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entranceway2018-05-07 10:08 pm
screwedontight) wrote in entranceway2018-05-07 10:08 pm
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[For those that know Seth, he's looking much better than he has for months. Pulled together, all sharp creases and straight lines. There's no dark circles under his eyes and he doesn't seem to have a glass in front of him. At least for now.
He also looks bitterly amused.]
A guy goes out into the woods for one freaking week to try and get his head on straight and you all go nuts. Nice to see that much as some things change, everything else just remains the same.
With a week or so of sobering up and learning my paranoia apparently has jackshit to do with my diet of scotch and whiskey, I had a thought that came to me and if I have to live with these thoughts, so do the rest of you.
How do we know that everyone that vanishes goes home? I mean, what if some of those that are positive about serial killers and criminals in our midst... [Hello, pot? This is the kettle.] ... what if they're right and someone's bumping people off and we just assume they're being sent home like so many others?
After that thought, not sure if sobriety will pay off but we'll see how long it lasts.
{Locked to Chloe}
How are you?
{Locked to Maggie}
Where are you? Are you okay?
[For those that know Seth, he's looking much better than he has for months. Pulled together, all sharp creases and straight lines. There's no dark circles under his eyes and he doesn't seem to have a glass in front of him. At least for now.
He also looks bitterly amused.]
A guy goes out into the woods for one freaking week to try and get his head on straight and you all go nuts. Nice to see that much as some things change, everything else just remains the same.
With a week or so of sobering up and learning my paranoia apparently has jackshit to do with my diet of scotch and whiskey, I had a thought that came to me and if I have to live with these thoughts, so do the rest of you.
How do we know that everyone that vanishes goes home? I mean, what if some of those that are positive about serial killers and criminals in our midst... [Hello, pot? This is the kettle.] ... what if they're right and someone's bumping people off and we just assume they're being sent home like so many others?
After that thought, not sure if sobriety will pay off but we'll see how long it lasts.
{Locked to Chloe}
How are you?
{Locked to Maggie}
Where are you? Are you okay?
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It's quite possibly the first time anyone has ever expressed the notion that Maggie isn't helpless, not even in an emergency. She's had to be brutally honest, at least with her team, about the fact that she is. In any combat situation, Maggie is dead weight. Pretending otherwise puts people she loves at risk.
But she isn't going to mention any of that right now.
A wry smile flickers briefly across her face as she tells him, "If you ever hurt me, I promise I won't stop you from apologizing. I just really wish you'd save it until you've actually done any harm."
More quietly, she adds, "I appreciate that you care, Seth, but I'm never going to be entirely alright with you turning that around on yourself like a weapon. If I get scared or hurt, it isn't your fault. I care enough about you that it's hard to watch you feel guilty, especially over something related to me."
She doesn't expect to talk him out of it, but she's going to say so anyway.
"Was Richie part of the reason you decided to go out there this week?"
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"I don't apologize to many, Maggie. Accept it when you can," he says, trying to lighten the mood with a wry smile.
He opens his mouth, closes it and sighs. Again, some things were ground into him since birth. Or at least since he was old enough to understand words. Guilt was definitely one of them.
He shrugs after a moment. "Maybe. Yeah? I don't know. I just needed to stop drinking, and I needed to think on some things. Figured it was easier out there than in the mansion."