Reddy2GetOff

by Satina and Shannon

Date First Posted:  2/23/05

cybersuck6969: So do you kiss?

reddy2getoff: Kiss what?

cybersuck6969: I only kiss on the cheek on a first date.

reddy2getoff: One wonders if you ever get a second, doing that.

cybersuck6969: I like to know how the first went anyway before I go for seconds. So how was it? The first?

reddy2getoff: Shit. I knew it. What do you want?

cybersuck6969: Like I said, I want to know how it went. You don't kiss and tell, Mulder?

reddy2getoff: I didn't do any kissing. And I don't remember how it went.

cybersuck6969: I heard you had a run-in with a needle and some stellar mind-wipe technology. I guess you think it was all a set-up now. Do you still not believe? Am I going to have to come over there again?

reddy2getoff: I saw...something. What did I see, Krycek?

cybersuck6969: From where I sit, sure looks like a rescued alien rebel.

reddy2getoff: Where do you sit?

cybersuck6969: Well, I'm in your neck of the woods, but I have the luxury of *not* having been wiped. It was always a risk but one I was willing to take to get you to see. Do you remember anything?

reddy2getoff: Why would I answer that?

cybersuck6969: Because we can help each other.

reddy2getoff: What are you going to give me?

cybersuck6969: Surveillance feed (video) from inside the truck when the rescue took place. Everything they tried to make you forget. Proof.

reddy2getoff: Then why would you need to know what I remember? Sounds like you know everything already.

cybersuck6969: I don't have the feed yet.

cybersuck6969: But I could get it for you.

reddy2getoff: Seems like I've heard something like that before, and it almost got me killed in a Russian gulag.

cybersuck6969: Seems like you *didn't* take me up on my offer, just dragged me off without anything for me but a sleep-over on your boss's balcony.

reddy2getoff: Anything for you? What did you expect? I didn't arrest you...what more did you want?

cybersuck6969: If you don't start playing nice, I'll take my ball and go home.

reddy2getoff: Again, what do you want, Krycek?

cybersuck6969: For the surveillance feed? Hmm... That's a big one. Could break that truth of yours wide open. How about...complete clemency. I don't want the FBI to be able to touch me. Never. I want a clean record with no possibility of detainment or arrest. Can you deal?

reddy2getoff: Fuck, Krycek, you want fries with that??

cybersuck6969: Sure, you can take me out for dinner, Mulder. Seal the deal.

reddy2getoff: Bite me.

cybersuck6969: Meager dinner, and cheap, but okay.

reddy2getoff: Fuck you, asshole.

cybersuck6969: Can you deal or what?

reddy2getoff: Clemency? A clean record? What do you think I am, God?

cybersuck6969: All right. It's a high price. I understand. I'll settle for clemency with *you*. Just you. You see me walking on the street in Montana some day, you nod and say hi and then you walk the other way. Promise me I'll never be arrested by *you* and I'll be happy. Deal?

reddy2getoff: So if you steal some ol' lady's purse in front of me I'm just supposed to tip my cowboy hat and wish you good day? No deal.

cybersuck6969: Then no tape.

cybersuck6969: And I don't steal purses, Mulder. Odds are, you're not going to catch me sneezing if I don't want you to.

reddy2getoff: Can't do it, Krycek. Can't sell you the souls of every person in the world just so I can get my proof.

cybersuck6969: You think I want the souls of every person in the world? Do you think *I'm* God? Or that I want to be? There is no God. I just want this over. No colonization, no project. I just want to retire and have enough cash to enjoy the rest of my tattered youth.

reddy2getoff: I can't just agree to turn my head and let you do whatever you want in exchange for information. I don't make those kinds of deals. You should know that.

reddy2getoff: Clean record, no can do. Clean slate...that we can talk about.

cybersuck6969: What do you mean by that?

reddy2getoff: We start fresh. You give me my proof, I don't collar you for anything you've done previously up to this point. But if you fuck up again, your ass is mine.

cybersuck6969: I guess that's workable.

reddy2getoff: So why do you wanna know what I remember? Just bored tonight?

cybersuck6969: I want to know what you remember to know if you have enough to be reinvested...to believe again.

reddy2getoff: If I make the deal, doesn't that tell you enough?

cybersuck6969: I suppose so.

cybersuck6969: So... Did you think about not going?

reddy2getoff: What's it to you?

cybersuck6969: Oh, I'm sorry. Do you need to go? Am I keeping you from getting off?

reddy2getoff: Yes, actually.

reddy2getoff: I don't usually mix work with pleasure.

cybersuck6969: Well, there's a first time for everything. Don't let me stop you. I can wait for your replies in between.

reddy2getoff: I thought I saw a man without a face. Without facial features. Then bright white light. And then I was being pushed into the backseat of a car.

cybersuck6969: How long did it take you to decide to follow my tip and go?

reddy2getoff: Why so personal, Krycek? No one else to play with tonight?

cybersuck6969: Hey, I used this screen name to find *you*. I don't have time to have fake sex with someone.

