[log] the high life [closed]

[devoutish]

Characters: Alfie Solomons, Emily Kaldwin, Gregory House, Royce Melborn, Tifa Lockhart
Location: building 48 and building 42
Date: afternoon of 200 to night of 201
Summary: meeting up with the squad and taking advantage of a vulnerable man for the purposes of robbery
Warnings: probable discussion of drug addiction and withdrawal

Catch-all for EVERYTHING - reunion schmoop, highway robbery, etc. Top-level and tag as you see fit.

Comments

[rubikscomplex]

Y'know, the Joker order me to murder someone. I couldn't kill Stark. I'm starting to think you'll make a decent next target.

[He's not and he's been ordered down from that. But he can snipe.]

[devoutish]

I order you not to murder someone.

[Because they last thing they need is random murder.]

[rubikscomplex]

Wimp.

[Not that House wants to murder anyone, but it's the principle of the thing.]

[devoutish]

You'd cry for days if you ever murdered a man.

cw: mentions of suicide

[rubikscomplex]

Oh, please. I've seen dead people, and I've killed people before, Solomons. Ever heard of assisted suicide?

[Granted, it would probably... depend on who he killed. Someone like Alfie? He'd be horrified at being forced to do it, but crying probably wouldn't enter into the picture.]

[devoutish]

Killing a man who wants to die is not the same as killing a man who begs for his life. Whose terror you can see in his eyes.

[rubikscomplex]

Is that why you won't kill me? Not enough satisfaction?

[devoutish]

What do you think?

[rubikscomplex]

[House just sighs in frustration and doesn't bother answering. Alfie hasn't ordered him to respond, and the still seems to be missing that House can't answer when he's given a question with nebulous options. He can run through the evidence, but he won't be any to decide on the answer.]

[devoutish]

Was that not an order, to you? I'll make it one, then. I order you to answer.

[Part of the fun of this is trying to figure out the intricacies of how this works.]

[rubikscomplex]

I don't know. There's evidence in multiple directions.

[devoutish]

Mm.

[He glances at House's tablet.]

No word from Stark yet?

[rubikscomplex]

[House double-checks, but there's nothing.]

No. Are you planning on spending the night with me if he doesn't reply before lockdown? Just us girls painting each others' nails and talking boys.

[devoutish]

Nah.

[He wants to get back to his group.]

[rubikscomplex]

Good. Then can you just rob me blind, or whatever you're doing and get the hell away from me? Like forever?

[devoutish]

For a man who wants me to leave him alone, you do a good number of things to ensure that I don't.

[rubikscomplex]

Not my fault you've got sensitive fee-fees and can't take a joke.

[devoutish]

Yes, I don't like your jokes and I don't like you stealing my medicine.

[rubikscomplex]

You just stole my meds, and I'm gonna start going into withdrawal tomorrow. My suffering trumps your bad back in terms of who got the short end of the stick on med thievery, jackass.

[devoutish]

I've got no sympathy for you. You should have thought of that before you tried to go head to head with a man like me.

[rubikscomplex]

Pretty sure I'm not the ones who brought out the meds, broski. I got the meds I did fair and square. I just didn't care that they were yours when the Undertaker handed them over. Finders keepers. He didn't go into your pack and take them. That is stealing.

[devoutish]

He took them from the pharmacy, and by trading for them, you were complicit enough.

[rubikscomplex]

Yeah, I'm just hearing 'I'm petty as hell and have zero control over most things, so I'm gonna be a little bitch about this to feel in control.'

[devoutish]

I do this sort of thing at home too, mate.

[rubikscomplex]

Oh, my mistake. You're just a petty little bitch. Good to know.