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[motivated]

Your lack of confidence would actually be painful if I thought you had a clue about seeing more than what's in front of your face.

The desire to cause issues between my child and myself is not going to happen though. Yes there have been lies, but we'll get through it. We're all one another have.

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[claustrum]

That's really sweet.

But isn't it more like, lies, layered with lies, frosted with lies?

[motivated]

Oh, you want honesty? Okay then.


What were you doing with my daughter?

[claustrum]

Dating. I was dating your daughter. That was a date. [ Cold-sarcasm-choking sweat. ]



Assisting.

She's not big on dead weight. I was making myself useful. She needed to have someone watching her back. [ Mister I-leave-my-infamously-vigilante-child-alone-like-Ferris-fucking-Bueller. ]

[motivated]

[Yep, that's funny. Don't you think he's going to see the humor in that.]

A werewolf assisting a hunter. You know, dating was more believable given her track record in this town.

No, what she needs is to be focusing on school, on eventually getting into college and not ending up like her aunt and mother. That is what she should be focusing on and Derek and his little pack dragging her down into this maelstrom isn't helping.

[claustrum]

Yeah. Because we've been sending her a big fat invite. [ A beat, and a resigned, ]

I tried. I was trying to keep her from going in there, from going anywhere. I mean, she had a knife.

I was kind of hoping she'd stab you with it. [ Like twenty times. ] Allison was all over taking you out, with your secret tables and sacrificial bullshit.

You two must be really tight.

[motivated]

Actually, if any of you but McCall had taken the time to know my daughter, you would know you really are. Every. Single. Time.

She always has a knife. At least one. For every weapon I break or confiscate, she has a half dozen more.

Yes, being an orphan in this town seems to be working so well for others. Oh wait, that is you, isn't it?

Allison has no idea how to run an investigation and she nearly got both of you killed. So glad to see you truly are suicidal to rush to your death. Again.

[claustrum]

I'm sorry, let me just hold up the wolf traffic for her. At least until finals.

[ Ouch. ] Some of us are better off without our fathers. [ He doesn't mean it. He doesn't necessarily not want you dead, but he doesn't want Allison to have a dead dad.

Maybe just maimed, or mildly mutilated. ]

She was going whether or not I was there! I couldn't--I don't know, handcuff her to the car. I wasn't letting her die because you're a psycho, and your family has impulse problems.

Scott wouldn't forgive me.

[motivated]

If you could, I'd appreciate it. [See? He can do sarcasm too.]

You're better off as Derek's pet puppy? I would think you might want more for yourself than being led down that path by the Hales. They get people killed, Isaac, and you'll just be another in a long list if you don't get out now. [Is that caring? Maybe? A tiny bit? Okay maybe not quite but it is a voice of reason who believes it's the truth.] It isn't just Derek. Call it a cursed family. Actually, you could have. Would you like me to give you the cuffs for it? As for my mental state, he who is following a Hale has no right to cast stones on people's sanity. You chose him for a leader and you're going to end up dead like your friends. Want good advice from a psycho? Get out before this town sees another grave for a teenager.

[claustrum]

[ Well la-di-freaking-da, Mister Hunter Dad.

Isaac is not sure he could handle I just met you, and this is crazy, but I care maybe, that's way more disconcerting than sarcasm. ] Allison's grandpa tried to cut me in half. So, Argents or Hales, one of you isn't really big on credit in my book. I know why Derek chose me, and I know it wasn't for me, but he gave me more. More is like, a lot. And then I met Scott, and I owe him. I still owe him. He's trying-- [ He will not, never, ever, be alone like he had been in his father's house. Never ever in ever. ] I didn't even have a life to get back before Derek. Or Scott.

Not that you'd get that.

If you believe that. Why did you bring her back here?

[motivated]

[The problem with being Chris is being caught between father and hunter, Argent and the one alone that truly believed in the code. It meant not trusting Isaac for the choices he'd made, and not hating him for what he was until he made him. It was the spot where he finds himself caught and always uncertain how to move on.]

Yes, I know nothing about a control and domineering father who control your moves or insists on you being what he wants and not the man you want to be. Nope. Not a clue how that works.

[Entirely deadpan, no inflection whatsoever.]

Because she asked to be here. A place where she had friends and a chance to finish school.

And because I figured if we left and McCall got himself killed, she'd blame me so maybe it was about keeping an eye on him.

[werederp]

Uhh, yeah. I think you'd have to do something pretty extreme. Worse than just mapping out pretty much everything about the darach and then hiding it from her, I mean.

[motivated]

Planning is what I'm skilled at. I can understand where no one else in this town could understand that. Even you with your little turn on Derek campaign never looked beyond the here and now.

[werederp]

You've been trained to do this stuff your whole life! It's been less than a year since I got dragged into it. I'm doing the best I can. [but it's not good enough, says that annoying little voice in the back of his mind.]

[motivated]

You're taking chances that could get you and your friends killed. Not to mention my daughter.

[werederp]

We all know what the risks are! Deucalion and Ms. Blake aren't really giving us a choice in whether or not we take them, and your daughter isn't one to sit around and watch her friends get hurt without trying to help, in case you haven't noticed.

[motivated]

As someone that has claimed to care for her, I would think you would try harder to keep her out of it.

[werederp]

I love Allison.... Sir. But even when we try to make a move without her, she usually ends up figuring out what we're doing for herself.