IC CONTACT - DRIFT FLEET

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FROM: SUBJECT: KIRK Fenris? It's me. Can I come in? MARIAN/CLOUD Meanacing DORIAN Well, I wasn't certain what to expect... JUSTICE You seem to have escaped the planet unharmed. RIONA You know, when someone is three sheets to the wind and suggests a threesome... RIONA Fenris! It feels like ages since we've spoken. KIRK ACTION MARIAN Fenriiiiis ADALWOLFE please tell me you didn't sleep with Isabela too ANDERS :3 MARIAN This will do KIRK Can we talk? MARIAN You're a mess, Marian. ADALWOLFE Special delivery! ANDERS Maybe it will help with your face. HAWKE Fenris? You there? VARRIC Don't-- don't do anything. OCTAVIA Hey, Fenris ELIZE Fenris? JOVE ACTION STEVEN fenrisssssssssssssssssssssssss ROBIN Listen, Fenris, I know you don't give a shit about me, but-- FELIX Fenris, I apologize for contacting you in this way, but I was wondering... JOVE SO ABOUT COLE JOVE STRAWBERRIES

TO: SUBJECT: KIRK About Anders KIRK Kirk wakes KIRK Kirk? Can we speak? MARIAN Where are you? We need to speak. KIRK You wish to speak HAWKE We need to speak VARRIC Varric. Varric. Varric wake up. JOVE Jove. May I have a moment of your time? JOVE Can we speak? Are you busy? HAWKE Is there anywhere on this blighted hole we can find any decent alcohol? JOVE I was spiteful and angry to you, and I owe you an apology. HAWKE Hawke. Did you know the Inquisition have a demon? VARRIC There is something I need to tell you.

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Comments

[bryces_pup]

I know he wasn't. It's why we're even having this conversation. [Yup, it's all Kirk's fault.] But if he applied a bit of forethought and had just asked about her rather than assuming, this might have been circumvented. [Ultimately, the brunt of this is on Fenris and not Kirk, but Riona finds it frustrating that the other man didn't at least make sure. She finds it irresponsible and, frankly, a bit self-centered. But it doesn't matter much now.

She pinches the bridge of her nose.]

You know, I'm not sure if you're taking my words literally or not. [After the threesome incident, she's not assuming either way.] If you are, then of course there won't be any skipping. Kirk doesn't strike me as the type. [Her throat tightens as she considers the more likely option.] But if you aren't... you mean to say you don't think Kirk will want to be with you after this?

[While she hopes Kirk won't exactly feel great about it when he learns Marian didn't know, and while she remembers him saying he would have to have another talk with Fenris if she didn't, she never got the impression from him that it'd be a dealbreaker. Just an issue they'd need to hash out.]

Not more disappointed, no. It just confirms that there's a good person in there, even if he did do a shitty thing. I still kind of want to smack you, but... well, it wouldn't do much good. I'll leave that for Marian, if she so chooses.

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[Irresponsible and self-centred is what Kirk does best, though. ]

I did not give him reason to. He put his trust in me, and I used that against him. I was a coward.

[She's asking the guy with minus-zero self esteem if he thinks someone else can see past this very horrible thing, he's done. He knows, deep down, it's not what Kirk would do, but there it is all the same. ]

I don't aim to second guess anything any more. I know what the sensible option would be, for him.

[He's not convinced on the good person thing, but he wasn't convinced on that long before any of this happened. ]

She has every right to. I will speak with her now.

[bryces_pup]

["I didn't feel obliged because I trust him." Those words are gonna come back to haunt Kirk soon. She just hopes he can understand where Fenris was coming from.]

Fenris...

[No, she needs to let him be, for now. There are too many emotions and loose ends hanging out to really properly talk about anything. This is all reactive and angry. Fenris has to do what needs to be done, and she needs to let him do it.]

All right. You do that. I... I need to step back right now anyway. Not tonight, and maybe not even tomorrow, but past that, if you need to talk, you know where to find me.

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[Fenris doesn't dare to hope. Hope is a dangerous thing and he shouldn't indulge in it. ]

...I will bear that in mind. Thank you.

[He means that. He doesn't understand why she is still offering a listening ear- but he very much appreciates it anyway.]

[bryces_pup]

[Riona nods. She almost says "good luck", but it doesn't feel appropos. And luck isn't going to help him now. It's just getting through it.]

Until then.

[With that, she hangs up. Now excuse her while she goes and cries because holy shit.]

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[BYE RIONA, SORRY HE'S A HOT MESS!]