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[osreborn]

(555 - 888 - 3010)

"Norman Osborn. If you're calling about a job interview, hang up now and call [ business phone number ]. Otherwise stay on the line and leave a message. I'll get back to you when I can."

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Comments

[enigmaestro]

Oh, the tough guy act! I love it. As if you would try something so daring, now.

[osreborn]

Well, why don't we give it a try and see sometime?

[enigmaestro]

[Teasingly:] You're not comfortable with how things are?

[osreborn]

Would you be?

[enigmaestro]

I like what we have. I get the best of both worlds.

[osreborn]

I'm not content with your happiness.

[enigmaestro]

So? What is it you'd rather have?

[osreborn]

Your submission.

[enigmaestro]

My submission. My holistic submission? Wouldn't you get bored?

Or are you the type to never idle with total control?

[osreborn]

I'm not going to answer that. No sense in ruining any possible surprises.

[enigmaestro]

Part of you is rather masochistic, Norman.

[osreborn]

What makes you say that?

[enigmaestro]

You're practically asking me to investigate you.

[osreborn]

Seeing as you don't have the legal grounds, I'm not exactly intimidated.

[enigmaestro]

Your priorities are reversed, then.

[osreborn]

I don't think so.

[enigmaestro]

Well, you wouldn't, would you? Biased perspective and all that. But luckily, you've only got a limited say in the matter.

[osreborn]

As if your perspective isn't just as biased.

[enigmaestro]

It isn't, really, by merit of being less insane. Therein rests the skew of the bias.

[osreborn]

"Less insane."

By whose measure?

[enigmaestro]

By the authentic standard! I think we're both familiar with it. [Eddie hisses, growing noticeably irate.] We have enough experience with the Diagnostic Manual, between us.

[osreborn]

You are less insane than me.

[ He says it, challengingly. But also curiously. It's a dangerous move, but for whom? ]

1/2

[enigmaestro]

[Eddie waits.



And waits.









And waits.]

Oh dear. How. Embarrassing.

[enigmaestro]

For you.

[osreborn]

[ Goddammit. Norman doesn't respond immediately, making a muted ugh sound. ]

It was worth the experiment.