmanstanding]

...I never wanted anything else besides that.

[pause]

...I did not peg that. At all. Records? You must be a big music fan.

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[deadliestviper]

Wouldn't it be nice if it worked out that way?

I am, but I was a bigger fan of Tommy. He owned the shop. What did you think I did?

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[lastmanstanding]

...Yes. Absolutely.

...I didn't really have anything pictured.

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[deadliestviper]

Sweet dreams and all that.

Why don't I believe you?

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[lastmanstanding]

My parents were crime victims.

[There's a lot more to it then that but whatever.]

...I dunno. Ex-military or a Leo yourself. There. Off the top of my head.

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[deadliestviper]

Do you want to tell me what happened to them?

Who says I'm not ex-military?

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[lastmanstanding]

My father murdered my mother.

[pause]

Are you?

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[deadliestviper]

What happened to him?

I could be.

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[lastmanstanding]

He died in jail. pancreatic cancer.

[hoffman is amused by that.]

and here I'm giving you so much.

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[deadliestviper]

Good riddance. [A man who tries to kill his significant other deserves no less. :/]

Fine. Fair trade, I was never in the military.

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[lastmanstanding]

What about you? Your parents?

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[deadliestviper]

Not a lot to say. I had a pretty boring childhood really. [And she did, if you cut out the part where she was studying martial arts since she could toddle and ran off as a teenager to become an assassin.] I don't talk to my folks much but as far as I know they're still sitting on the porch in their rocking chairs.

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[lastmanstanding]

Even the possibility of parents is a good thing. Take my word for it.

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[deadliestviper]

There's always the other possibility too.

You know how they say you can't go home again?