Video; Round-Trip Home

[ragnarsson]

[The video opens up with Ivar sitting on the edge of his bed, phone recording in one hand, and a knife being fiddled around with in the other. It's clear he's got something on his mind.]

So it turns out if you properly motivate people, they can get that portal fixed up to get you back home.

[It's best not to ask what motivation that was, but Ivar being Ivar, most everyone watching can probably figure it out.]

I'm going back home for a while to take care of some unfinished business. I left in the middle of a war and I need to see that through before I come back. [He pauses.] And don't bother trying to talk me out of this, I've already made up my mind. I'll see you all in two weeks.

[He waves goodbye with the knife and then cuts the video. Looks like the Quarantine has a reprieve from the crazy Viking for the next fourteen days. But he'll be back. Ivar's far too tough to do something as basic as dying back in his home world.]

Comments

[ragnarsson]

[She really wants to do this? Fine, they're doing this.]

I think you've learned nothing in the time you've been away from here. You just came back and expect me to trust you again with both me and Winter. You're a spoiled child who wants her toy back after she threw it away. And you hate hearing the word no because no one's ever denied you much in your life. So take the time I'm away to see Winter, but no, my trust in you has not been repaired.

[burntbridges]

Oh, go to Hel! You never listen to a word I say, do you? You might have noticed I've been told no most of my life, it's what left me married to Winter's father in the first place! A man I know you were jealous of before you convinced yourself you didn't trust me! Because he had my love, and Winter is his daughter, not yours!

You complain so much about how I see you as a hero, how I forget you're human, you're too busy being right to notice that I ignore your faults to make you happy! You're the prince, not me, I'm sure you know plenty about getting everything you want, I'm sure your mommy fussed over you endlessly any time you so much as whimpered! And now that your father is back and you have the daughter you'd never have back home, you're going back there on vacation just to feed your own ego!

Winter is the only part of my home that I have left, the home that I can't return to, so forgive me if I'd like to spend some time with her seeing as I haven't seen her father in over a year!

[ragnarsson]

Oh, yes, the poor little rich girl whose had such a hard life. Ever notice the only common factor that what happens to you is you? You make your own misery, Letha. And if you think war is some vacation I'm going on, you didn't learn a damn thing in your time away.

[Then she makes two big mistakes. She mentions both Aslaug and the fact he likely won't have any other children all in one breath. It's a good thing they're not face to face, for he goes utterly still for a moment before his countenance turns murderous.]

Mention my mother again and my last act before I leave will be to remove your tongue.

[Don't press him on this, Letha. He's just unstable enough to do it.]

[burntbridges]

I know war is a vacation for you! I know glory is the only thing death means to you unless it happens to someone you care for, I know killing others and showing your power over them makes you happy! I know this is going to be fun for you, and you know it too! Because at least I had the decency to listen when you speak, you ungrateful thoughtless bow-legged half-formed excuse for a man!

[She always manages to bring it back to his legs, doesn't she - it's the one weak spot that she's always had her grasp on. The one thing that she knows she can hurt him with, when he doesn't even have to try to whittle into her. She hasn't even finished her sentence before her eyes fill with tears, but she has one last weapon knowing she can stay far away from him until he's gone.]

I hope you come back to find Marco has moved on and lost interest. I hope you die out there and come back to stay in the hospital for a month while they fix your mangled body up. [She wrinkles her nose, in that way that she always does when she's grasping for straws.] And I hope someone pushes your father through the portal and you never see him again.

[And on that note, she shuts her feed off.]