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[voice; un: METTATON]

Morning, darlings. No, this isn't a call to share, not quite yet.

There wouldn't happen to be any healers capable of mending broken bones on the team, would there? Dearest George has hurt himself and, instead of doing the reasonable thing and seeking help from his team, he's decided it's much more effective to lumber around with the enemy.

This won't do. You all know why.

So. If anyone would please do him a favor and take care of that? And take HIM away from his current company. Thank you.

Just as an interesting little side-note, it seems our blue friend hasn't the foggiest about her own team's exploits when it comes to ALASTAIR. Just thought that was fascinating.

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I'm not going to help you kidnap the guy who's supposed to be in charge.

[He loves you Mettaton, but not that much.]

Oh, please. He's newer than all of us and was mission support at BEST.

Besides! Who said anything about KIDNAPPING? We're on the same team! Consider it a light reshuffling of the group. Wouldn't George be much better off with a healer or someone he ISN'T making googoo eyes at?

Edited 2017-07-30 22:42 (UTC)

Okay, yeah, he needs a healer, but you're just going to piss him off if you treat him like he can't make his own choices.

I don't think forcing him is going to get you what you want here.

Darling, the only thing I aim to get is him away from her.

He can be mad at me all he wants when we get back to Oska. Until then, we can't afford to trust him on the lone fact that it might hurt his feelings.

Edited (read that wrong, whoops) 2017-07-30 22:48 (UTC)

It's not about hurting his feelings.

[Is he projecting? Maybe a little.]

Look, I don't think she's a bad person, but if you're right then there must be some way to prove that. No lie's perfect.

[Oliveeeeeeeeeeeeer...]

It is not about proving things, Oliver. By all mean! Go speak to her. Convince her to join our side. She's ignorant about her own group - maybe she doesn't realize how awful they are!!

But they cannot stay together. We're putting everything at risk because we're too afraid to tell our own teammate he shouldn't be nurturing a crush on an assassin honor-bound to a group who has tried to kill us multiple times. This is about being LOGICAL.

Is it? Because you aren't acting very logical right now.

How am I not acting logical? By not letting feelings get in the way of a legitimate threat?

You aren't considering how feelings work.

George spends like all his time with her. Hung up on her or not, if anyone's going to see red flags it's him. If you try and force him away from her he's going to want to see good in her even more than he does already, and if you're right then she's not going to have any reason to pretend to be on our side anymore.

1) I completely understand how emotions work. As someone who is currently with someone who had been, as you put it, "hung up on me," I can firmly testify that this man had taken an entire tour of the factory where they had made the red flags and saw absolutely nothing. [Is that a self burn?] Infatuation makes you an idiot. If anyone would be seeing red flags, it would NOT be him.

2) The only reason she'd be needing to pretend is for her own protection. It's 80 against 1. I cannot care less how she handles the news that the people HER people have tormented do not trust her.

Edited 2017-07-30 23:53 (UTC)

You aren't that bad, Mettaton.

[He sounds tired. He's annoyed right now, but Mettaton's his friend and he's better than he thinks he is.]

Distrust her if you want to, but you need to have more respect for George.

[You aren't that bad. Seems like everyone is having a fun turn telling him that, over and over, and yet...

Sigh.]

I'll be sure to do that once he earns it.

He's a grown man. He shouldn't have to earn the right to make is own decisions.

I know plenty grown men that do.

That's not the point.

That's entirely the point.

If you can't trust someone to make a decision that won't hurt their entire team, none the less the entire multiverse, you do not let them.

Do you really want to gamble your own home because George deserves his cute little crush?

You said it yourself. She's vastly outnumbered.

I don't think the consequences are as dire as you're making them out to be.

[Sigh.]

And if he decides he'd rather stay with her instead of coming back to us and give Zymandis all of our information? All he'd need is her.

How do you propose stopping that?

Edited 2017-07-31 01:34 (UTC)

He wouldn't do that to us. Have a little faith.

That wasn't the question.

I'm saying I don't think it will come down to that.

[Which still doesn't really answer his question.]

And I'm saying it might.

I've done my fair share of hanging around programmers, Oliver. Isn't the "what if" essential to making the code?

"What if" he decides she's more important than us?

[Don't use programming against him, Mettaton. That's very unfair.]

If he does that still doesn't mean she's against us. If he does and she is we'll deal with that.

But "what if" goes both ways. What if she decides George is more important to her than Zymandis?

Either way, we're more likely to get a good outcome by being nice to her until we find a reason not to be.

You're very good at dodging things, sweetheart. Might want to consider picking that up as a sport.

If he does. And she does. How are we going to deal with it?

I don't know.

[So there's his reason for dodging if Mettaton was wondering.]

Then it might be a good idea to start considering kidnapping.

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