062 - I feel pretty, oh so pretty!

[major_west]

Oh, quit complaining, all of you. It'll be over in a few days, as it always is. Honestly, is this any worse than a standard flood? You only look different.


[OOC: And he's so pretending that he didn't just have some insane fit of emo and crack open his Christmas booze at the sight of himself. SO. A LITTLE GIRL MIGHT BE GETTING ALCOHOL POISONING BECAUSE SHE'S TRYING TO DRINK LIKE A GROWN MAN. Somebody stop him plz :c]

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[gimmethemap]

[Morgan frowned, caught by a shock of empathy she hadn't expected.] What went through your head when you first learned that?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

We all lost people. I didn't dwell on it.

[gimmethemap]

So did you talk to her after her arrival?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I told her she needed to eat.

[He shrugs. He doesn't want to say that he didn't want to speak to her, get to know her in any fashion, as he knew what was to come.]

That's about it.

[gimmethemap]

How do you think that made her feel?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

How did what make her feel? Being told to eat?

[gimmethemap]

[She hesitated.] Well -- How would you have felt if when you came here no one said a word to you, Major? Save a word or two to make sure you were doing what you were supposed to do?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

...

[He looks between her and Billy, then takes a sip of water]

Well, I said hello.

[gimmethemap]

[Gently.] That's not what I asked you. How would you have felt?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

...

[He stares at her, which doesn't really carry any authority or weight-- it normally doesn't anyway because she's warden, but now it's even less so]

Like a child.

[gimmethemap]

[And what place does a child have -- in a world that's unfamiliar and frightening, where you know the monsters are real? She shakes the thought away.]

Is that how you saw her?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Initially. But I overcame that.

[gimmethemap]

In what way?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

...

I don't want to talk about that. You already know.

[gimmethemap]

That's why you should be asking questions, too. It gives you ammunition.

[But she moves on.]

When was the last time you saw her?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

When she killed me.

[gimmethemap]

How did she do that?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

You already know the events that led to my death.

[gimmethemap]

You know it's not about me knowing it, Major.

[She frowned. If he didn't keep so much in his head he wouldn't need so much booze to drown it out.]

What do you think you would have done if you hadn't been pulled out of the car?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I didn't think that far ahead.

[He answers too quickly, but it could be true. Honestly, his own thoughts from around that time are too hazy to recall]

[gimmethemap]

Then think about it now. Based on how you feel about it now. If you wound up there again, and -- had a bullet left to finish off the Infected before he finished you off. And you stayed in that car. What next?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

[In a flat, agitated voice] I don't know.

[gimmethemap]

[She sighed.]

Major, do you know why I'm asking you about these things?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Because you want me to answer.

[gimmethemap]

What were you thinking when you saw her face in the mirror this morning?