Hungover. What the fuck.
[Hoffman twitches. He looks groggily at the camera.]
...What the fuck is going on?
[ooc: give me your puppets you guys. Give me your puppets.]
...What the fuck is going on?
[ooc: give me your puppets you guys. Give me your puppets.]
[She's had time to check the network and talk to people today. She's learned how to use that filter.]
[And there's equal parts love and disapproval in that one word.]
Reply
Angelina?
[He's suddenly aware of being in his pajamas. Of being on the barge. Of his scar. Of being dead. He tries-unsuccessfully-to cover everything at once.]
...Is it-
[of course it's really her. Why would the barge do this, it could be a trick, it's her-she's here, Angelina Hoffman/Aacomb is here. She's beautiful. She's-]
You're here. On the network. On-
[His attempts to cover up force him off the bed in a heap. He's gone for a moment before he returns and picks up the network-
trying to make sure she's still there.]
Reply
[She doesn't bat an eye at his efforts. How many times did she come over and see him in his pajamas?
How many times did he come over and see her in hers?
Besides, what they're wearing is hardly what she's come to talk to him about.]
We need to talk, Mark. About everything. About what you did to get here. About what you've done since you got here.
About John and Amanda and Remus.
And David.
Reply
I have questions first. How are you here? Are you dead? [Unspoken: What's "death" like?] Did you see? Did you-
Angie..
[He sounds like a boy.] You look beautiful.
Reply
... Yes. No. I'm from your past, but from your future too. It's... it's complicated, Mark. I couldn't explain it all if I tried.
But this isn't about that. You'll find that out when the time's right. What I'm here to talk about right now is you.
Reply
...Angie. I miss you so much. [His voice cracks] I think about you every day and all of your things are here with me-I fucking kept everything you-I-
Me?
[Does he sound a little lost? Yep.]
....Why?
Can I get dressed first? I was drinking last night.
[He'd had a problem with his drinking.]
Reply
Mark, I don't care what you're wearing. We're talking now, I don't know how much time we have and-
[She folds her arms. Younger sister she might be, but she's the face of stern authority right now.]
Listen to me. You are better than this. What you've done, what you've been doing, that's not you. And if I was there, I would slap you for letting yourself do those things.
We didn't survive and grow up together for it to end like this.
Reply
I...
I avenged you. I told you Baxter was a monster-you didn't listen. You threw me out, but I told you. I wanted to protect you. That's what I did.
[We're going to gloss over the Amanda thing, and the David thing. and all of that. Hoffman's voice trembles]
...I protected you.
Reply
[Anger, real anger, enters Angie's voice for the first time.]
Killing Seth wasn't about protecting me. That was about you. Making yourself feel better for losing me. Making yourself feel like things were right again.
Remember what we talked about that day? About enforcing the law, and not taking it into your own hands? You forgot that.
It's time you remembered. Look at what you've let yourself become. What good has any of it done?
Reply
The streets, are safer, because of me. The world is a better place because of me-all of the things I did are better because of what I did! What Jigsaw offered me! I-
[Oh god. All of his reasons.]
No one would ever hurt the way I hurt again! No one! They can't! I won't let them! I'll save everyone if I have to! I will! You'll see! I...
You can't...
You can't say these..
[One hand reaches up to the screen] ...Why aren't you here. I love you. I need you. I'm..look at me without a little sister to take care of..'m trying to take care of everyone else...I...
[he's crying]
Reply
[Oh God, she wishes she was there now. She wanted to slap him before. A part of her still does. But she also wants to hug him.]
You're still a good man. You're still a cop. You're still my brother.
And I still love you. You know that. Nothing will change that. Ever.
But you have to know what John Kramer did was wrong. He used you, Mark. He made you something you're not. But you can change that.
What you did to those people was wrong. I know that, and I know that deep down you know that too.
Don't you?
Reply
He's frozen, staring at the camera.]
....I-I-I know. [If he didn't know he's sure driven now.]
I just...wanted to help people.
Reply
You know how to do that, Mark. And you can. You can see me and Sarah again.
But first you have to get yourself together. Remember what that cop told you when we were kids and you beat up that boy who threw mud at me.
['You can't help anyone until you can help yourself'. She remembers. And she knows he does too.]
You've been punishing yourself. Doing evil things because you thought you deserved to be punished. But that ends after today. You can promise me that, can't you?
Reply
[There are tears in his eyes] Yes. Yes I...It's hard but I can...I'll try. You don't know what's happened to me since I've been here.
[Does he sound a little whiny? Maybe.]
Reply
No. I don't know everything, Mark. But I know enough. I know about you and Amanda. I know about you and Mozenrath. And I know about you and that boy. David.
That boy needs guidance, Mark. You know that. And not the kind of guidance that'll get him sent to prison when he goes home.
He needs to go back to school and make a life for himself. That's how you can help people.
Reply
[David.]
I didn't want to hurt David. I lost control. What you want me to teach the boy?
Reply
Leave a comment