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[blowfish]

"Yo, there's no beep on this thing."

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[blowfish]

[...man, what a trip it was this time. Sakamoto has a point, so he drops the act and lets sincerity creep into his tone the next time he speaks up.]

Alright. First you gotta swear to me anything I tell ya stays between us.

[kaihentai]

Sure.

[Rosie isn't as likely to talk as Jesse is. She trusts him, but he might need to work things out from this end if they wanna see a resolution any time soon.]

I can meet ya in person.

[blowfish]

[That's even better. Jesse hikes his jacket up from wherever he tossed it and heads for the door, just a tad restless.]

I'll head to your place.

[Flick of a lighter against phone static. Someone has no idea where Rosie is currently hiding out.]

[kaihentai]

Did he hang up? Aaaaaaaah! He hung up!

[The sound of static worries him, and Sakamoto begins to panic.]

Good god! What have I done?

[That noise is- Ew. Nail biting?]

I've led him straight into the lion's den.

[blowfish]

[He did not, in fact, hang up. What was all that about the lion's den...? You can almost sense how high his eyebrow is quirking when he pipes up over Sakamoto's nail-biting.]

Yo. Still here.

[kaihentai]

[Sakamoto continues to wail, his blubbering on the other end, incoherent. The ungodly sound of it all is so loud that he doesn't realize there's someone else on the phone.]

[blowfish]

Sakamoto.

[Gotta yell to get his attention. He's gone off deep somewhere in Sakamoto land.]

What the hell? Is there a problem, dude?

[kaihentai]

[After a bout of sniffling:]

O-oh! Jessica-kun!

[He rubs his eyes.]

You called back! You really do care for what I have to say, after all...

[Why. Why is he touched by this. It's all his fault! Nothing actually happened!]

[blowfish]

I never-- [sdlfsdgf no you know what he's just gonna let Saka believe what he wants.] Okay, how about this. You wanna come over instead?

[HE BARELY TOOK A STEP OUT THE DOOR...]

No cracks about wanting your body or whatever. I'm cuttin' you off before you can get going.

[kaihentai]

Oh, sure, sure! I can do that.

[Sakamoto exhales sharply.]

My body's a little tired today, actually. I don't think I'm in the proper shape for that kind of romp!

[blowfish]

Yeah? You feelin' okay?

[It's not the least bit rude! Haven is a craphole.]

We've had worse, but that last trip they sent us on... did you get up to anything?

1/2

[kaihentai]

[Sakamoto's breath hitches before he can catch it, the sound much like a painful hiss. He bites his lip on the end of the line, wondering if it would be appropriate to say anything at all.]

2/2

[kaihentai]

I did somethin' really stupid.

[He swallows hard.]

Nothin' out of the ordinary.

[blowfish]

[Okay, now he's worried. Sakamoto suddenly sounds more conflicted and melancholy than he's generally used to. He furrows his brow and adopts a serious tone.]

You wanna talk about it?

[kaihentai]

[The answer is yes.

But should he? Does he even have the right to get Keats into this kind of trouble? The man had been to ashamed to even look him in the eye this past morning.]

I dunno if that's a good idea.