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[cautionarytale]

I get that this place is supposed to be a second chance. Some all-powerful superbeing picks and chooses who gets to be locked up forever, and we're all supposed to be happy about it, 'cause golly! We're not dead.

But life's a bitch and sometimes bad stuff just happens. Maybe dying at twenty-four wasn't in my plans, but I screwed up and that's what I got. I made my choices, I have to live with them. Or die with them, whatever. I don't need a glorified boat captain telling me what I did was wrong.

So get this, whoever cares: I don't want a second chance. I don't want to be here.


[private to Adam]

Tell me something only you would know. Something from before here.

Comments

Re: private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Okay... that's just how my life goes.

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

You can't just write things off as how life goes.

Re: private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Or maybe you have to accept that there are some things you can't change.

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, but nobody's bound to being violent and cruel. We can all choose about that.

Re: private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

You're certainly choosing to be cruel, keeping me here without my ability.

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

It's a preventative measure for other people's safety. And you do, and will, have chance to earn it back.

Besides, there's more to you than your ability.

Re: private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

My ability's mine, you can't take it away.

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

I can if you're not responsible with it. Prove yourself responsible enough to have the power, and you can have it.

You will get it back. When is down to you.

Re: private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

I don't have to prove anything, it belongs to me!

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

And Elle, you're in a prison, or the nearest thing there is. Normally, you don't get to take a thing into those.

For everyone's safety. I want to give you them back, but I don't want anyone to get hurt. The second always, always, overrides the first.

Re: private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

You don't get to decide what overrides what, not when it comes to my ability.

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

I do. I've been given the authority to here, and will use it.

Re: private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

You don't deserve that authority.

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

Then who does?

Re: private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Nobody!

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

And that ended in a lot of people dying and getting hurt. So maybe it's about time someone did have that authority. Now, Lord knows why it's me, but it is, and I'm going to be responsible with that authority until you're responsible with your powers, alright?

Re: private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

I hate you.

Re: private

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

I don't hate you.