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[cautionarytale]

Now I've got all this whipped cream and nothing to do with it.

Hey Ethan, did you take those pictures for me?


[private to Adam]

I've got wardens reprimanding other wardens left and right, but I gotta save somebody's life or something big and impressive, or I'm gonna be stuck with no powers for, like, ever. They keep saying I've got to "prove" something or... something.

How're you coming with the whole Pom Pom dating Eyebrows situation?


[barge!Company filter (Sylar and Adam)]

Phase One complete. Well, I got Sam tripping all over himself to believe every line I feed him and the Russian kid would bend over backwards to give me any information he could. They were my guys, right?


[private to Tony]

What number is she?

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[possemagnet.livejournal.com]

I know what to do with it.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

I bet you do, Dean.

[possemagnet.livejournal.com]

It ain't my fault you'd make a damn tasty piece of Elle pie - that's genetics.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Wanna find out what else I inherited?

[lazarusrisen.livejournal.com]

[barge!Company filter]

I don't remember who 'my guys' were, but I've pretty much got Claire and Morgan-before either of you say anything, Claire hates both of you. At least with me, I didn't try to kill her or install this grudge match.

[Private to Elle]

I have no idea how to do this-I've only gotten my powers taken away. Give me in exact words, what do they keep telling you to do?

And Claire and I are getting pretty close. Sooner or later I can find out what she thinks.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

[barge!Company]

Oh well. I'll learn to live without the cheerleader's friendship somehow.

[Private to Adam]

Useless platitudes, mostly. Sam said:

"It doesn't have to be anything big. Just... sometimes, the right decision, at the right time is enough of a start. It's all about taking what's happened to you, and rising above it. Becoming a stronger person for it."

"The best you can hope for is to break past their cynicism. Being sincere and sticking to it's a good start, but more importantly, you've got to prove them wrong about you."

"Have you tried sitting down and talking to the people who're laughing at you? Not on the journals, I mean, but face-to-face."

I really don't feel like having a heart-to-heart with anybody. Other than that, I don't really know what he's talking about.

And Libby said, "Prove you deserve to be forgiven. Work at it." She's a strident harridan but it's kinda the same thing Sam said.

[lazarusrisen.livejournal.com]

[barge!Company]

I'm sure you'll manage.

[Private to Elle]

That basically sounds like 'find someone you've pissed off and try to make them like you'. I wouldn't recommend Tony or any of your other old wardens. Is there anybody else who hates you but not that much?

And people are laughing at you?

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[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Libby, but she sort of hates me a lot. I can try fooling the new guy into giving me my ability back, but after playing the good girl for too long I get really bored. Maybe Morgan. She's, like, friends with Libby or something, and I don't think she hates me too much.

I told Sam they were. And nobody except Sam has been exactly nice about my desire to find redemption and become a better person.

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[grayatonement]

I'm close to having my abilities back.

If you're not lying about your people, get a gun from Sam, Morgan. Tell the Russian to talk to Kirk about where the cockpit is; it's different from where the Admiral was during the flood. I'm still working with Toshiko, Kahlan. Claire.

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[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

I thought we voted Adam in charge of this little operation.

barge!Company filter

[grayatonement]

Fine.

What are we doing?

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could use it for the purpose it was originally invented for.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Come on, Howie, that wouldn't be any fun.

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

We've been through this. I'm sure it'll go very nicely with cake. Or...on top of some hot chocolate.

Oh, a word?

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

It goes very nicely on top of boys, too.

What word?

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[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

...number? Is who?

Private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

What number inmate is Lucy? How many inmates have you had?

Private

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

Why does that even matter?

Private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

I never said it did. Why are you being so protective of a simple number?

[stayandgloat.livejournal.com]

Sorry, my camera is nearly as old as I am. It wouldn't have worked.

And really, two aging naked men? I think unless you have more esoteric tastes than I have been made aware of you wouldn't have necessarily cared for them.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Not that you're not cute for someone your age, but I'm back to normal and lusting after wrinkle-free guys. I just thought you'd enjoy sharing proof of your victory.

Private - she's just kinda pissed at Tony right now. :c

[sellyoumysoul.livejournal.com]

You were right.

I don't...

I don't think I like him very much at all.

Private - Elle is evilly thrilled.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

He doesn't really care about you, you know. Not the way your husband does. I can tell how much the Master loves you... the way he talks about you... before you showed up here he totally missed you.

Tony's gonna try to use the fact that you didn't immediately try to hurt him as some kind of leverage. He's manipulating you. He's just using you. You shouldn't trust him.

Private

[sellyoumysoul.livejournal.com]

I don't. I can't.

He's been treating me like a child. He talked about the things I've seen like they don't...like they don't matter. Like they weren't real.

There's nothing there to trust.

Private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

He doesn't respect you. I know - he never respected me. He always thought of me as a child too, sometimes even something subhuman. Even if he learns how to speak prettier or treat you nicer, it'll just be an act. Pretty on top and rotten inside.

He'll never believe in you, he just wants to slap a metaphorical band-aid on your brain and call it a day. You're nothing more than a paycheck to him.