[025: Voice] Private to Narvin

[shortsghtedlove]

[His voice is quiet and for the most part he sounds as if he's simply reading a letter aloud. Which he's kind of doing, just without actually having written it beforehand.]

Narvin, I fear that as long as you insist on being intimately involved with an alien, I cannot continue our relationship as it is. Should you decide to [stop this madness] end

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[rass_bestie]

[His hands aren't fully healed, Rass, kindly don't make him facepalm. Oh, so tiredly.] Rass…

[shortsghtedlove]

Look at this! [And he throws the communicator in Omega's direction, not caring about the pain in his wrists.] I should disperse him if I could!

[rass_bestie]

[Omega catches it.] Which part do you find particularly offensive. [It's said dully.]

[shortsghtedlove]

Read it. [The last paragraph. But now that he's raging, everything is offensive.]

[rass_bestie]

I'll read it. [He already has.] If you take some deep breaths, calm yourself.

[shortsghtedlove]

Calm myself! After what he... And you want me to calm myself!

[rass_bestie]

I do. Rass, I did this [He indicates the room.] when you punched him. I don't believe I'll be able to handle you killing him. And I'm tired. Very tired.

[shortsghtedlove]

Don't even you understand? That bastard! How can you be friends with a rotten traitor like that? [He's on the verge of tears again.]

[rass_bestie]

I understand better than you imagine. First of all, Narvin is angry. Angry as you are. You insulted the man he loves, in your apology, and mentioned how you injured him as an aside, a post script. And on one level, he's right. Your relationship is non-existent, but that's because both of you elected to engage in this make believe of you, the president, when your term ended with your death and indeed the death of the planet, and him, 'the lackey' as he puts it. He decided, out of a selfish need to feel like he had his power back, to entertain your belief that you remained in control of a planet that may or may not exist in this current time.

That was wrong of him, particularly given your need to grasp at whatever power you could seize. Both natural responses but wrong ones

[shortsghtedlove]

[Rassilon stared at Omega, slowly shaking his head.] Play? Play? It wasn't a play! I cared for him, I cared for him like he was my son, and this is how he repays me! I've defended him against the dwarf, I've trusted him, I tried to comfort him, I cared! I regretted my actions, back on Gallifrey and here, and this is what I get! This!

He he has no idea what he's talking about!

It was never a play. And if I leave him be, then only for your sake.

[rass_bestie]

But before that, you didn't. He was just a tool to you.

By the time he wasn't, Narvin didn't know how to treat you any other way. But he tried. He tried to trust you, like a son would a father. You attacked him. Can you see how contradictory that would appear? A father protects his children, attacking them is the exact opposite.

I thank you for that.

[shortsghtedlove]

He gave me no reason to think highly of him and the war left me no time to care for individuals.

I told him my reasons and he spat on my will and insulted me! No father would let such disrespectful behaviour slide! And I lost my temper when he denied our people's values. I thought the human must have surely used his madness, to make him say such things. May he rot for all I care now. He never deserved that apology.

[rass_bestie]

Unfortunate, but not his job to fix.

You told him in such a way that he found insulting. If it were said to you, would you have taken it in good grace?

[shortsghtedlove]

But you can't blame me for that.

I wouldn't have insulted my father. [He only did that when Daddy wasn't around, less troublesome that way.] And I would certainly not have broken his wrists.

[rass_bestie]

He's not you any more than you are your father. He didn't see you as a father. Look at the letter, he doesn't describe mentors or father figures, he describes presidents. He describes himself as a 'lackey'. He attempted to reach out to you and you smashed his face in.

[shortsghtedlove]

If he thought I was treating him like a lackey, he must have been deaf and blind. A lackey does not get comforted or shown understanding.

And he did mention father figures and then he went on to...!