[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]

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.

[devoutish]

I am a man who sees punishment done. Yeah? End of story.

[rubikscomplex]

[House laughs humorlessly.]

That's rich coming from the murderous gangster.

[devoutish]

Murderous gang leaders deal out punishment more than most, House.

[rubikscomplex]

What about punishment for yourself? Or are you just counting on your imaginary friend to make you suffer in the afterlife for being a piece of scum that disobeys the rules?

[devoutish]

You do things to me that deserve punishment, and I do something back. That, there - that should end it, shouldn't it?

[rubikscomplex]

I'm pretty sure you started things when you helped a guy murder me, bro.

[devoutish]

Think back a bit more, mate; there were things before that.

[rubikscomplex]

I teased you. Nothing I ever did warranted that. Your boyfriend is the one who tried to attack me. You attacked me.

[devoutish]

Yeah, it was disproportionate. It was fucking extreme. Unfortunately, you had shown that extreme was all that you would listen to.

[And in the end, even that hadn't worked.]

[rubikscomplex]

I don't listen to anything, Solomons. Or have you missed that with the fact we keep coming back to this point? We both know this isn't going to be the last time something like this happens because you can't control me without this ridiculous death price in place.

[devoutish]

Yeah. But if you're waiting for me to bend and give in before you do, that's not gonna happen.

[And then the response from Tony comes in, and Alfie leans in to look. If House tries to hide the screen in any way, he'll just order him to let him see.]

Tell him you're near the school. Tell him you're desperate; tell him you need him to come to you right away.

[rubikscomplex]

One of us has to bend or break. You can't break me, either. This town's got a leg up.

[House does as he's told to the letter. He's having to trust Tony's intelligence here, but he's fairly confident in it for this.]

[devoutish]

[All Alfie's attention is on the texts from Tony now. When the next response comes in, he swears.]

For fuck's sake.

Ask him where he is.

[rubikscomplex]

Things not going to plan, boss?

[And again, House does as he's told.]

[devoutish]

[He clicks his tongue at Tony's reply. The hospital. He's not going all the way back there. That's a loss, then.]

Who do you think it might be, the Joker?

[rubikscomplex]

I don't know. [That's an honest answer, at least. More likely Tony knows there's something off in House's replies.] You want me to ask him why, or what?