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This is Fox McCloud. Leave a message and I'll get back to you.

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Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

[calibrating]

Not so fast.

If I wind up cleaning toilets or something as punishment, you're joining in once you feel better.

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

[all-range-mode.livejournal.com]

Whoa, back up.

I don't do toilets.

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

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Neither do I.

You can see the problem.

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

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It could be worse?

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

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You'd better hope it's not.

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[ear droop]

It's not my fault you called me out here.

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

[calibrating]

Eh.

Just drink your water.

[HE DOESN'T FEEL BAD AT ALL WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT]

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

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Okay, okay.

[He is indeed gonna sip this water.]

So, like. Is it really safe for me to go home after all this?

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

[calibrating]

We have someone working on clearing your records for you. It's just gonna take some time.

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

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Where should I go? Mieu wasn't happy when I told him I probably wouldn't be home for a while. I kind of agreed to let him stay with me if I ended up somewhere.

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

[calibrating]

...Do you have any other roommates?

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

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Yeah, Bill.

Ugh, I'm gonna have to let him know that I won't be around. Man, I've already caused so much trouble for him...

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Send him over to my place every once in a while. I'll make sure it's safe for the two of you to meet there.

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Yeah, I'll let him know.

If I can remember.

[kind of rubs his drunken little head. 8(a]

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

[calibrating]

I'll send you a reminder.

[HE'S GOING ALL OUT FOR YOU FOX]

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

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I really appreciate it, Garrus.

Y'know, you're an okay guy. You're cool, man.

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

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Hah. After all that, I'll take it as a big compliment.

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It's fiiiiine, I understand! You had a good reason to be pissed.

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

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Yeah, you're pretty much gone.

What I said and did wasn't called for in the slightest, McCloud. I had a reason for being pissed, but it wasn't a good one.

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

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I didn't go anywhere..?

[hurp durp]

I think it was a good reason. But like. I dunno, I guess you took it out on the wrong person. But y'know, whatever. I said it was fine.

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

[calibrating]

That's not...

[OH GOD DAMMIT HE'S GONNA HAVE TO TELL THE STORY]

...You're right in that I shouldn't have taken it out on you. But the reason why I did really doesn't have much to do with why you were sent to jail in the first place.

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[Fox kind of yawns and rubs his eye blaurgh]

What was the reason?

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

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You sure you're up for the story? It's pretty long.

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Sure, I don't have anything better to do.

Re: [ACTION OF FUCK YOU]

[calibrating]

All right, then. Just remember-- you asked for it.

So two years ago, around when Shepard died, I wound up leaving my job as a cop. Traveled over to a cesspool of a city called Omega. I figured I could make more of a difference there than I did anywhere else, other than when I was on a mission on the Normandy.

After a few months of killing mercs-gone-bad, I managed to gather a team. Really good guys who all believed in the same thing I did: that we could clean up Omega and make it safer for the civilians.

Well, as you can imagine, the local mercs didn't really appreciate us butting into their business. Eventually, they wound up getting to one of my men. Sidonis.

That bastard led me away on a fake assignment while these merc groups got together and destroyed the rest of my team. By the time I realized what was going on, there were only two men left. And they didn't last long. I barely had time to cover them up, show them some respect, before the mercs regrouped and came after me.

...I don't remember how long I held them all off. To be honest, I'm pretty sure I expected to die back there. I was gonna give them one hell of a fight, but, face it, the odds weren't exactly in my favor.

That's when Shepard showed up. She'd been dead for two years, so you can imagine her being a sight for sore eyes.

She managed to help hold off the merc bands for a few hours until they brought in a gunship. I was alone up on a balcony at that point, so there was really nothing she could do.

Wound up taking a rocket to the face. Naturally, I was out for the rest of that fight. When I woke up, I was pretty much drowning in my own blood and guts. Not pretty.

But Shepard got me back to the Normandy in time, and here I am.

[There's a long pause where Garrus takes a looooong drink. He fucking needs it after recounting all taht.]

...I failed each and every one of my men. If I had been just a little more careful, quicker, more vigilant, something, they'd probably still be alive today.

When I saw what they'd done to you, how we were almost too late, I flashed back to that.