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My apologies... I seem to have missed your call. If it's something important, please leave a message.

[Beeeeeeeep.]

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[There's another silence, as if he might not respond. But finally.]

Very well, I'll be sure to see to him when he returns.

[bitchings]

...

Good.

[He wants to be seen to too. He wants Leo near, like they were before this, and with Vincent too. He aches for it.

It's the only family he has...]

You didn't answer my second question.

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And what was that?

[He has things to do and... now things to worry about.]

[bitchings]

When you said you wouldn't want anything to do with me... Did you mean it?

[tragicnotes]

You believe the stupidest things sometimes.

[But he can laugh a little now.]

No. Not entirely.

[bitchings]

What did you expect me to think?!

[Sure, he didn't necessarily believe that was the only possible reason but. It just seemed a little too fitting for it not to be possible.

But... he's glad, for that answer.]

[tragicnotes]

I'm not sure.

[He's being honest. He wasn't sure what he thought about his words at the time, nor is he sure what he thinks about them now.]

[bitchings]

Just--

[No, no, he's not going to guilt Leo into anything here...]

Fine.

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[Leo pauses and takes a deep breath. And he says something that is very hard.]

Goodbye Elliot.

[bitchings]

[There is something so very wrong about those words, somehow. He doesn't like them at all.]



Goodbye.