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Conor:It’s pro bono, I guess.

Star:Why guess?

Conor:Because this isn’t a favor. This is me wanting to help you bring down those who hurt you.

Star:Huh.

Star:Conor?

Conor:Yes?

Star:Do you know I’d stick a poker up that priest’s ass if I could? Slice him up real good too?

Conor:**sniffles** That might be the most romantic thing anyone’s ever said to me.

Star:I’m better than Hallmark at writing this shit, aren’t I?

Conor:You definitely should be working on greeting cards. And homicidal bullet journals.

Conor:Maybe when the to-do list is done, you can branch out? Even serial killers need hobbies.

Star:Maybe.

Star:Conor?

Conor:Yes, Star.

Star:Do you think I’ll complete it?

Conor:I have every faith in you.

Star:You do?

Conor:Yes. And I won’t rest until it’s complete either…

Star:I’m not sure what to say.

Conor:How about, ‘Welcome aboard the killing train, Conor.’?

Star::D Welcome aboard.

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CONOR

YES - COLDPLAY

PRESENT DAY

CIA HQ wassomething I’d mostly only seen in episodes ofThe Blacklist. Thus, the fear I was about to be murdered kicked up a notch.

A part of me was certain I was about to be taken to a black site, only I wasn’t. I was guided down a multitude of empty hallways and led into a large office where a group of ‘engineers’ were strumming away at their keyboards as if they weren’t making code, but music.

Ifnoxxiousdidn’t exist, then this was my favorite kind of track to listen to.

The office housed around thirty technicians. Each of their faces glowed in blue light, their attention fixed on their screens and not on what was happening in the rest of the room.

These guys weren’t the usual white-collar morons I dealt with.

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