-3° - Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot

[catchacold]

[The feed comes to life and Leonard's sitting in his room, mostly illuminated by candle-light, which does soften the still visible bruises (as a result of this) on his face a little. He's playing with a lighter in one hand, turning it, palming it and flipping it open and shut, but never actually lighting it.

Mostly he looks at the camera, both eye by now able to open fully again.]

Time doesn't really seem to do much in the way of passing here, but things happen anyway. So, guess this is still a worthwhile question.

You got any resolutions?

[Which of course also begs the question whether he has any himself. He looks as if he wants to keep talking at first, but his mouth stays shut and he looks off past the camera, the flame of a candle reflected in his eyes. Finally he cuts off the video.]


[ooc: This post can be used as a jump-off for New Years and other talk among other people too, so feel free to threadjack! ALL THE THREADJACKING, always encouraged.]

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[Video]

[catchacold]

Hey, I don't know you, you don't have to justify your choices to me.

[He shrugs, looking at her for a few seconds before closing his eyes and then glancing past the communicator.]

Just don't let anyone take advantage.

[Video]

[unpreach]

[She opens her mouth, ready to assure him she was doing no such thing, but in a way, she knows she is. She knows that she's made choices few would ever make, especially when it came to forgiving certain people in her life.

Instead, she manages a small smile, nodding along.]

I think that might be easier said than done. [Her half smile, lopsided yet genuine.] I can't control what people will do anymore than they can control me.

[Spoken like somebody whose misguided faith in others has seen her be taken advantage of many times.]

I choose to give people the benefit of the doubt, if they abuse that then... well, I guess it says more about them than it does about me.

[Video]

[catchacold]

Sure, but only one of you might end up regretting it.

[And, generally speaking, that'd be her. The one who's more forgiving.]

[Video]

[unpreach]

I guess I'd rather regret the things I do than be left with what ifs.

[And she had tried it the other way. Tried to turn her back and refuse to forgive but in the end? That just wasn't who she was.]