duplicity ic inbox - FIRST STAY

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[He looks over and finds a table, not a booth, and sits down. It's near the wall, and Nick waits as she sits.]

What do I need to know?

[Better get information from another Dominant.]

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[ She sighs softly, sitting down across from him.] They don't mess around here. They abuse the people in the Down, truly. Be thankful you're a Dominant.

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[He sighs.]

Well, thankful for a ridiculous apartment. I lived in a dorm until I got here.

[A school bed. It was terrible.]

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Are you in college? [ she couldn't quite guess his age.]

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No.

I go to a parochial school.

[Sort of. It's easier than explaining its a magic school for young Satanists.]

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Oh, okay. [ she nods.] Do you like it there?

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[He makes kind of a face, like he's considering his options and weighing them. Well. Maybe?]

It has its moments. Cute girls.

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[ She laughs softly at that.] That's good.

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And you?

What's Riverdale like?

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[ she puts it simply.] Small town full of secrets and murder.

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So like every down in the area, then.

[Cheer up, Betty. Its not that bad.]

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[ she looks up at him, eyebrows lifted.] Greendale's that bad? [ she'd heard rumors.]

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Don't you have rumors?

Greendale's full of evil witches, don't you know that?

[He says it with a tone of a joke, but you know.

It's kind of true.]

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I've just heard it's kind of spooky and I've heard about the witches that died there. And it was always foggy whenever I drove through there.

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The Greendale Thirteen.

[He says it easily.]

We like our atmosphere.

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The fog and the mystery? [ She smirks at him, glancing up at the waiter as he comes to take their order. She orders a strawberry milkshake instead of coffee because she's Betty Cooper.]

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And the creepy forests and the deep mines.

[He's laughing.]

Hey, at least we're up front about it.

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Oh, we're all about secrets and suppressing everything in Riverdale.

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No place is that bright without some serious problems.

[At least he'll readily admit it.]

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You really think that?

[ she's starting to think so too.]

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Why. Don't you?

[He considers her a minute.]

Everyone likes to pretend. It's easier than the truth.

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I didn't used to think that. I believed the lie, I think. Because you're right... the truth was harder to face.

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So sure, Greendale is kind of weird. And witch hunts are in our past.

[He relaxes a little.]

But okay. You believed the lie. And now you figured it out.

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Not in ours. [ of course, she doesn't mean literal witch hunts like he does.]

I'm not sure if I've figured it all out but I've figured out enough.

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[There's a pause.]

Literal ones?