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[totallytrustworthy]

 
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"Chloe here, except not. Leave a message; I'll call you back when I can." 

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[legal_eagle]

Hi. Let's talk! :) :) :) I think there are a few things we have to talk about. :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

belated text sent off on the 8th;

[totallytrustworthy]

oi. fresh off. thought I'd check back in and see how youre holding up without us on your watch

[Easier than saying 'sorry for going absolutely crazy on you'. Probably for both of them.]

<333

[legal_eagle]

[Oh. Well, this isn't - expected. She chews her lip just a little bit before she responds.]

Total empty-nest syndrome. I feel like a mother whose children have gone off to college.

You?

<333 UvU

[totallytrustworthy]

like a father seriously lacking enough to drink

let me know if you get too homesick though. I'll see if I cant work up more jail time via cockpunches 4 anyone you particularly dislike

[legal_eagle]

[What...is that offer
chloe why are you being nice
is this about to be a trap]

Aww, you'd do that for little old me?

[totallytrustworthy]

[If peace offerings are traps-- and yeah, all right, they usually are in one way or another-- this is definitely a trap.]

nah. but if it helps us both get what we want I dont see the harm in it

besides. you had my back when I was snapping at just about everything in sight. fairly certain I owe you something for it

[Sanity back in her head, Chloe remembers the look on Sonya's face during that discussion, or at least the finer, more Jesse-related details; they're both on the same team in her eyes.]

[legal_eagle]

[And Sonya, on her end of things, gives a self-conscious little squirm.]

Well, it was my job to have your back. And I wasn't exactly "not an asshole" to you. I think there are other people who deserve debt-repayment a lot more than I do.

[totallytrustworthy]

and I know for a fact that when a customer starts throwing about coffee its not the baristas job to put up with it

you had a choice. you made it. let me kick a few asses every now and then for you and well call it even.

I'd offer to lift for you but youre all. you know. justicey

[legal_eagle]

[And it sinks in that Chloe's being genuine. Sonya's surprised, but she slowly starts to relax as she types back:]

Well, more to the point, I don't want you getting locked up again. You're kind of the client from hell...and I think jail just doesn't suit you.

[A slight pause - ]

You could teach me, though

[totallytrustworthy]

[It's the closest thing she'll ever manage to an apology, anyway. What's a functioning human being?]

could. if youre up for it.

does beg the question of what on earth youd like to steal. or punch.

[legal_eagle]

Aside from hearts? ;) (Feel free to interpret that as stealing OR punching, as you please)

But in all seriousness-- nothing at the moment. I like acquiring new skills.

[totallytrustworthy]

[Color her charmed at that. ]

well if its hearts youre in it for I could do that too

the art of the con is a beautiful thing darling. trust me ;)

[legal_eagle]

Well, then that's what I want as repayment. (Also, FWIW, I do know the very basics of picking pockets, but I'm not exactly good at it.)

[totallytrustworthy]

problem areas: slight of hand, distraction or both??

[legal_eagle]

A rather than B. Misdirection has never been my problem (ha ha ha, obviously; I'm a lawyer) but...let's just say there's a reason I was never a concert pianist. Or a surgeon.

[totallytrustworthy]

nonissue we just go louder with the distraction then. got it.

you let me know when you have the time and when were not running the whole community service gig I'll have you sharpened up in no time

[legal_eagle]

Will do. You know, in spite of all this, I realize I don't even know all that much about you.

[totallytrustworthy]

probably for the best. you of all people should know by now that what we do for a living isnt usually kind

or legal

[legal_eagle]

Well, the "unkind" is more of a sticking point for me than the "illegal." I'm a prosecutor & it's my job to uphold the law, etc etc etc, but there are broad swaths of law which are hot hunks of bullshit.

And trust me. When you work for the Manhattan D.A., you sort of lose your ability to be scandalized.

[totallytrustworthy]

in the mildest sense if it helps. cant pretend morals are all intact without lying my ass off but believe you me I draw the line where it counts

and if youve learned a bit of pickpocketing I would say that you grasp the general idea of what level of 'unkind' I usually manage

[legal_eagle]

Then I definitely wouldn't be scandalized, if it's of that caliber. Not that I condone breaking the law at any point etc etc etc, but I've known my fair share of hoods and I've also known my fair share of lawyers and I've always found the former far more likable than the latter. Definitely easier to talk to.

[totallytrustworthy]

right?? told saul the same bloody thing

swear to god lawyers and politicians are like the asshole cousins in the grifter family tree that you wish you werent related to

no offense love

[legal_eagle]

Oh, none taken. Trust me, I do what I do because I have to, but that doesn't mean I'm proud of it. (Also, apt metaphor, especially since they're constantly squabbling about money, often at funerals.)

[totallytrustworthy]

at least I have the decency to rob graves a few hundred years or more after the deed is done

[legal_eagle]

Oooh, glamorous. (I assume we're talking about the exciting Pyramids-in-Egypt type robbing and not the gross sneaking-into-graveyards-with-a-shovel type robbing.)