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[mofi]

hey, this is murphy. i didn't pick up because i don't want to talk to you.

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[belligerents]

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Did you want to do what your bracelet said??

[mofi]

no but i sucked it up
and got choked.

[belligerents]

Well not everyone is John fucking Murphy, are they?
Not everyone is handling this place well.

[mofi]

cos im somehow indestructible now

[belligerents]

I didn't say that.

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[cicatrize]

[ this comes a few hours after jack quietly sipped his morning coffee while making meaningful and suggestive brow arches at Raven and Murphy wandering into the hotel cafeteria for breakfast together. ]

Did you kids have fun?

[mofi]

first of all
im not a kid
secondly
i think you had more fun wagglin your eyebrows.

[cicatrize]

If that's the case, both of you need some serious sex ed. That's sad.

[ don't be bad at sex, murphy, it's tragic. ]

[mofi]

we kind of did something
she helped me with my bracelet issue.

[cicatrize]

The bracelet fees weren't anything but very personalized torture. [ he would not call that legitimate sex, and would not be eyebrow waggling over it. ]

Then what'd you do last night?

[mofi]

well yeah
i just wanted to tell you that i did it

nothing. she just stayed over

[cicatrize]

I'm sorry you had to. But good. [ because he doesn't want to see murphy suffering whatever consequence comes from ignoring. ]

I see. Well, in that case, I take my brow waggling back.

[mofi]

if it keeps me from forcing myself on someone or being forced on then yeah
choke me i guess

nah. im keeping the waggling brows.
you cant have them back

[cicatrize]

Lesser of two evils.

I didn't realize you were so attached to them.
Do something worth earning waggling brows and I'll allow them back.

[mofi]

story of my damn life

they're not as good as mine
but they're pretty okay

something worth earning your waggling brows
like what? raven wanting to have sex with me
because
that's probably not going to happen

[cicatrize]

Oh? Talking shit now, Murphy? If yours are so much better, you clearly don't need mine.

1. That's bullshit, about Raven. Give it time.
2. No, it doesn't have to be Raven. Sex is getting on the right path, at least.

[mofi]

when am i not talking shit
it's my default
i can hoard good looking eyebrows if i want
fight me

her and i are complicated.
because i have a line of people wanting to have sex with me.
ill get right on it

[cicatrize]

Fair enough, point taken.
But no, you can only hoard good looking eyebrows if you have the force to take them and defend them.
You don't want to fight me, John Murphy.

[ you're cute, boo, but he'll waste your scrawny ass. ]

I know you two are complicated. Her leg. She told me.
You'll be okay.

[ crazier people have gotten over more. he has faith. as for murphy and his apparent inability to recognize when people are attracted to him, welp. maybe not so much. ]

You're a little dense, aren't you?

[mofi]

i cant fight for shit
so i guess i dont have em

ah she told you about that
thats nice
so great
wonderful even


[ He squints at the screen of his device. ]

did you just call me stupid
in an almost nice way?

[cicatrize]

And I'm a war veteran, infantry Major and special ops officer. No, dear, you don't.

[ womp wooomp sad trombone. you earn those eyebrows back, you cheater. ]

I plied her into telling me. Don't blame her for falling prey. [ well, not really, he didn't try terribly hard, but the point is he could have and probably gotten what he wanted and murphy knows him well enough to know that and believe it. hopefully. ]

I did, it's a talent.
Can you guess why?

[mofi]

i dont know if anyone told you this
but no one likes a bragger.

sounds fake but okay.

why guess when i know youre just going to tell me?

[cicatrize]

:'( My tears. I'm so hurt.
Besides, things like that, that suck to get, are worth bragging about no matter who likes it.

[ said like he didn't love every second of the military, because it spared him from being home. but, yeah, war is hell, and working your ass off to be above and beyond the hand-outs you'll get for being the prince isn't easy, but it is rewarding. so suck it, world, he'll kick your asses. except steve and bucky, because they're fucking cheaters.

anyway. dropping the bit about raven. ]

Because you can prove be wrong if you guess right?

[mofi]

(｡•́︿•̀｡)
sure if u say so

[ Being Murphy ain't easy either, too. He'd brag but he hates himself so there's that.

Oh, it also takes him a few moments to respond because, after reading the convo a few times, he realizes that yeah, he is fucking dense.]

you offering to have sex with me?

[cicatrize]

[ yes, murphy, he knows. 'war veteran' is a lot easier to feel the privilege to brag about than 'torture survivor', regardless of how much more impressive murphy's is.

he drops that, though, and jack watches the screen, waiting to see if it clicks, wondering if he should actually tell him or just say 'nevermind' if he doesn't get it.

fortunately, that choice doesn't need to be made. ]

See? I had faith you'd get there on your own.

[ a pause, and then its "jbenjamin is typing..." again, and after a moment: ]

Though, I wouldn't say so much 'offering' as 'expressing interest'. Offering makes it sound like I'm fulfilling a need that's otherwise vacant, and I don't believe that.

[ you're attractive, murphy. people what to fuck you. shut up. ]

[mofi]

[ Murphy is lowkey being a dick, but done so very playfully. ]
only because i had to reread your hint.
and also that fact i didnt think youd express any interest.

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which you are.

[ ... ]

this is me expressing interest too?