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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[major-west.livejournal.com]

Fine, would you like me to admit that a part of me really wanted this all to fall apart so we could all just cause a great big bloody mess and feel like we were finally doing something more than sit around and defer to Warden authority? Even if it's futile, even if it was horrible and violent, at least we DID SOMETHING.

[capn-jack-h.livejournal.com]

Only if it's true.

[SPAM]

[major-west.livejournal.com]

[West doesn't move from his cot. He just stares at Morgan without any expression]

Hello.

Like a butterfly of pain!

[acid_rayne]

[roseoftime.livejournal.com]

[She shakes her head]

There's no such thing. You were right about that. There's no such thing as a good person or a terrible person... there's only our choices, and at any time we can choose differently.

[She slides her hand gently over his]

I know you've done terrible things. You must have done, to be here. But admitting to it... recognizing that possibility... you can choose to do better. To be better.

[She smiles a little]

You remind me a bit of Jack, actually.

[SPAM]

[gimmethemap]

I told you I wasn't going to let anyone kill you, one way or another. [Morgan comes up to the bars.] M-- [She stops herself. She's not going to call him that ever again.] You have to know that things like this are one of the things I've been trying very hard to keep you away from. You came out of Hell, Henry. I know that. And when a place and a situation affect a person as much as it does you, the only way to help them get better is to take them out of it and keep them out.

[SPAM]

[major-west.livejournal.com]

[He doesn't say anything for a long time]

It had to happen.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Then it's true. Part of me wanted to see this place go up in flames.

[capn-jack-h.livejournal.com]

What would you gain from that?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

[He flinches a little at the physical contact, but doesn't move. He speaks softly, unsure of himself for the time being]

But sometimes, what's terrible is what's necessary.

[Then he looks up, slightly confused]

I do?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I don't know. My own destruction.

[capn-jack-h.livejournal.com]

Why would you want that?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

[There's a long ass pause, and he doesn't sound so AWESOMELY CONFIDENT OR STABLE anymore]

I don't know.

[And now he's refusing to answer on the comm/journal/whatev LOLOL]

Private to West

[i-hate-posses.livejournal.com]

What happened after that bitch shot me?

[roseoftime.livejournal.com]

[She keeps her hand lightly on his, and her voice is a sad murmur]

I know. The Doctor... he destroyed his own people in order to prevent the enslavement of the universe. I destroyed an entire species to save my own. The right thing... it isn't always easy. It isn't always pretty. And we get it wrong sometimes. Ask me about how I almost destroyed the universe sometime...

But we keep trying, we answer for our mistakes, and hopefully learn from them.

[She smiled at his reaction to Jack]

Do you know how I first met Jack?

Private

[major-west.livejournal.com]

No idea; I was shot by some... strange device, myself, shortly after.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

You... [He blinks] almost destroyed the universe?

[Well, perhaps ordering the systematic rape of women and girls wasn't so bad-- no, wait, it still was]

[West shakes his head at her question]

No, I don't.

Private

[i-hate-posses.livejournal.com]

Didn't no one kill anyone after I was dead? That's why they won!

Private

[major-west.livejournal.com]

You'll have to ask somebody else. I have no idea.

Private

[i-hate-posses.livejournal.com]

Next time this happens? We need to squirrel away a gun or two for when we get out of 0.

Private

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Oh, I couldn't agree more.

Still.

It was fun while it lasted, having the power.

Private

[i-hate-posses.livejournal.com]

Ain't nothing stoppin' us from tryin' again.

[roseoftime.livejournal.com]

[She laughs a little]

Yep. It's a long story I'll tell some other time, but the gist is I disobeyed the Doctor on something very important and caused the very fabric of reality to start to unravel.

[She squeezed his hand a tiny bit]

When I met Jack, he was a con artist, pretty much only interested in making a quid. He tried to con the Doctor and I, but it went wrong. Horribly wrong.

He helped us, though. In the end, he helped us to set things right. And wound up becoming one of my best friends.

Private

[major-west.livejournal.com]

They'll be watching us closely for a while. But now we know how to take what we need from them.

Private

[i-hate-posses.livejournal.com]

In a couple of months, they'll have forgotten 'bout this. We can try again then.