81 - Stage 3

[perfectsymmetry]

[Crowe pulled out the phone from the wall to keep him from spilling his secrets like the rest of the town. He was *full* of them, and he doesn't want them getting out, thanks.

And yet, he wanted to tell someone. He needed to talk to someone. So many people have told him he keeps things too bottled up, that he should talk about his problems...

No! He can't. He just can't. Something weird was going on. Hol got on the phone and told everyone he was a communist. It didn't make sense.

Housemates will find Crowe pacing about his room, a familiar worried expression on his face. He'll get stir-crazy after a bit, and head outside. But instead if usual warm greetings, Crowe will be trying to avoid everyone. Of curse, that won't stop people from trying to approach him, and he's too polite to turn anyone away harshly...

For the rest of the day, he'll be hiding high up in a tree at the park. And there he will stay for as long as he can.]

Comments

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

I-It's okay. I-I shouldn't be saying all this to you in the first place.

A-Ah, Finland is still here, maybe he could...

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't hurt to talk to him at least.

And, that's fine. I don't mind listening. I like to help people. I like to think it breaks me even in the grand scheme of things for killing and stealing so much.

[.....that hadn't been supposed to come out...]

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[blinkblink]

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

..............





-and I didn't mean to say that.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

A-Ah. things were really bad back where you lived, eh?

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

[Now it's Mae's turn to play the 'oh god why am I still talking' game.]

They don't call it the wasteland for nothing. People will more often then not shoot first and ask questions later. Slavers, raiders and mutated animals are everywhere. If you don't have enough caps you'll end up drinking irradiated water and breaking into peoples homes to steal food. Which feels terrible because they're just trying to survive too. But it's either that or starving.

One man tried to pay me to blow up a nuclear bomb in the middle of a highly populated town because his boss didn't like it. And every time I find a vault it's filled with horrible experiments, so I'm pretty sure the vaults were never meant to help people at all.

And now I have to go and save the wasteland while I'm still trying to process the fact that my father's dead and he'd been lying to me my entire life and just left me behind-

[..stop, just stop.]

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

A-Ah, that really is terrible. I'm so sorry. I-I always feel bad for people who are better off in a terrible place like Mayfield, than their own homes.

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

[There is a long pause and then she shakes her head.]

....No.


I'm better off there, not here.

It's a horrible, terrible place and sometimes I think it's hopeless. But I'm not giving up on it.

I'm better off in a place where I can do something with my life, to help people like my father wanted. Even if I have to do horrible things to get it. ...I like helping people. Even if part of it is from guilt.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[He smiles sympathetically.] That's true. All you can do here is survive. Making a difference is a-almost impossible. Back home, I-I'm sure you can.

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

I hope so.