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SCI » 008 » 024

_“ Hey, it's me. Wait for the thing. _”

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voice

[hejhej]

Jesse's right, I'm not that rough. But I'd say you have to prepare yourself.

voice

[jurisimpudent]

Prepare...myself...?

voice

[hejhej]

You shouldn't have anything planned later that day because you won't be able to move.

voice

[jurisimpudent]

Won't...I, er...You're...This is...a joke.

voice

[hejhej]

It doesn't have to be if you don't want it to be.

voice

[jurisimpudent]

I...I do not know why it is difficult to comprehend that I abstain from all of that!

voice

[hejhej]

It clears your head, it makes you think better. It's a welcoming distraction.

voice

[jurisimpudent]

That leaves you unable to move, evidently!

voice

[hejhej]

I was just being facetious. It only lasts for a few hours.

I knew a journalist who did all of his best thinking during sex.

voice

[jurisimpudent]

And then went around telling everyone about it? How altogether unprofessional.

voice

[hejhej]

You assume I know because he talked about it.

[THERE'S A SMIRK IN THAT VOICE. YOU CAN HEAR IT.]

voice

[jurisimpudent]

Wh...Oh. [Um.] Well - that's - Still unprofessional. And I am never less than professional!

voice

[hejhej]

Is it so unprofessional? It helped us solve a 40 year old murder case.

voice

[jurisimpudent]

[Wait, what?]

Er - beg pardon?

voice

[hejhej]

In the throes of passion, he figured out what had really happened to the victim. She was very much alive.

[More like she told Mikael to shut the fuck up until she was done.]

voice

[jurisimpudent]

But...That...Er. That doesn't...Brains don't work like that.

voice

[hejhej]

His did and we won't know if yours does if we don't try, will we?

voice

[jurisimpudent]

Well, mine...works just fine when not like that. And I'd sooner keep it that way.

voice

[hejhej]

Well if you ever change your mind, you know how to reach me.

voice

[jurisimpudent]

[Against his better judgment, he hesitates and then asks:]

Why?

voice

[hejhej]

[For the first time in this conversation, she's serious.]

Why what?

voice

[jurisimpudent]

Why would you offer that?

voice

[hejhej]

I was playing off Jesse.

[A pause.]

But if there was ever a moment where I found myself in that position, I wouldn't hesitate. I'm in control of my own sexuality.

voice

[jurisimpudent]

Yes, but you don't know me.

voice

[hejhej]

I didn't know Jesse all that much either when I first slept with him. I didn't know a girl named Miriam that much when I was with her back home.

But they worked out. Maybe I'm just lucky or I can tell the good from the bad people.

However, people sleep with strangers all the time. Complete strangers. And then just forget about them.