Outside Room 213 - Monday Morning

[anole_x]

Victor had been up late last night, trying to figure out what he was going to do about his problem with Rory. When his mind had wandered to how an X-Men would handle it, though, he had gotten an idea. In his Leadership class, they had had a lecture on conflict resolution, and he had figured that maybe it was time to apply what he had learned

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[auroryborealis]

At some point over the course of the morning, a note written in excruciatingly neat cursive on pale blue paper was slid under the door of room 335

Victor -

Okay, I read your letter - and please know, I’m not one to skim. I feel that we’ve come to a misunderstanding in regards to both incidents.

And like I did with your letter, please read this all the way through before making judgements.

In the library in London, can you at least see where I was coming from? Please, for a moment, put yourselves in my shoes: You’re in your home environment, whatever that may be. The Mecca of video equipment, maybe. That’s how that library was for me - and I was thrilled beyond reason to have so many research materials at my fingertips. Furthermore, Angel - you know, Angel, who was the whole reason we were in there - is one of my dearest friends, and his life (or unlife, whatever - his existence) was in danger.

Therefore, in that situation, what I remember happening is that Andrew (the Watcher) asked that you turn off your camera, and when you refused, forcibly did it for you. That’s not wrong. It was a private place, we were guests, and you were asked politely to stop - not to mention that we were there for a very specific purpose. Furthermore, I don’t think I was out of line in telling you to stop and sit down. The situation had become counter-productive. It wasn’t a personal attack against you - it was an intervention in the name of getting our work done.

Yesterday at brunch, you have to understand: to have you state the obvious in that way when Angela made a joke seemed incredibly insulting from our standpoint. To me and Angela, it came across as condescending - and I understand now that you didn’t mean that. But that’s why I reacted as I did. Also, it’s very much in my nature to be sarcastic...which, naturally, you wouldn’t know, since we’ve talked all of about four times.

So, know this: I don’t intentionally hurt people. And not that I think you should necessarily rely on the testimony of others, since I know better than most how inaccurate rumors can be, but if you ask nearly anyone at this school who’s been here long enough to know me, you’ll hear that that is the case. I hate having people angry with me. And the last thing I ever meant to do was to cause upset between us. I acknowledge that I made a mistake.

I appreciate that you’ll drop the name-calling. I admit that I've done my share, though I feel that repeating the (albeit, fairly mild) names here would accomplish nothing but building up more hurt feelings.

In any case - consider this an apology for being unclear and perhaps a bit harsh in the past, but I stand by what I said. We misunderstood, but my reasoning for both incidents still stands. Perhaps in the future we can work on communication, to ensure that we don’t come away from every encounter with hurt feelings?

I hope that we can work this out.

- Rory Gilmore