ic contact (mask or menace)

[hackitude]

"Hey! You've reached Skye. Leave a message. I mean, if you want to. Or uh, don't. Whatever."

Comments

[hackitude]

About what?

My calorie consumption's been pretty high lately, I guess. All that chocolate cake.

[hostage]

You know what

[hackitude]

I really don't

[Honestly Jesse what has she told you about text messages being the easiest form of communication to hack and retrieve.]

Do you want to come over, tho? I've got a bag of funyuns with your name on it...

[hostage]

[He said nothing. It could be anything!]

I'm already on my way

[hackitude]

Sweet

See you soon

[hostage]

[He was literally texting and driving. What a little shit. He arrives about two minutes later to knock at her door. And he's got his gun tucked into his waistband, which is getting to be habit ever since his encounter with Ward.]

[hackitude]

[Skye greets him at the door not soon after the knock, grinning with one eyebrow raised.]

I know we live close, but that was suspiciously fast.

[hostage]

[He rolls his shoulders in a shrug, giving her a lopsided grin.]

I was ready to play getaway driver.

[hackitude]

[She closes the door behind him and then leans over to give Jesse a quick kiss]

Please. I'm better than that.

[hostage]

You're right. Silly me, getting all worried about the government that does this -

[He holds up his tattooed wrist.]

- to us.

[hackitude]

They can't track individual signals, unless you're a villain. I found that out, too.

[hostage]

[Thank you so much for that, Skye.]

What is that, like a switch they flip? Why can't they do it for everybody?

[hackitude]

Don't know. Maybe they don't have the resources? I'm sure it's only a matter of time, anyway.

[hostage]

You sure all that stuff you found wasn't fake? 'cause if it was me, I'd be putting a whole bunch of shit that ain't true in there. Make anybody who went looking think they found something real when they didn't.

[hackitude]

Hmm. We could test it?

[hostage]

How?

[hackitude]

I've gotten into their systems once now. That's more than anyone else has been able to do. And... that means I can do it again.

I could see if I could get into their tracking system. You drive somewhere totally random, and I'll see if I can use their tech to pinpoint your location.

[hostage]

[...This may be slightly Not As Planned.]

You sure you wanna do that when you already got 'em looking for whoever broke in the first time?

[hackitude]

Trust me, it's going to be fine.

Do you want to find out for sure, or not?

[hostage]

[Ugh. Well, better to know she can track him than to not know and have her try it anyway behind his back.]

You wanna do it right now?

[hackitude]

No, can't do it now. [I need to get mod permission.] If I'm hacking the government, I'm not gonna do it from my own home on my own laptop. That's like... hiding the murder weapon under your bed. This stuff can't be traced back to me.

[hostage]

Right, yeah. Sorry. I don't really know how any of this stuff works.

[hackitude]

It's not really that hard. I could teach you sometime, if you want.

[Yeah, not that hard for people who are naturally CS geniuses, Skye.]

[hostage]

[Yeah...]

I don't think, um - Well. You know. I'm stupid, so...

[hackitude]

Hey. High school drop out, remember? I'm not exactly GPA 5.0 myself.