[network] @hotstud_xxx; text; Morning 204; Of Villainy Most Foul [open]

[rubikscomplex]

[House promised Alfie World War III. Time to send in the first set of nukes.]

dr. house here with a public service announcement regarding alfie solomons
@asolomons

now, many of you may know the old alfster
as that dude running the brokerage service for the town
he's a rough sorta gangster
but he's a swell guy
just trying to help everyone out!


alfie solomons is a thief

current list of KNOWN items stolen by alfie solomons:

• a harmonica (ecks gave me that)
  
• a bag of tea (luna gave me that)
  
• a quarter of a bottle of vicodin prescribed to gabriel gray
  
• a book of matches
  
• a hammer
  
• a grabber tool
  
• a pair of sunglass
  
• a tube of chapstick

i should probably add that he robbed me while i was under the influence of mind-control
and unable to stop him
granted, he doesn't mind violence

alfie solomons aided and abetted my murder by providing the murder weapon
knowing what purpose it would be used for
hear that @ADMIN?
if you wanna slap this guy with a perma-beacon, that'd be swell

so that's all for now, kids
just wanted to mention

Comments

@determination, voice

[despiteeverything]

[It has been. A tiring few days. They're on their own now still, which is tiring in its own right.

This really isn't what they needed to see on top of that. Adults are stupid. Humans are stupid. They're mad at both House and Alfie. It just all seemed so pointless. They were all going to die and all they could do was just keep making it worse.]

Why do you keep hurting each other?

[They're referring to Alfie and House alike, really. Or maybe stupid human adults in general.]

[rubikscomplex]

because that's the way the world works
i hurt you
you hurt me more
and the cycle continues until someone breaks

[despiteeverything]

You say that like you don't have a choice. But you do. So does he.

[They're not accepting that.]

So why do you do it?

[rubikscomplex]

i said until someone breaks
i'm waiting for him to break
he's got more to lose

[despiteeverything]

You're still not saying why. Except that you want to hurt him, which I know already.

[There's stubborn-ing until someone breaks too, funnily enough.]

[rubikscomplex]

i know you're a cute little pacifist or whatever
but not everyone is gonna turn the other cheek
that's how you get slapped twice in most places
maybe it worked for you where you're from
because you've got magic powers that let you try over and over until you got it right
that means hell all here

[despiteeverything]

You're still not saying why.

[They're ignoring the jab at themselves. They can take a few of those, they think.]

[rubikscomplex]

i'm saying why
you just don't wanna hear it
he hurt me
i'm hurting him back
and i'm not stopping because i'm a selfish dick

[despiteeverything]

[They're not going to disagree with him there. Not anymore.]

You want to win. And you care about that more than anything or anybody else.

[rubikscomplex]

yup
glad we worked through that for you
bye now

[despiteeverything]

...bye.

[For all their earlier harshness... it's a quiet and even a pit pitying dismissal. That desire to win at all costs is something familiar to them after all.]