Springboard 22: In an alternate universe I would...

[agentmaxwell]

If you weren't doing the job you're currently doing, where would you be? What would you be doing? Do you have any dreams for yourself that never came to pass? Talk about it or don't!

Ok, how exactly "alternative" are yah gettin' here?

Possibility 1: "Preventers" was created after the end of the war, and I immediately joined, havin' nothin' else to do

Comments

[det_lassiter]

.... Which would you rather; there having been the war and you doing what you do now, or there not being a war and the possibility that your parents are alive?

[agentmaxwell]

*eyes widen, he hasn't seen that one coming AT ALL*

I....
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...Dunno. *looks down* I mean... I know I shouldn't thank a war, people died, for God's sake. But... I don't know if my parents are worth it. Am I really a war orphan? Or my mother was just another prostitute of the neighbourhood who couldn't deal with a kid? *shrugs* My actual family may not have my blood, but they're my family anyway. I cannot think of anyone else.

[det_lassiter]

I don't believe in fate and all that horse crap, but it does mean that I don't believe in alternative ways a life could have gone as well. Which, I guess, is a way of saying your life is what you have and you just have to make the best of it, which it sounds like you're doing.

[agentmaxwell]

*smiles* Yah know how to convince a guy, Lassie. *shakes his head* I always live my life how I think it's best, and I learnt not to think much 'bout the past. *shrugs* But sometimes I hear the other agents talkin', and I have a strange sensation when I think I'd thank a war for takin' me out of the streets.