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"This is Zatanna.  

Evael a egassem."

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No blackmail in my future, huh.

But this is kind of serious, so let's not get distracted discussing how Haven ruins everything.

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Of course not. We can make a night of that some other time.

[She moves to sit on the bed, expression growing dim even with the thinly veiled attempts at humor.]

What's wrong?

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Sounds like a great night in.

[Kon settles on the bed, wondering where to start.] So -- did you catch that call from Caroline?

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I caught something. Not really sure what it all meant, though.

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The bit I caught, Caroline was really insistent that we find someone called Beth and take her out. Said it would stop Kite.

I was kind of hoping that Beth was a computer programme or an acronym, and take meant 'take out to dinner' or 'out of this place' or something like that, but general consensus is that Beth is Beth Yao, and we got to kill her.

Natually, I'm not a great fan of that plan.

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Focus, Kon.

[You're supposed to be off the market, remember? No jokes about dates until they can sort through this latest mess.]

We don't kill. And even if the rules are different here...I'm not sure I could. Not even if it's the Yao Bunch we're talking about here.

There has to be another way.

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[Kon's grin is relieved.] That's what I thought you'd say.

You've been here long enough, I'm guessing you know Al? He's working on that other way.

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Al? You mean the literal knight in shining armor?

I've seen him around.

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That's the guy. Turns out, he's not a real big fan of murder either, asked me to make sure you guys were apprised of the situation. Think he's hoping that if we're aware and prepared, we might be able to stop anyone just up and killing her.

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Aware, yes. Prepared? ...50-50.

I don't know when the last time they had a census around here was, but I'm pretty sure we're slightly outnumbered.

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Hey, being under-whelmed in the face of over-whelming odds? Last I checked, that was as big a deal on the job description as not killing was.

'Sides, Al knows some other people who are also big on the no-death policy.

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I think this is the part where Robin goes on something something about being whelmed.

[Because that's what he did. She kind of liked it. Fit perfectly into her habit of playing around with words for fun. Backwards and forwards. (Word of advice: don't ever play Scrabble against these two.)]

Yeah? How many of them?

'cause I'm thinking of one off the top of my head who isn't afraid to get himself killed, let alone worry about others.

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Not just gets very quiet and authoritative and starts making 'plan' like noises?

[Kon's better at pool.]

I didn't write down any names, but at least five? Ish? But more importantly than that are you implying something I should be picking up on?

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Not that I've ever seen.

[She could go for a round of billiards. Now if only they could find a table around here.]

I would hope you didn't write them down. Did you see what happened to the Red guy? A bunch of us watched the whole thing, and it wasn't pretty.

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I guess we just lucked out, and drew the 'fun' Robin.

[Is that the sounds of another joint post?]

Red Hood? Yeah. Worst part is what we saw wasn't all of it.

... Also now I am slightly paranoid so please tell me no-one died.

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[Maybe]

...umm...about that....

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I'm waiting.

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Look on the bright side: it's not paranoia if you're right?

[Zee, that is not even close to being a bright side.]

1/2

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[...]

[No words.]

[2/2]

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Who?

[2/2]

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Same guy I was talking about before.

If what I overheard was true, his injuries were fatal.

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That jack-in-the box? Laced with some kind of toxin. His body just started going under with extreme rapidity. He said he'd rather have been blown up.

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We did warn him.

[Even though that didn't make things much better.]

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Would never have worked.

Sometimes you got to do something so bad, it doesn't matter that it's the wrong thing. You have to do it to be doing something.

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[A sigh. She knew. Why did all the boys in her life have to be so stubborn? Even the casual acquaintances were just as bad....]

It was stupid.

If you're going to defy the Yao Corporation, at least find a better way of doing it than something you're not even going to get anything out of.