mollymauk catchall

[outsidebones]

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[headmt]

[ okay well. there's a bit of a start and a face at the idea of putting herself down, but, he'll tackle the other bit first. ]

That's the problem with being soft, I think. Things get more complicated.

[outsidebones]

Yes. [...] I am trying, though.

[headmt]

I know. I'm proud of you.

[ though then he gently whacks her on the back of the head. ]

Not for almost voting for yourself.

[outsidebones]

Ow. [don't whack her.] Why?

[headmt]

Because a lesson I've had to learn very harshly several times is where does self-sacrificing nonsense get you except in a grave not helping anyone?

[outsidebones]

Quite literally someone who is not a murderer being alive?

[headmt]

[ he sighs out deeply. ]

I don't want to disparage your efforts here. It's kind of you to consider all this, to start thinking about it, but I mean it. Losing you won't help anyone.

[outsidebones]

I don't want to die. It isn't that.

[she bites her lip hard.]

I'm just tired.

[headmt]

I know. I'm tired too.

But it's almost over.

[outsidebones]

I hope so. I want to go home.

[headmt]

With us?

[outsidebones]

[nodding.]

With you.

[headmt]

Yeah. Soon, okay? Really soon.

[outsidebones]

[she leans her head against him]

Do you think we can go back to the way it was?

[headmt]

Sure. Maybe.

[ he lets her lean against him, keeping an arm around his shoulders. ]

And if it can't, and it's different, then that's alright too. Sometimes things change.

[outsidebones]

I don't want things to change.