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[have_your_lives]

[Well, someone's just found out that Crawford has gone home. Given that he's been a little unstable ever since he was hit by the time bazooka, he's taking this even more wonderfully than he would normally.]

[Unfiltered, because Schuldig is all out of fucks to give]

He's gone. [This cryptic announcement is followed by the least sane laughter you've ever heard; it's positively manic.] So who sent him packing? Was it you, little girl? Or maybe the mayor? Mayfield's finest? Well, it doesn't matter now...but it's the worst idea you ever had.

He held me back. And now you're trapped in here with me running Schwarz, Mayfield. He would have dismantled you so he could use the parts, but I will burn you to the ground.

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[And Schuldig does release her, although at the moment, in his current mood, even he probably couldn't say why. He's completely at the mercy of his whims, of whatever passing emotion happens to color his reactions...but it's possible that he's let her go because he fully meant to scare her, but may have revealed more than he entirely intended to in doing so.

Or maybe he's just got no more use for her at the moment. Either way, though, he seems to have calmed down enough that the threat level can be downgraded from 'Imminent' to merely 'Likely'.]

You hold tight to that thought, liebchen. [It's one he's been clinging to all his life. And right now, he kind of needs someone else to reiterate it.]

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[Ema stumbles back a little when he lets go of her. Thankfully, the wall behind her catches her before she can fall.]

What, that you're sane? That you didn't end up losing it? That you got out

[Ema tries not to think of Keane, knowing it'll just set him off again, but she can't help but remember the determination she saw in the boy. What happened between then and now?]

I-I'll remember.

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He died. That's what happened. Now don't ever even think that question again.

[Schuldig abruptly stalks out of the room. Whatever whim he's currently in the grip of apparently wants him out of here.]

[glowing-science.livejournal.com]

[Ema slowly slides to the floor, shaking violently. She hates living with this man.

More than that, she hates that part of her is beginning to understand him, at least on some level.]