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NAME: JONES HANDLE: @ALIAS PICTURE: Middle finger, face out of frame.

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[grunge]

Go ahead, Nate.

[ the overly familiar tone she's using with his name is lost in this medium. ]

[guylining]

okay this is gonna be a weird question

i know it's loaded but i don't know any detail. i'm worried about someone close to me and that's why i'm asking at all.

do you know a william bennet?

[grunge]

[ give her a few seconds to get a bottle of anything to hand ]

I've had the displeasure.

[guylining]

okay so

the reason i'm asking is that a friend of mine witnessed him treating you badly at a bar

i don't know the guy, but i've been given the impression that he's dangerous

i know how strongly you feel about safety. so. am i right to worry?

[grunge]

[ Oliver, you gossipy little b. ]

He's dangerous. He's also invulnerable.

Have you been working on anything with Nick O Broin lately? [ Seeing as she was going to ask Nick if those wards were 100% his work, a joint effort from Hawthorne or a straight up commission... Might as well just ask someone who frustrates her slightly less. ]

[guylining]

we work together all the time

i just want to know if i need to worry about this guy
and if he is dangerous, then in what way and what he might do

[grunge]

Dangerous in a way that I can't tell you until Nick's little stealth-ward project is finished.
So if you have a progress report on that now's the time to give it.

[guylining]

i made it

but it isn't for nick and i'm worried about him.

[grunge]

So make one for Nick. Double down on the inconspicuous aspect, stick it to him however you can.

I'll be needing a couple of those too. If it's gonna be a long turnaround, then just make it an order for the workup you did on me and the office.

[guylining]

i will.

but i want to know why, i want to know what i'm protecting you all from

not least because i can make the charms better if i know specifics.

[grunge]

He's just a sleazy dirtbag with super strength and a healing factor.
Negating either of those would be a big leg up.

[guylining]

how do you know he has a healing factor?

[grunge]

First night I met him I broke a bottle over his head. The cut on his scalp knit itself back together in seconds.

[guylining]

so an immediate healing factor

alright.

he attacked you?

cw: noncon reference

[grunge]

The city put something in my head and he exploited it to get his rocks off.
That's what he does. Leans into every chance this place provides to take advantage of people, then pretends he's as much a victim as anyone else.

[guylining]

okay

thank you.
i'm really sorry that happened to you.

he's not the reason you wanted protection against possession, is he?

[grunge]

Yep.

You never should've gotten his name. Once he knows people are onto him, things are likely to get ugly. Blood and guts in greeting cards ugly.

[guylining]

that's why nick never gave it to me, i think.

was he able to possess you, or someone else?

[grunge]

Sort of but that was Tumenalia, not him. It was just proof he's got nothing against doing it, if he can find a way.

[guylining]

okay.

i'll make you a bracelet like the one nick asked for

but i'll work on something else too, something to negate someone else's powers in an emergency.
i also make these little pearls, and when you crush one, it teleports you somewhere else instantly
i'm gonna send some of those your way too.
if you need replacements just let me know.

[grunge]

Great, send me the bill.
And this should go without saying but keep what I said to yourself.

[guylining]

obviously

thank you, for talking to me. i know you took a risk.

[grunge]

All of it.

Just let me know when the wards are on Oliver.

[guylining]

they'll be on him as soon as nick gives it to him, i'm not in charge of that bit

but he has it already, so.

[grunge]

Good. Then just keep your head down.