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[killersong]

Hey, it's Dinah. Leave a message and I'll get back to you

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[handleyourshit]

[A picture of the notarized copy of the last page of their signed contract. It's official.]

How do you feel about massages?

[killersong]

thanks for sorting one

I’ve never had one
But I’m a big fan of the idea!

[handleyourshit]

Never?

You good with strange professionals touching you?

[killersong]

my first and last time in a spa, Roman tried to drown me.
Didn’t think I’d be smart to give him the opportunity again

But yeah I’m good with that.

[handleyourshit]

We're not letting that bull's ass ruin fucking spas.

Mani? Pedi?

[killersong]

never had one.
I’ve never exactly had cash to spare before

[handleyourshit]

It's been a shit week. I need the works.

If it has to be my treat,
call it a contract warming gift.

[killersong]

no I can pay.

[Dinah doesn’t want to start getting into that. She’s still worried that, should she accept cash or something from Rosita, that it’ll be thrown back in her face. She knows it wouldn’t. She knows Rosita’s not like that, but she’s been burned too many times to be comfortable doing it.]

it’s gonna be fun

[handleyourshit]

[Rosita knows. She doesn't push, just leaves the offer where it is.]

There's one I like on Levitt street. It's called Hannah's. When can you go?

[killersong]

whenever you’re free.
I told you I’m kinda struggling on the job front. But it’s good right? Gives me time for massages and mani pedis.

[it is better than before, when she worked every hour under the sun to pay back Beck and then eek a wage for herself.]

[handleyourshit]

They do hair too. We should do hair.

If we have to be here, might as well feel good, right?

[killersong]

hair?
Well I do need my locs retwisting
If they do that then yeah. Yeah sounds like a plan

[handleyourshit]

I'll find out.

If they don't, we can try somewhere new, somewhere that does.

[killersong]

honestly ro doesn’t matter
You get your hair done and I’m gonna get some of them fancy teas and chill out a while. Maybe they do face masks and cucumber on the eyes. I’ve always wanted to try that shit out

Btw hellboys invited me to an orgy and I get a +1
Wanna come?

[handleyourshit]

I like orgies and I'd be happy to go. I don't know Hellboy though. They cool with a SIN guard around?

[killersong]

Harley's from back home.

I mean shes not exactly cool with cops. shall I ask first?

[handleyourshit]

I don't want to cause problems. If you think it might, best to be sure. Especially if she's someone you still want to talk to from back home.

[killersong]

I mean are you gonna bust us for dom/dom shit? I know its against the rules and you should but

maybe if we just dont mention it?

[handleyourshit]

I'm off duty. I don't have to do shit I don't want to do.

I'll follow your lead.

[killersong]

I think she'll be cool.
have you met Harley? I dont know hellboy as well but harls is mad in love with him
like serious. she's fucking agreed to get married. I never thought she'd settle down

[handleyourshit]

No, I haven't.

That's pretty fucking serious though. Hellboy isn't from back home for you two?

[killersong]

nah

honestly I didn't know harls long back home. we kinda
we saved some kid together, killed roman and zsasz and then bitch stole my car

we've been friends ever since

back home she'd been with this psycho joker for ages. they split and thats when I ran into her and saved her drunk ass from a load of wanna be studs looking to nail joker's girl.

[handleyourshit]

I remember about the kid.

If that's not the way to start off a friendship, I don't know what is.

[killersong]

she's great

and im sure she'll be cool with it. ive messaged her anyway

and if not, I guess we could do our own valentines thing? I mean, if you want to?

[handleyourshit]

I would definitely be into that. I haven't done Valentines in - fuck, fifteen years? Give or take?

Do you have anything specific in mind?

[killersong]

ive never done valentines either. last year I was in the zoo. year before I was romans dom

how about your place. candlelit dinner, some rom com we can throw popcorn at, maybe even like, a bath? Bed? See what happens?

[The text is slow to come. She doesn't want to presume and she's really not over Faith but she needs to be and she wants to be and she wants to show Rosita that she appreciates her.]

[handleyourshit]

[So that's a yes, she does.

Thank god it's text - Dinah has someone she wants to get over, Rosita is still working out a whole host of things about connecting with people, and that's a very, very romantic Valentine's Day setup that probably means a lot different things to Dinah than it does to Rosita.

Her reply is slow, too, but:]

I'm down. I'll try to cook, if you promise not to laugh at whatever happens. Stew is typically my specialty these days.

[killersong]

ro i dont even have an oven im still eating slop from the down cafeteria. anything you cook will be amazing

[Honestly? Her idea of Valentines is a whole hodgepodge of rom coms and and situations she's ended up in that she enjoyed. She just wants Ro to loosen up and have fun.]

[handleyourshit]

[Rosita, a child of the 90s, is not immune to that; but she's also spent the last decade and change where the decision to share food with someone else is quite possibly one of life or death.

So. There's some room to grow here, even without touching the oft complicated subject of sex or lack thereof.]

Well it won't be slop, I can guarantee that much or my abuela would walk right out of her grave.

again. probably.

Anyway let me know where and when for the weekend. If the weekend.