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[There's a staticky blur of green and red on the screen, and then it shakes like someone's tapping the side of it. The irate, muttering voice that comes through is decidedly not Ivy's.]

Oh for the love of - you'd think the future would be a little bit more intuitive? Come on -

[The picture clears aaaand Shego will be recognisable to anyone who was around before August. She's not really looking older, but decidedly healthier than she did on the Barge; her hair's pulled back into a thick braid and she's wearing a red jacket with a gold Star Fleet insignia on the collar. She looks bewildered for a moment, glancing away from the camera to look at recent transmissions, and her eyebrows lift in recognition.]

Oh. Oh, hey.

[She looks back to the camera and smirks, leaning back in her chair a little.]

Hey, kids. Never thought I'd be around for one of these from this end. How's my very favorite flying rehabilitative facility?

...aaand sorry to whoever's update I just totally ruined, I guess.

[OOC: Ivy's purposely staying away from this event except to creep on other people's messages so have Shego!haxx instead. B| Having said that, do let me know if you want Ivy for anything and I'll make her available!]

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Like the book? Huh. Who'd she team up with, the Mad Hatter?

Got it in one.

[...what even the fuck, Barge.]

Oy.

Let me guess, the crazy got pushed a little further off the scale than it was in the original version.

You could say that. She lost her head in both the metaphorical and literal sense, and the only reason why I'm not death tolling is that she thinks I'm a monster.

...This isn't the happiest of conversations, and I'm sorry, but the last month has been a storm of unnecessarily bad goings on.

Hey, don't worry about it. All I've got to report is four months of space college and my entire peer group thinking I grew up somewhere without electricity or running water.

"Space coll--" nevermind. [He basically gets the point.]

At least it means you can surprise them, right?

Yeah, here's hoping.

[He sighs, deciding he's dodged enough.]

It's all going wrong, Shego.

[She sighs softly.]

...Keep in mind that I had, like, the Easy Mode of inmates, so I don't know how good my advice is gonna be. Do you know what the problem is?

Other than the fact that I'm terrible at this good guy stuff, you mean?

With the benefit of hindsight I'm not so sure the Barge is about good guys and bad guys, but let's talk specifics here. Other than that.

I can't trust her. If she ever has to be punished for something, I'm undermined by other wardens. And when she's like this? I can't help her.

So what? You and she don't exist in a vacuum, sunshine. If you can't help her right now, maybe somebody else can.

Then why wasn't somebody else assigned her?

You're kidding, right? Was your Warden the only person who helped you graduate?

However many I had, you mean.

You know what I mean, Mozenrath.

It doesn't exactly convince me that I'm not doing a terrible job.

[The most help he ever seemed to get from non-Wardens was when his current Wardens sucked beyond belief, after all.]

If you wanted a cheerleader you wouldn't be talking to me.

Look, for all my moaning and whining at the time, Kirk wasn't a terrible Warden. He challenged my dumber ideas and he was there when I needed him. That's my point. This isn't your show - it's hers. Putting your foot down and getting territorial when she's got a screw loose isn't gonna help.

Did I sound like I was looking for one? I wanted to talk to you because I wanted to talk to you.

And 'territory' wouldn't be an issue if I weren't second-guessed at every turn. It's enough that now I'm doing it.

All I can do is tell you what I'm hearing, okay?

Your inmate screwed up big time and it's made her crazy. You just said flat out that you can't trust her and you can't help her right now.

That sounds to me like it's gonna be a stalemate until somebody else gets involved, so, what is the problem with other people trying to do exactly that?

Let me put it to you this way: Your Inmate does something seriously wrong. Kills somebody, for instance.

You determine the consequences for that. Loss of privileges and no palling it up while they're in zero because you didn't send them down there to hang out with their friends.

Another Warden decides your decisions are stupid and does something else with them anyway.

Do you get angry, or do you assume someone else just needed to get involved?

Furthermore, what do you do the second or third time this happens?

Can I assume that this [fingerquotes!] 'hypothetical' situation has actually happened recently?

Feel free to assume what you like.

Content is important, y'know. If my Inmate had killed someone just because they cut in the lunch line or whatever, then if I'd hypothetically sent them for a week in solitary and someone decided not to let them happen then yeah, I'd be angry.

But if I'd hypothetically decided to isolate my traumatized, possibly deranged Inmate in Zero for however long, for a murder that she maybe committed for reasons that may not be all that rooted in reality, and another Warden decided that waiting out a psychotic break is not the best idea I'd ever had?

Yeah, I would assume someone else just needed to get involved.

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