21.6 Torn/Writers Muses
Matt Bentell, I can't believe he was there in front of me after all those years. I swore I'd kill him if I ever laid eyes on him again, now he's right there in my own home, and I'm supposed to just walk away. How can I do that after all I went through? I lived in that hell he created, suffered the abuse at the hands of those under him, I saw friends die, I came close to it myself. I promised when I walked out of those gates, that I'd make him pay if I ever saw him again, now, here he is, and I'm supposed to walk away?
I know, I shouldn't have gone after him right there in the house, but, what else could I have done? It'd been years since I seen his face. Even with all that time havin' passed there was no denyin' who he was or what he done to those of us in that hellhole. I don't even know that I realized what I was doin' at first, I just saw him and all of that hate came floodin' back into me as if it'd had been only yesterday that I'd walked out those gates.
I 'spect I'll need to explain myself, tell them what it was like in Carterson Prison, and while I doubt Nick will listen, I know Victoria and Jarrod will. I suppose it'll mean too, that I'll have to listen to them defend him, listen to him defend himself, and that'll be even harder. I know it's been a lot of years, but, I don't know that I can change my thinkin' on the man even if he's served whatever time the government saw fit to give him for what he did. I just don't know if I have that in me. I just don't know.
Muse: Heath Barkley
Fandom: The Big Valley
Words: 309
Prompt based of the episode "The Guilt of Matt Bentell"
PtV
I know, I shouldn't have gone after him right there in the house, but, what else could I have done? It'd been years since I seen his face. Even with all that time havin' passed there was no denyin' who he was or what he done to those of us in that hellhole. I don't even know that I realized what I was doin' at first, I just saw him and all of that hate came floodin' back into me as if it'd had been only yesterday that I'd walked out those gates.
I 'spect I'll need to explain myself, tell them what it was like in Carterson Prison, and while I doubt Nick will listen, I know Victoria and Jarrod will. I suppose it'll mean too, that I'll have to listen to them defend him, listen to him defend himself, and that'll be even harder. I know it's been a lot of years, but, I don't know that I can change my thinkin' on the man even if he's served whatever time the government saw fit to give him for what he did. I just don't know if I have that in me. I just don't know.
Muse: Heath Barkley
Fandom: The Big Valley
Words: 309
Prompt based of the episode "The Guilt of Matt Bentell"
PtV