Pursued, trapped, and frusterated

[murphpendleton]

Mun... That's what you call yourself, right?

''Why is she so angry with me? She's not the abusive guard type who is turned on by bullying inmates. No, she doesn't enjoy it at all, and yet no guard has ever pointed a gun at me the way she did.'

You just had to quote me didn't you? I'm in hiding and all of a sudden she shows up. Why? Why are you doing this to me?! You told me this was a "safe" place to go and that no one else would find out. I thought that was the whole purpose of a keeping a journal? ...No?

[...]

What the hell do you mean "it's not that kind of journal"?

[...]

You know what? Forget it. I'm out of here. If you think I'm going back to prison or back to that town, you are out of your mind! You hear me? I'm not going back to prison, and I'm sure as hell not going back to that town. You'll have to shoot me.

Comments

[dreyrugr_barneska]

There's places worse than prisons here ya know. Like monster infested hellholes. [ Sherry means Raccoon, and a few other places she's been with viral infections, but monsters are monsters. ]

[murphpendleton]

Monster infested hellholes, huh? Sounds like you and I have been to the same place. You wouldn't happen to know of a town called Silent Hill would you? [ Little did Murphy know there were other places than Silent Hill that harbored monsters. ]

[dreyrugr_barneska]

Silent Hill? Nope, never been there, saw it on a map a long time ago, some resort town, they had a park I wanted to go to, but Mom and Dad were too busy in the lab to take me. Then Raccoon City kinda went the way of a bad Romero movie. And then a few days later Hiroshima.

Was actually lucky to get out of there before the nuke hit.

[murphpendleton]

I'd hardly call it a resort, at least, it's not that way anymore... [ Murphy would kind of trail off thinking for a moment about her Romero reference. Yes, he was familiar with his work from working at the cinema back in the day. He put two and two together realizing what the girl was getting at. His initial reaction was thinking that was crazy, but he would keep that to himself. Realization set in. His own story was crazy as well. ]

... Sorry to hear that. [ A less cynical response weighed out. ]

[dreyrugr_barneska]

When I wanted to go there, was around '94, so figured as much.

And it happened a long time ago. Some of the others probably have a harder time talking about it, I was young enough to replace most of the memories with other stuff. [ Worse nightmares, being locked in labs experimented on... yeah, good times. ]

[murphpendleton]

Still, no one should have to go through that. Especially a kid... [ Murphy thought back to his son and the nightmare he went through. ] Charlie... [ He shook his head realizing he'd said his son's name out loud. ] Anyway, you're pretty brave for being able to talk about that. I don't know many people who could.

[dreyrugr_barneska]

I think it was more dumb luck than bravery. More so when I ran into Leon and Claire. [ It's a miracle she survived being in the train with Leon's rep for crashing things! ]

And guess I look at it the same way I look at anything, it happened but it's in the past. Though I think Eliot and I are going to spare the twins the stories of it until they're in their thirties at least.

[murphpendleton]

Yeah... Kids should go on for as long as they can without knowing the horrors of the world. [ and alternative worlds for that matter. ] Wish I could have spared my son all of that.

[acunningham]

Hold it right there, Pendleton!

[murphpendleton]

[ ...You've got to be kidding me. ]

How the hell did you find me this time? [ Murphy would hang his head in disbelief. ]

[acunningham]

[This is hardly a joke.]

I have my means. Now hands in the air where I can see them!

[murphpendleton]

[ Murphy let out a scoff. ] Are we really going to go through this again?

[acunningham]

You don't get it. Do you?

[Note gun is still pointed at Murphy. Cue gun cocking sound.]

Don't make this any more difficult than it needs to be.

[murphpendleton]

If I had a clue of what was going on, maybe I would.

[ Murphy obliged. Did he have a choice? ]

So now what? You going to shoot me?

[acunningham]

We have unfinished business, you and I.

[Permission for Anne to take Murphy?]

[murphpendleton]

[ Permission granted. ]