007 [AUDIO]

[worksmart]

[The recorder clicks on with the rattle and thud of things being dropped onto a table, and someone speaking low over the noise.]

-not really here. I know the damn prognosis. Thirty days after injury, ninety percent of patients fail to recover to a state better than severe disability. I know I won't work again. You want to rub that in? Fine. You're

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[worksmart]

I won't tell.

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[adamantined]

When I was sixteen, I drove a car into a concrete wall on purpose so that the boy in the passenger's side would get hurt. We were going over seventy. He's lucky that he wasn't killed. I was in control of the car the entire time, in control of the entire situation.

Still think I'm as good of a person as you say I am?

Shades of gray.

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[worksmart]

I think if you were suicidal you weren't mentally in control of anything. Pretty sure most law courts would agree with me on that one.

And I never said you were a good person, I said I doubted you believed that about yourself. I still doubt it. And that's fine; I've met people who think they're saints. Uniformly irritating and generally delusional.

Shades of grey.

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[adamantined]

I wasn't suicidal.

The people who think that they're saints are usually the exact opposite anyway. Or at least they turn out to be in the eyes of everyone else.

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[worksmart]

You drove into a brick wall at seventy.

Actually, a lot of they get hailed as saints. You just have to wonder whether the real deal would have such a need for publicity.

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[adamantined]

I knew I wouldn't get hurt.

In my experience, the people campaigning for how good something is or how right are usually the ones that are lying. Maybe I'm just biased.

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[worksmart]

How? You're a trained NASCAR driver and nobody knows?

Maybe you've had bad experiences. But you're not wrong, it's just we tend to call those pharmaceutical companies.

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[adamantined]

[ there is nothing here but an actual, honest-to-God laugh ]

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[worksmart]

[It's a nice sound. Nicer now midnight's ticked through and there's no one listening over his shoulder.

Odd that he almost didn't notice.]

Claire?

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[adamantined]

Chase.

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[worksmart]

[A lot of questions in this pause.]

What did he do?

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[adamantined]

[ a lot of pausing in this pause - if not for the light impressions of movement, the line would almost sound dead. ]

He tried to force me.

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[worksmart]

[Same, except he's picked up his communicator and is walking somewhere.]

A lot of people would have wanted to drive him into a wall.

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[adamantined]

I wasn't the first. If anything, I wanted to make sure that I was the last. My dad took care of it, in the end.

[ pause for an exhale ]

Are you going somewhere?

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[worksmart]

I'm assuming not through the legal system. And you knew you wouldn't get hurt?

[There's a clang of metal answering her question.]

Off the roof. Kind of chilly today.

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[adamantined]

You asked me if I had an ability.

[ she sounds strangely okay with this ]

I'm glad you're going back off the roof at least. [ wait ] What were you doing up there?

[ooc: sob I need to. sleep again. this is the thread that never ends. <333333]