captain_jtkirk | .067 - this is how captains spend their holidays

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.067 - this is how captains spend their holidays

Since it is a holiday and while I respect it, I don't celebrate or observe it. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in a game of chess. Or any other quiet type of recreation if you can think of something better.

[Private to Shego]

Let's talk.

[ooc; this is the type of chess Kirk plays. But. He also lets people win because it's hard.]

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You also said "I guess" and "I don't know" which implies doubt, sweetheart.

I'm fine. Completely, absolutely okay. Functioning one hundred per cent normally. Is that enough clarity for you?

Oh yeah, that's much better.

You're out of a job now though.

Yeah, a job as in 'one of the jobs, plural, that I have'. I still run the stupid self-defense class.

That's not enough to keep you occupied and you know it.

Nothing here is enough to keep me occupied. I'll ask Bennet about a regular gym shift, I'm pretty sure it's just her and Numbers right now.

Would you really enjoy that?

No.

Are there any other options I'd enjoy more? Also no. So I'm just gonna take what I can get, if that's all good with you.

Disregarding the options available now, what would you enjoy doing?

You mean for a job? How is this relevant?

It's curiosity, Shego.

[It's suspicious is what it is.]

I've got nothing, okay? There is nothing to do on board this heap of junk that I would choose to do all day.

[Quit being such a girl.]

I seem to recall asking you to disregard the current options.

I am disregarding the current options, but exactly how wide a choice do I have here? If 'go home and get the day job back' was a possibility I'd do it, but I was sticking to stuff that isn't impossible and wouldn't get me tossed in Zero. And within those parameters? Nothing.

Is it the day job or the going home part that you like better? Be honest and you can only pick one.

The going home part. Obviously. And it doesn't even need to be home. I would accept an 'anywhere but here' part.

You wanna go to the CES sometime? It's not that great but it's the best I can do.

Aren't you supposed to be telling me I could have real, actual freedom if I quit being such a bad person?

I don't think you're a bad person and I figured you didn't want to hear it regardless.

Uh huh. If I'm not a bad person then why don't I have your job?

And you suddenly think I'm a good person?

No, I think you're a sexist, arrogant jerk in serious need of therapy for the Daddy issues. But you did that whole 'save the world' bit too, and it looks like what you do counts for more than who you are.

Then do something good if you want my job so badly.

Wait wait wait, when did that come up? I don't want your job. I don't want to graduate. I'm just wondering how the heck you think I wound up as an Inmate if I'm not a bad guy.

I think you're lazy and cynicalbut you're also smart and you know the difference between right and wrong and you don't really seem to care about your old job that much.

I think you're holding yourself back which is weird because you want to leave so badly.