Somewhere where one can dig a grave in Dallas | A short while later

[knife_bender]

Yes, yes, an hour and a half. Diego knew they were in a time crunch. But if couldn't trust Annie and Ben to arrive on time, who could he trust?

And he'd get there. After he was done burying this body. Elliot at least deserved that.

Lila	So, Lila sure had had a hell of a day so far. Her mother's coup had apparently worked, she herself was staring down the barrel of being promoted to the Commission's head of security, and she felt...absolutely nothing about all of it. Because she kept thinking about how much more fun she'd had for those months in that institution, and how easy it had been to talk to Diego, and how nice it had felt to make a connection with someone who didn't know her history and whose daughter she was. Maybe she could still have that. Especially if he was going to just conspicuously hang out alone in the middle of the day, digging a hole and putting on a little gun show. Don't mind her ogling a little. She could ogle and sneak at the same time.
Diego	Diego had drastically overestimated his ability to dig a grave in less than a half hour. This was gonna have to be a shallow one, Elliot, sorry. He did catch wind of movement after a couple moments and looked up from his digging to see who was creeping on him.
Lila	"Weird time to garden," Lila commented, giving up on being sneaky. Should've known better, really. "Can we talk? The truth this time." Mostly the truth. She had a hard time with, you know, the whole truth, just in general.
Diego	"Oh, I know the truth," Diego said. "You used me, Lila. You're a liar." And to be used to get closer to Five of all people? Gross.
Lila	Gross, no. Lila liked her men a little more mature, thank you. At least physically. Now, her mum on the other hand.... "Oh, come on," she drawled, rolling her eyes. "What did I really lie about?"
Diego	"Who you are, who you work for, why you're here, what you want from us..." Diego shrugged. "That's all."
Lila	"Yeah, but the rest was true!" Lila assured him, having to smile a little. Come on, that was funny, right? "Everybody lies, Diego. And I was only lying to protect you." A pause. "Mostly."
Diego	Diego stabbed his shovel into the ground, Lila having struck a nerve. "Do you know how hard it is to trust people when your whole childhood was bullshit manipulation?" Blame Annie for him being able to express his emotions like that and making people feel bad.
Lila	Oh, weird. All of a sudden, a lot of Lila's confidence seemed to abandon her, and she had a whole lot less to say. And she was also looking pretty much anywhere besides Diego. Talk about striking a nerve. "Uh huh." She did, indeed, know something about that.
Diego	"Then why would you do that to me?" Diego shook his head, because he didn't actually care about her answer, and he was on the clock here. Diego picked up his shovel and started to dig again. "Tell you what, I'm going to finish this hole, save the world, and forget we ever met."
Lila	That seemed fairly final, and while Lila had a plan that didn't involve a whole lot more negotiation, she was smarting a little from the question. And from the slow realization of why Diego was digging this hole, thanks to the foot she finally noticed dangling off the wheelbarrow, and the bright polish on the toenails of that foot. "Wait, is that...is that dentist-chair guy?"
Diego	"Elliot," Diego said dryly. "Your Swedish buddies got to him."
Lila	"Oh, shit." And because Lila of course could not take his word for it, that would be her lifting the tarp covering Elliot to peek at him, and then immediately replacing it with instant regret. "I liked that shit-muppet." She kind of hated that she also immediately knew how to make this work, now. Her brain was so well-trained. "Well," she continued, pulling a small, circular flask out of her belt. "Here's to Elliot, I guess." She took a quick sip from the flask before holding it out to Diego, quiet and genuinely sorry.
Diego	Diego looked down at the flask for a moment, then back at Lila. Whatever, fuck it, he could use a drink anyway. He took the flask and knocked it back, finishing it off, and then throwing it aside. "Are we done now?" Wait. Something wasn't right.
Lila	Nope! Lila spit her drink out in a neat little stream, watching Diego swoon with a totally nonplussed expression. "Yup." This was gonna kind of suck, though. Dragging would need to be involved.
Diego	Diego's vision was swimming, and he realized too late how stupid of a move it had been to accept a drink from the enemy. "Oh...balls." And then he collapsed right into the hole he had been digging.

[NFI, NFB but OOC is Ok. Taken from TUA 2x07 "Oga For Oga" and preplayed with defenderofdesmoines]