forgetyourusedtobe | Є014 text//spam

text - mal.

busy?

text - chris.

i'm bored. let's do something.

text - arkin.

i need to talk to you. got a minute?

spam - bond.

[Elena has spent some time making the arm cuff for Bond. She cut up and stitched a jacket for material and broke as well as sharpened some wooden furniture for the stakes.]

[He may or may not like it. She doesn't really care if he does. He covered for her when he didn't have to and she figures she owes him something for that.]

[Elena brings it by his cabin and knocks.]

spam - dean.

[Elena knocks on Dean's door because she was rude the last time they spoke. Because, in the end, he's right. No one gets to tell him to care or not care about her any more than they get to tell her to care or not to care about anything at all.]

[She's not empty-handed for this burying of the hatchet though. There's a bottle of JD in her hand as she waits for him to answer.]

spam - cassel.

[Elena waits to see Cassel last. Of all the people she can't stand, he's at the very top of the list. She's not sorry for what she did and she never will be as far as she's concerned. But this radio silence is driving her nuts. She'd rather they be enemies or at least tenuous allies again. But none of this hovering around in a nebulous who-the-hell-knows state.]

[She doesn't knock on his door though. She just hangs outside of it like she did last time, waiting.]

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Seriously, shut up about my family. My dad was awesome.

you were close with him?

We were tight, yeah. I loved my dad.

can i ask what happened?

He died. He died because he hurt people who didn't deserve it and who weren't asking for it. Violence breeding violence.

that sucks.

Yeah. I still miss him. If I bring him back, I'll just make a bad situation worse.

you shouldn't be screwing around with things like that anyway. when people die, they die and that's all there is to it. it doesn't matter how much you miss them or want them back, that's just how it's supposed to be.

[And she knows this more than most people. All the times she's managed to cheat death and someone else paid the price instead? It's too many to count.]

you're making the right choice even if it's not necessarily the one you want.

I know. But I'm making an exception for another guy. Not someone I particularly miss or want back. So maybe that's okay. I hope I am.

who is he?

My nemesis. One of them. One I didn't know I had until he started attacking my family. And I did some shit that led directly to him getting tortured and executed.

and you want to bring him back from that? or do you plan on using your deal to keep it from ever happening?

Don't know. Haven't decided yet. I mean, if I let it happen and bring him back after, it's just going to make getting along that much harder. But he'll take my family more seriously as a threat, and they're the ones that have to go down.

you want your family to go down?

Yeah. We're a poisonous group of fucktards.

encouraging.

Most of us are dead now anyway.

hooray for your world, i guess.

Yeah. 'Hooray.'

alright, alright. quit moping or kicking your ass isn't going to feel as gratifying.

Sorry, sweetheart. My bad.