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[brushoff]

"You've reached the inbox of one Dorian Gray. Don't forget to leave me a message. If you're interesting, I'll get back to you."

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[brushoff]

Why not?
Our contract wasn't bad. I stayed out of trouble. I kept you fed. I even helped you make quota a few times.

[compellingstatement]

[That last one makes him want to curl up in a ball and disappear.]

I have plenty of written Statements to keep me fed.
And I don't need help with quota.
What happened was a mistake.
I won't be repeating it.

[brushoff]

Don't act like you didn't like it.

[compellingstatement]

You are aware I am metaphysically and physically addicted to Statements?
Arousal isn't indicative of enjoyment.
I allowed it because I wanted your Statement.
And I suppose I was miserable enough to want to make you happy.

[He is going to tarnish this encounter for you, Dorian, damn it!]

[brushoff]

Just stop that.
'Miserable enough to want to make me happy.' What bullshit.
You LIKE me. You don't want to admit it, but you do.

[compellingstatement]

I like you more than the other Dorians.
Considering one of them has cursed me and the other has tortured me.
It's not a high bar to clear.

[brushoff]

That's not what I mean and you know it.

[compellingstatement]

You wanting me to like you doesn't actually mean I'm going to.

[brushoff]

During our last encounter, when we were both affected by whatever that was, you protected me. In the one before THAT, when you fucked me, you called me a work of art. You're routinely kind to me, even when I objectively don't deserve it.
I thought your Eye was supposed to be all-seeing and all-knowing. Funny how it's letting you live in denial like this.

[compellingstatement]

I'm threatening to kick you out of your home!
How the hell is that kind?

[If he just ignores the rest of that, it doesn't count, right?]

[brushoff]

If you were really going to kick me out, you would have done it the moment our contract ended.

[compellingstatement]

[...]

I will do it.
I can do it any time I'd like.
I just haven't got around to it.

[brushoff]

[ buuuuuuuullshit. ]

I don't know why you're being so difficult with yourself.
It's not a crime to admit you like someone's company.
You're my friend, Jon.

[compellingstatement]

We are not friends.
And if you think we are, then I'm asking you, as a friend, to go and find another blasted contract!

[brushoff]

I told you, I'm working on it!

[compellingstatement]

Work faster.
You must have a dozen Doms at a minimum fawning over you.
Why is this so difficult?
Are you ashamed to ask?
That they'll wonder why I didn't renew?
Tell them I'm a bastard.
It's not a lie.

[brushoff]

Do you want to know the most annoying thing about this?
It's just four!
I've got four or five Doms fawning over me and around ten fucking Submissives!
This city is just bleeding with attractive Submissives which would be useful IF I WEREN'T A SUBMISSIVE MYSELF.

[compellingstatement]

[Well, that's... actually not a completely unrelatable problem. There's a pause as Jon considers that the majority of people he's friendly with are Submissives. Who would he feel comfortable asking to contract with him if he were still a Sub, himself? Anya, when she'd been here? Maybe Wolf or Hawke? And they both already have contracts. Beyond that, he'd just be staring down Elias and probably trying to fend him off.]

Four or five is more options than I'd have in your position.
If it's any consolation.

[brushoff]

Don't sell yourself short.
You're not exactly a conventional catch, but you're interesting enough that I'm sure you'd find someone.

[ says the man who doesn't know that Jon literally has like two Dom friends. ]

[compellingstatement]

A delightful little oddity for someone's collection, then.

[You're not selling him on this, Dorian.]

If I could switch designations with you, I would.
Unfortunately, that's not possible, as far as I'm aware.
I don't even know why they switched my original designation from a Sub.

[brushoff]

Easy. They wanted to fuck with you.

[compellingstatement]

By giving me more privileges and power?
That seems unlikely.

[brushoff]

By making you unhappy.
You seem out of your depth every time I suggest you use your Dominant status to boss me around or fuck with me.
You rarely do half the things this city wants Dominants to do.
Even though you'd lose the power, it would probably be easier for you to be a Submissive.

[compellingstatement]

[It's not an incorrect assessment, even if Jon doesn't especially like it coming from Dorian.]

Maybe I don't act like a Dom with you because I know you'll like it too much.

[brushoff]

Who do you act like a Dom with then?
I doubt it's Lyall.
It CERTAINLY isn't Tarabotti.