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 Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 2:21 pm
It was late in the evening and the labs were wrapping up, changing over to the select few teams who worked at night while there rest put their binder away, fed their minipets, and made sure everything was stable, clean, plugged in, and set at specific temperatures before leaving their stations. Melvin had a binder, a book, and his tablet under one arm and yawned as he started down, ready to go to the cafeteria to eat something and settle back in his room.
After a few other Lifers passed him, he waited a moment to wave to a few techs who had been kind enough to let him borrow some of their equipment every so often and didn't mind his questions whenever he was stuck not understanding something, and pushed through the exit doors.
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 2:53 pm
Rep had been waiting for a bit. He was observant enough to know when the Life labs started winding down from the day shifts, and also observant enough to know that would be where he'd have a good chance of blindsiding Melvin. He'd been carrying his grievances with him all day, letting them build and grow, the feeling of being used obliviously growing into a seething rage.
When that shock of blonde hair came through the doors, he pushed off of the wall he'd been leaning on and stepped forward.
"Goldiebitch." he said, without even a fraction of his usual friendliness. "We need to talk."
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 2:59 pm
Melvin didn't expect Rep to show up anytime soon. Considering their nightmare in Scotland was still fresh, they hadn't even seen each other in some time. There really seemed no reason for him to show up in the labs, but Melvin noticed that the Sun was popping in the labs to see him more and more. Usually he didn't mind, but the tone was not invited.
The tone was angry, and the Lifer was not in the mood to entertain some new annoyance that got Rep's panties in a twist, but he knew he could diffuse it like always. "William, if you keep using that name I'll keep using this one. One night in jail doesn't make me your b***h." He said, moving to walk around the mountain of Sun to continue walking. Rep could keep up and chat as they headed to the cafeteria. "What do you need to talk about?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 3:14 pm
Rep curled his lip at the use of his proper name, a name he only ever sanctioned for three specific people in the entire world to use. Melvin hadn't earned that right, and it simply made him even more angry.
He lashed out a hand to seize the Lifer, not about to tolerate being blown off today. "Rin."
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 3:26 pm
The neck of his collar was grabbed as he was pulled close, something that had Melvin instantly on edge, but this wasn't like the day when he was in jail. He had time to rest, take a shower, and settle back into a comfortable environment - meaning he was in a much better state of control.
That was until Rep mentioned her name. Eyes narrowing, he considered where they were and debated if being in a public hallway would mean Rep would pull his punches due to an audience or if privacy was better for this sort of talk.
Privacy probably was best considering this was right outside the Life labs, and both Melvin and Rin worked here. No need for gossip.
"Can we step into a lab and talk about this in private or are you just going to choke me till you're finished?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 3:30 pm
"Oh as much as I'd ******** like to to choke you right now, I think I want to ******** hear your defence first. Labs are probably a bad ******** idea." He didn't let go. "How about we talk it over at the ******** training fields?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 3:34 pm
Melvin held the arm that was holding his shirt, the other holding the supplies he had with him. "Ug.." It was getting a bit harder to talk this way. "I'd rather not talk out at the training fields." That meant there would be a fight and he liked his arms.
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 3:37 pm
"Well, today we don't do things your way. Tough ******** s**t." He let go of him, but everything about his body language was like a coiled spring, he gestured in the direction of the training fields. "Walk and for your own ******** sake talk. What the ******** happened?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 3:41 pm
Rubbing his neck, he slowly started to walk in the unwanted direction of the training grounds. "What do you mean what happened? What did she tell you?" He wasn't about to let anything else be said until he heard what Rin was saying.
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 3:43 pm
Rep outright snarled and raised his voice as if he was yelling at a bad dog. "NO!", he prodded him in the back rather hard. "Just ******** no Melvin. You don't ask the ******** questions today. Today I'm asking them. You ******** spill your side of s**t, and spill it right ******** now without having what I know to compare it to, to ******** squirm around. Just ******** tell the truth, I don't see why that's so absolutely ******** hard."
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 3:53 pm
"SHhh. Jesus, you're loud as ********." He didn't need THIS to be shouted at the top of Rep's lungs, and he moved a bit faster towards the training grounds.
Despite Rep's demand, Melvin wasn't going to be that easy. He'd lived through enough threats. "Why do I have to tell you? This isn't between you. If she wants to talk to me about it, she should talk to me instead of avoiding me." He continued to walk, staring dead ahead.
