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“I’ll get you a better heads up next time, at the very least.”
"I bet she'll be happy to have somethin' to do, instead of sittin' around, tryin' to do something good. I was happy as anything to get a permanent pairing, I can tell you that."
"Much obliged, Tess."
He gets up, creaking a little, and lets out a sigh. "I gotta go get some people set up to clean. You good?"
"I've kept you from a lot of sitting around, that's for sure," she replies. "Haven't made the doing good part easy, though."
He smiles at her when she does that - it's good to have such easy rapport with someone.
"I never wanted easy, lady."
"Now I never known you to be an optimist," he faux-chides her. "Six months? Je-sus."
"Second place is just the first loser," she replies.
"Who else you competing with at this point?"
Since all of them have gone home.
"I'll hit 'em in their weak spots if you find out what they are," he tells her, jostling her a little.
"I could throw Rawne under the bus any moment I wanted, I know what bullshit he's up to," she replies. "And Newlin, he's just stupid, you could probably hand him anything and he'll hang himself with it."
"Keep that in mind if I start hearin' them talk about graduating soon. Leave you with some dignities over those bozos."
"Where would I be without you, huh?
"Isn't that the truth," she replies. "I think I'd be meaner about sabotaging them myself, though."
"Well, we're just findin' tons'a good things about me being here, tonight," is what he has to say about that.
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