Seventh Psalm [Video] Catch him if you can

[hallowbethylies]

Well... Was that really called for? Calling the cops? I've never even stolen a Pokémon... [He's not lying, either... Cleo only grabs people's possessions, not their monsters.]

And now I have to hide away, when I could be staying indoors, relaxing. Ugh.

Still, I'm sure I can make the best of it. [He grins at the camera before switching off the feed.

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[Video]

[foolishwren]

[OHO. Father Vincent's on the run? Like she could resist commenting on this.]

The cops are after you?

This is how surprised I am.

[And then she proceeds to stare dully at the camera in abject silence.]

[Video]

[hallowbethylies]

Your hilariousness is astounding; I suggest a job as a clown.

[He'll play along for reactions.]

How interesting... Our reactions were both quite.... similar, when we found out about the other's 'criminal' activities. Perhaps our friendship needs better trust?

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Thanks, but I don't think I'd rock the big red nose look very well. You, on the other hand, would probably make a really good one.

... You know, one of the ones that hide in sewer drains.

[You can't be a horror character without paying a little homage to the pros every once in awhile.]

[In any case, she raises an eyebrow.]

You call this a friendship?

[hallowbethylies]

Not my style. [He flashes that smirk, the one that makes people want to punch him in the face.

But at the reaction to 'friendship', it spreads into a shit-eating grin.]

Oh? What do you call it, Heather? [He seems so mock-cheerful.]

[foolishwren]

[UGH Vincent you are super gross >:c]

I'm not sure the English language has words for what I'd call it.

Maybe German does. It'd be like fifty syllables long and impossible to pronounce.

But friends don't send friends to go talk to homicidal lunatics without actually mentioning the part about how they're homicidal lunatics.

[Yeah, Heather's still pretty buttmad about that. She can forgive the fact that Vincent's magnificent plan for defeating Claudia had wound up being a total dud (... maybe. She still thinks he's a dumbass), but telling her to look for Leonard without mentioning the fact that he was violently insane and would probably try to kill her? NOT COOL.]

[hallowbethylies]

Schadenfreude? [He knows what that means and he knows it isn't a word for a relationship, but he feels it all the time, so it works for him! It's really not surprising that he's picked up a word like this along the way.]

Would you have gone if I had?

[foolishwren]

[She gives him a sour look at that. The fact that it's actually pretty fitting (he sure seems to get a lot of delight out of her misfortune wherever it should occur, and she'd be lying if she said she didn't often smirk at his) means she is obviously not gonna dignify it with an answer.]

[Onto the question...]

Honestly? ... Yes. I would've. If it meant having a chance at stopping Claudia, I would've. [It wasn't like she hadn't already been fighting for her life on a near-constant basis there anyway, and Leonard was far from the worst thing she'd encountered. .... Although she wasn't gonna lie, he was still pretty bad.]

But if I'd known, I could've been more, y'know, PREPARED when he wound up being a frothing evangelical FREAK.

[hallowbethylies]

[When you stay silent, Heather, it makes him smile inside... In a not-smile way, of course.]

Interesting... I would have told you, if I had known. [That was quite possibly a lie. He hadn't told her about Leonard being a nutjob lunatic.]

But that doesn't matter now... You're fine. [If you don't remember, he wasn't. :I Claudia made him pay for his 'sins'. Crazy bitch.]

[foolishwren]

[She narrows her eyes.]

You knew.

[There's no uncertainty whatsoever in that statement. None at all. He led the cult... made a point of knowing its members. Had to know how to manipulate them. Even though she hadn't overheard the conversation he'd had with Claudia where he actually admitted to knowing how Leonard used to hurt her, she knew he HAD to have known.]

The mental hospital records said he was in there for STABBING somebody. Besides, you probably saw him every fuckin' day and listened to him rant and rave. You knew.

[Whoa okay she got a little mad there. Extinguishing the tremor of rage from her voice, she turned her tone back to sour.]

You'd have been totally okay with me NOT being fine, so yeah, uh. It matters to me. [It had occurred to her, in the year or so that had passed at home since that horrible night, that sending her to Leonard might well have been a win-win decision on Vincent's part. After all, either she'd get the Seal from him, or he'd kill her and then Claudia's plan would fail even HARDER, right?] You

[hallowbethylies]

Anger gets the best of all of us, Heather. [He's an idiot? After she mentions the time that he got angry and was killed, directly after anger gets the best of her, herself? That isn't a smart move, Heather, and all it's doing is fueling Vincent.]

I was referring to Leonard being... that thing. [He tries to hold back a shudder, himself; the monsters- the idea of those monsters, they scare even him, just in the slightest.]

I knew he was insane, if that was what you wanted to know. But you already thought there was something wrong with all of us, didn't you? ['There's something wrong with you, too.'] I figured it would have been for granted.

[foolishwren]

[Well, angry or not-- she doesn't think anything she said was wrong, so nyahh to that, Vincent. She still wouldn't turn her back towards an armed enemy, no matter HOW mad she got.]

[She does, however, arch an interested brow.]

[... That 'thing'? ... So ... Vincent does admit that the monsters were real... Whether that was a slip-up or whether he'd given up the charade of trying to psych her out with implications of unknowing mass murder, Heather can't help but feel a little burst of triumph at that. I knew it. She tries not to let it show on her face.]

I was talking about the insanity, not the fact that he looked like the Thing from the Black Lagoon. By that point? Monsters didn't surprise me much.

Either way, I'dve liked to have known that he was more likely to try and cleave my head off of my shoulders than actually want to help. Would it really have KILLED you to mention that little detail?

[Sure, she thought everybody in Silent Hill was crazy... but... was it really too much to stay hopeful for allies? :(]

[hallowbethylies]

[That 'thing' is ambiguous, Heather; he could easily pawn it off that he meant his state of mental illness, his illness that could have stopped him eating, malnourished, his form something horrible... For all Heather knows, that is.

Vincent's never seen the monsters, but that's because he's careful- perhaps. Vincent has,m however, heard the sounds, heard the footsteps and the moans, seen the blood and tarnish that the Otherworld had created in one way or another.

And so he takes a mocking stance and tone.]

Thing from the Black Lagoon?

His state of mind was Claudia's business, not mine to tell.

[foolishwren]

[SCREW AMBIGUITY I'M AN IMPULSIVE HOTHEAD. She'd rather cling to that than let Vincent's lies haunt her... although truth be told, she's already proven to herself that they're lies and they still bug her. A lot. So... yeah. Any comfort in a storm, right?]

[She ignores the mocking.]

Uh, yeah, when the world goes to hell in a handbasket and I have to go deal with him directly in order to DEFEAT Claudia? It BECOMES my business.

[hallowbethylies]

I'll remember that for next time. [If there is a next time. Maybe she'll think they've got something going on? Hopefully. He's sure she's more intelligent than that though, considering they're in such a place like Route.]