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Thirty Fourth

Oct 10, 2011 23:14

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dictated - so so late orz thedicearecast October 17 2011, 17:33:12 UTC

[Amelia barely recognizes the voice, but she knows the name and the face, thanks to a chance meeting. More importantly, she knows the pain in those words, which prompts her to say something.]

I'm sorry. He's your...?

no such thing as late! mademyownpath October 17 2011, 17:59:58 UTC

[A sigh]

My son. He's my son.

<3 so sweet thedicearecast October 17 2011, 18:51:49 UTC

Oh.

[Amelia hesitates then. She's never had kids (never wants to), so she doesn't know what it's like from a parent's perspective. But from the other side?]

He wouldn't have wanted to leave you either.

<333 mademyownpath October 17 2011, 19:39:03 UTC

I don't rightly know that, he had some...deep anger with me. But we were workin' things out, Bein' a family again.

thedicearecast October 17 2011, 19:41:27 UTC

[...Amelia can understand that, given just how she feels about her own father. It makes her a bit more wary as she goes on.]

What'd you do?

mademyownpath October 17 2011, 20:09:11 UTC

Been absent for far too long. Got tied up in messes and when I finally got out of them, I got dragged into a deeper one. All my own damn fault.

thedicearecast October 17 2011, 20:10:33 UTC

At least you admit it. That's something.

Those messes. You weren't doing anything that would get your family hurt, were you?

mademyownpath October 17 2011, 21:50:17 UTC

Ain't got no reason to lie M'am.

No. [Firmly] Not a thing I did was ever to hurt my family. Didn't stop other people tryin' to hurt them to get to me after though. It sure wsn't intentional on my part.

[Sound familiar, Amelia?]

thedicearecast October 17 2011, 22:13:55 UTC

[Oh, just a little. Or you know. Like her entire life story. And here she was, actually liking you a bit.

John might notice a certain coldness creeping into her voice.]

Right. I'll bet you never meant them to suffer at all. [I gave her money so she could live an easy life.]

So what were you doing that had so many people going after you?

mademyownpath October 17 2011, 23:59:54 UTC

[He notices it, it brings up the vaguely familiar tone of Bonnie nagging him]

I didn't.

[Ugh, he siiighs] I was an outlaw, went straight, the government found me and held my family hostage while they sent me out to get rid of my old gang.

thedicearecast October 18 2011, 15:14:13 UTC

[Bad word, John. Very, very bad.]

Even if you had gone straight, they wouldn't have had reason to drag anyone into it if you hadn't been an outlaw in the first place.

mademyownpath October 18 2011, 17:39:06 UTC

Thanks for pointin' that out, Darlin', I never realised that before.

Of course I know that. If I could change choices I made when I was a stupid kid, I would. But I can't, I can only try to make them right now.

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