reddy2getoff: Doesn't have to take that long. What else have you got going on?

cybersuck6969: Just saving the world. I thought it was a hobby we shared.

reddy2getoff: Hey, even us heroes need a damned night off. And besides, YOU'RE the one getting personal, asking how long I sat on my ass in the dark.

cybersuck6969: Fine, forget I asked.

cybersuck6969: Doesn't seem the slate's all *that* clean. You're still an insufferable prick.

reddy2getoff: I don't exactly see you ponying up your side of the deal, yet, either.

cybersuck6969: What do you want? Instant manifestation?

reddy2getoff: Do you?

cybersuck6969: But mine is hard, physical evidence. Yours is a state of mind.

reddy2getoff: Or a personality. And you expect me to change it?

reddy2getoff: For YOU?

cybersuck6969: For the sake of humanity?

reddy2getoff: You want me to be nice to you. Just chat it up and tell you how long it took my ass to fall asleep while I was sitting there. And for what? A pretty little promise?

reddy2getoff: Show me a down payment, then I'll tell you how long I sat there.

cybersuck6969: What do you want, Mulder?

reddy2getoff: A bottle of the vaccine I've got burning in my veins.

reddy2getoff: You looked pretty friendly with the camp commander...shouldn't be a problem...should it?

cybersuck6969: It's not heroin or something. I can't just buy some at the corner of 5th and Haywood. I'll have to work a deal of my own over here.

reddy2getoff: So work it. That's what you're good at.

cybersuck6969: I'll see what I can do. Give me a little time. Stay on IM. Go keep yourself occupied, Reddy. I'll get back to you soon.

cybersuck6969: I may have a vial lined up for you. I might need an advance, though, to secure it. Just tell me if your buns went numb.

reddy2getoff: Yeah, they went numb. Does that make your pathetic night?

cybersuck6969: Totally. I'm breaking out the champagne and truffles even as I type. Thanks, Mulder.

reddy2getoff: Champagne and truffles??? What are you, Martha Stewart?

cybersuck6969: I was kidding.

cybersuck6969: So yeah, it looks like I can set you up with about 5 ml. You game?

reddy2getoff: And what do you want for that, my soul?

cybersuck6969: Nope. Just don't punch me next time we meet. Unless I give you a really good reason. Good reason = purse nabbing, lying, traitoring, having bad hair, or commenting on your choice of ties.

reddy2getoff: Just so long as we're clear.

reddy2getoff: So what else do you wanna know? How long it took me to change into my sneakers?

cybersuck6969: Do you double knot?

reddy2getoff: What do you think?

cybersuck6969: No. You live on the edge.

reddy2getoff: So, you doing velcro these days?

cybersuck6969: You're a fucking prick, you know that?

cybersuck6969: And no. I'm kind of into this motorcycle boot thing. Heavy silver buckles that would really hurt should I decide to kick your ass.

reddy2getoff: All right. You're right. Low blow.

reddy2getoff: I'm sorry.

cybersuck6969: I don't need your pity, Mulder.

reddy2getoff: It was a stupid, shitty thing to say and I'm sorry, all right?

reddy2getoff: I always have a few before I get on this screenname. Sometimes it makes me mean.

cybersuck6969: Look, no problem, just shut up about it, okay?

reddy2getoff: Do you always wear a black glove on it?

cybersuck6969: Why?

reddy2getoff: Well, you can hardly tell. I mean, I didn't figure it out until after you left. When I was replaying the whole thing in my mind. For about 45 minutes. Before I finally got up off the floor.

cybersuck6969: I wear it often. It has traction on the palm for gripping.

reddy2getoff: So it grips?

cybersuck6969: Yeah. Like the steering wheel and stuff.

reddy2getoff: You drive with it?

cybersuck6969: Well, I can take the wheel if I have to. I'm still...working on things like that.

reddy2getoff: Does it hurt?

cybersuck6969: No.

reddy2getoff: Never?

reddy2getoff: Sorry. None of my business. I just wanted you to know, I didn't realize until you were gone. Until after I had said what I said.

cybersuck6969: So how do you want to get your vial? Mail? In person? What?

reddy2getoff: You think it's safe to send through the mail? With the terrorist shit going on these days?

reddy2getoff: What, are you drinking, too?

cybersuck6969: So in person then?

reddy2getoff: I think that's best, yes.

cybersuck6969: I'll have it tomorrow. Where do you want to make the hand off? Your place?

reddy2getoff: Might as well. Still have your key?

cybersuck6969: As good as. What time?

reddy2getoff: I'll be home all night, after 7.

cybersuck6969: What do you drink? When you're drinking.

reddy2getoff: Different things. Tonight it's Vodka and OJ.

cybersuck6969: Screwdriver, huh? Stoli or what?

reddy2getoff: Absolut.

cybersuck6969: And you do find it hard to cyber when you see two of every key?

reddy2getoff: I don't get that fucked up.

reddy2getoff: Seen a typo yet?

cybersuck6969: Touche.

cybersuck6969: So what time...after 7?

