IC CONTACT.

[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."

beep!

calls | voice mail | text messages | email

Comments

[enigmaestro]

Oh? Did she know that she was your girlfriend?

[osreborn]

We got married.

[enigmaestro]

To your first girlfriend? Married?

Goodness, Norman, I mistook you for the noncommittal type. Or at least the experimental.

[osreborn]

There's something to be said for knowing what you want.

[enigmaestro]

I prefer to test the waters, really. Sample about.

[osreborn]

Of course you would.

[enigmaestro]

And what is that supposed to imply? Exactly?

[osreborn]

Good question.

What do you think?

[enigmaestro]

I'm not that fickle. I've been in committed relationships, too!

[osreborn]

Oh, good.

Restlessness can be a destructive quality when left unchecked.

[enigmaestro]

And who's to check it? You, with your own qualities so checkered?

[osreborn]

Why not?

[enigmaestro]

Come now, Norman, you're not my keeper.

[osreborn]

[ A beat. ]

Falsehood.

[enigmaestro]

Norman, you should know that isn't cute. When other people do it.

You're not my keeper, you're my opponent. On a good day. You're my favorite chess piece otherwise!

[osreborn]

Oh, I don't know. There's a certain charm to it in tasteful doses.

[ AKA, once. ]

I'm your opponent when I'm not your predator.

[enigmaestro]

As if this is a game of teeth? I'm no one's prey, no one's. Have I not proven my elusiveness? My stamina? Have I not recovered every single time?

[osreborn]

Maybe I simply haven't finished devouring you yet.

[enigmaestro]

You ought to be careful. I have poison for you, as well.

[osreborn]

I have a high tolerance.

[enigmaestro]

Do you even care how sexual you're sounding, right now?

[osreborn]

Not really.

I thought you enjoyed that.

[enigmaestro]

You and everyone else, it seems.

[osreborn]

Perhaps because it's accurate.

[enigmaestro]

I'm hardly whorish, Norman.