140 // Voice

[major_west]

[There's a very, VERY long silence, and finally West says:]

Balloons.

[Another silence, then he clicks his tongue disgustedly.]

Of all the absurdities.

[CLICK.]

[OOC: WORKING THROUGH BACKLOG OF TAGS.]

Comments

[major-west.livejournal.com]

So, you missed the angry mob?

[gimmethemap]

No.

I don't know if they were going to get out at all. That's the part that makes me sick.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I like to think that their story ended when the breach did. No harm came to them.

[gimmethemap]

I won't tell myself that.

It's too easy to explain away things you shouldn't that way.

But it's like I said to you before. What happens in port doesn't get brought home. I'll be fine.

You all right?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Perfectly fine, actually, and I'm not just saying that. Billy and I, ah... took off before things got heated. I'm afraid we left the lot of you with quite a mess.

[gimmethemap]

I'm glad to hear that. I'm grateful it ended when it did, but I don't know.

It's messing with me.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Because of the memories?

[gimmethemap]

Yeah.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

"What could have been." That always appears to be the motto to take away from these events.

[gimmethemap]

It's partly that, but that's not all.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Then what is it?

[gimmethemap]

I guess I feel badly for those people.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

They weren't real, Morgan.

[gimmethemap]

I don't really believe that.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Do you believe your teenaged counterpart really exists? Or the young camper?

[gimmethemap]

Yeah, I do. Somewhere.

We just sort of step into it.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

But what purpose would that have? Literally walking in another's shoes teaches us nothing about our own selves or how we would behave in their circumstances. It implies that all acts during breaches are predestined.

[gimmethemap]

I don't think it's all predestined, but I can't really explain it. I guess more to the point there's nothing saying that exact situation hasn't occurred somewhere before, if not those exact people.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. But you can't get too hung up over other people's tragedies. Not when you have your own to deal with.

SORRY, I COULDN'T RESIST HAVING BILLY BE A LOSER :c

[my-freeze-ray.livejournal.com]

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