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[impure_tale]

Forgive my recent silence, my fellow denizens. Somehow, in spite of everything, I have been somewhat "under the weather." It's taking quite the toll on my Renate, honestly, for I haven't really the energy to run with her at present. I'm feeling much better now, however. It seems, furthermore, that my relative absence has meant I have not provided

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[Iago Spam]

[impure_tale]

[The Marquis, as promised, has come to Iago's door, looking none-too-happy. He knocks.]

[Iago Spam]

[impure_tale]

[He allows a moment to consider all that has been said, and with each second passing he just feels all the more justified in how he addressed Sylar.]

Are you at all certain that this current predicament is not what he had intended from the start?

[Iago Spam]

[inhumandog]

No. I don't believe he thought that far ahead. [Iago sat down again and just ran his fingers through his hair.]

But what's done is done.

[Iago Spam]

[impure_tale]

In telling Judas, then. Do you think he did not plan for you to react this way?

[Iago Spam]

[inhumandog]

[Iago shrugged.] Oh, that? I'm sure he meant for Judas to react that way. I'm sure that he wanted to cause dissent between us. And it worked.

[Iago Spam]

[impure_tale]

Only if you allow him to have his way. It's a pitiful creature indeed that must destroy the happiness in others when he has none of his own.

[Iago Spam]

[inhumandog]

[Iago shook his head.] No, Marquis. I know now what I should have seen in Judas before. What I should have guessed. I will not tolerate his betrayal.

[Iago Spam]

[impure_tale]

[patiently] Judas is guilty of nothing but what he has always been guilty of -- being unable to control his emotions. If he had meant to betray you he would have done it to harm you. He cannot have known that you never intended to go through with Sylar's offer, because you kept it from him and let Sylar fabricate what the 'truth' was for him. That he told me is one thing, but I also gave him ample time to approach you before I addressed the matter.

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[inhumandog]

[Annoyed, Iago takes up pacing again.] Yes, we spoke. He claims he wanted to help me. I don't want him to "help" me. He's not supposed to help me. He's supposed to be loyal and stay loyal.

[Iago Spam]

[impure_tale]

He is your friend, not your servant.

[Iago Spam]

[inhumandog]

He is my companion, not my warden.

[Iago Spam]

[impure_tale]

And if you had agreed to murder this man, Iago? What if you had gone through with it, for whatever reason. Pretend, for just a moment, that this person had wronged you, or that for whatever reason you were indebted to Sylar and had agreed this would be what made the two of you even. Bearing in mind everything that would undo, between the two of us. Even just in yourself. Should Judas Iscariot still have kept his silence? Should he have allowed you to bring harm to yourself? Because until recently, that was all he knew.

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[inhumandog]

He should have come to me first. And I would not have killed him for whatever reason. It is Sylar's blood I want.

[Iago Spam]

[impure_tale]

No, Iago. He should not have come to you first because you should have gone to him first. [The Marquis stood.] You're angry with him for doing what he should have done in the Master's world. I certainly will not punish him for it. And as you have done no real wrong I will not punish you. [He pointed] But you will stay away from Sylar. You've lived on one side of this story already and you know how it ends for everyone, so do not pursue it.

[Iago Spam]

[inhumandog]

[Iago nodded, not even trying to hide his defiance.] Fine. I'll stay away.

[Iago Spam]

[impure_tale]

And mark my words, if something happens to Monsieur Iscariot over this, you will never forgive yourself, even if he does, and you won't deserve to.