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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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.

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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)

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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.

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sharpememory

I'm not involving myself with this shit. You're a Fed whose trying to manipulate my brother by getting me to say shit that isn't true. No wonder he doesn't even like you that much. [Lies.]

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buywithme

And you, Comrade, are a criminal who has been manipulating your brother for years! And-- Comrade, even if he hated me I would still do what was best for him, and not for myself, unlike you.

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sharpememory

I have not been manipulating him! We work together. It's equal.

And that's not true. You help him because it's your job.

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buywithme

Except that he loses his memories, you lose nothing, and you stand to gain a lot more from it in the long run. I thought you said earlier that you loved him, so he didn't need to be your equal.

And you are completely wrong, Comrade. The only reason I'm in this job now is because I want to help him, not the other way around. If I was reassigned, I'd just keep helping Barron, and my new inmate could go to hell, and if he leaves without graduating then I spend my deal going after him. I could give you that in writing, Comrade.

[Overinvestment, thy name is Prefect.]

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sharpememory

[Pause.] You're in too deep, Fed. You ever step back and take a good long look at yourself?

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buywithme

Comrade, just because you are incapable of caring at all about your little brother, doesn't mean that the rest of us don't.

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sharpememory

I'm going to ask you a personal question. Are you in a relationship with my brother or what?

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buywithme

He and I are just very, very good friends, and what befalls him is important to me! And, when he's thirty, or forty, I want him to remember what he was doing in his twenties! I want him to remember growing up with you and Cassell, and I want him to know why it is that he cares about you, instead of having to just check his journals for it!

[There's a short pause, then Prefect adds:]

I'm sorry. I understand that for you, he's just always been like this, so it must seem normal, but... for me, it seems unfair that he can't have those things.

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sharpememory

It's not fair, but that's what working is. I don't want to have to feel like shit whenever I handle a problem, but I do. That's life.

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buywithme

You could find a different way of handling your problems?

Besides, it's different. After a few days, or weeks, you stop feeling like that. Barron's memories don't just come back.