Thirty-Second Issue - Remorse and Regret

[decibel_chamber]

[After Jono's rather embarrassing tenure as a Heavy Metal Warrior, Jono had retreated to his room and locked the door, not wanting to be seen or heard from until it was all over. Now that he felt himself again, Jono had gone into work, hoping to avoid the castle as a whole from embarassment. Today, he can be found onstage, indulging in a set he

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[fishy_go_byebye]

[Del peeks around a corner at him, most of her hidden except her blue eye and a bright blue bit of bangs.

She didn't know whether she wanted to talk to him or not. He had been very mean.]

[decibel_chamber]

[Jono looks up, recognizing that eye and stray lock of hair, and his heart clinches in his chest. Of everyone he'd spoken to that night, Del had gotten the worst of his anger. He was ashamed of himself more for that than any of the other mischief he'd gotten up to that day. He wasn't any closer to figuring out their relationship than he'd been before, but he missed her terribly, as he'd tried to express in the music he played.]

H-hey...hey you.

[Such a simple sentence, and yet it stuck in his throat to even try talking to her. Jono couldn't remember the last time he'd felt like this.]

[fishy_go_byebye]

[The fingers of one hand curl over the corner, and she squints lightly while nibbling her lip.]

...Are you still mad?

[decibel_chamber]

No, luv. No'm not. I never was. I jus'...I don' know what came over me. It wasn' you.

[Jono's overall demeanor is of one in desperate need of a hug. He's inflicted far more punishment on himself for his actions than anyone else would. The meteor had brought out everything in Jono that he hated about himself, everything that he wasn't.]

Jonothan

[inafadingcrown]

You did no lasting harm, at least on my part.

Galadriel

[decibel_chamber]

Tried me best t'fight...whatever it was that was messin' with me. Guess th' others who'd been affected as I had didn' like that much.

I feel like such an ass, Galadriel. You've no idea.

Jonothan

[inafadingcrown]

You have already done more than many by seeking to make amends.

Galadriel

[decibel_chamber]

I's like...this wasn' one o' those losses where I can jus' pretend I didn' know what was happenin', it was me...but at th' same time it wasn't, y'know?

I wouldn' be able t'live with meself if I didn' at leas' try t'make it right. Despite th' mission I've put meself on, I'm still th' same as I've always been.

Jono

[hard_talker]

[guess who's glaring at the journal SO HARD right now. it's a start]

Keep talking.

Mark

[decibel_chamber]

[Now here's a voice he wasn't expecting to hear. Part of him is glad, yet another part of him is terrified. He's been beating himself up over this pretty hard, you know.]

I know I've been an arse about a lot lately, Mark. Guess this last bit in town was my own comeuppance fer bein' such a tool. I know how it feels t'have me self-control taken from me.

I know there's little I could do t'make it up to ya, but you've gotta know I wanna make this right.

Jono

[hard_talker]

I'd say "well now you know how I felt", but. [but that's not enough] You were a tool before the meteor shower, too.

Mark

[decibel_chamber]

Yeah, I was. Thought I was doin' th' right thing, but I didn' stop t'consider just what I was doin', an' who I was doin' it to. I got a li'l carried away tryin' t'do what I thought was best.

I's just...i's hard sometimes. I've spent th' better part o' my life tryin' t'save people who'd sooner see me locked up or lynched. Th' only life tha's ever really had meanin' t'me was doin' that. I's easy t'forget that not everyone wants or needs it, when I start makin' decisions that'll impact th' people around me.

I'm not givin' up my gig with th' Peace Patrol, but'm not gonna stick my nose where it isn' wanted, either. I'm sorry for what I did t'you an' Nora, mate. I really mean that.