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[ghostface]

you got a daddy?

[multiverse]

Why, are you offering?

[ghostface]

i think it's more likely i'd call you daddy.

i meant a real one.

[multiverse]

Oh, well.

( preening )

I do, somewhere. He's a business mogul in Tehran, but I haven't seen him in well over a decade. Why do you ask?

[ghostface]

just trying to figure you out. absent daddy sounds about right. what about your mommy?

[multiverse]

I think her Percocet was more mother to me than she was. I had no idea you were so curious. Before you ask, I had two older siblings, one brother and one sister. One loved me and one hated me — you want to guess which? It'll be a fun game.

[ghostface]

your mama and my mama had some shit in common, though for mine it was heroin and that caught up to her eventually. i'm guessing your brother loved you, but that might be me projecting.

[multiverse]

Because you love your sister, or because you love me?
Just kidding. You're right though, it was my brother. I'm sure you can guess the whole tragic tale.

[ghostface]

you're a dangerous collection of coulds, müa.

( like: he could love her, easily. that's where the trouble always starts. )

do you miss him?

[multiverse]

( a complicated question, but then — that's dannny's particular expertise. )

Sometimes. Not the kind of attention he gave me, but the love before it got so rotten.
Do you miss your daddy?

[ghostface]

i miss that he ain't here 'cause it means i can't kill him again, sure. all love is rotten anyway, don't you think?

[multiverse]

( again — a very danny answer. )

Eventually, maybe. But there are sweet moments, aren't there?

[ghostface]

the sweet moments are what makes love so rotten.

[multiverse]

It is not at all shocking to hear you prefer the rougher side of love, Danny. Your mind is a landmine of hurts. Anyone else would be nonfunctional.

[ghostface]

do i scare you?

[multiverse]

I'd be a fool if you didn't. You're dangerous, of course, but that's not the scariest part of you.

[ghostface]

so what's the scariest?

[multiverse]

Your pretty face. It makes the wolf seem a lamb.

[ghostface]

that's a feature, not a bug, and the only privilege i got. probably the only privilege you got, too, if we ain't counting your rich family.

you wanna know a secret?

[multiverse]

You're not wrong.

Of course. Tell me?

[ghostface]

you scare me too.

[multiverse]

You know, that’s the sexiest thing anyone’s ever said to me.
How could I possibly scare you?

[ghostface]

'cause you still fuck with me despite everything you've seen in my head.

( but that's the easy answer, not entirely accurate. if they're being truthful, cutting all the fat, hold the last bit: )

'cause you see me.

[multiverse]

I see you. And I like you.
You're a motherfucker but that has its own merit. And if you ever decide to go psychotic serial killer on this place, I'd like to at least earn an interesting death at your hands.

[ghostface]

you don't think i'm already living up to my psychotic serial killer potential?