Nah, but I'm not good with 'em. All the ones who've been in my life went crazy or got hooked on dope. I got a problem with dope, so I feel bad I drive 'em to it.
You gonna tell me what your ground rules are, boy? [ Cause he's twice your age, and that's gonna stick in his craw. ] Or you gonna soft ball me until you can't?
Yeah. Don't kill if you can help it, have a good reason for your fights. [But they've established that the Motorcycle Boy has some loose, philosophical definitions of 'good reason'.] If you steal have a better reason than just pissing someone off. And you're gonna have jobs. I won't tell you to do anything I wouldn't do.
I figure you're gonna break some of these at some point, but they're the rules.
I'll get a list, let you choose. You might have to learn a new skill. And
you'll have some jobs you do for yourself, that I'll give you. I'll be
doing them with you.
[ Few people have tried to work with the coin. Most doctors take it away, try and make him something he isn't. Or they give him too many choices, they don't realize how that cripples him, giving him and Two-Face too many things to argue over. ]
No, no. You have to earn sharps, same as any prison. ['Earn' meaning 'make', of course, but he'll leave that unsaid. It's not like he'd be giving Two-Face a new idea anyway.]
You work in the kitchen, you'll be scrubbing floors or serving food. You'll be kept out of the prep area.
[He says that earnestly, almost appreciatively. It's better than a standard coin, for the symbolism it could hold (and he loves his symbolism).]
Yeah, we'll stop there. If you end up needing some other kind of job we'll just go through the rest of the list.
--I forgot to tell you a couple things. [He pauses, smokes a few drags, thinking, trying to recall.]
I'm deaf. More than half the time, I'm deaf. You need to get in touch with me you can do it in person or send me a text message. Sometimes it happens when I'm talking.
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Date: 2013-07-16 05:59 am (UTC)[private]
Date: 2013-07-16 06:04 am (UTC)[ Harv did let Eddie Nygma kill him. He's not getting better, the longer he sits. ]
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Date: 2013-07-16 06:07 am (UTC)It's his job. I don't mind being Warden for you. To tell the truth I was worried he'd stick me with one of the new girls.
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Date: 2013-07-16 06:09 am (UTC)[private]
Date: 2013-07-16 06:11 am (UTC)[private]
Date: 2013-07-16 06:15 am (UTC)You gonna tell me what your ground rules are, boy? [ Cause he's twice your age, and that's gonna stick in his craw. ] Or you gonna soft ball me until you can't?
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Date: 2013-07-16 07:17 pm (UTC)I figure you're gonna break some of these at some point, but they're the rules.
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Date: 2013-07-16 08:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-16 08:59 pm (UTC)I'll get a list, let you choose. You might have to learn a new skill. And you'll have some jobs you do for yourself, that I'll give you. I'll be doing them with you.
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Date: 2013-07-16 09:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-16 09:06 pm (UTC)They both scrub toilets where I'm from. [And having been both, more or less, he also knows they both resist having boring responsibilities.]
You do a job to keep the ship running, same as the others. The jobs you do for me won't be like that, but it's up to discussion.
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Date: 2013-07-16 09:09 pm (UTC)Take your jobs and get fucked.
[ Harv would have played nice. Two-Face patently refuses. For now. ]
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Date: 2013-07-16 09:34 pm (UTC)I don't buy that. It'd be easier if I could I guess, but you really want to leave it up to chance you should flip for each job.
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Date: 2013-07-16 09:36 pm (UTC)We could.
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Date: 2013-07-17 04:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-17 04:29 am (UTC)[ This is a new tactic. ]
We'll see. He may want them. You never know.
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Date: 2013-07-17 04:55 am (UTC)[He gets a cigarette, and then shuffles papers.]
Let's narrow down the ones I was going to look into.
Kitchen.
[He'll pause, let them flip the coin. The list he goes through isn't too long:
- Library
- Showers
- Gardens]
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Date: 2013-07-17 04:58 am (UTC)[ Come on, even Harv knows that's stupid. ]
It comes down bad, he says yes cause you're given him what he wants.
It comes down good, I say no.
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Date: 2013-07-17 05:00 am (UTC)You work in the kitchen, you'll be scrubbing floors or serving food. You'll be kept out of the prep area.
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Date: 2013-07-17 05:09 am (UTC)Satisfactory.
[ He flips all the same, catches the coin. ]
Bad head. [ There's a brief pause, an internal conversation. ] No go.
[ Two-Face isn't about to scrub floors or serve food. He's too proud. He'll figure out some other way to get a bad. ]
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Date: 2013-07-17 05:10 am (UTC)Library.
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Date: 2013-07-17 05:18 am (UTC)We un-rigged the game.
[ And then he flips. That comes up, and then goes down. ]
Came up clean.
You stoppin' there?
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Date: 2013-07-17 05:27 am (UTC)[He says that earnestly, almost appreciatively. It's better than a standard coin, for the symbolism it could hold (and he loves his symbolism).]
Yeah, we'll stop there. If you end up needing some other kind of job we'll just go through the rest of the list.
--I forgot to tell you a couple things. [He pauses, smokes a few drags, thinking, trying to recall.]
I'm deaf. More than half the time, I'm deaf. You need to get in touch with me you can do it in person or send me a text message. Sometimes it happens when I'm talking.
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Date: 2013-07-17 06:09 am (UTC)[ How does that-- how is he-- you are so strange, boy. ]
Right. That's hell of a selective hearing problem you got there.
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Date: 2013-07-17 04:43 pm (UTC)Did you read Art of War in law school?
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