002 # text # un: skyenet

[evite]

[ do you know what happens when it's late and raining too hard for a girl to go down to the garage to work on her own personal episode of pimp my ride? late night text posts happen. this time, it's a shit post. sorry, not sorry. ]

riverview, we need to have a talk.

[ it's very serious. ]

att: are you fucking kidding me.jpg
if i could give this zero stars, i would.

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> private phone call, aren't we fancy.

[evite]

[ upon seeing her friend's equally late-night network reply, skye does the normal thing and picks up the phone to call her instead. god, she's obnoxious, but privacy does have its perks. and when alex answers, she just dives right in. who says hello anyway? ]

— they're all dead to me, I'm telling you. A bunch of grade A assholes. [ the vague sounds of a can of something bubbly being cracked open in the background. mm, knockoff coke zero. ] I've been thinking about this for, like, hours now.

[ the real question is 'why aren't you sleeping' but that's a round of jeopardy she's not playing. ]

[11calls]

[Alex doesn't ask the question, because let's be real, she's someone who wouldn't want to be asked so she gets it and respects it. Instead she's going to offer an alternative reason why Skye might be awake right now:]

Well, let's be honest here, that's the sort of thing that keeps a person up at night. It's a bit like a splinter in your brain that way. Everything inside of you just wants to find the person and give them a shake and just be like "how HOW DO YOU NOT FIX THIS!"

[evite]

Yeaaaaah.

[ she's laughing a little at alex's aggressive depiction. but also not judging, because she definitely would shake the hell out of a contractor if she knew which one to pin this on. ]

I'm actually kind of surprised nobody's picked it out yet, you know? Like, I can't be the first person to notice this.

[11calls]

Definitely not. I mean, how does it not just drive someone nuts.

[A beat, and Alex just sounds entirely amused.]

Clearly, it definitely needs to be on purpose. It's the only explanation that works.

[evite]

Oh, totally. Except that means we have a sociopathic tile worker in the city, and nobody apparently is on the lookout for this complete maniac.

[ CALL THE SCOOBY SQUAD. ]

We're going to have to set up a task force or something. Get this creep off the streets.

[11calls]

[Hey, Alex is the Scooby Squad. Sort of. Or at least lives with it!]

Definitely. Good thing I'm an ace reporter and all of that!

[evite]

I think you just found your next scoop.

[ this just in: lazy low-down lug on the loose! tiler causing trauma all over town! ]

I expect a full report in twenty-four hours.

[11calls]

[That makes her laugh.]

Twenty-four hours, huh? Damn, it definitely is that life threatening!

[evite]

Uh, duh? [ as if it could be anything else. ] What am I supposed to do, live in fear of the tile traumatizer for the rest of my days?

[11calls]

Seriously. It's a public service right?!