011 VIDEO LIST SIX

[deadliestviper]

[When the camera focuses on Beatrix, she still looks shaken from her misadventures in the last port. Her face is ashen, her lips drawn into a straight line, but her eyes are once again steely and cold. She has seen the outside communications scattered across the network and, based on who's turned up and how the Barge denizens are reacting, it can only be a matter of time until someone from her world confronts her.]

If you've got something to say to me, say it now.

I'm waiting.

[Private to Ben]

You're great to have around in an emergency, did you know that?

[Private to Kon]

Whatever animosity you're feeling toward me is entirely justified.

Comments

[fuglyslut]

Well... you could use a deep conditioner?

[deadliestviper]

Guess I should've been more specific. If anyone has anything of consequence to say to me, say it now.

[fuglyslut]

Okay, I'm trying this whole "don't be a bitch" thing, so I'm really not trying to be a bitch when I say this? But it kind of is of consequence, from what I can see over here.

I-I'm so sorry

[capischeja]

You are beautiful, as radiant as zhe sun! Here I vas flipping zhrough zhe channels, and I find you! Please, speak to me more mein angel!

fff can't stop laughing

[deadliestviper]

That kind of talk's going to set you back about $1.99 a minute.

Private;

[silvestris]

Need a drink?

Private;

[deadliestviper]

It's earlier than I'd like to start but yes. I think I do.

[disrespects]

[ You saw it coming, B, but did you really see it coming?

For now, it's just a voice response, but it's going to be hard to miss who it is. Here's velvet in your ear. ]

Can't keep a girl waiting.

[deadliestviper]

[There it is. That hatefully familiar voice sets her on edge like a cornered dog, growl audible in her response.]

Wouldn't dream of it.

[alionspride]

[Have the most imperious eyebrow raise Beatrix.] Whatever this delusion is there seems to be a lot of it today.

[deadliestviper]

What delusion? You're talking to me right now.

[video]

[relieforregret]

[...huh. That's new. He takes a pull from his bottle and squints at the tv screen, trying to make sure he's seeing it right, then leans back in his chair and gives a half-assed wave. Like he doesn't know what she might want to be waiting to hear but hey. He's not the one who started that whole mess, is he?]

Well hey there, buttercup. Guess that's about a sign I'm done for the night, I think, what about you?

[video]

[deadliestviper]

Budd. [Well shit. This is about to get real personal real fast.]

Haven't started yet, but something tells me that needs to change.

[video]

[pigtailsbutterflyknives]

[From one ass kicking bitch to another;]

You don't look like the kinda person people should just be saying stupid shit to.

[She likes it.]

[video]

[deadliestviper]

[B laughs; this kid talks just how she did at that age.]

Stupid people never seem to realize that.

[private]

[an_abomination]

Where are you? I want to talk to you about this in person and not over this thing. [He wants to see the look in her eyes when he talks to her about what she did to Steph.]

[private]

[deadliestviper]

In my cabin, two doors down from you. Or did you want to meet somewhere else? [That is assuming she'll be able to look him in the eye.]

[killsatwill]

Hmmmmmm.

[Pai Mei stares out from the screen with his hard, implacable black eyes, stroking his beard, waiting for a few beats before he says sharply in Cantonese:]

Is that any way to speak to your master?

[deadliestviper]

Shifu!

[Reverting right back to student mode, Beatrix drops both the English and the threats and bows to the screen.]

Forgive me, Master. I didn't expect to see you.

[keepsthemsafe]

[Hey. Look at that. A woman.]

...Something.

[deadliestviper]

Very eloquent.

[knowsthescience]

Seeing as how you're on my computer - work one, no less - I have to wonder what my employees are getting up to while I'm away.

[Playing casual, nonchalant, it's just a bad website popup, nothing more. But there's more to it than that, and he knows it. Just as he knows she is definitely Not Alright at the moment.]

[deadliestviper]

I've no idea. Seeing as no one can usually access this network, your employees must be either profoundly gifted hackers or hopeless technological fuck-ups.

[Or both, maybe the man's got a staff of idiot savants. She hasn't got the slightest idea who he is, but there is a slight chance he's from her world. It's worth finding out.] Who are you?

[ Private : Audio ] Okay so I somehow did not see this until I noticed you had a Ben tag

[warisart]

I've been trained to be. Are you alright? Has anyone approached you?

[ Private : Audio ] No worries, I kind of forgot about it

[deadliestviper]

Thank you, in any case.

I'm fine. I'm not in any danger.