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America (Alfred F. Jones) || 1864 ([personal profile] ahousedivided) wrote in [community profile] entranceway 2013-06-07 07:33 am (UTC)

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I hope ya know that my natural inclination is to defy the British so it's gonna take every ounce of perseverance I got to follow that order.

[ He's only partly joking. It's not just Martha and the ever-present friction in their conversations. He can't stand the idea of being useless. That she might be right--that he's more harm than good even when he's trying to help, when he's trying to be more than a tool of war--it's a tough pill to swallow. And damn does he take a lot of pills.

He sighs and slumps forward, obviously resigned to his fate.
]

The whole reason I even went into medicine was so that I wouldn't have to raise a gun against any of my own people, and I can't even do that right. Goddamn, what am I good for?

[ Wait, shit, did he say that out loud? Startled by the revelation, he bites down a little too hard on his finger and draws more blood. His hand drops away from his mouth. ]

Ouch! Er, yeah, sure, I'll be by whenever. Sometime. I'll give a... whatever you do with these things. Digital letter. I don't fuckin' know.

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