4th Standoff ☆ Voice

[cactusnwhiskey]

[A familiar drawl surfaces on the network later in the afternoon. There's a little bit of interference however, because some even more familiar cursing can be heard at the start of the clip]

Daggum-blasted, shoddy hunk of crowbait...!

'zis thing on? 'lo? [Then Jake seems to settle into it, because his voice holds a little hint of cheeriness.]I

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[ysobritish]

Mister Marshall. Please tell me you are not drinking on the job.

[Liquid's voice is lightly amused, at least.]

[cactusnwhiskey]

I ain't drinkin' off the job. [A beat.] 'm off work, currently.

[ysobritish]

Yet you're still investigating while drinking. Isn't that a tiny bit... unprofessional?

[cactusnwhiskey]

For me it's a national holiday. Y'know, the day we Americans declared independence from you folks. I'm just celebratin' the best way I know how, that's all.

An' it's not like I'm drunk or nothin'. Just a little whiskey to unwind.

[ysobritish]

Yes, I know full well what a holiday it is.

[A beat.]

You realise I am technically American, yes?

[cactusnwhiskey]

Well y'sound like you ain't from these parts, culebra.

[ysobritish]

[A little irritably, he answers.]

I was born in the state of New Mexico, as a matter of fact, but raised in the UK. I have American and Japanese blood in my veins.

[cactusnwhiskey]

New Mexico, huh? [He thinks.] Well, guess that makes you from 'round my part of town. But y'ain't lived in the US that long, sounds like.

[ysobritish]

About a decade. My unit is US Special Ops, after all.

[cactusnwhiskey]

... well how 'bout that. [... really Jake? That's all you have to say?]

[ysobritish]

You don't believe me, Mister Marshall?

[cactusnwhiskey]

Never said I did. Never said I didn't. I just said it was interestin', that's all.

[ysobritish]

Is it? Why is it interesting?

[cactusnwhiskey]

If I remember right you said somethin' about the SAS, if my noggin's on straight. It's not often a man works for one country and then for another in a completely different part of the military. Then again, I ain't one to judge.

[ysobritish]

It's complicated. But it's far less strange than you believe. Loyalties shift.

[cactusnwhiskey]

Don't I know it. But not that fast, 'less betrayal fits in there, somewhere. [His loyalties shifted due to a betrayal. He understands the feeling.]