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deerington | inbox for James "Logan" Howlett

_{[That's a sad trombone joke if she's ever read one. Maybe so.]}

Don't give me too much credit. I'm not really anyone who can do anything for her.

That's why I'm telling you. So you can.

_{[She probably wasn't even that great of a roommate at the time, and would be the first to agree Laura's better off at the farmhouse with actual safety and actual stability.]}

You've done more than I have by now, I'm sure.

That said, if you need any looking out done for you, it only seems fair to pay it back.

Well, the baton's officially passed off to you, dad.

You don't know me. You don't have to pretend you do.

_{[It lets him off the hook nicely, she thinks, even as she tries to hook him onto Laura's trail. She isn't attached to Laura by a string, but she doesn't need one to know what the girl needs and wants. They're family.

She is attached to him, and yes, maybe combatting an urge to keep him near that influenced her check-in text, but the difference is, they're only connected by a string and one-sided memories. She imagines what he needs is fewer burdens, not more.

And she'd rather this than be anyone's obligation. It's possible she inherited stubbornness to go along with her own powers.]}

Save the superheroing for other people who need it more.

If that's what you say, kid.

[Remains to be seen if that's what'll happen, however.]

I'm saying don't fuck things up for yourself and your actual kid.

[Probably too late for that.]

Yeah, yeah, okay. I'll try not to.

_{[Ffs, dad, you had one job. One.]}

Like I said, it's not hard.

Besides, you two are like some of the hardest to kill people around. You've got that going for you.

You'd be surprised how little that matters to the people who like to keep trying.

That actually doesn't surprise me at all.

_{[The party doesn't stop for psychos until someone loses an arm.]}

Still.

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