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How did you get this number?

"You planning to use that?" he asks, serious.

"Define 'use'." Spock replies evenly. He retracts the blade, moves the weapon around in one broad hand, extends it once again.

"You know that's not gonna help."

"What I know," he begins as he retracts, folds the knife and puts it back in his pocket. "Is that you want this back. Just as you know that I want an actually honest conversation with you." He folds his hands atop the file, and waits.

"What do you think we've been having, Doc?"

"I'm not a doctor." Still waiting.

"You're mine," he corrected.

"You prefer 'doctor' to 'warden', then?"

"Wardens tend to be one to a place and y'know, run shit. You think it fits?"

"I'm not the one who decided on the titles. You still haven't answered my question."

"Which one?"

"About the ferries."

"No. I just didn't push the right way."

"You wanted one group to kill the other. A lot of planning went into this, yet the results were not as you could have predicted, perhaps even disappointing. What other way might you have 'pushed'?"

Edited (more words~) 2021-01-02 22:09 (UTC)

"You want me to think of another plan?" he asks with a little laugh. "Everyone has a point."

"What point do you think they were making?"

"Not that kind of point." He glances up. "A fixed place, location or time. Everyone's got one."

"A breaking point, you mean, if I am understanding you correctly."

"Everyone sees what they've got in them eventually."

He doesn't flinch nor avert his gaze. "Suppose they do. Hypothetically, you are the one to bring them to that edge. Then what?"

"Then they become who they really are." Like everybody knows this.

Spock closes the file and sets it aside. "You speak of this as if it were a permanent state. I can assure you it's not. If control can be lost, then the opposite holds true."

He rolls his eyes. "Control is what we're undoing. And it ain't self control we're worrying about."

Edited 2021-01-06 00:53 (UTC)

"Attempting to undo," Spock corrects. "Elaborate, if you would?"

"Like I said. I take apart machines."

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