Well that's just it, isn't it? Why Alice didn't want to say anything too cross. We can't control what they do, no matter how stupid, self-destructive, or short-sighted it is.
If they run away, SURELY they'll turn up here or Moddey. Embarrassment wouldn't keep them from the certainty of a haven.
Well. That was far more suicidal, certainly. But no, I was thinking of a different generation entirely. Back when things were - well, not simpler but less critical, shall we say.
I said I wished I could send a proper Howler. And that they served their relationship to Bella on a platter for carving.
But then I also said that I know they're probably being just as hard on themselves.
I certainly hope they're contemplating the colossal scope of their fuckup, anyway.
I sympathise greatly with the desire to send them a Howler. They deserve it -- but they don't deserve Bella. No one does. And I can't imagine they're not contemplating it. If Bella had simply turned up and murdered Justin, she'd have done it with impunity. No one would have dared stop her.
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On the bright side, I've got half the engine reconstructed.
Working on the timing.
I hope I haven't - I dunno, driven them to something even more desperately stupid.
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If they run away, SURELY they'll turn up here or Moddey. Embarrassment wouldn't keep them from the certainty of a haven.
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I mean to say, I did offer that option, provided they really thought about what they would give up if they chose it.
As acts of teenage stupidity go, it's not the worst we've ever seen.
I just keep looking in my journal expecting something from them. Then I see something I wrote and I think I can hear my father's voice saying it.
It's well disturbing.
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What was unique about this one was that it was stupid and self-indulgent, rather than stupid and heroic.
How hard on them were you?
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I said I wished I could send a proper Howler. And that they served their relationship to Bella on a platter for carving.
But then I also said that I know they're probably being just as hard on themselves.
I certainly hope they're contemplating the colossal scope of their fuckup, anyway.
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I sympathise greatly with the desire to send them a Howler. They deserve it -- but they don't deserve Bella. No one does. And I can't imagine they're not contemplating it. If Bella had simply turned up and murdered Justin, she'd have done it with impunity. No one would have dared stop her.