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[a long pause, here. and then she kind of coughs a bit.] - ah, it's working?

[...]

...Um, yes... hello. [clears her throat.] This is Asano Rin. You can leave a message if you need.

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[payback.livejournal.com]

Has Madara been fair to you?

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Never treated me wrong.

[payback.livejournal.com]

What do you think of him?

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

Tell you the truth, I don't know. ...He as good as saved me from that auction, considerin' where I would've ended up otherwise. And he's only ever treated me well. Gives me more freedoms than I thought I'd get. And the work's nothin' at all, really.

...His eyes are still creepy as all hell. But that's nothin' he can help.

[payback.livejournal.com]

Mmm. I'm kind of at sea myself, to be honest.

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

Why? How's he treated you?

[payback.livejournal.com]

He's been more than helpful... he's helped me significantly more than once, in fact.

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

So where's the "out to sea" bit come in?

[payback.livejournal.com]

I don't trust someone who gives something for nothing.

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

[Sam bites back his first response of: 'You mean you don't trust nice people.']

...You know, sometimes companionship counts as somethin'. Could be he just likes you.

[payback.livejournal.com]

[Hey, girl knows she has problems. =/

And then there's the whole mess with Sasuke. But she's not going to share that part with Sam.]

Maybe.

Anyway, he treats me well, he's helped me out, so I stuck around and I'll stick around and see how things keep going...

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

You should. 'Specially if the job pays well.

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[payback.livejournal.com]

What will you do?

I'm assuming you don't want to be around, long-term. [As a slave. Not wanting to come out and say it.]

orz /failure

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I'm open to suggestions if you've got any.

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[payback.livejournal.com]

What's been tried?

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

You say that like I've got options.

[payback.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming your friends here haven't just been woolgathering while all this has happened.

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

[sore subject, Rin. Sam goes quiet.]

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[A brief pause.]

... Can you work your price off?

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

...Haven't asked. I was forty-six thousand. Don't know if anyone's offered to buy me back either.

[payback.livejournal.com]

Madara might be factoring room and board in. If he'd consider something like that.

[A pause; forty-six thousand is an amount of money that's hard for Rin to conceptualize.] How much would you make here, if you were a free man getting paid?

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

Six or seven dollars an hour, since most people don't tip here.

[payback.livejournal.com]

[A pause. That's much less than she makes, even as an attendant, which seems off - and can't do figures that swift in her head, but she knows that would be a hell of a long time paying off forty-six thousand dollars, even if Madara wasn't taking room and board out, which he might be. Which is still assuming he'd consider letting same work off his price in the first place and doesn't have other reasons for keeping him.]

... Do you know-know that's what your wage would be? Or is it just what the wage for tending bar is like other places, without tips?

[deservesabone.livejournal.com]

That's what it is for other places.

[payback.livejournal.com]

... So, what's your schedule?