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I suppose turning off communications for a fortnight is as close as one can come to a holiday around here. I trust you'll forgive me for falling off the face of the, ah, Barge. After spending two years in this place, I felt a break was long overdue.

Anyway, it appears I've missed some departures, as well as new arrivals. Since introductions are in order, I'll begin: I'm Major Henry West. Welcome to the Barge. You've been promised salvation, no doubt, or perhaps a favour from the Admiral. I could tell you myself what to expect, but I'm sure you'll find out well enough on your own. We're about overdue for another crisis, after all.

[OOC: LOL I KNOW THIS IS BAD FORM, but I'm going to bed. Tags will be returned uh. When I can get to them.]

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Date: 2010-08-13 06:16 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (debating)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
[It's kind of sweet that he stood when she entered the room, so she doesn't wave it off and tell him to sit down right away]

Hi, Henry. [She gestures for him to have a seat while she takes her own, but she doesn't fully settle back or make herself comfortable.]

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Date: 2010-08-13 06:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
[He sits down and looks at Morgan.]

How have you been sleeping?

[It's the first question he asks because he knows how it is to come from that hell. Sleep didn't come easily for him for several months.]

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Date: 2010-08-13 06:20 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (shifty)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
[Well, at least she doesn't have to lead into it.]

Bad for the first week or so. After that it was just the waking up. But that's gotten better lately.

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Date: 2010-08-13 06:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
[He nods.] Good. In time, it will pass. [For the most part. Never entirely.]

So, you survived my world. Who did you have to kill?

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Date: 2010-08-13 06:26 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (keeping an eye on you)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
More when I was in the urban areas. [It's not like she can say who; she didn't know any of these people.] A few where I found you.

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Date: 2010-08-13 06:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
Oh? [He gives her a raised brow of interest.] I don't suppose Jim happened to cross into the line of fire.

[A small joke, but spoken without much lightness.]

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Date: 2010-08-13 06:32 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (yeah)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
[She realizes somewhere in the back of her head that he's joking but she really can't return any humor]

I didn't chase after the car, if that's what you mean.

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Date: 2010-08-13 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
[He says nothing for a moment, then nods slightly.] Well. Good for the girls, at least. [He has no ill will towards them, really. He never did. They were simply a means to an end.]

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Date: 2010-08-13 06:38 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (oh come ON)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
[She considers her words carefully, not certain how she'd like to broach the subject with him, knowing already she really doesn't want nor really have the energy to fight with him about it.]

If it's good for them, will you allow, at least, that he'll be able to protect them, if he lives?

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Date: 2010-08-13 06:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
[He just stares at Morgan and says flatly:]

He killed my boys.

[And that should be answer enough. As far as West is concerned, his boys mattered more than those girls.]

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Date: 2010-08-13 06:52 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (showing some spine)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
[Morgan sits forward, and she speaks quiet but firmly. Almost like Rube. But there's something a little darker there.] Henry, there comes a time when you're going to have to accept that much as you felt responsible for those soldiers, that boy owed them nothing and was given no reason to feel any way otherwise. Just like if he and those girls had been between me and you I would have killed them to get to you. I don't expect you to ever not hate him for what he did. You're not required to. But you're not entitled to any form of retribution.

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Date: 2010-08-13 06:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
And that's where you and I will always disagree, Morgan. He went beyond what was necessary, and he deserves no mercy from me.

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Date: 2010-08-13 06:59 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
The lines between necessary and unnecessary get really blurry when there are people devouring each other in the streets. I'm not telling you to show him mercy. I'm telling you, for your own good, to put him out of your life and never let him back in for any reason.

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Date: 2010-08-13 07:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
[He says nothing for a moment, then nods.] Unless he returns to the Barge. Again. I'll do ask you request.

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Date: 2010-08-13 07:02 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (I'm listening)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
If he returns to the Barge again, you come to me before you think of doing anything else.

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Date: 2010-08-13 07:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
[He stares at Morgan.] I'll come to Billy first. [Which is roughly the same thing, since in this matter, Billy will suggest the same as Morgan would. But it's a matter of pride for West.]

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Date: 2010-08-13 07:06 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (keeping an eye on you)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
I don't care who the first person you talk to happens to be, so long as it's not him and so long as you see me before you approach him.

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Date: 2010-08-13 07:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
Fair enough. [He smiles thinly.] Jim and I have exhausted all forms of discourse by this point, anyway.

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Date: 2010-08-13 08:11 pm (UTC)
gimmethemap: (not amused)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
It doesn't help that he keeps forgetting you've had them. [Morgan finally sat back, crossing her arms, and with a sigh --] I don't know if I wanted to talk to you about all this because I wanted to try to tell you I think I understand. But I'm not sure I do. You still lived with it longer than I did, and I had fair warning and time to prepare before I stepped into it.

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Date: 2010-08-14 04:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
Hm. [He looks away, thinking.] I don't think anything can fully prepare you for Infection.
gimmethemap: (showing some spine)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
Maybe, maybe not. But looking for strange eye colors and bringing a lot of ammo doesn't hurt. [She shakes her head.] Certainly didn't move me any faster, but I don't think I was meant to interfere with anything that happened there.

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Date: 2010-08-18 02:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
Believe me, you couldn't have interfered much. I doubt anything short of divine intervention [Spoken sardonically] could have changed things.

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Date: 2010-08-18 02:30 am (UTC)
gimmethemap: (yeah)
From: [personal profile] gimmethemap
Yeah. It's hard to look at it that way coming in, though. For a while all I could think was "If I hadn't stopped to sleep" and things like that.

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Date: 2010-08-18 02:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
[He nods slowly.] For a good, long time, I was tormented with much the same.

[Only his were along the lines of "If I'd just killed Jim, myself."]

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Date: 2010-08-18 03:37 am (UTC)
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Needless to say, I think a little differently about how you reacted to that port. [A breath] It wasn't the same place, but they weren't altogether very different, either.

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