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brave police: j-decker | kagerou

video | post Ultimate Showdown

[Once everything has died down, no pun intended, Kagerou figures he may as well say something. The video feed clicks on to show the bird sitting against a wall in what is more than likely the medbay -- and though he is pretty beaten up, he doesn't appear to actually need to be in the medbay. Nothing is leaking and all his limbs are attached.]

[He stares into the video for a moment or two too long, debating what to actually say.]

... I've made the first arrest of my life. I was... part of a team, today. I felt... as if I had a place.

[He trails off -- this is huge, why don't you look happier, birdbrain?]

But it feels wrong. None of that was anything... [He shakes his head.] ... Maybe a stealth unit isn't made for combat like that.

[His visible optic flicks over to something off-screen.]

Maybe none of us BP units are.

[It ends there. Except...]

[PRIVATE TO: KAY FARADAY]
I'm all right. I kept my promise, this time.

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[It was a little frightening, anyway. If you ask him, he did it with expert timing.]

Well get used to it, okay? I don't want to keep saying 'Yeah, really'.

[You were not fast as lightning.]

It would be easier if things... if things came out differently.

Hey, no use thinking about that now.

It's not gonna change things. What matters is what we do from here on out.

I know it won't. It never does.

... And... I'm sorry. I'm sorry I couldn't have been there. In time.

...

Idiot.

You did fine.

Fine isn't good enough.

Not if this... if this were your home. [Pause.] If this were home.

[You are so lucky he can't walk or he'd go over there and throttle you.]

It's risk, stupid!

You got nothing to prove to me, Kagebird. When is that gonna get through your head?

It isn't about proving myself to you.

It's... [His wings flick.] About life. Living. Keeping your team alive...

We aren't allowed second chances, back there. Do you understand?

Sometimes its possible.

[He'd seen it after all.]

And I'll be damned if we don't try when we get back home.

[See: try with you.]

How can it be?

[The corner of his mouth twitches.]

You're very stubborn.

Just trust me. I've seen it done.

[His arms fold, looking away.]

I'm told that a lot.

... Could I... then?

[Well, now you've got him thinking, PJ.]

It's truth.

It's possible. They brought Deckerd back.

If we can just...find your AI chip. That's all it takes, right?

[He still doesn't make eye contact with the ninja.]

Got a problem with that?

They did? What... happened?

[He lowers his head, his mouth quirking in a bitter little smile. After what McCrane told him...]

Maybe you should talk about this another time... when you're feeling better.

[A slow shake of his head.]

He was stubborn, too. It's familiar to me.

It got complicated. And a lot of risk was involved.

[It's not a nice memory, to say the least.]

But it worked.

{He gives a slight huff, waving off the ninja.]

I'm fine! And I'm nothing like him.

[It's not hard to figure out who you're talking about, Kagerou.]

... And a simple prototype would be worth the risk? The complications?

[He has a feeling he already knows the answer. But it's something he has to say.]

You're stubborn, like he is.

It's not a bad thing. Not to me.

Why not?

I can think of plenty of worse things to spend our time on.

[See: PJ don't give a fuq]

...Yeah? Most would think that.

... It's amusing, almost. To hear you say that.

[You were such an asshole, it's funny now.]

Most didn't spend their life with someone equally set on having their way.

I... take it he never insisted you call him "wolf"?

Yeah yeah. We all go through changes and admit we're wrong.

Or something like that.

...

Well yeah, but that's more being a princess than anything.

Are you admitting you're wrong, then?

[... is he actually smiling right now?]

It's stubbornness. All the same.

[...]

S-Shut up, yeah?

[It's not an easy thing for him to do!]

Hm.

[He stands, then, to actually... well. Give a little bow to the other BP.]

Thank you.

[That...was something. In fact, Power Joe looks legitimately surprised.]

You're...welcome.

[He gives a light shoulder punch in return.]

[He reaches over to grasp that hand, just for a second, after he's punched. He grips PJ's wrist, tightly and briefly, before lowering the other BP's arm for him.]

Don't move so much.

[His first instinct is to jump the bot. After all, it seemed threatening. But seeing as he couldn't move...

And Kagerou put the hand down...]

Hey, I'm good from the waist up.

video | post Ultimate Showdown

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