𝙿𝙴𝙽𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴 𝙸𝙽𝙱𝙾𝚇 ;

[dadyl]

𝚃𝙴𝚇𝚃. / 𝚅𝙾𝙸𝙲𝙴. / 𝚅𝙸𝙳𝙴𝙾. / 𝙰𝙲𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽.

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[minuteofangle]

[ It smarts like a physical blow. Gabe takes it silently. He has a job to do. ]

You don't remember so I'm nobody.

You know the details don't add up. This isn't right.

[dadyl]

[ Everything about this is so confusing it makes Daryl angry -- an emotion he never otherwise gives in to. He's supposed to be above this, he's never had a problem controlling his temper before. ]

The hell's that mean?

They don't have to, this is my life. The whole thing. So what I can't remember a detail or two? Better than bein batshit like you.

[minuteofangle]

[ Focus on your job, Gabe tells himself. Shut the rest down.

So. He does. ]

What about the first time you saw your kids? I remember everything about when I met mine. Every goddamn detail. So tel me one.  

[dadyl]

In the hospital. Obviously. They're mine, I didn't find em lyin around.

[ The feelings of attachment he has to them are overwhelming and intense. Those didn't come out of nowhere. ]

[minuteofangle]

Details, Daryl. Something concrete.

[ He has no idea if this is working or not, but he has to try. ]

[dadyl]

You're a sick asshole, how's that for a detail.

[minuteofangle]

That's not an answer.

[dadyl]

This is over, whatever it is. Hear me?

If I ever see you in person we're gonna have a real problem.

[minuteofangle]

You already got a problem, Daryl. We should talk face to face.

[dadyl]

No. We shouldn't.

An stay the hell away from my family with all this bullshit.

[minuteofangle]

Sorry.
Really wish I could.  

[dadyl]

[ Daryl stops answering for a long time. He checks in with Carol and doesn't care for the way the questions line up. Nor for how she hadn't been able to give him any more concrete details than he was able to remember about their lives together.

He waits until the family is asleep. ]

You bothered my wife, asshole.

Who dyou think you are, messin with my family like this? It gettin you off?

[minuteofangle]

[ The line goes quiet for a long ass time and Gabe starts wondering what the fuck he's going to do next. Try and cross the border and drag them out by his lonesome, maybe. But even confused and stuck in crazy land, Daryl and Carol are too smart to fall for the obvious tricks. He has a feeling instinct will take over if it comes to a fight and in close quarters he doubts he can take both of them. So what does that leave? He's not good at this shit, convincing people to listen.

But then Daryl responds again. ]

Im not hard up enough to get off on a conversation, Daryl. But I know the two of you. You're too smart not to see things aren't lining up.

[dadyl]

You keep sayin that but you ain't gonna trick me into your shit by callin me smart. How stupid dyou really think I am.

What the hell dyou want outta this? How can I make you leave my goddamn family alone, huh??

[minuteofangle]

When you can answer the questions. Remember the details you should already fucking know.

[dadyl]

Even if I could tell you what you want, I wouldn't. I ain't tellin you anythin. Not til you explain what all this shit is about.

An I mean explain.

[minuteofangle]

You want me to explain, you're gonna have to hear when I'm saying.

In person.

[dadyl]

[ He knows he shouldn't. He knows it's the last thing he should agree to and that he should just hang up and leave the phone off the hook for a week or two. He has no real idea of what he's walking into.

But he really wants to threaten this guy in person. Maybe knock him around until he knows Daryl isn't a demon to be messed with. That his family are off-limits. ]

Fine. Where.

[minuteofangle]

On the border. In the woods.

[dadyl]

You try anythin and I'll kill you.

[minuteofangle]

Yeah, I know.

Be there.