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[personal profile] rehandle 2024-02-15 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I know. But there's only so much we can do to preempt this. Those of us who can handle it showing some willing might go some way to staving off whatever comes next.

[ It isn't why. It's part of why. He's doing his best to make it fit both needs. ]
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[personal profile] rehandle 2024-02-15 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Nami. [ Fuck. ] I have to do something.
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[personal profile] rehandle 2024-02-15 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jim had pointed the same sharp stick at him a month ago when it hadn't been real. It's only fair that she wield it now that it is. But - ]

I almost killed you without even trying. I do not have a handle on this, and we don't know what I'll become.

I won't risk it. At least this way it isn't a waste.
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[personal profile] rehandle 2024-02-15 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ This is the hard part. There's no accounting for that, no apologising for it when he's going to go ahead and do it anyway. To die will hurt her. He knows that.

But it won't kill her. Which is more than he can guarantee of the alternative. ]


I understand.