capeandcowllogs | you're a terrible human being. your point?

WHO: the other man

ioudas & the poor friend in the middle

professorlionface
WHERE: cross' apartment
WHEN: sometime after this incident
WARNINGS: it's cross.
SUMMARY: lucy got some 'esplanin' to do about wrecking a marriage.
FORMAT: quick to start!

[Bad username or unknown identity: look, i was drunk, it was dark, and she was hot.]

(Cross often wondered why it seemed that trouble followed him everywhere. He really had no excuse, there was nothing going on here that required him to do the things he'd usually do back home, but still. He sighs, already drinking heavily as he always does before any serious conversation. Either Lilian would get here before Hank did and he'd have to sober up for her and leave Hank out in the cold, or he'd actually have to have this conversation.

As much as he didn't want to admit it, it was probably time that he packed up and disappeared. A year had passed and it was more than acceptable that he had left it in a mess. It was just habit after all.

Argh, where was the Earl when you needed him to fuck things so much that his own messes paled in comparison.)

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Of course you'd prefer company that wouldn't talk back.

Don't even act surprised.

I'm not. I can't possibly be! But I think it does underline the importance of you having a friend that will all the same.

You sound like someone's mother right now, you do realize that right.

A comment like that leaves me wondering just what your mother was like.

My mother was perfect in every way. Or, what I can remember of her. (that might be a lie, or it might be the truth. who knows?)

So I should be taking it as a compliment, then, if this is the example that informs your understanding of the title.

I don't actually remember her, so you can take it any which way you want to.

Well, if you try to insult me and I take it as a compliment, that doesn't really achieve what you hoped, does it?

It would require effort to be upset about that.

And there's really no motivator so powerful as laziness, is there?

I'm so proud of you, you're learning!

You aren't telling me anything I didn't already know, just surrendering yourself to things I would have thought you could be better than.

You know me, the less effort the better.

Have you ever seen someone stare down a train, only to decide that getting out of the way would be too much effort? Because that feels like what I'm watching right now.