districttwo: (amused)
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[This starts out strong. Cato is sitting up in bed trying to heal with everything he's got.]

That stupid bitch killed me! she killed me! There were no rules in there. No rules at all.

[Except for the last part, which sounds like a whiny petulant child who is frustrated and desperately desperately wanting to leave the infirmary.]

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Date: 2012-09-07 01:30 am (UTC)
hunt4commonwealth: (listening)
From: [personal profile] hunt4commonwealth
[Dylan's been lurking in the infirmary since Cato was brought in. He leaves off his chatting with the staff and rushes straight to Cato's bedside as soon as he hears that Cato is awake.]

Cato. [He puts his hand on Cato's shoulder.] Don't try to sit up yet. Death toll is killer. [A bit of a grim joke. But he remembers how bad that first day was.] You need to rest and heal up.

Do you want to talk about what happened?

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Date: 2012-09-07 04:06 am (UTC)
hunt4commonwealth: (brooding at the moon)
From: [personal profile] hunt4commonwealth
Revenge isn't going to get you anywhere. Anyway, she's in level Zero.

Don't worry about her right now, just focus on yourself and getting better.

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Date: 2012-09-07 04:25 am (UTC)
hunt4commonwealth: (profile)
From: [personal profile] hunt4commonwealth
[Dylan sits on the edge of the infirmary bed and rubs Cato's back in the way he'd comfort a child. Cato's young enough to be his son.]

What she did was horrible and in no way okay. I'm sorry I wasn't there to stop her. But there was a wise man who once said that "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." If you take revenge, the violence never stops. Be the bigger man and have the strength of will to let it go. Walk with your head high knowing that she wasn't able to make you lash out, that you control your own actions and can't be goaded into unnecessary fights.

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Date: 2012-09-07 05:28 am (UTC)
hunt4commonwealth: (default)
From: [personal profile] hunt4commonwealth
The way I heard it, you weren't defending yourself or someone else from harm. You chose to fight, but you didn't have to. Is that what happened?

[He wants to get Cato's side of the story, too, in case it's different from B's.]

It's okay to want to test yourself. Hell, my best friend does it all the time. But it's not fair to other people to put them in a position where they'll either get hurt or have to hurt you.

[He squeezes Cato's shoulder in reassurance.]

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Date: 2012-09-07 07:15 pm (UTC)
hunt4commonwealth: (listening)
From: [personal profile] hunt4commonwealth
There's no prize here for winning. If you fight just because other people told you you're supposed to, not because you think it's the right thing to do, you're letting them own you. And you deserve better than that.

Do you know what the motto of the peace-keepers in America used to be?

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Date: 2012-09-08 04:16 am (UTC)
hunt4commonwealth: (shades)
From: [personal profile] hunt4commonwealth
It was "to protect and serve." Because that's what peace-keepers were supposed to do. Protect and serve the people. Not just the rich or the powerful, but everybody.

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Date: 2012-09-08 05:40 am (UTC)
hunt4commonwealth: (pic#1559047)
From: [personal profile] hunt4commonwealth
They sent you to kill each other. To die. That's not really help and protection.

The old world was a very different place. You should read more about it. Or we could watch some vids together. [Action movies about cops and justice, not documentaries. He wants to inspire Cato, not bore him.]

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Date: 2012-09-08 05:21 pm (UTC)
hunt4commonwealth: (pic#1559041)
From: [personal profile] hunt4commonwealth
Not for training. Just stories. Like a novel but on screen. [He hopes Cato knows what fiction novels are.] Acted out by professional actors with sets and special effects. So they're not real, but there are sometimes still truths in them. Truths about things like love and justice and family.

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Date: 2012-09-09 06:30 am (UTC)
hunt4commonwealth: (yo)
From: [personal profile] hunt4commonwealth
[He sighs. Punishment. He hasn't thought about it much.]

For your punishment I want you to work in the gym, three days a week for the next month. I'd particularly like you to help people train for self defense. But you've got to help them, not hurt them or compete against them.

[He'll supervise Cato himself if the gym staff are too busy to keep an eye on him.]

But we won't start that until you've had a week to recover. So once you get out of the infirmary we can watch a couple vids before you start working.

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Date: 2012-09-09 07:13 pm (UTC)
hunt4commonwealth: (horizon defeated)
From: [personal profile] hunt4commonwealth
First off, losing doesn't make you a weakling. No one can win every fight all the time.

Second, it wouldn't matter to me if you were. People aren't valued based on how well they can kill another person. Some of the best and wisest and strongest people I've known would rather let themselves be killed than take another's life. That sort of dedication to their morals, enough to overcome even their deepest survival instincts, takes amazing strength of will.

Third, I don't care what other people say about me. What matters is that I remain true to my ideals. I don't do the things I do so that the public will like me, I do things because they're the right thing to do.

You matter to me. I'm not going to abandon you just because you made a mistake.

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Date: 2012-09-10 12:05 am (UTC)
hunt4commonwealth: (default)
From: [personal profile] hunt4commonwealth
[Dylan doesn't say anything about the tears. He remembers being a young man and knows that they often like to pretend that they never cry and don't like it being pointed out to them when they do. But he does squeeze Cato's shoulder again.]

I'll be careful. But I'm not going to change my mind about this.

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