Rin had clearly been avoiding him, and he checked the greenhouse to know she hadn't been there. All that work he put into cleaning it and she was going to ruin her chance at letting her project be a success over dumb s**t like this.
"Why are you even upset?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:04 pm
"I don't care if I'm loud as ********, if you didn't want people finding out you are a ******** slimeball maybe you shouldn't have been one in the first ******** place. This is totally about me because she's still my ******** mate and you hurt her." He snarled. "Where I come from, you ******** with the wrong person's mates, you have to ******** deal with consequences."
Keeping his voice low however didn't last as he ramped right back up into yelling. "********! I might no have even ******** found her! All because of you."
He kept up his pace behind Melvin, still fighting the urge to summon Tracey and reminding himself he wasn't actually allowed to summon on anyone right now. "And you had the ******** cojones to let me take you out for a ******** drink too. Was that a ******** celebration?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:12 pm
He pressed the fingertips of one hand against his forehead, mentally and physically pained by how stupid Rep sounded right now. He stopped, looking at him with a glare he was most found of using on the Sun.
"Celebrating? I was drinking in the damn pod room. I wasn't celebrating! I don't know what goes for celebrating in this depressing shithole of a island, but I thought you'd get it when I was down there. Did I look ready to tapdance, Rep? Even you thought it was a good idea at the time when you saw me to get me someplace else. Doesn't your perception of everything change on a dime?" What the hell was Rin even telling Rep about all of this?!
"I didn't ******** with her. I did the complete opposite of that. She wanted to ******** around. I said no. We're adults, Rep. Both of us can make those decisions, and I'm sorry that sometimes that isn't a Yes. I thought YOU were being a friend by taking me out. I didn't twist your arm about it, and I didn't tell you about it because it's between us and not her ex!"
He pressed his hand to his forehead again, honestly feeling like he needed aspirin and a hard drink again. "So what? You're here to kill me because life happens and reality is a b***h?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:26 pm
Rep didn't relax for even a moment at Melvin's defence. "You said no to her but I bet you weren't ******** gentle or nice about it. I know what you are ******** like. You just ******** hurt people and that's okay because in your head everyone else is ******** morons. Everyone else is less than you. You made her feel cheap, you know that? You made her ******** doubt herself. A woman like Rin. ******** strong, vivacious, admirable. You ******** broke her."
He pointed angrily in his direction. "I thought you were a good ******** guy, like, deep down. But if you were able to ******** do that to her, to inflict your cold icy standard of what a ******** adult is on her, then you have to be pretty ******** shitty." It was too close to his own issues, watching men systematically dismantle women, being one of those men himself, it hurt and it felt like pulling Melvin up on this would be in some way fighting his own demons. "You can't just ******** wash your hands of this, YOU hurt her. You did s**t wrong, you ******** up."
"I'm here to fight you because life happens but YOU are a b***h. "
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:36 pm
Melvin looked at Rep and his accusing finger with nothing but venom and bitterness. Taking his pen from behind his ear, he tossed it to the side and set his binder and tablet down so that it was out of the way of any strikes from Tracey.
"Then be the big hero, Rep. Be the bad ol' tiger that protects and tears apart snakes like me without a second thought. You have me SOO pegged already. I'M the big bag villain in all of this because I said no, and she got hurt. Hurt, like every damn person gets whenever they put themselves on the line and ask as if Rin is the first person in history for that to ever happen to. Yes, rejection hurts, but how is anyone a villain for being honest? I was honest to Rin. I told her I couldn't ******** around with her, and then she took off. I came as a friend to clean up her greenhouse, I talked to her, I gave her a honest answer, and now she hasn't talked to me for days, and she's avoiding me in the labs. I'm a cold blooded, robot b*****d that everyone takes pride in labeling me as, because everyone here just GETS me so ******** well."
He spread his arms out. "So come at me. Show me how hunters resolve all their issues. You're her type after all. You can magically ******** around with her and still be her friend after as if it's no big deal and everyone can do that! Some come and show me what a big, sensitive d**k you can me." He said through clenched teeth and remained standing, arms open, inviting whatever the ******** Rep wanted.
It wasn't like he was his friend after all anymore.
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