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[tucky]

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[tucky]

[She smiles a little smile, but there are tears in her eyes again.]

You won't be stuck here forever, I promise.

[gulosity]

[Lourdes just shrugs.]

You can't make that promise.

[tucky]

I think I can. I feel like I can.

But while you're here I wanna keep loving each other, you and me.

[gulosity]

Okay. I'm not good at love, though.

[tucky]

You been really good at it with me so far. I'd be a way bigger mess if it wasn't for everything you done for me this week.

[gulosity]

That's not love. That's just . . .

[Protectiveness. Possessiveness.]

[tucky]

Well, it felt like love to me.

[gulosity]

I guess that's all that matters.

[tucky]

Not all.

[She leans over and kisses the top of Lourdes's head, then pulls back again.]

Can I ask you a question?

[gulosity]

[Sniffing again, Lourdes half-shrugs.]

Sure.

[tucky]

[She thinks of the conversations she's had with a few people, and of comments and jokes other people have made.]

... If the Admiral put you and me together in a warden and inmate pairing, would you want that or not?

[gulosity]

. . . I think it's the only pairing that I wouldn't hate.

[tucky]

I got people telling me they think it'll happen, 'cause we get along so well. I heard the Admiral likes putting together people who get along, and people who hate each other.

So I hope we do get paired, 'cause I want you to be happy more than anything.

[gulosity]

[She frowns a little - not because of the last thing, but because of the first thing.]

Who's talking about me?

[tucky]

Iris. Barbara. Boyd.

No bad things. Just saying they think we should be paired, or they're surprised it didn't happen already.

[gulosity]

It's none of their business.

[tucky]

Okay. I can tell 'em that if they talk about it again.

[gulosity]

Yeah. You should.

. . . Do you think that? That we should be paired up?

[tucky]

There's a lot of inmates that I care about a lot. Way more than there used to be, 'cause I hated other inmates when I was one. But when I think about getting paired with any of 'em, it don't seem right, 'cause they ain't you.

[And as much as she wants to do right by Pietro, as much as she likes Lloyd, as much as she loves Roderick... she feels herself click with Lourdes in a warden-inmate way (or what she imagines to be a warden-inmate way) in a way she doesn't with anybody else. Already she sees them as a team - not as a superior and inferior, or as a guard and prisoner, but as two equal people who are inextricably linked, and are tasked to help each other out in any way that they can.

Tiffany absolutely thinks that they should be paired. She just wishes that they had some say in whether or not they would be, because she fears that they won't.]

[gulosity]

[She's quiet for a few moments, thinking about this. It seems frighteningly intimate, and she's still afraid of Tiffany a little bit, wary, untrusting. But she's not wrong.]

I try not to think about getting paired up at all.

[tucky]

Why?

[Because it's a scary thought, Tiffany assumes, but she doesn't want to put words in Lourdes's mouth.]

[gulosity]

Because I don't want somebody having that kind of power over me.

[tucky]

Well, fuck wardens who'd use it against you. I mean it, fuck 'em.

[gulosity]

They wouldn't be able to help it. You wouldn't, either.

[tucky]

Why not? I ain't saying you're wrong, but maybe if you tell me how it could happen, it'll be easier for me to make sure I don't do it. With you or whoever I get.