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SEVERUS SNAPE

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[darkart]

Will you stay?

[pushfall]

I won't be able to sit still once someone figures out where to start looking.

[darkart]

Whatever's down there will go after minds more than bodies. The mentally broken way survives have come back, if the archives of the network are anything to go by, speaks to that clearly.

[pushfall]

You said yourself that you'd go after them. I'm not afraid. Sometimes you just have to jump without stopping to consider the consequences. Kate asked me to help her. I can't just let that go to the side or let someone else shoulder it because of something that might happen.

[darkart]

What if it isn't Kate?

[pushfall]

I know. Maybe it isn't. But maybe it is. I can't just operate on the possibility that it might not be her.

[darkart]

We have to keep it in mind as a possibility. Even down there.

[pushfall]

I know. I'm not ruling it out. This ship is basically various levels of 'who knows what's waiting for us out there.'

[darkart]

Whatever it is could well be luring us.

I'll still go. But we mustn't forget.

[pushfall]

It could be. And it could be Kate and who knows who else trapped somewhere and terrified. Or worse.

Let me know when and if you have to go? Please? I don't want to think about not being able to find you, too.

[darkart]

I said I would.

Nathan going with you?

[pushfall]

He wants me to go with him if I decide to go, which I already have. If he's going in I would rather be there to protect him.

[darkart]

Will you be armed? I know you can't be hurt. But I imagine you'd miss a limb if it was removed for a while.

[pushfall]

I don't have a gun or anything, but it doesn't take long for things like that to grow back.

1/2

[darkart]

Honestly, Claire.

[darkart]

Nathan's asked that I go with him. And you presumably by extension.

1/2

[pushfall]

At least I'll be able to keep an eye on you.

[pushfall]

Honestly Claire what?

[darkart]

Honestly Claire, 'it grows back' is hardly a reason to not try and avoid it to begin with.

[pushfall]

It's not a big deal. It hasn't been for a long time.

[darkart]

I have no choice to believe you, but I remain skeptical.

[ What if you get an entrail caught on something. WHAT IF. ]

[pushfall]

Why? I've been doing this since I was sixteen.

[ Then she will just DRAG THINGS ALONG. ]

[darkart]

I'm not putting your experience down, I just prefer you'd be able to kill monsters as well as survive them, I suppose.

[ WELL. ]

1/2

[pushfall]

Are you implying that I'm the kind of girl who wouldn't bring a gun to a knife fight?

[pushfall]

Look, not having a gun on me at all times doesn't mean that I don't know how to use one, metaphorically or otherwise. I'm not the person you need to worry about.

[ Don't mind the trail of intestines. ]