91 - Jailhouse Blues [Voice]

[major_west]

Congratulations. You won. Here's to an eternity of the status quo.

[After a pause]

Billy... Please tell me you're alright.

[AND IN THE BACKGROUND YOU CAN HEAR RAYNE SHOUTING THE FOLLOWING]

JESUSFUCKINGCHRISTMONKEYBALLS! SOMEONE BETTER BE LETTING ME OUT OF HERE OR-

[OOC: Major McCrazyface is in Level 0 now with a bandaged, possibly broken hand, a STILL stitched up leg, and a frown :c I'm pretty sure Inmates can't initiate private filters, hence his having to ask about Billy in public. ANYWAY. Visit him if you'd like; just spam it in this post]

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IF BILLY IS IN ZERO? He's calling across to you

[my-freeze-ray.livejournal.com]

I'm all right. Are you?

DITTO OR VOICE

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Yes, I just have a bit of a headache, and I can't move my hand all that well.

I'm sorry. That was an incredible failure.

SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM...

[roseoftime.livejournal.com]

[Rose was on her way the minute she saw the message.

She approached the cell carefully, not so much because she feared him, but because he had suffered enough trauma, and she didn't want to make him feel any worse if she could help it.]

West...

[She curled one hand around a bar, and extended the other through toward him.]

Are you alright?

Ad infinitum!

[my-freeze-ray.livejournal.com]

Hey. At least we let them know we where we stood.

I guess it was futile, but... what else could we have done?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

[West is lurking on his cot, nursing his injured hand. He looks at Rose for a moment, then looks away]

Yes, I'm fine. I hope you weren't too badly hurt.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Talked more, I suppose. That seems to be what they all wanted: for us to talk until we thought something was being done. Then they could forget all about it.

Cut off addendum to West's voice post in deck 0, in the background! Because her journal was taken!

[acid_rayne]

JESUSFUCKINGCHRISTMONKEYBALLS! SOMEONE BETTER BE LETTING ME OUT OF HERE OR-

[roseoftime.livejournal.com]

[Rose slides down to sit, leaning against the bars. It's clear she intends to stay, at least for a little while. She holds up her bandaged wrists.]

Just a bit of rope burn. I'll be alright.

[She watches him in silence for several seconds before she speaks again]

Things aren't hopeless.

[my-freeze-ray.livejournal.com]

Right, until we talked ourselves out of wanting anything better than their word as law. No accountability, no justice. Just them on top, and us down below.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry your colleagues are too inept to realise you're in here with us.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Precisely. Now we'll get to see what clever little punishments they'll devise.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Rose... I'm not the man you thought I was. [He looks at her finally] I'm nothing like him, and I never will be.

[my-freeze-ray.livejournal.com]

Well, hey. At least for now we can still talk, right?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

[West is sounding all SAD AND BAWWW now]

For now...

[roseoftime.livejournal.com]

[She looks at him for a long moment.]

I know you're not. Beyond that first day, when I first saw you, I never thought you were.

I still believe in you. I still believe that what you wanted was right, IS right, even if they way you went about it was wrong.

I'm still honored to call you my friend.

[my-freeze-ray.livejournal.com]

Hey, what I said before still stands. They try to keep us apart? We'll see how long it lasts.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I think a part of me prefers the cells. There aren't any illusions of false 'fairness' here; it's honest. It shows the Barge for what it is.

I just wish we weren't separated.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

One of a few, then. [He doesn't speak for a good long while] How can you be so trusting?

She would reply if she could snatch that journal from you! With many swear words!

[acid_rayne]

They can shout at each other from across the cells!

[major-west.livejournal.com]

PTHHH SOMEONE WOULD HAVE SHOVED HIM IN A CELL. So Yeah, this is Billy shouting over too you.

[my-freeze-ray.livejournal.com]

It won't be forever. One way or another, there are too many wardens who--

...

Who sort of know that we were right. So if none of them answer to any of the others, then eventually they have to get tired as well.

GOT IT

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Billy...

I'm pretty sure we exhausted all of their good will by now.

[roseoftime.livejournal.com]

[She shrugs]

Just me, I guess. I've found I have a lot more to lose if I'm not.

He's joking here. AND IT'S NOT WORKING.

[my-freeze-ray.livejournal.com]

Please. We lost, West! Everyone loves an underdog!

Awww C:

[major-west.livejournal.com]

[After a while]

I really hate the Admiral.