David Cain (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
anewlanguage) wrote2015-01-19 08:06 pm
anewlanguage) wrote2015-01-19 08:06 pm
Forward dated to after Iris-Roderick shenanigans
[Private to Barbara Gordon]
We oughta do a check in, you and me.
[he's seething but managing to hide it. Kind of.]
[Private to Iris]
[This is the first time she's ever death tolled that he hasn't waited at her side for her to wake up. But he knows himself, and he knows that right now the safest thing for everyone is if he is nowhere near her.
So instead there's a message waiting for her.]
You've got a lot of fuckin' nerve doing what you did, darlin'.
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[And between all that he'll be wandering, mostly hanging out at the pool, which so far has only pretty happy memories. Nothing that he has the urge to scream at or shoot; progress!
Feel free to come poke the bear.]
We oughta do a check in, you and me.
[he's seething but managing to hide it. Kind of.]
[Private to Iris]
[This is the first time she's ever death tolled that he hasn't waited at her side for her to wake up. But he knows himself, and he knows that right now the safest thing for everyone is if he is nowhere near her.
So instead there's a message waiting for her.]
You've got a lot of fuckin' nerve doing what you did, darlin'.
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[And between all that he'll be wandering, mostly hanging out at the pool, which so far has only pretty happy memories. Nothing that he has the urge to scream at or shoot; progress!
Feel free to come poke the bear.]
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Like, killing someone? 'Cause that's what it was. You think I'm gonna need to kill people here?
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[Oh sure, go straight to the tough question.
He draws a slow breath in, and then nods once.]
In the wrong flood, yeah. At a bad port, yeah. When we get some asshole on board who thinks if he kills enough people he'll get sent home early, hell yeah.
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[That sounds impressively backwards.]
But it ain't true, right?
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More than one seems to have, yeah. They don't last very long around here.
And nah. No matter who you kill, you ain't getting sent home for it.
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Yeah, you know how it goes. People fucked up their lives back home, or had 'em fucked up for them, they're angry about it, got no idea what to do with all that anger.
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Ain't much to be angry about here, as far as I can see.
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Not around here, not much. But baggage kinda carries, you know? Sometimes it creeps up. [He eyes her. A murderer is not without baggage; either she's dealt with hers (and should be a Warden), or she's buried it deep.]
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Usually that's how it works, yeah. I mean no matter where you go, you are who you are, right? But if you were pissed off at life back home, it seems like you've got it managed now, so keep doing what you're doing. Just my advice.
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[Not always, anyway.]
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Or at your parents, at a boyfriend?
[She's rough around the edges, it's highly likely that she had a tough go of it at some point.]
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-- Amicably; we broke up amicably.
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Didn't know there was such a thing. But until I got here I never had an amicable kind of relationship anyway. What happened with you and your guy?
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[He grins] Well, Ted Bundy got married in prison, but come to think of it he's not a guy you want to follow the example of.
'Course in this prison, people get around plenty. And it's mostly a good idea I think.
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Why's it a good idea?
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[He nods; it's no real surprise, not at his age. Had she told him that thirty years ago he'd have been flabbergasted.] It was like that in the war, a bit. Secretly, y'know.
Anyway out and out dating seems to make people happier. Keeps 'em out of trouble.
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[Give it two weeks, Tucky.]
You know, most of the guys are gay, I think.
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Hah! I can't say you're wrong. Most of 'em seem to swing that way if they're here long enough. We don't get a lot of women, though, so maybe they're just being opportunists.
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How many gay guys have you bumped into already here?
[Cain notices relationships, but most people around here don't talk about their personal lives with him. Which is probably wise, he figures, so he doesn't mind much.]
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I mean, a lot of people haven't said what they are.
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