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    In which the world threatens to end entirely, and all Lieutenant Double Yefreitor Harrier Du Bois can do is watch it slip through his fingers. Oh, and also Jean gets mad again. But what else is new?

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    YOU — “I really wanted it, Kim.” You sound desperate. “I was trying to get it right so hard. I’m sorry.”

    RHETORIC — The s whistles in your lips, and the word is acrid in your mouth as you say it. It doesn’t make you feel better.

    KIM KITSURAGI — He looks out through the window. It doesn’t face the sky, it’s only the obscured vision of the small alley. “I don’t doubt you wanted it, detective.”

    EMPATHY [Challenging: Success] — He’s not sure he has the words—or better, he has them, but he’s afraid they sound too clinical, too palliative. He’s not sure what you need right now.

    KIM KITSURAGI — “That’s not how anything works, unfortunately.”

    HALF LIGHT [Challenging: Failure] — What does he know about how things work? About how you work?

    YOU — “You don’t understand, Kim.” There’s something wet in your face again. “I don’t think I’ve *wanted* to stop before.” You wipe your cheeks with the back of your hand. “Jean said—did you know? Apparently I said to him—’I don’t want to get better. I want to get worse’. If this is what wanting to get better gets me—what’s the point?”

    (Or, Harry plays some board games, relapses, gets shot and adopts a cat, not necessarily in that order.)

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    He had grinned at you then—face red from the sun and mid-summer heat, growing hair slowly unspooling from its ponytail—in such a way that made you push him harder against the hood of the car, if only to stop him from looking at you like that.

    And now, he kisses you in all sorts of ways.

    He kisses you deep when you bid him goodnight after driving him home, his hand cradling the back of your neck and raising goosebumps on your skin. He kisses you soft, barely a peck on the lips when he passes by you in the living room to make more coffee as you scribble down in your notebook.

    He kisses you sweet—his mouth smiling against yours as he cradles your face with his hands, like you’re something precious. You’re standing in his balcony, smoking, and he leans in to steal the smoke from your lungs. You let him.

    And he kisses you hot and messy, like that time on Monday when he cornered you against the boxes of paperwork in the storage room and bit your lip until you pushed him back, panting. We’re on the clock, detective, you had hissed, and Harry had smiled at you with that half-feverish look in his eyes, almost shining, and winked.

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    YOU — You fidget with your fingers for a moment, and then look back at him. “Are you okay, Kim?”

    PERCEPTION [Easy: Success] — He blinks twice, surprised. Then he looks away, turning his gaze to the violet and blue sky.

    EMPATHY [Medium: Success] — He feels uncomfortable, sometimes, having such raw concern and sincerity pouring out from you with only him as recipient. You’re… intense, on a good day.

    KIM KITSURAGI — “I’m alright,” he says. His fingers twitch, like he’s itching for a cigarette. “It’s been… a long week.”

    ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Trivial: Failure] — Oh, it’s been long, and it’s been hard. Makes you itch for the neck of a bottle in your hand, neurotransmitters firing wild, fireworks behind your eyes.

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