tucky: (I respond well to disembodied voices)
Tiffany Doggett ([personal profile] tucky) wrote2015-05-10 04:24 pm

♻ 018 | text/video

[filtered to Dillon, Iris, Mason, and Simon]

[Everyone on this filter gets the same message, sent separately.]

Can you come see me? I need to talk to you.

[Then, after a moment, an addition.]

Don't worry its nothing bad.

[video]

[Later, after finishing visiting with and giving her news to the above people, Tiffany sets herself up to make a public announcement. She sits cross-legged on her bed, turns on the recorder... and suddenly realizes that she has no idea how she wants to say this.]

I...

... There's a Bible verse that I like. It goes like this: "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

[She isn't reading it off of anything; she's memorized it. Considering the last verse she took the time to memorize was about smiting God's enemies for Him, this is an improvement.]

If you know me much at all you probably know I'm a big believer in God. And when I first learned about Him, it was the best deal I ever heard of. I'd never been a part of anything before; never been in anybody's fold. But here I was, learning about somebody who'd love me, and give me a reason to be - I wanted that, you know? Who wouldn't? Feeling like you're loved is the nicest thing.

But then I came here, and I learned that being loved is only part of what's important. You gotta love back, honestly and truly. And I do. I have met the most amazing people and made the most amazing friends, and I wouldn't trade any of you for anything. I told Dr. Cambridge a while ago that I got a lot of hate in my heart sometimes, and that's true. I used to like showing it around a lot. But on the Barge I learned that I got a lot of love in my heart too, and I like showing that around even more.

So what I really meant to say is that I graduated, and it's 'cause of y'all, and I love you very much. Even the people I don't like I kind of love a little bit right now.

[She almost adds Except Arthas here, but bites her tongue.]

But especially the people I like; the people who have helped me. And some of you feel the same way and some of you don't, and that's okay, because love is not self-seeking and me feeling it is enough.

[Pause.]

I'm gonna stay. I'm gonna be a warden. It's kinda scary to me, but I'm doing it. I don't always like how it is on the Barge and last month I was thinking maybe I'd leave, but... I can't do that. It's like my home, now.

That's all.

[And she ends the feed.]
voluntaryapnea: (half smile)

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[personal profile] voluntaryapnea 2015-05-13 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Stiles.
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[personal profile] voluntaryapnea 2015-05-13 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[He almost smiles.]

Beacon Hills, California, yep.
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[personal profile] voluntaryapnea 2015-05-13 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
We're a couple hours north of Los Angeles. Are you from there?
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[personal profile] absentconstellation 2015-05-13 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I am sorry that you find yourself in a position of responsibility in such tumultuous times.
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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-05-13 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[He'd been sure she was going to go back home, set something right, go on living. When she says she's staying, there's only the briefest show of surprise, though; he's not much for grand expressions.]

Yeah? Good. You'll give 'em hell here. Or something better I guess. Give 'em heaven?
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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-05-13 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)

Shit, I'm still surprised you came here as an inmate.

You staying on for a wish?

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[personal profile] absentconstellation 2015-05-13 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't been here long enough to be able to say who can and cannot warden effectively. But the coming months will be especially difficult for all of us.
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[personal profile] voluntaryapnea 2015-05-13 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[And he is...definitely none of those things.]

Oh. I've never been to Pennsylvania. Or the East coast at all actually.
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[personal profile] absentconstellation 2015-05-13 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I pay attention. The Admiral still has not returned. At the rate at which the ship's power is being used all chaos may break loose before he does.
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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-05-13 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)

I always thought the old Admiral had a coin toss with you. Heads you're an inmate, tails a warden. Never seemed clear cut with you, the way it was with Arthas or Iris or me.

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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-05-13 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)

Betcha mine's thicker.

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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-05-13 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)

[He thinks about it, shakes his head.]

But I'd be surprised if you didn't feel something about it.

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[personal profile] anewlanguage 2015-05-13 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)

Why'd you do it? [She knows herself now, or at least a little better than she did then.]

Y'know I was an assassin, before I came here. And that's not the worst of what I've done, so you can't shock me without gettin' real crazy.

[But. Still.] How d'you cope?

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