111 - Backdated to Yesterday

[gimmethemap]

...I swear I'm not usually this absent-minded, but has anyone seen King Charles? It's occurring to me that I haven't seen him since before the flood.

[Private to West]

I'd like to talk to you in person, if you're feeling up to it.

[Private to JD]

You okay? 

[Private to Dean Winchester]

This is probably gonna sound odd and feel free not to answer me if you're like the rest of us and wanting to forget this shit -- but I could recall just about everybody and understand how the change came over. But you. I don't get you. What was up with you in that world?

[Private to Charlie Prince]

...It really bothered you that Henry got hurt, didn't it?

(ooc: So King Charles -- Morgan's Monkey -- is probably huddled up somewhere and has been for most of the flood. Unlike other pets that may have disappeared I think there was a Mirrorverse version of him too. And this pet was just -- unaffected. And likely moved into the pantry when none of the bad guys were looking. But people can feel free to find him just about anywhere that's warm.)

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

Fine.

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[gimmethemap]

[Morgan had waited and asked before making this visit for good reason. She fell apart when she was alone, after all, moreso even when Rube came to calm her. She doesn't want to do that in front of him, now; she'd feel almost like she were guilting him. This is probably why, once she comes into the infirmary, her greeting is the same as it always is when she feels bad and doesn't want to talk about it.]

Hi.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

[He props himself up in the bed and watches her]

Hello.

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[gimmethemap]

[She really needs to stop having meetings with him in the infirmary. She can't even lean on small talk right now -- it'd be awkward going in no matter where she starts.]

I can't believe I did that to you.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

[He shrugs]

It's hardly the first time I died.

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[gimmethemap]

[She crosses her arms.]

You know you'd be really pissed off at me if I talked about it like that, so don't you start in that way either.

[She pulls up a stool and sits down.]

And I don't know how we should go about talking about this, but I know we should. I just didn't want to choose to wait and leave you feeling like I was ignoring it.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

[He frowns at her]

What do you expect from me? I'm not going to weep about it.

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[gimmethemap]

[She shakes her head.]

What do you think of yourself? ...I mean, the you that was there.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

I think it's no bloody wonder that I died, with survival instincts as poor as that.

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[gimmethemap]

[Morgan pushes a hand through her hair.] I'm not trying to patronize you, but I'm gonna need you to elaborate. I can't really separate the way you were versus how she chose to view you.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

It means I forgot my goals to help the Inmates as a whole, and ran off to save one, single stranger for a man I barely trusted.

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[gimmethemap]

[Upon hearing that -- she was unaware of the circumstances -- she has to try not to smile a little.]

You really did that?

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

Yes.

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[gimmethemap]

[She shakes her head a little. She can't help but sound a little proud, even if they both know that neither of them were themselves at the time it happened.]

I'll agree that probably wasn't the smartest thing to do, but it's the sort of thing that probably would have earned you your wings. That's valor, Henry. That's the stuff people write books about.

[She sobers a little then.]

So it wasn't just because of -- you and the Marquis.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

[He snorts] I had valour before. It gets people killed.

[Then, a shrug]

I was caught in a compromising position with Billy and attacked a warden. I'm sure word of that spread and.... fanned the flames, as it were. But I wouldn't have been killed so quickly if I'd concentrated on my own survival.

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[gimmethemap]

[When he mentions Billy, Morgan looks a little confused and blinks several times, wincing.]

Oh Billy -- Christ, I hadn't even thought about him.

[She rubs her eyes a moment.]

But you know who did it then.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

I do.

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[gimmethemap]

[She almost asks who, thinking back to what she said to Charlie Prince, but stops herself.]

It's not them anymore. Whoever it was. And they'll get theirs.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

Is that so? And how will they get 'theirs,' exactly, Morgan?

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[gimmethemap]

Those Inmates weren't resisting the same sorts of Wardens as there are here, and you know that. But -- there were also Wardens that were changing, there. Maybe even more if the ones that-- [She stopped, blinking.] Hell, I'm not even sure how it should be called? Those of us here that were unaffected but seemed different on the other side. Maybe if those Wardens remember everything like we do, it'll do them some good.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

Well, that does very little for me here and now.

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[gimmethemap]

Speaking of the here and now. [She glances up at him briefly.] Are you and Billy still fighting?

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

No. Death wiped the slate clean.

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[gimmethemap]

[Morgan sighed.] Then I'm glad it meant you weren't coming back to more problems, at least. [She shifted in her seat.] But other than your disapproval of your other self's survival instincts, has it given you much to think about? Everybody kind of got to see the road less traveled, y'know?

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

It showed me that no matter what I'd done, it would have ended the same way.