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[cautionarytale]

Looks like somebody got out of jail this morning, huh Tony? I thought you were gonna keep me locked away for years. What happened to me needing to learn to care about people before you let me go? Or... sorry, did the Admiral go over your head on this one? Guess I've got friends in high places.


[private to Peter]

Wanna come over and celebrate my early parole? Clothing optional.

[/private]


[private to Sylar]

Turns out I had a Get Out Of Jail Free Card I didn't know about. Still think you can take it, come to my room instead: Level 5, Room 11.

[/private]

Comments

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

Bite me. I never meant to keep you in there that long, anyway. I was just hoping to scare you into being a half decent human being. It obviously wasn't working.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

But surely you meant too keep me locked up for at least a couple weeks. After all, I killed people, and in the real world you go to jail for life for that kind of thing.

Too bad you're not as powerful around here as you seem to think you are, or I might still be in a cage, where a rabid animal like me belongs.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

That doesn't mean I don't have more power than you. More authority than you. The Barge has never stripped me of my powers, after all. Or even dampened them.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

My ability may be dampened, but I can still make you scream.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, big deal. You still can't get me to cooperate. I might just be a vocal person.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

No cooperation necessary. I'll have you writhing on the floor whether you go along with it or not.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

And I can do the same to you with just a splash of water.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

But I've learned to be careful with it, Tony. Even a rabid dog can learn new tricks.

And I know your secret, remember? Twist an ear or pinch you hard and you can't concentrate. Oh, and that little mummy issue of yours...

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

Oh, right, because you can just summon up a mummy, much less that specific mummy. Besides, I said I was afraid of it, not that I couldn't function when I even thought of it.

Besides, at the end of the day, if you ever want something, you always have to go through me. Even just to come back from the dead, and since you couldn't even survive the Pleasantville port...I have the feeling you'll be needing that a lot.

1/?

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

2/?

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

That...

3/3

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

You shouldn't talk about things you don't understand.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

You shouldn't go around killing people. We all do things we shouldn't do. I'll stop doing what I shouldn't do when you stop doing what you shouldn't do.

Besides, you know how you felt when you died? That's how everyone else feels when they die, too.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

You have no idea what I was feeling when I died.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

Bullshit. I died once, too, you know. The only difference was that you actually deserved it for what you did to Charlie and Rube.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

You didn't die the way I did. You couldn't understand.

And who the hell are you to decide who deserves to live and who deserves to die?

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

No, I was punched through the skull.

Who are you to decide the same thing?

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

You weren't shot by

I kill people. Whether or not they deserve it is for self-righteous moralizers like you to pretend you have the right to decide.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

I wasn't shot by...what, a friend? Well, I've been attacked by friends who were possessed before, but I handled it just fine.

No, you do the same thing. You say those people didn't matter. That's a form of justifying their death, of saying that, whether they deserved it or not, that you are somehow more worthy of living than they are. It's the same thing, just dressed up differently.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Stop pretending you know anything about my relationship with Adam.

Human life is expendable. That's how it is, Tony, and all the whiny do-gooders in the world won't change the fact that none of us mean anything. We're all on the chopping block, and I'm the executioner.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

So then it's okay that Sylar took over the job when it was your turn to die?

1/2

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

2/2

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Guess so.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

Then I shouldn't do anything if he comes for you again?

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

No.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

Too bad. Because I will anyway.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

I don't want you to. You need to stop trying to fix me. Some things can't be put back together once they're broken.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

And some things can. Don't you want to even try?