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{ .vdetective. }

     “Right. Name’s Nick Valentine – of Valentine Detective Agency. Rare to      get stopped outside like this. Everything alright? You’re not in need of      any help, are you?”
She certainly looked troubled enough for the both of them.
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Oh, her smile was bitter.

          “Is it that obvious? Though, I guess people talk to you more often when           they have a problem than when they don’t. M’name’s Diane McClintock,           Mist’ur Valentine. And I’m sure this’ a line you’re also used to hearing --           I’m looking for someone who’s gone missing.”

#vdetective#[v; tear yourself apart to entertain.]#// The angst in my soul cALLED TO HER#squishes nick's cheeks tfw your muse meets someone who'd probably actually be concerned for her i'm gon cry
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“You don’t waste time, you tell the truth.”

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MEME.

A derisive snort left the woman as she busied herself with clawing away thegrime on her knife, lip raised in the barest hint of a sneer. That scar on theside of his face was a little dinged up and she felt simultaneous pride overhaving managed to catch him off guard and disgust she hadn’t been ableto do worse.

                  NOT HUMAN, NOT HUMAN. METAL. SYNTHETIC. NOT REAL.                                                   She had to keep reminding herself.

She scratched until her nails hurt, until most of the dirt was gone, and thenshe shifted from where she sat on the floor. The tattered pieces of her dresstangled in her legs as she leaned her upper body forward, neck extended& head cocked to the side so she could stare up at him through the maskthat hid her shame. She was twitching, her fingers occasionally drummingagainst the wet floor below her. Leaks, leaks everywhere. The city criedmore than she did.

          “You m-mean … you MEAN… you’re say-aying I’m bl – BLUNT?”

She had to process it a moment. Had to think, had to consider, whetheror not she took that as an insult. When she decided it wasn’t, the sneerdisappeared, but her shoulders drooped forward, her body falling closerto the floor as if she were about to start crawling towards him. She didn’t,though. She stayed still.

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          “Liars and cheaters and hypocrites and tyrants are PARASITES.          I am none of – of those, those things. Can’t waste time. Need all          the time I can get – gotta… gotta get stra–straight to the point!          You’re wasting my time.“

#vdetective#// Diane would be super salty w/ Nick bc she can't hurt him tB H#[re:meme.]#[v; all the choirs in my head sang;; no.]
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My Darkest Days Sentence Meme

  • “Anytime I call, you don’t have to call me back.”
  • “Does it hurt when you breathe, too? ‘Cause it does when I do.”
  • “I always hurt somebody when I fall in love and that’s just how it goes.”
  • “I am the only thing that keeps you alive.”
  • “I hate to feel this way. My days all feel the same and yesterday was proof that tomorrow will, too.”
  • “I lose my mind with the way you move.”
  • “I’m never gonna fall, but I’m never hard to catch!”
  • “I’m like your dirty little drug and you never get enough.”
  • “The world comes crashing down when you come around.”
  • “We don’t have to go on dates, you don’t have to like my friends.”
  • “We pretend to get along but the smile’s getting harder to fake.”
  • “We’ll always get along, 'cause it doesn’t have to last.”
  • “Who haven’t you lied to?”
  • “Whoever said this pain would ever go away didn’t know what it meant to be here without you.”
  • “You don’t waste time, you tell the truth.”
  • “You might as well just stop crying, it doesn’t mean much to me anymore.”
  • “You wrap yourself around me and tightening the noose.”
  • “You’re out for blood and you can smell the fear. You need poison.”
  • “Your body’s built just like a weapon and you’re using it.”
#// I want to answer this meme with splicer!Diane tbh so yES PLS SEND THESE.#[Meme.]
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{ .intellectandwill. }

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Now he looked at her, a mixture of pain and rage planting the seed of a wrinkle in his brow. She always seemed so busy, he never considered the fact that she might be filling a space that he had left. Tugging the Great Chain.. “Why do I care?” he repeated in surprise. He honestly didn’t know. By all logical reasoning, his interest in her should have faded with conquest, long ago. And yet, he’d brought her to Rapture with him, for goodness’ sake, against all advice. “Diane, my dear, why shouldn’t I? After all–” he took a step towards her, watching her closely for a reaction. “After all this time?” He wouldn’t ask who she had been with. “Come out with me,” he commanded, instead, holding out his arm. “Let’s go out. It’s been– a while.”

