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[maddest]

[Like so many others will this week, Break wakes up screaming. The PCD isn't pointed at the bed, so it doesn't capture anything but sound until he scrambles off of it, past the camera and towards the window, throwing it open to get fresh air.

This all hits a little close to home.]

Why-

[He asks, hoarsely, a few minutes later,]

-does the network insist on displaying our grief? The timing is too consistent to be accidental.

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[al_truism]

That I'd known what he'd done, and had said nothing.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

That's ridiculous. Do you know why they were saying it?

There isn't a soul among us without a secret- but deny it, say that you ought to have known better, that such wickedness was uncommon, and they hide their own stripes better.

[al_truism]

These aren't bad people.

[Quietly.]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

No, they aren't.

But everyone has a secret.

[al_truism]

... yeah, there's that.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Anyways, they forgave you, apparently?

[al_truism]

Eventually.

[Al hasn't really forgiven himself for that one. He scrubs the last of the dishes, putting them aside to dry.]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

[Break polishes off the last of the tea.]

Think they'll get around to me?

[al_truism]

Some of them already are.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

You're too soft hearted, you don't count.

[al_truism]

[Al flicks clean dishwater at him.]

Of course I count!

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I'm talking about a reasonable and objective standard.

[al_truism]

You think I'm being unreasonable to like or forgive you?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Well, obviously!

[al_truism]

[He just sighs.]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

You trusted Yuca.

[al_truism]

Rain asked me to.

He didn't have anybody else.

I thought that maybe... I don't know. That this time, I might help him to realize that life wasn't so bad.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Rain was a bit of a twerp. You can look after someone without trusting them.

[al_truism]

Can I tell you a secret?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Of course.

[al_truism]

I never fully trusted him. Not really.

And it still surprised me.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[al_truism]

I kind of wonder if he sensed it.

If things would have been different, if I had.

[He shrugs a little.]

I don't blame myself for it, not anymore, but sometimes I wonder.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Would you blame me? If I told you that story?

[al_truism]

Which story?