♻ 006 | video

[tucky]

All right-- because of an incident a while ago involving the pool, a loose rabbit, and some beer, my warden's just a little bit disappointed and exasperated with me, I think. We'd been talking about how he wants me to keep busy by getting a job and finding a subject to study, but he's given me a deadline now, so I'm-- I'm taking suggestions. He says I can't work in the chapel, but I was wondering... I mean...

[She trails off, frowning.]

… Hey, is it just me, or does it seem like there's a lot more people talking over this thing today?

[OOC: I will also be throwing around some Tiffany-related OITNB characters in this post, so if you want your character to talk to her lawyer or one of her prison's guards or whatever, this is the place! Also threadjacking is a-okay especially if other people bring in canonmates; please bug her canonmates.]

Comments

Private

[takeyouapart]

Yes.

Private

[tucky]

Okay.

How long do you think it'll take to work?

Private

[takeyouapart]

I wish I could tell you, but honestly I...I don't know.

Private

[tucky]

Well... I can tell you I feel more secure in myself just from being here.

But maybe that doesn't count because it's from people treating me so nice. Does it not count?

Re: Private

[takeyouapart]

...I don't think there's anything unnatural about feeling safe in a place where people are kind to you. Because they are kind to you.

Private

[tucky]

What about them making me feel better about myself? I feel like that still means something, even if it's because of them and not me.

Re: Private

[takeyouapart]

It does mean something. I'm glad that you have friends who make you feel better. It's...it's how you feel without them that I hope can be bettered.

Private

[tucky]

You mean how I'd feel with no friends at all? 'Cause I think I'd feel, like... lonely.

Re: Private

[takeyouapart]

Of course. I mean as we discussed. The way you value yourself.

Private

[tucky]

And even people without friends value themselves.

... Okay, I think I get it.

Private

[takeyouapart]

[He smiles.]

Exactly.

Private

[tucky]

But... people being as nice as they are can still help with that, right?

Private

[takeyouapart]

Yes.

As long as they're being nice for the sake of friendship, and not to make you feel indebted to them.

Private

[tucky]

... Oh.

You think people might be doing that?

Re: Private

[takeyouapart]

I think that a friend would never expect more of you than you would ever be happy to give. That's all.

Private

[tucky]

I don't think I've given anything to anyone I didn't want to. So I guess I'm safe, right?

Private

[takeyouapart]

Probably.

You might have been told, but what's happening today has happened before. We'll be able to speak to people outside the Barge.

Private

[tucky]

Is that why Pornstache is talking to you? He's not actually here?

[G o o d.]

Re: Private

[takeyouapart]

I don't think he is.

...'Pornstache'?

Private

[tucky]

Oh, uh... maybe don't call him that to his face.

Or maybe it doesn't matter if he ain't actually here.

Re: Private

[takeyouapart]

Oh. That's an insult.

[Not like he knows what porn is. Or why it would have a specific moustache.]

Did you know him well?

Private

[tucky]

Uh... he's been a guard there as long as I've been there, if that's what you mean.

Re: Private

[takeyouapart]

How did he treat you?

Private

[tucky]

[She snorts.]

Come on. Merlin. How do you think?

[Though luckily for her, she didn't even come close to getting the worst of it; she neither challenged his authority nor participated in his drug-smuggling schemes.]

Re: Private

[takeyouapart]

[Levelly:]

I don't know, Tiffany, and I don't want to presume. That's why I'm asking.