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[demnify.livejournal.com]

[the Master is pleasantly humming something]

I do have to say, I'm rather warming up to all this business.

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[demnify.livejournal.com]

Distressing case, I expect. Such comes with the area of employment.

[didorothy]

Every case is 'distressing.' Wouldn't get to CID if it wasn't.

[demnify.livejournal.com]

Of course. I doubt you want to linger on that subject.

[didorothy]

How obliging of you.

[demnify.livejournal.com]

I do have manners, after all. I'd so hate to make your mood even worse.

[didorothy]

I'm fine.

[demnify.livejournal.com]

Just as you don't believe me, I don't believe you.

[didorothy]

You're a murderer; I'm a police officer.

[the barest tensing of features]

An honest one. We're hardly in the same class when it comes to believability.

[demnify.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I am a fairly honest murderer, all things considered.

[he smirks]

I've seen many police officers set aside their honesty, their morality, their very scruples for certain goals and offers... Even ones who were the most solid and adamant in their beliefs eventually crack under the right pressure.

[didorothy]

[it hits, of course it hits, and from the miasmic depression a clear hiss of pain reaches out, a hint of the fight still left in Sam Tyler, if greatly oppressed]

I'm not that sort of cop.

[demnify.livejournal.com]

Oh?

[he steps forward carefully]

Did I hit a little too close to home on something, Mr. Tyler?

[didorothy]

Shut it.

[demnify.livejournal.com]

[he laughs]

Hmmm. I don't think I will.

[he grins widely, exposing his fangs]

You can tell me, Mr. Tyler...

[didorothy]

No.

[demnify.livejournal.com]

I'm certain I could make a few... mmm... educated guesses.

[didorothy]

On what sort of education?

[demnify.livejournal.com]

A few reactions of yours.


After all, you seemed rather on the defensive when I brought up crooked cops.

[didorothy]

Yeah, well, one of the first things I did in this place was get the whole bloody department off the take from a man named Warren. And I know some of them are still as bent as they get.

[demnify.livejournal.com]

Oh, but you've started them down the right path - why ever should you be defensive now?

[didorothy]

[stares at him for a moment, searchingly. Then--]

How do you know?

[demnify.livejournal.com]

[laughs]

Now, why should I tell you right off, Mr. Tyler, after you made me put forth a bit of effort?

[didorothy]

You are very childish, aren't you?

[demnify.livejournal.com]

No. More bored, really. But I suppose I'll be far more cooperative than you were with me.

[he shrugs slightly]


How do you think Mr. Hunt found out who did it?

[didorothy]

–You said you wanted to discuss something with him. That idiot. Was he – were you with him?

[demnify.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I was.