[Shoving this up while I have a tentative connection to LJ] [Video!] [Private to 'Hime]
[He's been thinking over this for a while. But it was more the fact that he could feel himself falling into the same goddamned pitfalls as before. His small network of family and friends from before purgatory, he's kept in place. But he told himself no more, goddamn it all, because it never ends well. Dead, betraying, or gone - that's how they all end up. Hell, he had Benny's freaking soul in him and he couldn't even keep a hold of that.
He had hoped that had hardened him enough to be strong enough to do what he was meant to be doing, what he was better off doing. Just.... no more of them.
Apparently not.
He gets the heavy sigh out of his system before making the call.]
We need to talk.