week 0, friday

[vigilantics]

[ it's been... a day. everyone is pretty stressed out after the morning, but there is one person steph is concerned about. a lot of the people here seemed to be used to violence in some form, but she knows that there are others who are a little more... normal. ]

Evan?

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[selfinserting]

[He listens attentively to the entire story, but the last part throws him off enough that his only response is:]

You - accidentally started a gang war?

[vigilantics]

Y... es? It happens.

[ this reaction is the reason she gave all of that background info. ]

See, the guy had a bunch of plans that were basically ways to eradicate certain pockets of crime in our city. And I thought that if I successfully did one of them, he'd realize he was wrong and unfire me. So I stole one about dealing with some of the more dangerous gangs. And it worked at first? But there was one specific detail of the plan that wasn't written down. It was info that you would only know if he had personally told you, and he didn't trust me enough to do that. So because I didn't know about it, there was no way to complete the plan and everything kind of just went super horribly.

[selfinserting]

I-I guess that makes sense, but... You, um, you didn't get hurt, did you?

[Even he isn't naive enough to assume nobody else did, since. Gang war.]

[vigilantics]

[ this question is actually what gives her the most pause. she was able to tell the rest of the story because, even though it's pretty terrible, it's still a thing she grew from.

but. ]

A little. I got better.

[selfinserting]

...I'm, um, really glad you got better. That sounds... really scary. I-I can't imagine what I would do if something like that happened to me.

[His tone is sincere, too; it's easy to tell he's still concerned about what might have happened to her.]

[vigilantics]

I hope you don't. You really don't deserve any of that, Evan.

[selfinserting]

[Somehow, that makes a small smile tug at the edges of his mouth.]

T-To be fair, I don't think I, um, know the right kind of people to accidentally start a gang war. So I don't really h-have to worry about that, at least.

[vigilantics]

[ and that makes her laugh. ]

You're already on the right path then. Gangsters are the worst at parties.

[selfinserting]

[There's a nervous laugh of his own in response.]

They don't seem like they'd be v-very good conversationalists.

[vigilantics]

Oh man, they're the worst. Imagine trying to ask one of them to borrow a dollar to get something from a vending machine?

[selfinserting]

I-I can't actually tell if you're joking or if that happened to you. But either way, um, it sounds rough.

[vigilantics]

... it was a joke, but honestly, it sounds like something that could happen.

[selfinserting]

[Another small smile, nodding.]

W-Well, um, I hope you never have to ask a gangster to borrow a dollar, then.