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[hostage]

Worked on you, didn't it?

[morethan084]

Your drugs worked on me.

[That wasn't Daisy talking, she's just painting the picture of what 18 year old Skye's thought process was.]

Your face was just a bonus.

[hostage]

There you go. You just summed up my sex life.

[morethan084]

Gee. Thanks.

[She knew he didn't mean now, with her. Didn't mean she couldn't tease him.]

[hostage]

You're welcome.

[He'll happily tease back.]

[morethan084]

[Reaching to put her other hand on top of his, Daisy gave it a gentle squeeze.]

I'm not wrong for still not trusting Raina even after she says she died to prove a point, am I ?

[hostage]

What? No.

[It's not the sudden change of topic that throws him, but Daisy's conclusion.]

Who the fuck cares how she died? The way she lives tells you everything you gotta know about her.

[morethan084]

Dying changes you, Jesse.

[hostage]

You think I don't know what it's like?

[morethan084]

No. I know you do.

I just feel guilty for what happened to her. Which is not an emotion I ever thought I would feel for Raina.

[hostage]

You feeling guilty is all she ever wanted. She's eating this shit up.

[morethan084]

I never thought I would see her again after it happened, obviously.

Kind of hard not to feel guilty when you have to face the person your mother killed.

[hostage]

Why? It's not like it's your fault, all the shit your mom did. And, hey, get mad at your mom if you wanna. But none of it is on you.

[morethan084]

Yes it is.

If I hadn't gone with Gordon, none of this would've happened.

[hostage]

You didn't do this to her.

[morethan084]

I could've stopped her. I should have.

Raina warned me but I didn't want to believe her.

[hostage]

Why would you believe her? After everything else she did.

[morethan084]

I know.

[Skye reached up to weave her fingers into her hair.]

The last thing she said to me was that we would never speak to each other again, and yet...

[hostage]

Don't let her use this, Daisy. She smells blood in the water and it ain't hers. You wanna act nice-nice with her, fine, but don't let her get under your skin with this. She's gonna use that guilt to play you.

[morethan084]

You think I don't know that?

[Daisy kept her gaze to the ground for now, chewing on the inside of her cheek.]

My whole life I search for my parents, and it turns out they are both killers.

[hostage]

My parents went to Princeton and their favorite past-time is croquet. It's got nothing to do with us, who our parents were. Fuck 'em.

Daisy... You are an amazing, strong, good person.

[morethan084]

[She'd give anything to have parents who went to Princeton and love croquet, but that's besides his point.]

Not always.

[Well talking had been fun and easy at least for a little bit. Now it was back to crying again. Which, clearly, is something Daisy just loves to do.]

I've hurt people.

[hostage]

Okay, but how? By accident? In self-defense? As part of a mission to save the goddamn world? 'cause the thing is, if I know anything about you, you don't get off on hurting people for no reason.

[morethan084]

I kissed someone.

Back home.

[She couldn't keep it any longer.]

[hostage]

- What?

[Okay, he didn't expect that non sequitur. As far as he can tell, one's got nothing to do with the other.

Unless - Wait, is she feeling guilty about that? Jesse leans back for a moment as it sinks in, schooling his features so she doesn't read something unintended on his face. She feels guilty for kissing someone? She feels guilty for kissing someone?]

You know I'm not... We're not...

[There may be a huge misunderstanding here.]

That's your life. That's your business.