Then you may get the opportunity to stab me again yet. Isn't that fun?
[ just... charitably accepting that this is probably an inevitability, while also not adding that he will stab back. just. not in the back. not that his attempts did fuckall, but that doesn't mean he won't try, try again. ]
[This man, as a father and a brother, would understand the opposite is true. So why jest? Perhaps the humour makes it easier to cope. In which case, he cannot fault him.
So he sends a second message.]
We both do what is necessary. Perhaps parting on that understanding is the best way to end it.
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[ just... charitably accepting that this is probably an inevitability, while also not adding that he will stab back. just. not in the back. not that his attempts did fuckall, but that doesn't mean he won't try, try again. ]
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[This man, as a father and a brother, would understand the opposite is true. So why jest? Perhaps the humour makes it easier to cope. In which case, he cannot fault him.
So he sends a second message.]
We both do what is necessary. Perhaps parting on that understanding is the best way to end it.
[All of it.]