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[blackfoxed]

[ Alright so someone finally woke up for longer than five minutes, and there's a lot of shifting and muffled cursing as he, of course, grabs immediately for the nearest painkiller aka bottle of Jack Daniels out of the fortress of empty ones. Glass clinks. Swearing in Italian. ]

Colonello. You stupid sonofabitch. How could you--

[ a sharp, pained intake of breath. and then so quiet it's hardly audible: ]

...how could you.

...

Spike, I have to go. Sorry for the mess on your doorstep.

Dr. Crescent-- if I could ask for another favor.

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[voice]

[7livesleft.livejournal.com]

I'll take it out of what you owe me.

[voice]

[blackfoxed.livejournal.com]

I'd rather you answer a question for me instead.

Or two questions, really.

[voice]

[7livesleft.livejournal.com]

And what's that?

[voice] - Private

[blackfoxed.livejournal.com]

What did Makina want from you?

[voice] - Private

[7livesleft.livejournal.com]

What's the other question?

[voice] - Private

[blackfoxed.livejournal.com]

I haven't decided yet if it's really worth asking.

[voice] - Private

[7livesleft.livejournal.com]

[Thinks it over before deciding that it doesn't matter that much anyway.]

She hired me.

[voice] - Private

[blackfoxed.livejournal.com]

...

[ TAKES THAT THE WRONG WAY FOR A SECOND also spike's never told him his profession ]

...to?

[voice] - Private

[7livesleft.livejournal.com]

[He never asked.]

I'm a bounty hunter. Turns out she needed one.

[voice] - Private

[blackfoxed.livejournal.com]

[ well yes but ]

[ just goes silent for almost a full minute ]

...are you.

[voice] - Private

[7livesleft.livejournal.com]

[Not that he's judging that silence.]

Don't worry, she's not after you.

[voice] - Private

[blackfoxed.livejournal.com]

I didn't think she was.

Maybe I have to ask that second question after all.

[voice] - Private

[7livesleft.livejournal.com]

Yeah?

[voice] - Private

[blackfoxed.livejournal.com]

How good are you?

[voice] - Private

[7livesleft.livejournal.com]

[Why do people keep asking him that?]

If you're looking to catch someone, I'm not giving you a discount.

[voice] - Private

[blackfoxed.livejournal.com]

I can do my own fishing, thanks.

You didn't strike me as much of a lawman.

[voice] - Private

[7livesleft.livejournal.com]

That's not really the same thing.

[voice] - Private

[blackfoxed.livejournal.com]

You said bounty hunter, not mercenary. Where I'm from, a bounty hunter has to be as cooperative with the authorities as he can stand to be, or he doesn't get much business.

A mercenary would have no trouble letting me go my way if I passed him on the street. A bounty hunter might have to think a little bit.

...then again, that isn't here.

[voice] - Private

[7livesleft.livejournal.com]

[He's not going to go into that. Of course he's never broken the law. :|]

Is there a reason you're asking-?

[voice] - Private

[blackfoxed.livejournal.com]

I wanted to know what Makina asked you to do because she is a lawman. Law-person. Type.

...whatever.

Anyway, whoever she wants you to hunt, in a place like this? Is probably bad news if she's not already done it herself.

Not to mention my boss has a particular reaction to authority figures running around, even ones that aren't directly targeting him.

[voice] - Private

[7livesleft.livejournal.com]

And you're worried about me?

[voice] - Private

[blackfoxed.livejournal.com]

Did I say that anywhere?

[voice] - Private

[7livesleft.livejournal.com]

I guess not.

Thanks for the warning, but I've got it covered.

[voice] - Private

[blackfoxed.livejournal.com]

[ DOESN'T THINK YOU DO ]

Don't get killed. It'd be hypocritical for me to say a woman isn't worth it, but even so.

[voice] - Private

[7livesleft.livejournal.com]

[Like that ever stops him.]

And then whose doorstep would you have to pass out on?