26 | video/offline

[kyasdaughter]

[Filtered to Break:]

Why didn't you say you were friends with Lucifer? He stopped by the other night.

[Filtered to the rest of the house:]

Um, guys, don't be mad, but I need to tell you something.

[Filtered to Snape, Harry, Raven, Sirius:]

It's been a week. Are you guys feeling any better?

[Yes. She is taking an unbidden interest in your

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[mister_hatter]

[He knocks on her bedroom door.]

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[kyasdaughter]

Is this a joke? Are you trying to be funny?

[She has her hands clapped over her ears, pale, looking at Break in wide-eyed horror.]

I don't want to hear it! Just get out!

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[mister_hatter]

I killed one hundred and sixteen people. I didn't do it out of self-defense, I did it to get what I wanted. I did it ruthlessly, and quickly, and although I regret it every second of every day, that does not make me trustworthy, and I am not your family.

I will protect you however I can, but do not mistake me for someone you can count on.

[He moves to the door.]

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[kyasdaughter]

[She's fighting a lump in her throat, and when he moves to the door, she steps back around him, as if trying to keep a safe distance between them. Something in her expression is lost.

She had never considered that a side of him like this might even exist.]

It was just an expression.

[And then a little more harshly as she turns to the window, choking down fear and angry and shock, she whispers:]

Fine. I won't make that mistake again.

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[mister_hatter]

I'll pack my things tonight.

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[kyasdaughter]

[She grips the windowsill and stares blindly out the window.]

How are you supposed to protect me if you're not even here?

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[mister_hatter]

Right now, the most dangerous person you know is in the room with you.

[He laughs.]

Although I suppose not. With the eyesight.

The person you should talk to is Alphonse.

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[kyasdaughter]

You wouldn't hurt me. Any of us here.

[She wishes she could look at him.]

.. Alphonse doesn't have anything to do with this.

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[mister_hatter]

Alphonse knew. It might be good for you to have someone to talk to about it- he reacted just the same way.

I'm sorry for letting it get this far.

[Absolutely silently, setting something on her dresser, he steps out the door.]

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[kyasdaughter]

-- Break.

[But it comes too late, half a minute after he's gone from the room, and she can't find it in her to go after him when she finds the room empty.]

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[mister_hatter]

[Not quite empty.

Emily is perched on the dresser, smile still in place, ready and waiting to keep the dreams away.]