[IC Contact -- Snowblind]

[bookofnope]

[There is a click noise. It sounds as though it might be judging you.]

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[bookofnope]

Killing you will mean a lot!

[And there it is, said and said. He doesn't even think about it. He knows that if he follows through on that threat, his future-self - the self that loves her - will never recover, but the thought pleases him in its twisted way. He hates the man he will be. He wants to break him.]

And you know I can - yes, you know I can, because you trust me. I'm not a bad liar myself!

[And if he can't break him by killing her, cracking them both by breaking that trust will do.]

[phaseshifter]

Of course I know you can kill me. I'm small and fragile. Quark could take me if he was determined enough.

[ She really isn't as good at the sneering tone of voice as Beckett is. It doesn't help that she's a little shaken - even though she's painfully aware that this isn't the Beckett she knows, not really, it's still heart-clenchingly horrible to hear his voice saying things like that. ]

But I know you won't. Not even now. It's a big town with no shortage of places to avoid you, so. So eat shit.

[ A grown adult really shouldn't want to follow that up by sticking out her tongue, AND YET ]