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[digiorno]

buongiorno! sorry i missed you; i'll happily get back to you as soon as i'm done with whatever business i'm on. leave a message!

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[digiorno]

[The smile isn't so wistful anymore. It's not exactly cunning, either, not the way it can be sometimes; it's not Dio's smile, that's for sure. It's the look of someone pleased, but not happy - because Giorno is, all things considered, very rarely happy.]

[It seems right to him, though, that Jotaro be this confident. At least something came out of everything he's been through - not something he asked for, sure, but something measurable.]

It's not arrogant. It just sounds like a fact to me. I hope you never have to.

[Like he hopes he never has to face Dio; but hopes are only hopes.]

[His fingers curl on the edge of the table then, almost a nervous gesture.]

It could be a mutation. Genetically, I mean. Incredibly improbable, but - a kind of mistake.

[And that was how it came down, wasn't it? Father to son.]

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[starmark]

...I think you care too much about the things you want to achieve for yourself, to lose control when it comes to undoing other people's.

[He watches, quietly. Watches Giorno's fingers against the table like his own are twisting the napkin still. It's like turning over stones, this conversation, like stones that are dry and unassuming on the surface but damp underneath, hiding secrets.]

I think you care too much about the things people achieve in general, to ever run the risk of erasing them lightly.

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[digiorno]

. . . I think that's true. I hope that's true.

[He looks at Jotaro for a long moment, as if trying to ascertain if he's telling the truth; but there's nothing but honesty in him, and it occurs to Giorno in that moment that he doesn't think Jotaro's ever lied to him.]

I want to be an admirable person. Not for the sake of being admired, but . . . [So I can look myself in the mirror at the end of the day.] Because I want people to reach their dreams, like I did.

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[starmark]

...You are. Admirable.

[And when he hesitates, it's not because of what he's just said, but because of what he's tempted to follow it with, the thing he knows that Giorno doesn't that makes him the most qualified person in the world to say that someone with every inherent bias toward turning out like Dio who still fights to rise above it and push back against it is admirable —

Yes. He has every reason to find that admirable. It's inspiration, if not to achieve his dreams, then at least to prevent his nightmares.]

I'll tell you why someday. But just trust me on it for now.