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If you like hot chocolate I can bring some over.

Sure, works for me. Door is unlocked.

[She needs to drink less anyway.]

[Ellie gives a knock anyway before stepping in, a thermos in hand. Steve's gotten her addicted to hot chocolate--it's that powdered shit--and she thinks it's better tasting than coffee.]

Hey.

Hey.

[Tess waves jauntily from where she is on the couch, fixing up her eyebrows with tweezers and a compact mirror. She pats the couch next to her.]

Your eyes are about to roll out of your head.

[She sits with a bit of a bounce--hope you were done plucking, Tess. She offers the thermos.]

Lay it on me. I know he's a fucking weirdo, but how much of one?

[Almost, you little brat. Tess sets her stuff aside and takes the thermos, cranking off the cap.]

I'll let him tell you all the weird personal crap, but he's in this horrible on-again-off-again love affair with a vampire, who is, by the way, drugging him on the reg.

[Ellie is used to a lot of weird crap these days, but that...]

What the fuck? Does he need an adult?

In my opinion, yes, but good luck convincing him of it. Months ago he was furious. Now he’s resigned to it or something.

Is it that Steve guy?

[Why is everyone. So weird. Why.]

Yeah, the one who cries blood. That was because Pagan broke up with him, but knowing them, they’ll be back together within a week. Lucky you.

[There's the eyeroll, and Ellie dramatically drops her face into her hands.]

Fuck me. How is the brainwashed assassin-robo-arm guy the best inmate I've had?

That guy is fucked up but he’s not soap opera levels of fucked up.

Yeah, I'll take sci-fi fucked up over [she waves her hands] gross vampire drug soap opera.

[Wasn't that a book? Movie?]

I hate this temp inmate shit.

I never had a temp warden but on this end all I hear are complaints too.

It's just fucking stressful for everyone. And if someone gets a shitty warden, they're not gonna trust the good one they do end up getting.

Yup. The more temps they go through, the more damaged they get.

[A scoff. Things haven’t been stellar with Arthur lately, and that’s on her, but...]

I’m glad I went right into a permanent pairing because otherwise I’d go crazy.

[As a kid that got passed around, she can only agree with Tess.]

Yeah. I planted the seed with B, so hopefully I'll actually be on the road to not having random fuckers every month.

Shame you can't just ask the warden to make it a done-deal instead of fucking around playing dress-up and hear all about a bunch of grown men having teenage girl romance problems.

Instead, I get to play "what try-hard do I get this month" and try not to fling myself into space.

Don’t fling yourself into space, just throw the dick in Zero.

Oh, and become the Zero Warden they all think I am?

[Not that Ellie really cares what anyone thinks!!!]

Some inmates might like it, actually. It's a piss-off when wardens act like their authority is just some sort of formality –– you have it, use it, or we'll walk all over you.

Talking from experience?

[A glance at Ellie. How much does the kid know about the bullshit she gets up to?]

Is that a surprise?

[She just assumes.]

I'm just saying. You're the inmate, not me.

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