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SEVERUS SNAPE

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[pushfall]

I can't imagine either of you with pompoms.

[darkart]

Indeed, a terrifying thought.

I don't understand why 'it's difficult' is a reason for anyone to fall into complacency here.

[ Hopefully he doesn't need to clarify Peter didn't argue against that; if he had, Severus would have had some choice words about him already. ]

[pushfall]

To me that sounds like a reason to be less complacent. Maybe everyone else is just lazy. Or too terrified to do anything other than assimilate. Maybe it's just easier.

[darkart]

Easy isn't realistic. In any situation.

[pushfall]

I think some people just give up because it's easier. No one who's fighting ever says they're complacent. For some people giving up is easier than fighting. It isn't a reason. It isn't an excuse. It just... is.

[darkart]

I don't think I'll ever understand.

[pushfall]

That says a lot about you as a person. Maybe not so much about your capacity for sympathy.

Weirdly enough I meant that first part as a compliment.

[darkart]

Sympathy and understanding are not the same thing; some people are disturbed by that.

Easy has never been an option. From afar it seems like waiting boredly for death.

[pushfall]

We group them together often enough. Most people just consider them a hand-in-hand kind of deal.

Nothing about life is easy. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar. I'd rather go down swinging, and that actually is hereditary.

[darkart]

Most people are idiots.

Are you bored, here?

[pushfall]

[ She's not going to argue the first point. ]

I'm directionless. Before I came here there was... a lot happening.

[darkart]

[ He can related to a lot happening, but maybe that goes without saying, considering everything that even looks like it's from his home turns into violence. ]

And distance doesn't always help.

[pushfall]

Sometimes it makes it worse.

[ She does get it. There's time to clear the air and there's time to settle the score and there's time to set the record straight and time to bloody your knuckles and prolong all the misery. Claire doesn't have to see blood smeared into the color of his collar to know that. ]

I'm not interested in complacency. I thought I was. It didn't take. But I'm not smart like you, and I'm not interested in running the ship like Nathan is. So. I don't know.

[darkart]

You don't exactly strike me as developmentally challenged.

If you like filing and research security has strenuously advised against, there's always xenogen.

[pushfall]

I'm lousy at math.

Filing sounds real thrilling. It's this rule breaking nonsense that I've got a problem with.

[darkart]

Technically there are no rules in societies lacking laws or system of goverment.

[pushfall]

Somewhere my father just had an aneurysm.

[darkart]

Nathan?

[pushfall]

I'm adopted.

[ That's not what he asked, Claire. ]

[darkart]

That would explain 'Bennet'.

[pushfall]

Don't be a dick.

[darkart]

I thought it was very kind of me not to inquire about your potential divorce.

[pushfall]

[ Maybe he can hear her laughing all the way down the hall. ]

I hate you so much.

[darkart]

It's not often someone tells me that and I don't believe them. Merlin only knows why, in your case.

1/2

[pushfall]

[ Lol Merlin. ]

Maybe because I've been nothing but stubbornly persistent since that first batch of brownies.

[ And yet she doesn't know WHY. ]