reddy2getoff: I don't care. I don't have any plans. It's Friday night.

cybersuck6969: It may be late. Middle of the night. Still a go?

reddy2getoff: Sure, why not?

cybersuck6969: You quit sleeping all together?

reddy2getoff: Gives me more time to do research.

cybersuck6969: Is that what you call it? I call it jacking off.

reddy2getoff: I've never been much for sleeping.

cybersuck6969: Shall I knock?

reddy2getoff: That'd be different.

cybersuck6969: Well, I don't like to be predictable.

cybersuck6969: Hold on. I gotta take a piss.

cybersuck6969: I'm back now.

reddy2getoff: You're really going to give it to me?

cybersuck6969: Why not?

reddy2getoff: Isn't the whole point of stealing it because you want to corner the market and have something that people will kill for?

cybersuck6969: Is that what you think?

reddy2getoff: Yes.

cybersuck6969: Well, it used to be, yeah.

reddy2getoff: Until...

cybersuck6969: Quite recently, actually.

reddy2getoff: And NOW what's the big plan?

cybersuck6969: Still formulating. I'll let you know. May require some kind of payment...

reddy2getoff: Just to hear the plan?? I already earned the vaccine.

reddy2getoff: I don't need your plan, now. I have my own.

cybersuck6969: You need me, Mulder.

reddy2getoff: Last time I heard THAT I watched my 'partner' walk out the door and leave needy lil' me.

cybersuck6969: Last time you heard that, I had two arms.

reddy2getoff: So I can trust you now that you have only one arm?

cybersuck6969: The other was where I stored all my badness.

reddy2getoff: I see.

reddy2getoff: All of it?

cybersuck6969: 97%

reddy2getoff: Where's the other 3%?

cybersuck6969: ;)

reddy2getoff: Aren't you afraid I'll cut it off, to make you purely good?

cybersuck6969: Do you *want* me purely good, Mulder?

reddy2getoff: Well, I guess I don't want you better than me.

cybersuck6969: What percentage of you is bad?

reddy2getoff: Depends on who you ask.

cybersuck6969: I'm asking you.

reddy2getoff: How bad do I think I am? Well, I guess if I can say shit like I said earlier to you, I'm at least 35% bad. More in some situations, less in others.

cybersuck6969: In what situations are you more than 35%?

reddy2getoff: Situations where I'm provoked.

cybersuck6969: Then you must be in the red zone around me.

reddy2getoff: Proud?

cybersuck6969: I don't think that's the word.

reddy2getoff: What is it, then?

cybersuck6969: What are you going to do with the vaccine? You can't just start immunizing people.

reddy2getoff: Not with just 5 ml., no.

cybersuck6969: You need what I know.

reddy2getoff: Why? If I have the vaccine, I can mass produce it myself.

cybersuck6969: You think they're just going to let you do that? You think you won't become a target faster than you can say death wish?

reddy2getoff: So? What's it to you?

cybersuck6969: I'm not giving you this goddamned vaccine just so you can commit suicide with it!

reddy2getoff: Are you backing out on the deal, Krycek? Can I go back to being an insufferable prick, now?

reddy2getoff: What the hell did you think I was gonna do with it?

cybersuck6969: I'm not backing out. But I strongly suggest you think about what the hell you're doing before you start fucking around with it. Do you even know how to run an underground operation that vast? Do you think you can do it alone? With Scully? With no contacts who know the inside? I know you're impulsive, but you're not crazy.

reddy2getoff: Well THAT depends on who you ask.

reddy2getoff: I have contacts.

cybersuck6969: Who? The Gunmen? It's a start. You're gonna have to do better than that.

reddy2getoff: Stay AWAY from my friends.

cybersuck6969: I'm not threatening your friends. But they will. Can you protect them? Can they protect themselves?

reddy2getoff: What, I'm supposed to believe YOU'LL do it?

cybersuck6969: I know them...how they work. I know the vaccine. I know how to lay low and still do big work. You're in the light, I'm in the shadows. You need a shadow man. You *need* what I know.

reddy2getoff: I always have. And I've never gotten it. What makes this different?

cybersuck6969: I'm not trying to save my own skin.

reddy2getoff: Just because you lost a little of it I'm supposed to believe that?

cybersuck6969: More than a little. And no. I don't expect it. I just want it. And you need it. Where does that leave us? Maybe with a vaccine and no way to work together to make any kind of a difference. Maybe I'm just asking you to trust me one minute at a time. Until those minutes turn into days, into months, into victory for the human race. Maybe I'm asking too much. But I'm asking.

reddy2getoff: What, exactly, are you asking for?

reddy2getoff: What is it that you really want from me, Alex?

cybersuck6969: In the short term? When I knock on the door, let me in. Near future, don't make any drastic decisions about the vaccine until you talk to me. In my dreams? Partnership. Running for the hills yet?

reddy2getoff: No. You can ask without me running for the hills.

reddy2getoff: And I'll let you in.  Then we'll see about the rest.

reddy2getoff signed off at 9:42:09 PM.