hadriel | 009✖; (voice)

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009✖; (voice)

"Any of you asshats realize that those urges that get inflicted on you on practically a monthly basis can be resisted, right?"

[Just going to let that sink in for a second.]

"Stop fucking shooting each other. Those things aren't actually toys."

[Boy is she glad that she melted down her own gun the second it caught her attention. But that also just means she's going to be carrying around her own piece, and it doesn't shoot paintballs.]

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I locked the door.

[Yep. Great plan.]

Guess that's good enough, for now. Call if you need to make any runs outside, though.

[She pauses.] Could also use your help. More of a backup plan, really.

I appreciate your offer.

[Really, he does, even if he does sound beyond frazzled.]

What is it I can do for you?

There's a chance that people will keep trying to shoot each other -- including those who aren't participating. Destroyed my own gun and paint, so that just leaves me with one that shoots actual bullets.

Am thinking the odds are better that you can heal a gunshot wound better than... whatever the hell sort of paint people are being hit with right now.

You're going to... shoot people with a real gun aside from one of these paint-firing monstrosities.

... You do have a a point, though. I can heal a gunshot. This, I... I can do nothing for someone who is comatose from it.

[His voice tapers off, shaking the more he talks. He doesn't want to admit his helplessness, but he's sure she knows.]

Only if they try to go after me or anyone else who isn't getting involved in this shit.

[The last thing she wants hanging over her head is being "that crazy lady who shot a bunch of people with real guns during Extreme Paintball".]

That's the idea. If anyone goes too far, it's possible to disable them without killing them, and then take their gun away after so they don't go after anyone else.

You have my support in this endeavor. I would prefer to use my energies healing than to have others succumb to this madness. What if they never awaken? What if they're trapped within their own minds, being tortured with nightmarish visions, and we can do nothing to help them?

Trying not to think too much about that.

[Just take one thing at a time, or they'll just end up driving themselves crazy.]

Doubt that the gods would leave them in a permanent stasis, since they need us. [Unless they decide that they're more trouble than they're worth and just leech off the emotions from their coma-fever dreams, but again -- one thing at a time.] Guess we'll see after a week.

[Driving himself crazy is what he does, Rey. It's in his nature.]

I suppose.

[He's silent a few seconds.]

What would you do, were you to lose someone here?

Guess it depends on how they're lost. Because they were sent back home, or because something happened to them here that there's no god to conveniently resurrect them?

The latter. Someone close to you.

[sigh]

Hn.

[She was afraid of either of those being the case, because she doesn't have a clear answer for them.]

Hard to say. People die all the time. Have lost a lot. You just learn to move on. You have to, or you don't. [Because it arguably beats the alternative.]

[For someone who has also lost a lot of people in his life, Carlisle has never quite learned to move on. It's easier to stay where he is, mired in his sorrow, than to face the uncertain future.]

And if someone were to take them from you?

[Ah, yes. That's the million dollar question right there.]

What do you think would happen to them?

[It's entirely rhetorical. Carlisle might have a not-so-pretty picture painted for him just from the tone in her voice alone.]

[Rey's tone does indeed say all he needs to know.]

Ah.

I don't know what I'd do, if I'm being honest. I feel as though there'd be a fire burning in my chest, but no way to extinguish it.

That's when you hire a hitman. Generally.

[It's hard to tell whether she's being serious or not. But it's Rey, so chances are she's serious.]

[Serious, he assumes. It is Miss Rey, after all.]

I don't know if I have it in me to do even that. It's not as though revenge would bring back the lost.

Maybe not, but depending on the one responsible and their intent, it can at least prevent them from doing the same shit to someone else.

[Despite "revenge is a dish best served cold", Rey is too fiery not to do it.]

As with Shadow?

[His voice is quiet; the injuries the hedgehog left in his wake still haunt Carlisle, despite how long he's been absent from Hadriel.]

Sort of, yes.

[She sure is matter-of-fact about it.]

It isn't always the best solution, but neither is letting some shit go unpunished.

Do you believe he would have done the same to others? What he did to me?

He wasn't what you'd consider secretive about his behavior. People like that keep lashing out at others so long as they think they're the ones who've been wronged.

I see.

[Carlisle knows other individuals like that; he'd rather not compare them to Shadow.]

I know you had no real reason to, but I appreciate you looking out for me, even if it was in the best interest of others. I haven't the means to fend off someone with abilities like his.

[Not means he'd like to use, anyway.]

It wasn't just for the best interest of others, you know.

[She figures that would be obvious, but knowing Carlisle... It's better to make clear that she takes no liking in turning the other cheek when such things are happening, and she can do something about it.]

Ah.

[It isn't always immediately apparent to Carlisle, but he seems to understand well enough this time around. Either that, or he doesn't see fit to question it anymore.]

I will always wonder if things could have been different with him... and with me. Seeing echoes of individuals from other worlds, knowing how different they can turn out from one another has left me pondering the circumstances that have led me to be how I am.

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