☎ voicemail

[as_damaged]

❝You've reached Allison Cameron, please leave a message.❞

☎ voicemail ☎ text message ☞ action

[ooc: you know the drill, if you need her and there's no recent post &c &c. whatever. ♥♥♥]

Comments

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

i've worked it out.

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[as_damaged]

worked what out?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

what I want.

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[as_damaged]

and that is?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

you. angela said i should talk to you about it, but i didn't know how to make it work, then. now i do.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

and if the two of you are still getting along, maybe you can share a room.

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[as_damaged]

you can't be serious

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[as_damaged]

no.

just no.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

i mean, only when you need some space from being in mine.

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[as_damaged]

what makes you think i'd even begin to be okay with this idea?

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

why wouldn't you? it all works. you have me, i have you and... a few other people. everybody knows about it. no hurt feelings. it makes sense.

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[as_damaged]

if you've got a few other people lined up you don't need me to figure into your plans at all.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

yes i do. of course i do.

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[as_damaged]

no. you don't. and i'm not.

i'll talk to you tomorrow if you're sane by then.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Cameron

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

[RING RING RING RING RING RING]

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[as_damaged]

[snappish, because she's already about had enough of this.]

What.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

[But he sounds so desperately earnest.]

I need you.

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[as_damaged]

[Which is flattering, but no doubt he's equally earnest with the other dozen girls he's probably trying to seduce.]

I don't have any interest in sharing.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

[Today isn't about seduction, it's about collecting. Call back on Friday?]

Right. Okay. That's not a problem. [A beat.] You can have your own room.

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[as_damaged]

[Maybe, if you're lucky, she'll be talking to you again by next week. Maybe.]

That's not what I meant.

[A pause, that is conspicuously not a sigh, because she's too frustrated.]

The answer is no. Goodbye, Chase.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Don't-- don't hang up on me! [Speaking to dead air or not, Chase is very confused by all the women trying to say no today, but this one especially.] Then what do you want, Cameron? Half of this is for you.

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[as_damaged]

I don't want that.

[And that, that is the last she has to say to you, because it is followed by a quiet click. If you try again it'll go right to voicemail.]

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

[And it does. After about the fifth attempt he leaves a message.]

It's, it's Chase. Look, I've been trying to figure this out for weeks. How to ask you... if you wanted... [Stop, pause, rephrase] I want you. But I-- I keep screwing things up, waiting. If we do it this way, I can't do that anymore. You'll know about everyone already.

[There's a long silence, as though he's checking back over what he's said to see that he's covered everything. Seems like it.]

Okay. So, call me. I'll keep you the room by mine.