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Look. I'm just gonna go ahead and say it. But I'm only sayin' it once, and I'm gonna say it real slow, so all of you better clean the crap outta your ears and listen up.

I get that there ain't no money. Actual money. But what I'm sayin' is, if you ain't got nothin' to trade, why the hell would you go around wasting somebody's time.

Like, it's like common friggin' decency to bring with you what you got to trade. No, 'oh, whoops guess I left it at home', no, 'oh, it's in the pocket of my other crappy shapeless pants'-- gettin' it to me in a day ain't an option, I don't care if it's your laundry day, if you're waitin' for some big payoff, I don't care if you got twelve kids--that's your own damn fault--I don't care if you're fresh outta the tube. If you wanna buy something from someone? If you bring in your crappy little console, and you want it fixed up real quick so you can get your ass back to work, and you hustle me along and talk real big and then when it comes time to pay up, and you give me some sad sack story? [SLOWLY AND LOUDLY:] I don't work for free. Nobody here better be workin' for free, and if they are, congratulations, you found yourself a sucker. Charity is for suckers.

Okay? Are we clear? 'Cause the next idiot that comes to me askin' for a handout is gonna get it, and I don't mean free frickin' labor. [SIGH.] Jeez. It's like nobody got a brain. Workin' with a buncha stupid fleshy kids. Hardly even seems worth it...

[grumbling trails off into nothing.]

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You oughtn't be embarrassed.

That's good. 'Cause I ain't embarrassed. Which is why I just said no, when you asked if I was embarrassed.

You got hearing problems? What is it, huh? Stood too close to too many engines? Crammed some crap in your ears 'cause you were bored?

Because I'm sure you two have got an absolutely lovely friendship. I'm sure there's real emotional intimacy between you.

With Quill?

Lady. Of all the list of things I got with Quill? The word 'intimacy' don't ever, and ain't ever gonna, enter into it. Like I think I'm gonna puke just from you sayin' those words. 'Inti--' Ugh. You owe me.

Edited (space excess) 2015-05-20 02:25 (UTC)

Are you honest with him?

Okay, did you just miss the part where I said 'you owe me' or are you willingfully ignorin' that one.

...Sorry. You meant I actually owe you something for that one?

No, I was just wastin' my breath on sayin' it twice. Yeah I meant it. That is defamation of character right there, what you just did to me.

Yeah? Are you going to sue me, then?

I'll tell you what I ain't gonna do, I ain't gonna forget this. I got a great memory.

Yeah, well, so have I. I'll remember that you're gloomy, completely ridiculous, and scared of intimacy.

Edited 2015-05-21 15:04 (UTC)

Scared of-- I ain't scared! And I ain't gloomy! Just 'cause I don't wanna hold hands with the rest of you sad--

Seriously? You had one conversation with me, what the hell makes you think you got the credentials to make judgement on my character, huh? You don't know jack about me!

Well, to begin with, you're ridiculously transparent.

[LOUDLY AND INDIGNANTLY:]

I am not.

Oh, yeah you are. I mean, to begin with, you're obviously struggling really hard to seem way tougher than you actually are. I mean - that entire broadcast absolutely oozes with sympathy for the people you're supposedly so furious with.

Are you friggin'--

You're kiddin' me. You gotta be kiddin' me. Do you know who you're talkin' to? You don't. You don't know nothin'. And you sure's hell don't know nothin' about me, or else you'd know what kinda a idiotic thing to say that all was! Sympathy? Tryin' to seem tough? Lady, I don't gotta try to seem nothin'! And the sooner you learn that, the better, 'cause you're gonna look like a real jackass goin' around makin' claims like that!

Yeah, so embarrassing for me. Look. The people who are actually heartless? Don't bother to get angry about being asked for charity. They don't care. They sit around and tut about the shiftless poor, don't they, but that's all for show. You just spent a good minute being emotional about having been asked for a handout. You don't get emotional unless there's something to rouse your emotions. And I imagine it's because there's something about these fleshy kids that gets to you.

[wh

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You're crazy.

[ This is the voice of someone being as smug as loudly as possible. ]

And you're easy to read.

[In a voice way more loud than hers:] I AM NOT!

[And BEFORE she can offer a rebuttal--]

You know what you are? You're annoying. And you're wrong. But it's worse, because you're also ANNOYING!

Oh yeah?

You remember that thing I said earlier about only getting emotional if you've got some reason to get emotional? That if these people were totally off-base asking for help from you then you'd just shrug it off? That also goes for this.

[ Maybe. Who knows? Fact is, Kitty's getting under the skin of someone who was being an arsehole, and that's satisfying in and of itself. ]

[He is so close to growling in frustration and okay maybe a little bit of that growl is in his voice--or a lot bit--]

Oh my god, do you ever shut up?

[ And maybe there's a lot bit of a grin from her. ]

That's the sort of question that gets asked by the vanquished.

It's no--

That's it. I'm done. We're done. Forever.

But what if I've got stuff to trade?

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