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[detectivetroll]

You've reached Detective Nick Burkhardt. If this is an emergency, please call 911. Otherwise leave a message and I'll get back to you ASAP.



[Calls, texts, and emails are a-okay! He has both a work email and personal email, and an office phone and cell phone. Just specify which one.]

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video;

[scramasax]

[There's no polite way to insist upon declining - "you don't" would be unintentionally insulting, "I don't have to say anything" would be undeservedly defensive; quick attempt at putting-in-place, briefly considers "If you miss him, you don't need to have me talking about it more".

But that's not necessarily the case, is it.

Rattling exhale, flinch off and back on.]

If -- you say so, it's.

[On another release of breath, lets it sag and drag low. To give some slack, so to speak.]

We were friends since - spring last year. -- On the network. [Binds, in spite of himself, hits a peak of emphasis before a slip - ] -- He uh - he was my best friend, and umm.

[And the only one who Anthony's never thought felt sorry for him, not to an extent that's outweighed anything else for any point in time. Easy to spend time with,easy to take action with. Always had good ideas.

Who knows what or who he even remembers a trace of anymore?]

audio;

[detectivetroll]

[...yeah, Nick has no idea if this is helping or not. He's always avoided things, in the past, and just because he's been told that's not healthy doesn't mean he knows if this is any better.]

Have you talked to him, at all? He might remember something. Kotetsu and Yuji don't have their pulses anymore, but there's some things they still know. It's not the same, but...

[He trails off, because he doesn't know what it is.]

It's something.

video;

[scramasax]

We met on the network.

[A mired, morose mumble.]

We didn't even go to the same school. Only saw each other in person at -- meetings at the high school, unt - until. I.

[He does know it is something, in truth. What he's really scared of is the chance of proving himself right.]

audio;

[detectivetroll]

I know. But - he's still interning with me at the police department. I haven't talked to him about it-

[because he wasn't sure he wanted to know, and because it's a hard thing to bring up around the other cops.]

-but I can ask him. Or I can introduce you, again.

video;

[scramasax]

[His brow lifts at "but".

Similarly, if Nick hasn't mentioned anything, he'd rather he not "spoil" it as it were on his account, if he's correctly guessing the reason, but...]

If, uh -- if there was a chance to ask him. Then.

[Re-introduction wouldn't work, he thinks. Not toward, really, the same end.]

audio;

[detectivetroll]

I'll check, I can figure out a way.

[one that skirts around the network issue.]

He remembers me, and you and I are pretty closely connected. There might be something.

video;

[scramasax]

Nice to hear it - ...

[Stilted. Husky. He's not sure in what way he should be saying it.]

Er -- glad that he does, uh - remember you...

audio;

[detectivetroll]

Yeah. Like I said, it's something.

[his voice is quiet, but he is glad of that, at least.]

It's one of the reasons I like doing stuff outside of the city with you.