Taking AU Jin out for a ride

[wasjustascratch]

No, mundane. I don't want any part of this. I don't want to see Shion or Margulis or anyone. It's better that my presence not upset any of my family or friends from the 'canon' universe. The choices that lead me here are already made, nothing can be changed about it.

[He pauses and sighs.]

And that username is completely unnecessary. I had thought I'd survive the injury.

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Probably a bit defensive too.

[wasjustascratch]

You could stand to be a bit nicer, Colonel. Unless you're afraid your heart might fail you as a result.

[Sigh. Jin actually likes Allen.]

Only a bit?

[misplacedxsheath]

We aren't all as soft as you, Uzuki.

*He has nothing against him, but he can hear him being less sympathetic than his AU version.*

Okay, a lot.

[wasjustascratch]

I believe the old adage goes that you'll catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Because pride.

[misplacedxsheath]

And yet you never accomplish your desires any more than I have.

Lots of it.

[wasjustascratch]

Not all of them but I've accomplished what mattered most to me.

One of their more headache inducing similarities...

[misplacedxsheath]

In the short run, perhaps. But you've cast aside your ability to make your own choices with regards to the future.

Not that they'd ever admit to being similar.

[wasjustascratch]

It was this or remain dead. Either way, my ability to make my own choices would have be forfeited. At least this way, I can ensure the people who are important to me are as safe as I'm capable and allowed to keep them.

Of course not, how could someone even make the accusation?

[misplacedxsheath]

While lying to their faces and manipulating them from behind the scenes. I'm aware of how he operates, Uzuki.

Then again, you always have been ruthless in your own way, haven't you?

'Someone' obviously don't know these two. *nod*

[wasjustascratch]

[Sigh.]

I made a choice, difficult as it was. I don't expect you to like it or approve of it.

Clearly. Such a silly thing to think.

[misplacedxsheath]

You made a choice considering only the near future, rather than the implications of the long-term.

The silliest!

[wasjustascratch]

Tell me, Colonel, what could I have done if I had died on Miltia? What could I have done about the near future and in the long-term besides fertilize a few plants?

They're as different as night and day, obviously.

[misplacedxsheath]

Were your allies at the time truly so untrustworthy that you couldn't request for them to rescue a single little girl?

Oh yes, they are.

[wasjustascratch]

I doubt that Shion would have trusted two complete strangers. She was only a child.

Or as different as fire and ice, you could say.

[misplacedxsheath]

And they would have been unable to handle a small child who was failing to grasp the urgency of the situation?

Oh ho ho!

[wasjustascratch]

I'm sure they could have.

[Margulis... is making him feel guilty... Damn everything.]

Ignore the fact that they both use lightning for purposes of this metaphor.

[misplacedxsheath]

Then there's no reason you couldn't have left her to them.

Consider it ignored. It isn't as fun as ice or fire anyway.

[wasjustascratch]

I suppose not.

And it's a secondary thing anyway, so it doesn't count, right?

[misplacedxsheath]

Of course, this is all ignoring the point that it was foolish of you to confront me in such a condition anyway.

Right!

[wasjustascratch]

I didn't exactly have a choice. Would you have let me flee and continue with my mission?

Right!

[misplacedxsheath]

Were you incapable of tending to your own wounds beforehand?

[wasjustascratch]

I didn't have the time. Between assisting chaos and Canaan, transferring the data and fighting you, I would barely have gotten to Shion in time. Our parents were already dead.

[misplacedxsheath]

And the mere fact of you being so badly injured wasn't a liability on your trip to Labyrinthos, then?

[wasjustascratch]

I was but didn't make it to Labyrinthos. I lost consciousness before getting there.

[misplacedxsheath]

You truly are a fool then, Uzuki.

[wasjustascratch]

You are more than welcome to think so.