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[ There's a good while of silence, aside from the rustle of a paper, like a page being turned. ]

Oh, yes, right! Hello! How do I do one of these voicemails things again?

[ Another bit of silence, and then he clears his throat. ]

You've reached the Doctor - the eleventh, to be exact. Leave a message and I'll get back to you, promise!

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Don't bother asking how my trip was, if that was your next small-talk line, 'cause my memory of it isn't so great. Not much colour or detail.

[His eyebrows go up.]

Never did hear where you got off to, though. Was it worth it?

Yes.

[ Short. Not giving Pyro anything else. It's partly a lie, too.

But the trip to the seaside? Now that helped. ]

And people call me an asshole. Shit.

Quick tip: if you wanna claim that you're out to protect someone, don't take off without telling them where you went, especially when they're sick. It'll probably end in them running around and making themselves more sick, and they might do it until they drop down fucking dead if some asshole doesn't intervene and make them go home.

Yes, Oswin already chewed me out for that one. And I apologised. I didn't. Mean to--

No, you know, I don't need to explain myself to you.

Edited 2013-03-31 22:40 (UTC)

No, I think I do get an explanation, since I was part of the search party. Me and my walking hero complex of a former roommate, who nearly knocked himself out healing her so she wouldn't go down.

Keeping count? That's two people I - [Care about? Abort, abort. Have had contact with in my life? Too mild.] - got to talk off the ledge because of your little vacation. So don't act like I'm not involved.

[ That gets a laugh from him. It's not cheerful, though. It's closer to the kind he would send a Dalek to signal his figuring out their plan, signal their doom. Not exactly it because goodness knows Pyro isn't a Dalek, but it has some of the harshness to it. ]

Oh, that is... That is rich. Did I put you through an ordeal? Poor thing.

You're really not getting it at all. Never thought I'd be spelling this out to someone, but you did something really fucking shitty, and we picked up your pieces. This isn't complaining, Mr. Brilliant, this is being pissed off.

[ So unimpressed. ]

And you're one to talk. I don't care about what you have to say about it. I talked with Oswin, and others for that matter, and it's sorted out. They matter. You really don't, so I. Don't. Care. You might as well be a fly in my ear.

Right, I'm the asshole. Whatever I do, I'm the asshole. Well, next time I'll just leave her to collapse and die in the streets, and you can have that to keep your mind busy until she comes back. See how much I matter then.

That has nothing to do with it. Obviously she cares for you, and apparently that's mutual. Sort of.

[ He really doubts that Pyro's "caring" is anything at all like Oswin's. ]

But I don't trust you, John. And I never will.

Yeah, I'm used to that. [Icily.] Doesn't change the fact that I did your job for you because you were a massive dickhead and actually made things way worse for her instead of better. So you could say that feeling's mutual, too.

[In other words, they now trust one another as far as they could throw the other. Good times are ahead when they storm the castle.]

And it's Pyro. I know you know better than that.

If you think that you can go ahead and lecture me, I'll call you John. In fact, I'll call you John whenever I feel like it.

I don't care how many warnings I get, I'm not scared of you.

[His face says only one thing: Bring. It. On.]

Nor am I of you.

[ Right back at you. ]

Edited 2013-04-04 15:39 (UTC)

Then you won't mind finding out what happens to people who fuck with a mutant's identity.

[He's sure he can direct a bit of Magneto's anger toward the Doctor somehow. Can't burn down his place, of course, but they can find another way to smarten him up.]

It has nothing to do with your... mutant-ness. A man who has not earned my respect and consideration shall not receive it.

... is this all still because you found us in the same bed? Dude, we explained that. Drunk as hell, passed out, nothing happened. I actually walked her home so she wouldn't suffocate in a snowbank, so that's another point on my side.

What? No. Have you forgotten that you threatened her?

That?

[He can't help but laugh. He almost forgot about that, it was so long ago.]

It's something I do. We're way past that point now, if you haven't noticed.

[The temptation to say way, way past it in a heavily loaded tone is almost unbearable, but he knows it's all over if the Doctor figures anything out.]

I have...

[ And he clearly doesn't like it, even if he doesn't know just how far past it they are. ]

But it speaks a great deal of what sort of man you are.

I'm a man who won't take shit. From anyone. If you figure that makes me a bad person, then get in fucking line.

You're going about it the wrong way, that is what makes you a person that can't be trusted.

Edited 2013-04-14 11:48 (UTC)

The wrong way? Does this mean I get a lecture in survival now? Fuck off. You have no idea what I've survived.

And you trusted me just fine until Oswin came into it, which makes it look a lot less about me.

I trusted you until you threatened her. Let me guess, you've survived a great deal of suffering, haven't you? Well, you're not alone. People suffer, they always suffer. That doesn't mean you all have the right to threaten people for saying something you don't like to hear. There is a right and a wrong way.

You don't hurt people, you don't go seeking violence or looking for revenge. Because all that does is lead into a downward spiral of pain and suffering, the very thing you've probably been fighting back your whole life. You suffer, and you pull through and you become a stronger and better person because of it, and you make sure that as few as possible suffer like you did.

An eye for an eye is a lie, John, an ugly, terrible lie.

And I called it.

You have no idea how my entire world works, either. It's not eye for an eye - it's kill or be killed. Violence comes right to your door whenther you want it or not. And the ones who sit around and wait to be provoked, because they think they're doing what you say? Being the better person, trying to make less people suffer? They end up bringing on the most suffering of all.

Maybe there's something your massive genius brain doesn't understand, Doctor. Consider that for awhile.

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