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[scarlet_discord]

 I don't care what he does. It's all par for the course for both him and this place. There's nothing I can do about any of it except try to survive more or less intact. It's better to just accept that things will go to Hell despite my warnings. Nothing I say or do makes a bit of difference there. All I can do is ride it out when it happens.

Comments

[master_of_magnet]

What seems to be the problem, Wanda?

[scarlet_discord]

Well, let's see. After one version of you utterly ruined my childhood, another is about to cause serious problems in the place where I'm trying to live now. And there is nothing to do in either case but ride it out.

[master_of_magnet]

I have heard what happened to you in your world, and while it is not what happened in mine, I can understand the reasoning. I am seen by many as an international terrorist of the worst kind. Would your childhood really have been any easier with such a stigma thrust upon you?

Know that what I do, in my world, and all other iterations, I do so that my children can raise their children in a world that does not judge solely on circumstance of birth.

[sharpsuitfluffytail]

Shot in the dark here: dear old Daddy again?

[scarlet_discord]

Of course.

[sharpsuitfluffytail]

I suppose poisoning is out of the question?

Only kidding, of course. From what I know of the place, it wouldn't work anyway.

[the_jedi]

Wanda...

[scarlet_discord]

Sorry, Luke. I'm out of smiles right now.

[the_jedi]

It's okay. You don't owe me anything.

[scarlet_discord]

Yeah, well. It will be better when I'm...free.

[the_jedi]

I hope so. I don't know enough about the situation to comment much. ...You don't need to tell me anything if you don't want to. You don't owe me that, either.

[wedonot]

Excuse me?

[scarlet_discord]

It's nothing.

[wedonot]

It certainly doesn't sound like nothing.

[scarlet_discord]

Some of the Wardens like to chew me out because I'm not compliant enough. Now I've been chewed out by an Inmate for being compliant at all. I see it as reason to be worried. But my concerns don't matter, so I'm not going to bring it up with anyone.

[wedonot]

That isn't healthy, Wanda. If you're upset, you should tell someone.

[scarlet_discord]

How many times have I tried to tell people that something is wrong, and how many times have I been yelled at, lectured and told to grow up? I give up. If nobody wants to hear from me that there's a problem, then nobody will.

[wedonot]

I've offered to be someone to help if you need it, Wanda, and that includes being someone to talk to when you're upset. I don't know what else you want from us.

Sometimes you need to really listen to what other people are saying, no matter how unpleasant, and try to understand where they're coming from instead of dismissing it as them just lecturing you because they're selfish and don't understand.

[scarlet_discord]

Trust me, this particular situation you won't want to hear or deal with.

As for the rest, I try to listen, but the endless talking down to me, the constant disdain and dismissal, makes it really hard to give a fuck about where anyone is coming from. People are so goddamn eager to shut me up. I'm tired of trying to communicate with people in this place. Especially Wardens.

[wedonot]

You're worried about Erik.

Shutting off people entirely isn't going to be what gets you off this boat, Wanda. I think people's frustration comes from feeling like you're quick to dismiss them, or to overreact and misinterpret things, which just perpetuates the cycle. It isn't that they don't care about you, or that they're dismissing your concerns, it might just be them trying to show you something you might not have considered before.

[wecanavenge]

What is it I'm meant to have done now?

[scarlet_discord]

Why nothing, of course. Not a thing. There's no chance you'll turn out to be a murderous terrorist like all your other incarnations. Certainly I have no reason to be worried by the fact that you hold well behaved Inmates in open disdain and seemed to be trying to talk me into lashing out at the Wardens. I'm sure it's all in my paranoid, immature little head.

Anyway, it doesn't matter, because nobody would believe me.

[wecanavenge]

You aren't a well behaved inmate, Wanda, you've just given up. That's what I find disdainful.

You should ask yourself one very important question, you know, and that is how well you know me. Not your father, or what other people have told you about different versions of him, but me, Erik Lensherr.

How many times must I offer to help you? How many times will you sigh, and act as if we've reached an accord, only to throw it back in my face? You can bemoan your existence and cry out against the unfairness of the system, but you haven't done anything to deserve that luxury.

[scarlet_discord]

Your idea of giving up is not fighting the Wardens. I told you what happens when people lash out, but you refuse to believe me.

I try to get along with you, but no. I don't trust you. I've been waiting for the explosion since you got on board. I've been wary of your trying to use me as a pawn. You say nice things, but the moment I disagree with you...

[She shakes her head.]

Forget it.

[wecanavenge]

You're bitter and jaded. If you don't think I know exactly how that feels, then you really don't know a thing about me.

You can't judge me based on his actions forever.