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[fifthreturned]

All right, guys. I guess you probably already know where this is going. I managed to catch Delight before she could get out of here, so now we just have to decide what to do with her. Needless to say, we can't agree, and anyway what she did hurt you guys just as much as it did us.

So this decision is gonna be up to you. Obviously there are some options that aren't available - we're not just gonna let her go free. That would be pretty dumb, right? But a lot of us don't want the more extreme options, either.

We'll tell you how we feel in a reply to this. Think about it yourselves, and vote. You'll have about a week to decide.

Man. This sucks.

Poll #19227 What should we do with Delight?

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 66

What should we do with Delight?

Imprison her
37 (56.1%)

Exile her
5 (7.6%)

Kill her
24 (36.4%)

Comments

voice.

[bekommen]

Oh, well, news flash, we're all fuckin' unhappy now, so congratulations! You made us all into one big fucked up club! You want a fuckin' gold star? You can take your sorry and shove it, Delight.

[She has to stop for a moment, swallow down a sob threatening to tear out of her throat.]

Y'know - you were the only one of these assholes who made being here even halfway tolerable. Everyone else put us through all kinds of fucked up shit - Fear and his burying us alive bullshit, Rage makin' us all wanna kill each other, but you - you were nice to us. You acted like you actually fucking cared about us, and then you go and fucking sell us out, and I just - Christ, I hate you so much.

[Her voice cracks at the end of her tirade, and she's really glad she's not on camera, because if there is one thing Nick hates more than most, it's letting other people see her cry.]

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[secondreturned]

I feed on happiness, Nick. I gain power by cultivating it in others.

[So maybe start looking those gift horses in the mouth.]

But even so... I liked you. I wanted you to survive- that's why I did this. We don't make it out of this otherwise. None of us do. I'd hoped you would understand that kind of choice.

voice.

[bekommen]

Yeah, well, I don't.

[There are definite tears in her voice now, as hard as she's trying to hide the fact that she's crying over this. Nick isn't just angry about what Delight did to her, and to everyone else here - the betrayal feels like a slap in the face, because it's so much like what Andy did to her before she left Chicago, telling her that there was nothing keeping their friendship together after all the years they'd spent together, and it's so much like what Kennedy did, breaking down her walls and making Nick care about her, then tossing her aside when she lost interest. It's been years since Nick's seen either of them, but the wounds on her heart never healed, and now they've been ripped open fresh all over again.

She's silent except for ragged breaths holding back sobs for a moment, trying to come up with something else to say, but there just isn't anything else, so she hangs up. Nick's never been particularly good at dealing with heartache.]