move your little finger and you can change the world

[enjoythe_ride]

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[matriarchate]

I'm not going to kill for you.

( That's her hard no. She has a few others, but they sound cliché when she thinks about mentioning them. She's done everything from brokered peace, extracted teammates and prisoners, stolen something (that was rightfully theirs), and it has been a long time since she's come up against a hard no. )

And I won't sleep with you. But. I think we both know we're good for that. I keep my word, David, or I have a team who will do it for me. Please.

[maleficum]

I wouldn't have asked the second.

[He's not going to lie and say that killing someone could have been very useful with the way things are going witch-wise, but he'll respect her wishes and not force her. He knows how deals work, the way people like to twist things to their advantage.

He spent long enough being a demon's skin after all, and those aren't the kinds of deals he wants to make. He just doesn't know what he needs right now.]

But fair enough on the first. Are both of you going?

[matriarchate]

( There is always renegotiating, especially when it comes to every avenue having been explored, but right now that's her no. )

Just me.

[maleficum]

Okay.

[And he reaches behind him for the front door, but this time when he opens it, she's looking at the charred out remains of Rousseau's, as that's the door he knows. There's a moment of regret as he watches it, before gesturing for her to make her way through.]

If you see Harvey Specter, tell him the back up her requested will be there by sundown.

[and with that, we finish Act I.]