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DAY 18

[cicatrize]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

Do you have any spare cloaking devices and can I borrow one?

[ after a moment: ]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

Second question - does the method have to be poison, or is a bullet just as well?

[daggertype]

FROM: dagger@cdc.org

Both work for me.

Exceeding my expectations already, Benji.

Got everything else you needed?

[cicatrize]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

Did Tony tell you to call me that? [ he only barely tolerates it from him, please don't let this become A Thing. ]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

Something like a tranq gun would be nice. And a necklace from the Gilboan treasury to pay M01C12-009 with. Eventually.

[daggertype]

FROM: dagger@cdc.org

Who's Tony?

[ And then a moment later: ]

FROM: dagger@cdc.org

Is it a courting ritual?

[cicatrize]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

Stark? Anthony?

[ dagger no... ]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

...No, it's a transaction. He's a master thief. I'm taking a crash course in sleight of hand.

[daggertype]

FROM: dagger@cdc.org

I know Tiny, I haven't met Ugly. Is he useful?

Paying a thief is pretty stupid, for the record.

[cicatrize]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

Technological genius, used to make weapons, has something that's like a tank compressed down into a suit of armor that can fly. Useful. Green, though.

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org


Not paying him until after, and my charming good looks aren't exactly enough to get training for free. Working with what I can, I told you I'm not an assassin.

I'd use Barnes but he's power napping.

[daggertype]

FROM: dagger@cdc.org

You mean the guy who dies if you rip out the lightbulb in his chest. That guy.

And I'm just a worker drone. What's the problem?

Barnes is nice. He listens well. I like him.

[cicatrize]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

I didn't say durable.

Problem is I don't want to die in the process of trying to slip poison into paranoid peoples' food. Tranq gun a yes or no?

You have a bizarre definition of nice.

[daggertype]

FROM: dagger@cdc.org

His life support needs life support. I don't see what's great about that.

Ask Mom. She'll get you what you need.

He gets things done. Tiny Stark gets things done. The names I gave you are buttholes I don't need.

[cicatrize]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

The useful part is the scientific capability and ingenuity for weapons/engineering. He would have been good for Orange.

I'd gathered that, surprisingly enough.

[daggertype]

FROM: dagger@cdc.org

So why isn't he.

Do you envy him?

[cicatrize]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

Ask his recruiter. Or whoever decided our teams.

For what?

[daggertype]

FROM: dagger@cdc.org

There's Steve, for one. We think they're bonded.

[cicatrize]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

Bonded? They were friends before, if that's what you mean. Rogers is the only one I've seen able to back Barnes down from something.

[daggertype]

FROM: dagger@cdc.org

That's why we think they're bonded. "Friend" is a very general word in the human language.

[cicatrize]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

So bonded means what, more than friends? A specific kind of friend?

[daggertype]

FROM: dagger@cdc.org

It means bonded. Together. Meant to be one, in most cases.

[cicatrize]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

...Romantically?

[daggertype]

FROM: dagger@cdc.org

Sometimes.

[cicatrize]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

Pretty sure they aren't that one. [ Barnes hardly even knows what sex is ok, it's not that ]

Beside that, just something incredibly close? It'd believe it on Rogers' side. Yet to be seen on Barnes, but he's hard to get anything out of.

[daggertype]

FROM: dagger@cdc.org

What, because Barnes doesn't have sex? His penis works. He's not sterile, if I remember correctly.

Rogers is the heart-half, if I took a guess.

[cicatrize]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

It works but I'd be willing to bet he's got no idea how to use it. Guy has the sex drive of a eunuch. [ that's curious, though. Honestly Dagger probably knows Barnes better than Jack, but what he'd seen of Steve with his file didn't speak half hearted to him. ]

Really? How do you figure?

[daggertype]

FROM: dagger@cdc.org

His whole body's the weapon he uses, weapons are just his extensions. Just because he's not getting it wet doesn't mean he doesn't know how to use it.

Rogers has a lot of heart to him. And he keeps talking to me. It's weird.

Oh I read that last tag wrong, ignore the last part of Jack's small text there

[cicatrize]

FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org

Are you saying Barnes's dick is a weapon?

Makes sense. First day in camp I threatened to shoot Barnes through Rogers. Guy still checks in on me regularly. If only half is heart in the bonded thing, what's the other half?