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Date: 2011-05-03 01:14 am (UTC)
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A few years later, the father was assassinated again. The youngest girl, who had survived? She became a contractor. She fed the rest of the family to her chain, before being killed by the contract herself, without managing to change any of it.

If I'd left it alone, she'd have lived.

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Date: 2011-05-03 01:16 am (UTC)
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Break, I --..

[How do you respond to something like this?]

How long ago was it?

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Date: 2011-05-03 01:20 am (UTC)
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How old are you?

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Date: 2011-05-03 01:24 am (UTC)
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Do you still have to - do things? For the chain?

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Date: 2011-05-03 01:25 am (UTC)
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No. Albus is dead. I'm contracted to the Mad Hatter these days, and he isn't in Adstringendum.

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Date: 2011-05-03 01:27 am (UTC)
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[To her tea:]

Do you have to kill people for him when you're not in Adstringendum

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Date: 2011-05-03 01:28 am (UTC)
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No. It's a different sort of contract, this time.

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Date: 2011-05-03 01:29 am (UTC)
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What does he have you do?

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Date: 2011-05-03 01:32 am (UTC)
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I give him anchorage in my world, that's all. All of his energy comes through me.

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Date: 2011-05-03 01:35 am (UTC)
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Were those the only people you killed? The ones to turn back time?

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Date: 2011-05-03 01:49 am (UTC)
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No. I took up with Pandora- an agency dedicated to policing contracts like the one I used to be a part of.

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Date: 2011-05-03 01:56 am (UTC)
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Then for part of your job with Pandora, you have to.. ?

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Date: 2011-05-03 02:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com
Stop the exact sort of situation I caused when I was twenty.

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Date: 2011-05-03 02:05 am (UTC)
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Is that still what you do? At home, I mean.

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Date: 2011-05-03 02:07 am (UTC)
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It is. It- has to be controlled.

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Date: 2011-05-03 02:08 am (UTC)
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[Katara stares at him for a moment, before sitting up and reaching across the table.. before throwing a handful of sugar at him.]

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Date: 2011-05-03 02:14 am (UTC)
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[Break startles- he doesn't see it coming, obviously.]

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Date: 2011-05-03 02:26 am (UTC)
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Over a hundred years old and still a dummy.

[She makes a slightly irritated noise as she stands up, pacing to the sink to pour her cooling tea out.]

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Date: 2011-05-03 02:29 am (UTC)
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You think they should be allowed to just kill people?

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Date: 2011-05-03 02:31 am (UTC)
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No. I think you're doing the right thing.

[She throws some water into a pan, moving to boil it. Her tone is still distinctly cranky, however.]

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Date: 2011-05-03 02:33 am (UTC)
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[She's not looking at him. Boiling rice takes a lot of concentration, apparently.]

The way you talked to me yesterday. The way you - said things, you made it sound like -

[She spills the rice and huffs.]

I was scared of you.

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