[ 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. ]
[ 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.
[ Fuck. What does he even say to this. It's not offensive enough for his self-sabotage instinct to kick in properly, so he has no idea how to proceed. So: a bit of a lag on this reply. ]
[ She'd been expecting a disconnect, so Claire is a little surprised to get anything back in any time at all. ]
Yeah, well, I've got enough for the both of us, so just go with it.
[ It's not true, of course, not entirely, but Claire thinks that having anything that isn't brimming with vitriol and thrown elbows is an improvement. The reality of it is that she knows very little about him, but what she does has laid framework for wanting to know more. In her long and colorful history of bad ideas, this one might only make the footnotes. ]
[ He isn't alone on that end. Declarations aside, there's no room in a text message to explain to someone the extent of what she is, or that she's started to learn to stop caring about what other people think of her. Another time with less of a hangover, maybe. ]
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Nothing about life is easy. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar. I'd rather go down swinging, and that actually is hereditary.
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Are you bored, here?
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I'm directionless. Before I came here there was... a lot happening.
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And distance doesn't always help.
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[ 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.
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If you like filing and research security has strenuously advised against, there's always xenogen.
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Filing sounds real thrilling. It's this rule breaking nonsense that I've got a problem with.
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[ That's not what he asked, Claire. ]
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I hate you so much.
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Maybe because I've been nothing but stubbornly persistent since that first batch of brownies.
[ And yet she doesn't know WHY. ]
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I haven't got anything else to think.
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Yeah, well, I've got enough for the both of us, so just go with it.
[ It's not true, of course, not entirely, but Claire thinks that having anything that isn't brimming with vitriol and thrown elbows is an improvement. The reality of it is that she knows very little about him, but what she does has laid framework for wanting to know more. In her long and colorful history of bad ideas, this one might only make the footnotes. ]
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Soon, though. There are things he needs to explain-- things like If you're open about this to people from my home, they'll think you're a terrorist. ]
I'll make an effort.
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Okay. Good.