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[fessus]

... I never really thought about it like that, I guess. Maybe to some people.

But I make a difference, and I help people. You said you fought in wars, right?

[batricide]

[ He'll pause to order whatever passes for fake terrible coffee in the future. ]

I have. [ kind of caused some too. ] I protect people who can't protect themselves. [ from themselves more often than not. ] And sometimes that means fighting.

[fessus]

[ Somehow, he almost hears the pauses that make room for internal commentary. And he gets it.

But now that Damian's ordering a coffee? Noctis has to too. ]

Yeah. I know.

I'm in the middle of one back home... a war, I mean. Right now it's more fighting than protecting, but when I get to do more of the latter it feels good.

[batricide]

[ hm.

coffee is also gross and he's adding sugar to that. ]

They're one in the same. Every battle you fight is a battle someone else doesn't have to.

[fessus]

I dunno about that. Maybe before... With things how they are now, though, I'm the only one that can fight these.

[ A more cowardly side of himself wishes that weren't the case, but every day he accepts his fate more and more. ]

What about you? Who protects you?

[batricide]

That's how it often goes.

[ Sip.

It's not entirely true - Clark does. But Clark's in prison now. He's on his own, back with his mother's family. Which means its survival of the fittest. ]

No one.

[fessus]

I guess sometimes it's just-- nah, forget it.

[ "No one". He doesn't believe for a second that that could be the case here, not if he's so concerned for specific other people, but. ]

Fine, I'll watch your back.

[batricide]

I watch my own back.

[ :/ ;/ ;/ ]

[fessus]

Good for you. I still said what I said.

And you can watch mine.