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breakingmyheart ([personal profile] breakingmyheart) wrote2013-08-01 01:43 am

2.21 - Voice + Spam

[Library & Kitchen Filters]

I've been unpaired from Jesse. I still plan on keeping both my jobs. If that's alright.

[Even though she kind of hates both of them, it's marginally better than having nothing to do all day.]

[Private to Megamind]

...I can help. With the project you were talking about.

[Open Spam - Deck]

[So it's been a fortnight. The breach was - well - things happened. She's been through her most grotesquely violent death toll to date. And then she got off the Barge in LA and stole from a cashpoint for the express purpose of buying drugs, which - didn't happen, in the end.

Small mercies. She might not have been feeling any worse for having succeeded but deep down she knows the better would be very, very fleeting.

And then the Admiral separated her from Jesse. Or Jesse asked to be unpaired. She doesn't know. He said he didn't, she'd like to believe him, but she wouldn't really blame him for spotting a lost cause either. Megamind called her a model Inmate not so long ago but it doesn't feel like she was modelling anything except peaceful noncompliance.

She doesn't often break the library -> kitchen -> (gym) -> shower -> sleep cycle but she needs some time and fresh air to decompress and so after the dinner shift she's out on deck, sitting on a bench and somewhat reading a book but not really paying attention to it.]
fridgetothefire: (thinking)

[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-08-01 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[That makes her smile, small but sure, surprised and touched. It's not something she's shared with anyone else, and being understood is...nice.]

It was still an awful thing, and it always will be, always will have been. And I can't speak for anyone but me. I'm not, like, glad it happened. But I'm okay, maybe better, for having come through it. And for what it's worth, just for me, I forgive you.

Edited 2013-08-01 02:04 (UTC)
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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-08-01 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[She doesn't think it's embarrassing - she'd cry too, if her own Wanda were around to forgive her - but she gazes at her hands in her lap, gives Tosh the small privacy of averting her gaze while she controls herself.]

If I think about it, some of the people I love most in my life right now, I don't think I ever would have trusted or gotten so close to if they hadn't helped me in that moment. I'm grateful for that. Mostly, you know, to them. But still.

I'm not saying, like, 'bad things happen for a reason' or any philosophical crap like that. Just...yeah, it was bad. Scarier than most of the stuff that happens here, because we didn't know if it would end or how to protect ourselves. But it wasn't any purer or more damning sort of evil. It was awful, but I think most of us have recovered.

Whatever drove you to that place...I hope someday you can too.
Edited 2013-08-01 14:09 (UTC)
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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-08-01 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[She waits for a little while, lets each of them breathe, in the quiet.]

That's most of what I wanted to say, I think. And that I'd like to be your friend, if you want one.
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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-08-01 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I hadn't either, before I came here. We can figure it out together.
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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-08-01 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you like cookies? I bake, sometimes. It's pretty much just like chemistry, only tasty.
fridgetothefire: (stunned smile)

[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-08-01 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's warming to hear, and Anya giggles a little too, but kindly.]

No, no, cooking is complicated. It's kind of an art. Anything with sauces and simmering and complimentary flavors. But baking is easier.
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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-08-02 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
No, not nearly.

Have you got a favorite flavor? My warden keeps her kitchen pretty stocked these days.
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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-08-02 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
We could do that.

Oh! Lua Klein.