Diane’s gaze was the one that turned away now. She wouldn’t -- couldn’t -- look him in the eye, and so instead she found solace in the floor. His step closer made her tense. She didn’t move back, her defiance only going so far even when pushed, but it took her digging her heel into the floor.

          “ ... right. Why shouldn’t you?”

Always so vague. He said it as if he’d given her no reason to doubt him lately. She wanted to take that invitation and shove it up his ass where it belonged. Tell him that for once she was busy, that she had plans (even though it’d entail her drinking alone tonight, as per usual.) Make him believe she wasn’t at the mercy of things being convenient for him. That, maybe even more dramatically, she’d finally just given up. Not on the road, but at the end of it.

Oh, but she was a fool. A stupid, stupid little fool.

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          “Fine. I mean, I -- ... alright.”

But she hesitated. For just a moment, her throat constricted and her body wouldn’t move because she knew better. Paying her mind out of pity or disinterested regard or whatever this was wouldn’t change things in the end. She knew that. Yet she pulled herself out of her trance anyways and took his arm, withholding a sigh so that in its place a smile could form. It was a soulless, forced gesture -- small and fragile, but it was better than nothing. The only thing more pathetic than pretending was sulking about it. That’s what drinks were for. And she was eager to pretend. She always was.

          “Mm. Thought you were just sayin’ hello, though.”

#intellectandwill#// how could I not tho quality garbage is my aesthetic B]#[v; drown in sorrows.]
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{ .intellectandwill. }

For one fatal moment, he made the mistake of looking at her. He shouldn’t have come. He– hadn’t wanted to. The longer he stayed away, the more he felt as though he really ought to. And she– He looked anywhere. At the nightstand, at his hands, at the floor. Anything not to see what he very much felt he’d done to her. “Yes, I–” his voice was husky and he he cleared it, as though that would make any difference in the world. “I wanted to make sure– that you were all right.”
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          “Why do you care?”

Word vomit, they called it, didn’t they? It slipped out before she could think better of it, and once she had, she regretted it immediately. She never asked because she figured he wouldn’t answer -- and she always thought she knew the answers to her own questions, anyways. None of them pleasant. If they were, she wouldn’t be standing several steps away from him, arms crossed over her chest so she only had to worry about her voice shaking.

She was glad to see him squirm for once, however subtly. Part of her wanted to reassure him -- but she swallowed a lump in her throat and forbade it.

                    How did he think she was doing? She was hurt. She was lonely.

          “I’m swell, Mist’ur Ryan. Been spending my nights down at the bar           with a friend. There’s no lack of company in Rapture when you’re           busy tuggin’ the Great Chain, thankfully.”

#intellectandwill#// squishes your cheeks tbh ty aslkgj#screams I missed all these bioshock trash cans#[v; drown in sorrows.]
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          “I think we can agree, at the very least, you owe me a drink for skipping           out on dinner last night, Andrew. Should make you buy me two.”

Or an entire liquor store, if things were going to keep going on as they were. She’d put up more a fight -- complain a little louder so that he could hear her for once -- but she simply didn’t have the energy for it. Not today, not this time. She was too tired and her spirit was dampened. She almost hoped it showed.

#forlions#// Diane pls just leave I'm s o#rolls in ur direction#[v; drown in sorrows.]
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          “Well, aren’t I one lucky lady? Look who finally found the time to           pay me’a visit. Sayin’ hello before you head to work for the night?”

Bitter, angry, sad -- she couldn’t even decide which her tone of voice ended up betraying. It didn’t matter, anyways, did it? Either way, she wanted to slap that smug look he always had off his face. Either way, her heart nearly leapt from her chest when she saw him.

#intellectandwill#// kicks diane in andrew's direction#ahhh I love the smell of misery in the morning#[v; drown in sorrows.]
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