You involve yourself in the lives of others in order to escape whatever disappointments you carry in your own. Easier to find meaning when you have the benefit of outside perspective, isn't it?
[A gift paid with undesired analysis, verbally delivered.]
For example -- the scars. [His scars, but he doesn't take ownership of them.] You fixate. Because they hint at a story.
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Date: 2017-03-12 05:50 am (UTC)Pull.
[ Careful up 'til that last bit, which is louder. ]
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Date: 2017-03-12 05:56 am (UTC)[Pull. It made him uneasy.]
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Date: 2017-03-12 06:02 am (UTC)Everything’s always dominance with you, Frederick. [ Clack, ring, rattle. ]
I’m startin’ to think you have some kind of complex.
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Date: 2017-03-12 06:06 am (UTC)[Guess who has only been to a shooting range a couple times, and it was only in this world. With Will Graham.]
You could have told me this was a bad time!
[And yet, William had picked up. And Chilton thought that meant he was special.]
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Date: 2017-03-12 06:18 am (UTC)You need something or were you just calling to thank me?
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Date: 2017-03-12 06:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-03-12 06:26 am (UTC)[ William sniffs, unruffled for Frederick's plight. ]
I just told her where to put the scars.
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Date: 2017-03-12 06:30 am (UTC)[A gift paid with undesired analysis, verbally delivered.]
For example -- the scars. [His scars, but he doesn't take ownership of them.] You fixate. Because they hint at a story.
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Date: 2017-03-12 07:02 am (UTC)Best he can do is smooth over it with a late: ]
Pull.
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Date: 2017-03-12 06:19 pm (UTC)Stare into the abyss, William, and it is going to stare back. That is what I do.
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Date: 2017-03-12 07:09 pm (UTC)The shotgun reports as anticipated -- once, and then twice. ]
You sure you’re the abyss?
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Date: 2017-03-12 07:28 pm (UTC)[Ruffled feathers, acidic tone.]
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Date: 2017-03-13 01:43 am (UTC)You ever heard of a 'candiru'?
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Date: 2017-03-13 01:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-03-13 01:54 am (UTC)Listen, Frederick, I gotta get off the phone with you. You’re throwin' off my aim.
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Date: 2017-03-13 01:59 am (UTC)[Guess who HAS a GOOGLE.]
What!
That is the dick fish! How dare you call me a dick fish! Don't you hang up on me, William, do not hang up! On Me!
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Date: 2017-03-13 02:04 am (UTC)He hangs up. ]