aaron paul without the swearing

[servitor]

( Since we're all supposed to be real close and buddy buddy around here, anyone care to fill me in on your skills or training?

I'm not going to drill you and ask you to run laps, I promise. Not today at least.

... Unless you're with me, then you better be on the tenth lap and not a nap )

[You know who you are.]

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[sizeofyourbaggage]

[ Sam leans back against the counter, sipping at his own coffee as he listens. It's one of the things he's best at, might as well keep it up - even with their mental links. He'd rather stay out of people's heads as much as he can, for his sake and theirs. At the moment, his mind is closed off enough that there's only the faint background hum of the symbiote connection, but honestly, he doesn't need it to know what the guy's talking about.

It sounds like the EXO-7 project, like SHIELD. Hell, like what they'd wanted to turn the Avengers into, at least as far as being sent out. ]

Sounds familiar. Only I got out of mine a couple of times, but never managed to stay gone.

[ He's accepted that retirement is probably never really gonna be on the table for him, though, and he grins a little at that last comment. ]

Not a bad philosophy. There's a hell of a lot of sharing around here as it is.

[servitor]

I still was in it. From the looks of it, I'll never leave it.

[As to the second part, he only shrugs.]

I haven't been here long enough to control it. I've been told to keep it down.

[Not an easy task, but at the very least he doesn't think of his own death too often. There's too much to do to linger on that for very long.]

[sizeofyourbaggage]

Me neither. There's worse ways to live, though.

[ He makes a soft snort, somewhere between amusement and exasperation. ]

Like it's your fault in the first place, right? The mind sharing thing is... well, it's touchy for a lot of people. Not without good reason, but some people are more jerks about it than others. [ Not that he's naming names. ] I been here long enough to get a pretty decent handle on my shields, you wanna have a look? I've helped people get a feel for them, make it a little easier than trying to wrangle the thing from scratch.

[servitor]

I've been hearing a lot about those. It's not like I've really got anything to hide but if it makes others comfortable, might as well.

[Though there are some places he doesn't want people prowling about. Some places he has to keep buried so grief doesn't overcome him.]