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[get_me_a_drink]

That's a depressin' thought y'got there.

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[mccoy_joanna]

What that I'll die alone or that I'll end up like you and mom?

[get_me_a_drink]

Yer' not going t'do either, an' you may be an adult, Joanna, but that gives you no right t'meddle in issues that aren't yer' own.

[mccoy_joanna]

It could happen to anybody. And besides, I'm not meddling. I'm just stating the obvious.

[get_me_a_drink]

No, y'are meddling Joanna, an' y'best stop. Anythin' could happen t'anyone, but that's not going to happen to you, and it's a lot more complicated between yer' mother an' I than I can tell you, sweetheart. [Though he's using a term of endearment, his smile his thin, his words tight, tension sparking between his shoulders]

[mccoy_joanna]

Really? I hadn't noticed. It's not like you two didn't get divorced or anything. It's not like I wasn't there for all of it. And it's not like I can't see the way you two still look at each other. *There's no telling which side she gets it from, but the fact remains that she's a McCoy through and through and she's not about to let it drop just because he wants her to.*

[get_me_a_drink]

But y'don't know why, or what happened, an' it's none of your business, now Joanna McCoy, drop it.

[mccoy_joanna]

Daddy, I know a lot more than you give me credit for. I know about what happened with Clay. He didn't have the same sense of decency that you did over the whole thing and gramma Darnell and momma got into a screaming match over it more than once when we first started living with them. So yeah, I know. And it isn't healthy the way you two keep going on.

[get_me_a_drink]

God damnit Joanna, I said stop! [Grabs her by her wrist and yanks her forward] Do not meddle in business that isn't your own, do you hear me?

[mccoy_joanna]

*Her eyes go wide and her voice gets small when he tugs her forward. There's never been a time in her life when she's been afraid of her father before this, but she's a little afraid of him right now* Daddy, you're hurting me.

[get_me_a_drink]

[Sucks back a harsh breath, then lets her go and pushes her away. He turns from her and stalks out of the room, and sure, he'll feel terrible about that in twenty or so seconds, but as for right now, he's breathing crimson and needs to get away before he actually does strike her]

[mccoy_joanna]

*It takes all of two seconds before she's walking after him, even if she is maintaining more of a distance than she was before.* You're just proving my point, you know. You've been divorced longer than you two were actually married, at least in any way that being married counts!

[get_me_a_drink]

[A growl forms on the edge of his breath as he hurries his pace, turning the edge of the corridor and hurrying down the way into the turbolift. A slight wince forms on his brow, because damn it Joanna, it stings, it really does. But he's going to lose his shit again if she doesn't relent...]

[mccoy_joanna]

Would you at least be rational about this? You have to know what you're doing to yourself. Think about what you're doing to her!