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[hostage]

[The video's shaky when Jesse starts transmitting. He's at the baseball diamond and it's the middle of winter and he's shivering, dressed for a New Mexico summer in a hoodie that's barely thicker than the t-shirt he's wearing underneath it.]

I'm here.

[He's saying that to the NV, but his attention is away from the camera, directed to the road.]

Where's a goddamn taxi...

[He stops walking for a second and raises the NV so he can talk to it properly.]

I'm here. I'm okay. How long's it been? What year is it?

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[hostage]

[He shuts his eyes and buries his face in her hair, holding her just like that, in no hurry to go. He whispers something that sounds like:]

I don't wanna lose you.

[hejhej]

[She feels the pang of her heart and it's deep. Someone wanted her. Lisbeth couldn't remember the last time she'd felt that, if she ever did. She grips Jesse even tighter.]

I don't think you can.

[hostage]

I'm gonna hurt you. You know that, right? The shit I'm in... The kind of person I am...

[hejhej]

[She usually has something to say, something to fall back on, but she isn't sure what to say to that. It wasn't in the cards that Jesse would hurt her because he wanted to - it was in the cards because that's how her whole life usually played out.

Instead, she hugs him tighter.]