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Holiday | Generator Rex

[doc_holi]

16

[sixthdeadliest]

[He firms up his resolve as he heads to her lab. He's doing this for her. He knows it.]

[Taking a deep breath, he enters the mostly-dark laboratory.]

Holiday?

[doc_holi]

[The woman in question looks up from the clipboard she had been writing on. She looks a little tired, but nothing horrible. She offers him a small smile before going back to what she was doing.]

Hey. What's up?

[sixthdeadliest]

Can you put down the clipboard please? I need to talk to you. It's important.

[He was going to do all right. She'd probably be angry but it was ofr her own good.]

[doc_holi]

[She looked up to him, surprised and serious at the same time, but over all, she was worried. She did as he asked, putting the clipboard away on the desk behind her.]

What's wrong?

[sixthdeadliest]

[He takes a deep breath to steel himself. There's no gentle way to say what he's about to say.]

It's not working out between us. I'm sorry.

[doc_holi]

[Instead of furious or hurt or anything else, she's mostly confused. She thought things were going great. Where did this come from?]

They... aren't?

[She thought he was fine with the way things were going. Was it too fast? Too slow? Was it her?]

Wh- What happened? What did I-?

[What did she do wrong? What about her did he not like so much?]

[sixthdeadliest]

[Six shakes his head.]

It's not your fault. It's mine.

[He puts his hands in his pockets so she doesn't see his hands clenching into fists. He's outwardly calm though.]

I enjoy your company greatly, but I think the best thing for us would be to keep things professional.

["Keep you at a distance so that those out there gunning for him don't put you in the crosshairs" is more like it. However, he tells her that, she'll suspect something's up.]

[doc_holi]

[What? No, that didn't make any sense. It's his fault, he enjoys her company greatly, but he just wants to... keep things professional.]

[No. She did not like where this seemed to go. She knew that they had something. This was too random.]

Professional? Are you breaking up with me in favor of work?

[sixthdeadliest]

Not exactly. [Dammit, Holiday, this had gone so much smoother in his head.]

[He tries to come up with a valid excuse but his efforts come up empty. Looks like part of the truth it is.] It's because of what I used to do.

[doc_holi]

[Not exactly? He wasn't telling her the truth, probably in order to protect her from something along the lines of "I'm sick of you", but she would much rather the truth... Sort of.]

What does this have to do with the past?

[He left that work behind him. Why was he saying all of this? It didn't make sense.]

[sixthdeadliest]

Please don't ask me to explain, Holiday. I did a lot of things I'm not proud of back then, and unfortunately not everyone involved is as willing to move past it.

[doc_holi]

[And some of the realization landed.]

You're in trouble...

[And then something else landed.]

You're doing this to protect me?

[No. She is not a fan of this plan of yours. It is not a good plan.]

[sixthdeadliest]

[He is stone-faced.]

I've always been a target, Holiday. I don't want to make you one as well.

[doc_holi]

[He did not.]

You are doing this to protect me! I can more than handle my own, Six. You've seen that for yourself multiple times.

[She even saved YOU a decent number of times.]

[Unless this was some horrible cover up for whatever really bothered him.]

[sixthdeadliest]

[Six frowns a little.]

These aren't rampaging EVOs, doctor. These are human beings with axes to grind. Anyone who gets in their way is simply collateral damage.

[And he knows this because he used to have that same mindset.]