Alexandra Grant (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
grimgrimwar) wrote2016-05-18 11:44 pm
grimgrimwar) wrote2016-05-18 11:44 pm
Dual Post
OOC: This post is backdated to take place during the media lockdown and the journal section is filtered so only people on the network can see it. This is basically the last open post I'm gonna make with Alex before I tie up all of her plot threads and she leaves the story for a while, so if you have any stuff left you wanna do with her before that, let me know. If you have any event threads you'd like to do with her in this post, lemme know where she needs to be.
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Journal:
They're telling me if I cooperate with them on the stuff that happened with the Barians, I'll get a pass for the stuff I did as a Number Hunter. They're sayin' they'll give me a ticket back to America too.
...the robots aren't chasing me around anymore. My accounts got unfrozen, but they took my passport, so I can't just bolt. Guess they only want me to get the hell outta here after I answer their questions.
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...guess that's that then, huh.
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Event:
[Alex is on the island that was a part of the Barian World. She's observing the various fallen weapons that are strewn about, occasionally lightly putting a hand on one or picking it up for a couple minutes. She seems to be lost in thought.
She can also be elsewhere, if need be.]
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Journal:
They're telling me if I cooperate with them on the stuff that happened with the Barians, I'll get a pass for the stuff I did as a Number Hunter. They're sayin' they'll give me a ticket back to America too.
...the robots aren't chasing me around anymore. My accounts got unfrozen, but they took my passport, so I can't just bolt. Guess they only want me to get the hell outta here after I answer their questions.
...
...guess that's that then, huh.
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Event:
[Alex is on the island that was a part of the Barian World. She's observing the various fallen weapons that are strewn about, occasionally lightly putting a hand on one or picking it up for a couple minutes. She seems to be lost in thought.
She can also be elsewhere, if need be.]
[Event]
You know...
[He's walking up behind you, giving the strewn-about weapons a wide berth, wearing a suit and tie, his hair still messy, but done up in such a way to seem professional.]
I see this place, and I still don't believe we've accomplished this. I know we have, but... it's beyond even what I would have expected at the Academy.
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[When she speaks, she tries to keep her tone even.]
...Yuma, Koyo, Kai and the Barians did something pretty amazing.
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[He moves closer, nothing in the way he's walking or talking seems to be angry towards you, Alex.]
...In fact. I wanted to apologize. For... exactly that.
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It's a free country.
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No, look... listen.
I said a lot of shit. A lot of shit. Like... look. I called you a 'glory hound'. And I meant it.
...But you proved me hilariously, embarrassingly wrong. Hell, you did more than I did, at the end, here.
So... I'm sorry. I'm sorry I thought you were the kind of person who would...do that kind of shit. It's obvious you cared enough to have wanted to save the Barians, and I just made myself look likeean asshole because I had gotten too stressed out for my own good.
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That wasn't the worst thing you said.
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There...there was a lot of stuff, okay? I'm. I'm not proud of it. I'm eating crow as hard as I can, here, look at all this crow I'm shoveling into my mouth.
I'm sorry. About all of it. I was a douchebag and...
[...He deflates, eyes looking down at the ground, then around to the weapons. He doesn't seem. Comfortable. Touching them. Sort of looking above and around them.]
I was an asshole, and I don't deserve to excuse that behavior with what was going on.
I don't know what you're looking for here. I know the apology isn't enough. But I... I don't know what else you want. I really don't. So... talk to me. Tell me what you want from me. Explanations? More elaborate apologies? I want to clear the air here. I'm not looking for forgiveness here - were I wish it was that easy. But I am willing to go the extra mile here, if that's what you want me to do.
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[...]
[She brings an arm up and rubs it against her mouth, briefly.]
You said "If I want to hate myself for something everybody else already forgave me for."
[One of her hands shakes a little.]
...you didn't think about the families of the people I killed when you said that.
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...Did you ever visit them? Those families, I mean.
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Talked to one. One doesn't wanna see me. One sued me and Kaiba too, I'm pretty sure.
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I'm not gonna try and cover my ass. I wasn't thinking about them. Wasn't thinking about a lot of things.
That's changed. I think it's good you tried to make peace with those families, even if the reaction can be... as expected.
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[He arm comes up again. She wipes her eye briefly.]
...I assume you're here to tell me to take the deal.
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I'm pulling a lot of strings with a lot of groups right now, Juudai and I both. And any information we get on what happened here will... honestly, give us a better chance at making sure we can help them, now that they're on Earth.
And I know that you probably need some time to rest just as much as anyone here.
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So you're apologizing with one hand and trying to boot me out of the country with the other, huh?
[Event]
...I guess you could call it that. I know it's not exactly the best way of offering apologies.
If it helps, I think Hyperborea still wants to give you a medal.
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I don't know if you can convince me to take it.
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A lot of ways.
...But... you know I'm not just gonna let them get taken advantage of again, right? I've not exactly been idle, while everyone's been out in space creating miracles.
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After all of this...with the Astrals and Judgeman...
...I don't have a lot of trust in authority figures of any kind anymore.
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But I'm going to try. This is... what I'm supposed to be doing, now that I'm back. I should be protecting people. That's what I'm here for.
Even I can't make you trust all authority, I can show you I have the strength to protect them, worst comes to worst.
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Come on. We're the same age. You've been doing what you're doing for like. Three years. Tops. You have a degree in card games. You don't think people who have been politicking their whole lives can give you or me or Juudai the run around if they want to?
[She shakes her head.]
I'm not playing into it, at all.
They can charge me with what they want. I want to stay here. And make sure nobody interferes with the Barians.
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What exactly are you going to do, if people interfere?
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[He sighs.]
If you take that up, you'll bee causing a bigger disaster for everyone involved. We're on thin enough ice as-is.
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[She shrugs.]
Besides, you've never been able to stop me from doing anything, even when we were friends.
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[ He grits his teeth, his fists clenching. ]
Alex, you know I don't want to do this. I'm trying to put this behind us.
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