[closed] yeah yeah and I'm alright

[5055034455]

Date & Time: June 29 — July ∞
Location: Around Exsilium
Characters: Saul & TBA
Summary: A catch-all log for Saul's many business etc. meetings throughout the month, because otherwise there would be like a million logs up. Not even an exaggeration. An actual million.
Warnings: Drugs in Jesse's thread, violence in Coby's, sap in Effie's.

[Sometimes, the best way to get over something is to find a suitable distraction.

Since Saul's #1 distraction has always been work, he doesn't see why that can't be the case here as well — he may not technically be practicing law at the moment, but his skill set is undeniably useful. Extremely so. (As far as he's considered, anyway.) He doesn't need his own office or a secretary or a PI or a bodyguard to get plenty of shit done. He's Saul Goodman, for godssakes — what the hell good is he if he's not working?

His hands have been idle for too long, and look at where they've gotten him.

Devil's tools indeed.

So here he is, keeping busy. Training, doing business, drinking more coffee (and alcohol) than he probably should. Whatever works, right? Right.]

Comments

[5055034455]

Not necessary. I'm a big boy. I can handle it.

[(no actually he really kind of wanted to say yes to that)]

[legal_eagle]

Yeah, uh-huh. You're a weirdo, too, right? With no gift, no powers of any sort?

[5055034455]

Aside from my charm and good looks, you mean?

[legal_eagle]

Yeah. Aside from those.

[5055034455]

People like that don't exist in my world. No one's "gifted," no one has powers. You might run across the occasional psychic medium, but that's all bullshit.

[legal_eagle]

Because all of you are soulless heathens. It happens. Anyway. Let me come along, then.

[5055034455]

Maybe next time.

[It'd look weird, if he showed up with Sonya.

...unless she wants to pretend to be his girlfr—

No.]

[legal_eagle]

[Sweetly:]

Next time, after you're dead?

[5055034455]

[Walter killing him might not be so bad, actually. It might be the clue-by-four Jesse needs to smack him into reality, but — no.

He'd rather not go skipping down that line of thinking right now.]

I'll be okay.

[legal_eagle]

[She shrugs.]

Well, I haven't got any hunger to die myself, so. So be it.

[5055034455]

No, really. He's not stupid. He wouldn't do that.

[Except there's something in the way Saul's tone shifts at the end, there, that suggests he didn't say all he wanted to.

Probably because he didn't add the "right now."]

[legal_eagle]

[She lifts her eyebrows.]

Smart people can't be predicted, Saul.

[5055034455]

Especially not this one, but — no; he's too careful. All the shit he's pulled, you'd think he'd have been caught by now, right? Especially since he had no experience breaking the law prior to vaulting off the edge.

[But he's been less and less careful lately, Saul's noticed.

Still. If he's really done, or thinks he's done...]

If anything happens to me, I'll just come back. And then we can let slip the dogs of war.

[legal_eagle]

[She shakes her head.]

If you come back. Because not everyone does, do they?

[5055034455]

One guy didn't.

[That he knows of.]

[legal_eagle]

Only one? Because I see, all over, people who used to chat on the network and now don't.

[5055034455]

And you've interpreted that as them being dead? They're not — people just leave, sometimes. And sometimes, they come back after spending time elsewhere. They're not dead.

[Maybe he sounds a little too sure of that.]

[legal_eagle]

He says, sounding like he's desperately trying to convince himself.

[5055034455]

[A shrug.]

I've seen people come back alive as they were when they left.

[legal_eagle]

Yeah. Sure. But there are also some permanently gone, aren't there?

[5055034455]

I guess. You really think that means they're dead?

[legal_eagle]

That'd be logical, wouldn't it?

[5055034455]

Nnnnot really? It sounds the opposite of logical. Unless — like, what are you thinking, here? They disappear not because they've been sucked into the void only to be spat out in yet another bizarro world, but because... what?

[legal_eagle]

[A small smile. After a moment - ]

The Initiative has the power over life and death. Correct?

[5055034455]

I —

[The way he pauses suggests he's never quite thought about it that way.

And then there's the look on his face: a little confusion, a little concern.]

I guess, if you want to put it that way.