Eighth Inquiry [voice] BACKDATED TO 3AM

[nottheanswers]

You now, there are some questions that you'll be unlikely to ever get an answer to you can share. Not entirely impossible, as this place has proven, but the usefulness of the information, how it may apply to anyone else, is always suspect.

I've got one in particular in mind, but the answers will probably be different between here and home, and there's good odds they'll vary from person-to-person.

But I'm using a lot of words to make a very simple inquiry. [sorry everyone, he probably hasn't slept in a few days] What do you think happens when you die? Or, at the very least, between when you die here and when she decides to bring you back?

I have my own thoughts, of course, but my answers aren't important right now. Just the question.

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[Voice]

[nottheanswers]

You don't think that's the kind he relishes in using?

[Voice]

[ridi-arlecchino.livejournal.com]

...It is evil.

[Voice]

[nottheanswers]

You're certainly one to know, after all.

[Voice]

[ridi-arlecchino.livejournal.com]

Hey! What's so evil about me?

[Voice]

[nottheanswers]

Well, you've been known to keep some wicked company.

[Voice]

[ridi-arlecchino.livejournal.com]

Just because somebody's a villain don't make 'em evil.

[Voice]

[nottheanswers]

Not necessarily, but that doesn't give him a pass.

[Voice]

[ridi-arlecchino.livejournal.com]

[A pause.] There's... was... more to 'im than people think.

[Voice]

[nottheanswers]

And none of it cancels out the parts we already know. One tends to overwhelm the other.

[Voice]

[ridi-arlecchino.livejournal.com]

There's always more bad parts until I think about the good ones.

[Voice]

[nottheanswers]

I think this is a case where the bad parts need to be acknowledged. You can't really brush off a nature like his.

[Voice]

[ridi-arlecchino.livejournal.com]

I've written the book on his nature.

[Voice]

[nottheanswers]

I expect you have. You're a much smarter woman than most people give you credit for, Quinn, which is why I'm sure you must understand how dangerous he is.

[Voice]

[ridi-arlecchino.livejournal.com]

[Another pause. It's harder to argue with him when he's calling her smart.] Well, sure.

[Voice]

[nottheanswers]

And you were never really exempt from that danger, were you?

[Voice]

[ridi-arlecchino.livejournal.com]

I was always hopin' things'd get better.

[Voice]

[nottheanswers]

Had they ever?

[Voice]

[ridi-arlecchino.livejournal.com]

Sometimes. Kinda. For a little while.

[Voice]

[nottheanswers]

What would you say was the longest stretch?

[So, it just occurred to me that Mr. Amateur Psychologist might have Ms. Professional Psychiatrist on the metaphorical couch here.]

[Voice]

[ridi-arlecchino.livejournal.com]

[It's not even close to the first time she's been there, metaphorical or not.]

There was whole months where I didn't shot at, blown up, or set on fire. And that's not even includin' the times he was in solitary!

[Voice]

[nottheanswers]

I don't think "good" is really defined by the absence of bad by itself.

[Voice]

[ridi-arlecchino.livejournal.com]

We had a lotta laughs too.

[Voice]

[nottheanswers]

Enough to make a difference?

[Voice]

[ridi-arlecchino.livejournal.com]

...Usually.

[Voice]

[nottheanswers]

What happened when it wasn't?