ᴅᴏɴ·ᴛ ᴄᴀʟʟ ᴍᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ.

au where nobody is a culebra and seth gets his bar in the keys,  ft. @hermanogecko

❛   we take it back.  what,  you gonna let some glorified  paper cut  stop you from teaching that slippery bastard who’s runnin’ the show ?   ❜

❛   then what are you so pissed about ?  vernon takes a swan dive in his birthday suit  &  marvin guns down,  like,  two-thirds of that whole organization.  money’s on the hook,  brother  —  we just gotta reel it in.   ❜

❛   stop doing what ?   ❜    cut him a  little  slack  —  it’s a slow night.

❛   yeah,  seth  —  we do.  but don’t worry about it.  i mean,  hey,  as long as nobody’s looking at you like a  meal ticket,  what the hell d’ you care ?  we got 'em under control.   ❜

❛   your  specialty  sounds like a fast  &  dirty road to a  bullet  between the eyes.  anybody ever tell you that ?   ❜    he doesn’t deal extensively with cartels  —  not directly,  at least  —  but hierarchies like theirs usually come with a few universal rules.    ❪  when you’re a  grunt,  keeping your head down  &  your mouth shut is a good place to start.  evidently,  this kid missed that part on career day.  ❫    a quick visual tour of the munitions cache,  simultaneous with the quiet scoff of a laugh tempered in wry amusement.    ❛   i’ll take my chances  —  along with everything you’ve got in here.  now let’s talk numbers.   ❜

❛   no dice.  we’ve been doing this a long time  —  &  we do it just fine without a third wheel.  you’re a liability.  i’ll call off this whole goddamn caper before i do business with a  liability,  you understand ?   ❜

❛   not if you can’t hit your target.   ❜    blunt,  maybe  overselling it a little,  even if this wasn’t intended as a blatant rebuke.  she sounds damn near  contrite  —  there’s a scant furrow of his brow,  nothing more.    ❛   i’m not sayin’ you gotta be like sharon stone in  ‘ the quick  &  the dead ’  after one lesson.  but we are  professionals.  all i’m sayin’ is,  if you want a piece of the action,  you’ll learn.   ❜

❛   yeah ?  whose ?  this ain’t a feeding ground,  remember ?   ❜

❛   –––––––  y’ know,  technically,  hess green wasn’t a vampire.   ❜    that’s an absolute  yes.

❛   what if they’re comin’ at you with a twelve-gauge ?  what if they got a nine millimeter with a full mag  &  a finger on the trigger ?  or maybe they’re not comin’ at you,  maybe it’s me.  maybe i’m outta bullets  &  you’re the only one there who’s watching my back.  you have a nanosecond,  if you’re  lucky  —  you hesitate,  you waste time looking for a  chair,  boom.  we’re pink mist.  nothin’ but a couple of stiffs in body bags.  that  is why you’re gonna learn to shoot.  because if the shit hits,  we need to know that you’ve got us covered.   ❜

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❛   —  jesus.  careful where you're pointin’ those.   ❜    tendrils of genuine amusement inch their way into his tone,  mouth forming the comma of a smile.    ❛   because he’s a  dead shot.  he learned before i did.   ❜