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And apparently Shepherd.

That's one hell of a coincidence.

How fucked are we.

Don't know yet.

We're working on it.

But do me a favor. If you get all pissed about something, take a deep fucking breath, count to ten, and call me or D.

I'll try to remember.

Do or do not, there is no try, asshole.

I hear D on a regular basis! If it SOUNDS like him how the fuck am I gonna know?

I don't know, does D tell you to like, murder people? Forsake weakness in favor of power? Gosh you should be in charge of everything, York?

Part of his job was and is threat assessment but murder not so much.

Weakness in favor of power, okay, that's not-

...look NORTH Told me that before all this shit happened and I'm not down with it I'm just a supplier okay? I hear that I'll tell you guys.

Really, if you start hearing D telling you that any random idea sounds great and you should do it, why don't you just take a minute and call one of us to double check?

It'd help if he'd talk to me. I haven't seen him in- awhile. And he hasn't let the firewall down. But he's okay, I think.

I hope.

He's fine, York. He's been hanging out with me a lot.

Then he's fine and I don't need to worry. Which is good.

If I see something going wrong, I'll let you know.

You want to help? Work on some of your cranky assholes if you can. We need more data. Surface scan of from the top port, file tree for the network system in their glasses.

Edited 2014-10-06 04:57 (UTC)

I can probably grab that for North and Malcolm at the least. Carolina and Tex are gonna be a hard sell, but I'll get 'em.

Sooner the better. Thanks man.

I'll swing by in an hour with what I can get.

Copy that.

[It's been a few days and, although hanging out with Loki is both productive and nice, there's a big York-sized hole in Delta's life. He'd covertly returned the bike to the house yesterday, but York hadn't been home at the time. He's not even mad anymore, and Delta knows with a near hundred-percent certainty that it was the virus that caused him to react so strongly in the first place.

Still. It takes more courage than he would have thought to send that first message.]

I am sorry.

[ Nothing.

Days of nothing. Loki told him he was fine and- the wall was up but he hadn't felt Delta's mind brush up against his in days. It's like being alone again, but worse- because Delta's here and just...didn't want him.

And he can deal with that. He can. He's handled it as best as could be expected. They need their space sometimes. It's cool. Delta has his autonomy. The last thing he is going to do is resent him for exercising it. ]

You okay?

[Well, and York hadn't talked to him either, had he? Okay, yes, Delta had been keeping busy, but still. It goes both ways, or it should, anyway.]

I am better than I was. York, I believe I was under an outside influence when I became angry at you and Malcolm. It was inappropriate and unkind of me. I am sorry I acted in such a manner.

I was more worried about where you went and what I did to set you off. We're good?

[ He wasn't sure if Delta wanted to hear from him. Even now with the texting he taps against that wall and...

Nothing.

So they're not as cool as they could be. Maybe. ]

If it was any action of yours, the reaction was not entirely mine. I have been keeping Loki company as he recovers.

York, there is a virus on the network. We believe it is affecting peoples' emotions in a manner similar to Omega's influence. It is likely I have been infected.

[And that? That's the real reason he's been keeping the firewall up. York wasn't affected by the memory wipe; maybe he didn't get the virus. And Delta's not going to expose him if he can help it.]

That thing where you get irritable, do things that aren't normal, and then start hearing a voice, right? Loki told me about it.

I've kind of-

D I haven't done anything he's told me but I've been hearing the consular. Just snatches of him in the back of my head.

[Well, shit.

Delta opens up the firewall; no use keeping it closed if York is already connected.]

Better him than the Director or Omega. Did he tell you what sample is required for our work? Would you send it to us?

[ The moment that wall's gone he's slammed with relief, fear, and concern. This thing is bad news, he knows it's bad news, Loki was very clear in how it's bad news but he hasn't done anything yet. He knows not to. He knows it's not something he can do without risking Delta or Malcolm or North so he can't listen to it-

Having the cool wash of Delta's mind against his own, battering back that creeping influence is a relief. He sags where he sits, blinking up at the ceiling. A steady current of missed you need you missed you need you rolls around in senseless circles around every thought. ]

Yeah. Yeah I got a kit scanning my glasses now. I'm gonna send them over when it's done.

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