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“I mean I’m not impressed. Like, at all.” Grif shrugged. “I’ll give you this, your creepy murder basement is a new twist. Most of the assholes that I’ve had to deal with just killed and left the bodies where they were. Not even Felix was twisted enough to keep a fucking fridge.

    " Do I look-- I could ask you the same thing, numbnuts. Usually people who fuck around with my friends don't live long enough to bitch about it after the fact. " Church mirrored that stubborn stance of his -- if only because he was the one that patented it -- and folded his arms tightly over his chest. Granted, there were many people who came into contact with the Reds and Blues, friendly or not, and still ended up dead, but that was neither here nor there. The point remained.

    " The right path to follow to carry out your crybaby Shakespearean vengeance. Is what you mean. Right? Just so we're on the same page here? " Does he seem like he's happy with the apology? Even if he did manage to somehow get it out of him twice -- which was a win on his part, really -- that didn't magically erase the fact that it happened.

There's already half a grin on North's face as he waits patiently for Temple to get through it. He was trying, that was all that mattered.

The reveal isn't... anything special, but there was something about the train of thought leading up to it that kept it from being a total flop. It makes North laugh. Nothing malicious, of course, just... amused.

It was inevitable. Or at least, North thought it was. If the conversation was going to devolve into something like that -- no matter how uncomfortable it made him -- then the kid was going to hear his take on it. It wasn't his favorite topic, but he did have every right in the world to be mad. North would at least give him that much.

    " That's a good first step to moving on, you know. Recognizing that you're just tired of feeling a certain way. " It was, by no means, going to be an easy process, but he didn't think it would be impossible. " The next step is trying to decide what you're gonna do to stop feeling that way. Maybe an approach that's not at the expense of other people's lives. "

Weirdly enough, there's a hint of amusement in his tone as he says that.