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YET ANOTHER PSL AU POST BECAUSE WE ARE MONSTERS.

LITERALLY.

Kinda the premise.

Yeah, well... After Danny...

[He gives a lift and drop of his shoulder. Some of that desperate, driven grief had been burned off, thankfully, but that didn't make it easy to talk about.]

... Ah. That's - yes. I suppose that's true.

I never had any siblings, but ...

.. But some things are universal.

[Even without the horrific circumstances... well, that Tim knows of, anyway.]

I can imagine. Yes.

Anyways. All of us were a hot mess in our own ways. I just kind of lit my whole, you know, life on fire back then.

... Guess it's a theme.

Mm. Yes. Just like I retreated away from everyone around me, and Jon became a paranoid mess ...

[ He rubs at this face. ]

I, ah. I suppose that's the best argument for my arrival here being a good thing.

Among other things, yeah. Cut right through that building storm of insufferable.

Heh. I suppose - I suppose you wouldn't have listened to anyone save an actual ghost of Christmas future.

... You know, I DID actually think you were a ghost. Proper haunting and all that.

You mean when Jon first brought you over to see if he was crazy or not?

Yeah. That bit.

Probably not the most stress free of times there.

W-well. No. With everything going on at the Institute, and all. And then here was Jon acting weirder than usual on top of that.

NNnnnnope! I absolutely assumed he'd DEDUCED the mystery. Didn't actually connect shit. And we were going to go into accusation round two of this terrible game of Cry Wolf.

[ Algric chokes out a laugh at that. ]

Oh - oh god.

Picture it. He's been on a nasty tear all week. Being a verbal snapping turtle any moment he's not metaphorically hiding under bedsheets with a torch-

And suddenly. One day he comes in in a good mood.

Jonathan "thinks a lumpy pile of file cases is a good spying spot" Sims thanked Martin and asked how his day was.

[ Another laugh, quieter this time. ]

I'm surprised you didn't actively try to tie him up until you figured out what was wrong.

Right. With all of the rope I keep innocently at my desk.

...

Did have zipties, now that I think about it...

Of course you did.

Look.

...

Okay, I'll mostly just say it was overkill. Frankly, some parcel twine would have held him no problem.

[ A snicker. ]

Yes it would. I swear he'd just go limp if you bound him with a set of gummy worms.

I will do nothing of the sort. Nothing he can chew his way free will be employed in this good old fashioned peer review.

Of course not. Perish the thought.

[His best Jon voice. It's not very good.]

We have standards in this Institute, I would thank everyone for holding to them.

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