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riverview2018-01-22 04:42 pm
shoplifter) wrote in riverview2018-01-22 04:42 pm
Entry tags:
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- marvel (mcu): tony stark,
- once upon a time: lucy mills,
- star wars: rey,
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- ✖ inception: eames,
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- ✖ legend of zelda (botw): link,
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- ✖ star wars: kylo ren
Video. A Friendly School PSA.
[The feed opens with a huffy looking Laura, sitting in front of the screen like it's a PSA announcement or some such — and judging from the glancing up at what must assuredly be a teacher, it's exactly that. Or something. She scowls at the camera again before looking down at the paper held in her dainty little hands that have totally never hurt anyone ever, no sir. She reads it blankly, and it's very clearly she's the worst podium speaker in the entire universe:]
I have agreed.... to read aloud, so that I will not be suspended for the week.
I would like to formally apologize for anyone I have ever stabbed, kicked, punched, or bitten... It was not my intention to hurt anyone and I will try my best from this point on to control my temper, both — in the complex and at school. [She wrinkles her nose, looks deadpan at the camera, and continues.] I am sorry to Tabitha for shoving her nose in the grass during recess. Even if it was because she was being unkind to another student, it does not give me the right to use... 'force'.
And I am sorry for using... Spanish expletives toward Jared, and hitting him in the throat with his own backpack. Even if he was being rude, it does not... excuse violence. [She looks so annoyed, save her.] From this point on, I will do my best to stay in school... for the whole school day. I will try not to leave past the wall.
[She puts the paper on the desk, calmly.]
... And I will not steal the chocolate milk from the cafeteria anymore.
[More gravely:]
But if Susan insults my accent ever again, I will shove her into the trash ca—
[huh the feed ended suddenly how about that
... she's in detention now]
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Would it be so bad to have an adult on your side for once?
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Besides, I can just climb out the window.
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How long do you keep watching the same thing happen before you realize it's pointless to keep doing it?
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You're asking the wrong person that. There's always a point because there's always a chance at succeeding.
I think I know that better than most.
I know how easy it is to think it's all for nothing, too. But it's not.
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In a way, yes. She believed in possibility and that people can do great things if they push themselves to.
And she was right.
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I am afraid of that sometimes. What I can do.
I want to do things that help, not hurt. But I don't know how to be that person.
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[ He sighs, not knowing the best way to say it so better to just be blunt: ]
I was a shitty person before I had my accident. I lost sight of things that were important and didn't help people the way I could have. The way I should have.
If I can learn to be better, do better, and help people, you can do the same, Laura. It doesn't matter what you've done in the past, that's done. It's over. What matters is where you want to go in your future. You can still make that better than where you've been.
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[Is she being honing in on this to lighten the air? Maybe. You'll never catch her for it, though.]
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That's the doctor in me talking. It's a force of habit I can't really break.
But I mean what I said, Laura.
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Do you feel better now than you did then? When you were a shitty person.
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I would like to deal with the less shitty you if possible.
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