sharpememory | [24]

[Philip leans in close to the camera. At the very bottom of the screen, you can see the horrible, ropey scar that runs along the bottom of his neck.]

I want to talk to whoever is in charge here. Fed, magic wizard sea captain, whatever. We're gonna make a deal, because if we don't, things are going to get a bit unpleasant for everyone else around here.

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buywithme

That's not the point, Comrade. He might have written private thoughts in that journal, and you just read them all!

[And Prefect wants to know them :c]

I just want to make sure that he's all right. My name's Prefect, I'm his warden here.

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sharpememory

I'm his brother, he would have told me if I was around. So it doesn't matter.

Oh, you're Prefect. [Pause.] I thought you would be a woman.

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buywithme

I don't know if he would have. I mean, you probably had a lot of things you didn't tell him, and you definitely had things you didn't tell Cassel.

I... Wait, why would you think that?

[Prefect is a little wide eyed, because it will be really awkward if there is a thorough entry about the recent breach...]

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sharpememory

Please, Cassel is a completely different ballgame. Barron and I are on the same page, at least when Barron is on any page at all.

[Pause.] I don't know, I just assumed. Don't worry about it.

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buywithme

That's what I mean, Comrade. When he's not on any page at all, do you actually treat him like your equal?

[Prefect frowns.] Why did you assume it though? What does his journal say about me?

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sharpememory

He's my brother. I love him. Equality isn't really relevant.

It just talks about you a lot. And I mean a lot.

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buywithme

It would be to him, Comrade. He respects you, and I think it would bother him that you don't seem to respect him in return...

I'm his warden, Comrade. It's normal that he'd talk about me a lot.

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sharpememory

I respect Barron. You don't have any right to say that I don't.

Wait, wait. So you're his personal jailer?

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buywithme

You clearly don't respect his privacy.

[Pause.]

Not jailer. More like, his case worker? Didn't it say that in the things you read?

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sharpememory

I read his diary because I care. And clearly, my concern was justified.

I didn't read that propaganda bullshit. If you're his caseworker, why don't you let him go home?

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buywithme

How could it help you, to intrude upon his privacy? What did it tell you, that people here haven't been willing to explain anyway?

I want him to go home, but I don't control that! The only way he can get home is by graduating, and I'm trying to get him there.

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sharpememory

It's none of your business. Besides, there was nothing in there that surprised me.

Then make him graduate. This isn't rocket science. You owe it to him to help him get out of here.

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buywithme

If there was nothing in there that surprised you then why did you need to read it?

I can't just force him! I'm trying to get him to reconsider his life choices, so he can get out of here, but it's not easy when he doesn't remember making most of them.

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sharpememory

Give it up, Fed. Your opinion doesn't matter.

[Pause.] You know about that too?

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buywithme

I'm not a Fed, I'm his friend!

[Prefect sounds a little bit distressed at this point.] Of course I know about it! I've been trying to help him with it! How do you think graduation works?

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sharpememory

I'm sure that you think you are.

Barron doesn't need help with it. He can handle it. He always has.

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buywithme

Clearly he thinks so too, if you read his journal and thought that we were... uh... friends.

Being able to get by without his memories isn't the same as not needing help. He deserves to be able to remember where he came from!

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sharpememory

What Barron wrote isn't necessarily what he thinks. It might just be what he wants to think.

He doesn't need to. He's got bigger fish to fry and us to remind him.

From:

buywithme

[Oh no. Oh no words are coming. Oh no that last bit has just summonned words that Prefect wasn't planning on saying to Barron's broth--]

Fuck you, Comrade! You don't care if he loses all his memories as long as you and your stupid friend get your way! You might be his brother, Brother, but-- you are also a jerk!

Edited Date: 2012-03-31 03:00 am (UTC)

From:

sharpememory

You have absolutely no idea what the fuck you're talking about. I'm providing for my family! If it wasn't for me, do you think that either of them would be going to those schools? I'm making a better future for all of us.

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buywithme

You turned your little brother into a murderer at the cost of your other little brother's mind! What good do you think Princeton actually did Barron when he was afraid he'd forget his own name? And do you think Cassel wouldn't have traded his school in to get rid of the memory of murdering Lila Zacharov?

You sold them both out so that your friend could take a run at the throne, and they let you Comrade, because you're supposed to be their brother!

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sharpememory

Do you have brothers? It doesn't sound like you do. It sounds like you don't know anything about us.

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buywithme

It sounds like you're trying to misdirect this conversation because you don't actually have anything to actually say that might even suggest that I'm not right.

I don't have enemies that I've treated with such selfish disregard as you treat your brothers with.

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sharpememory

This is what family is. It's not my fault if you don't get it. I did what I had to do for them. Barron knows that, even if Cassel probably doesn't.

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buywithme

Name one thing that you've done for Barron recently? The law career that he's can't possibly actually have because of what you've helped him do to his memory doesn't count.