Day 59: Sun Room (4th Shift)

[contentincloset]

After an intercom broadcast like that, Kurogane felt somewhat better about the little information he'd gotten from Harrington the previous night. The man only sounded competent when he needed to but was an idiot otherwise. Unfortunately that was furthered proof of the General not employing the brightest of staff members, making another option for

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oh. oopsies?

[vitale]

Oh.

Bella's eyes once again turned away from Venom, picking at the couch pillow now as she thought to herself. So, Claire turned ... turned crazy, and attacked Venom. In his attempt to protect himself, he disarmed her, but she pulled out a knife and stabbed him. After, in another attempt to protect himself, he shoved her, and she fell onto her axe, and ...

After a few more moments of silence, the teenager let out a deep sigh. "Venom," she started, finally turning to look up at him. Her next words were honest. "I know you feel bad for what you have done, but ... but unless you were the one who placed the axe exactly where it had been and pushed her according to where it was, then ... then her dying isn't your fault. Yes, you protected yourself, and she fell onto something that caused her to die because of it, but ..."

She looked down, feeling guilty now. "It's like telling me I should blame someone who was being abused by someone else, and out of self defense the attacker died. Do you think those involved would blame the one who was attacked in the first place? If I ... if I had known what had happened in the first place, I wouldn't have treated you the way I did."

But his admittance isn't going to bring your friend back, she told herself, frowning. It was true, after all.

"Thank you for telling me."

[anemptydecapo]

"You had every right to." Because it was my fault. He shouldn't have encouraged the woman to do as she planned to. He should have taken something alone, not allow her to take something potentially--no, not potentially--to take something that was fatal. He should have been more intelligent, more aware, than to have the naive assumption that it wasn't a trap. He should have acted like a goddamn adult and done literally anything else.

Instead of vocalizing any of those thoughts, Venom's hands only dropped away from his face and his arms went to folding over his chest, his bangs sliding back into his eyes.

"Are you still upset at him?" The explanation hadn't entirely been to clear the assassin's name.