. downtown's dead

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maisie I went through years of praying you wouldn't die for the US Army, and then you go and decide to become a cop at the most dangerous point you could have. You're either torturing me or you have a death wish, which is it? You said you'd sign.

[jack williams]

jack You're so cute, I love you. You actually think I make these decisions based on which will stress you out most, which is so fucking unbelievable it's cute. Not being a dick, but neither have to do with you or a death wish! I lied.

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maisie I know you enlisted to serve your country. I told you, no matter how stressed out I was the whole time, I was proud of you for it and I still am. But the police, Jackson? Did you have a burning desire to give out speeding tickets and wear riot gear? Of course. Your favorite activity!

[jack williams]

jack Oh whoa whoa whoa, no one needs to go around full naming anyone here. No, Maisie. I had a burning desire to make more than a few hundred bucks a week at my brother's shop to hopefully fucking support you and our kids one day, a 401k, insurance, job security.. the list goes on. Remember the part where I didn't go to college, so options got kind of limited? If I believed that you really wanted to be done I would sign, but I don't believe you, so I'm not going to let us get into this mess!

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maisie Everything is a joke to you. That wasn't your decision to make, if you really did make it for me. I'd rather struggle to make ends meet as a family than wind up as a single mom because you decided to take on a line of work that wound up getting you killed. Nothing I say lands with you! I am so sick of you not listening to me when I tell you how I feel!

[jack williams]

jack I'm not joking! I didn't make it for you, I made it with our future in mind. You're so dramatic! Have you ever even looked at the statistics? I have a better chance of dying in a car accident and probably even struck by lightening. It's like me telling you to quit your job right now because the risk is too high in the middle of a global pandemic. What would you say to me if I told you that?! I just think I know you better than you know yourself right now. Am I wrong??

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maisie The thing is you are as likely to die in a car crash now as you were when you weren't a cop. So you're just adding on another potential risk on top of the others. Honestly? I think you have some sort of hero complex. You wouldn't be the first person to say that and I would say that I've been a nurse my entire adult life, it's all I've ever wanted to be and I'm not going to stop now. You never once mentioned wanting to be a cop. Yes. You're usually wrong.

[jack williams]

jack We're all gonna die whenever we're meant to, you can't sit inside inside in some plastic wrap and hope nothing gets you! Is that a bad thing? So what? It's just as dangerous, especially right now. Yea cause I was a fucking dumbass who thought I was going to get to play football forever so didn't really think too far beyond that. I'm not now. Nothing you say could make me believe you.

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maisie Whatever Jack. Hey, can I ask your opinion on something?

[jack williams]

jack You're so predictable. Go ahead.

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maisie Do you think this is okay for Instagram? Chloe's new boyfriend is a photographer and he wants to post it, she's fine with it but I'm unsure.

[jack williams]

jack Keep pissing me off.

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maisie He's got like 500k followers, people really love his art.

[jack williams]

jack Hey you already let some scumbag take it and ran around like that, might as well let him show the world too. Good look for you. I bet you're gonna love the looks at the grocery store after that one.

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maisie They already think I'm a whore, seeing me in something less revealing than swimwear isn't going to cause much of a scandal.