IC Contact for theposthumans

[deadlieststing]

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[ voicemail ]

[nailsthetarget]

[ there's a long pause before he says anything, like he's taking care to choose his words carefully---for once. ]

Got some questions for you, when you've got the time. Get back to me.

call back;

[deadlieststing]

[ ring ring. ]

call;

[nailsthetarget]

Yeah?

[ BEST PHONE ETIQUETTE EVER. ]

call;

[deadlieststing]

[ SIGH. ]

You left me a voicemail. I have time. Ask your questions.

call;

[nailsthetarget]

I wanted to ask a few things about what's kept you fresh for so many decades.

call;

[deadlieststing]

[ pause. ]

Are you still planning on replicating it?

call;

[nailsthetarget]

I'm going to make sure things pan out differently, yeah.

call;

[deadlieststing]

[ natasha still thinks this is a bad plan. for the record. ]

And just what do you need from me?

call;

[nailsthetarget]

[ a beat. he thinks it's a bad idea, too, but gdi he refuses to end up useless ]

A run-down of what they did to you. A blood sample for Jan to science at, maybe.

call;

[deadlieststing]

[ oh. have a longer pause because...yeah, the tangled up mess of her origins? yeah...she'll just put that off. ]

A blood sample.

call;

[nailsthetarget]

Look, I know this is dicey business. Banner's fuckup in my world was a learning experience, so the nextgen success rate's been much higher---but it's not perfect. With the differences in our worlds, I want to see if Jan can learn how to tweak it to be more effective. Anything to lower the chances of me ending up big, dumb, cannibalistic, and hating on Freddy Prinze Jr.

call;

[deadlieststing]

Why is this necessary in the first place?

call;

[nailsthetarget]

Well.

I'm not going anywhere, so I want more than seven more good years. I've got shit to do, y'know?

call;

[deadlieststing]

This is experimental and unsafe. There is a very good likelihood that you will end up with considerably less than seven years.

And you are asking me to help you do this.

[ also to give her blood to jan who has pretty vocal about hating her, so. yeah... ]

call;

[nailsthetarget]

Yeah. I am. I got my wake-up call, okay? I'm almost forty, Nat. I've played hard. Since I got here, I wasn't planning to live another year---you know that. But I changed my mind, and I'm sticking with it. If something goes wrong and I get fucked up, in my eyes that's still better than living another twenty years with Rheumatoid arthritis.

I've gotta keep up with you one way or another, don't I?

call;

[deadlieststing]

You don't need to shoot yourself full of serum to do that.