unsweeten: (a perfectly good canteloupe in here)
simon keyes ([personal profile] unsweeten) wrote 2023-08-01 07:20 pm (UTC)

[ he nods at what she says about her father. probably good he's dead, definitely good that she kept him cut out of her life. ]

No, it isn't.

[ that's how he's always felt about it; if you ruin someone's life, you can feel as bad about it as you want, but your remorse isn't going to do a damn thing for that person and they have no obligation to ever forgive you. horace had felt guilty about what happened that day for the rest of his life and apologized dozens of times. none of it undid anything.

...

it's still that same complicated mix of feelings, but her question kind of pulls him out of it, and he looks back at her. ]


What, back home, you mean?

[ a beat, then another laugh. ]

No. Not until very recently. The short version is I ended up at a shitty orphanage run by a rotten crook, saw something I wasn't supposed to see, then spent the next twelve years in hiding from the people who were behind the whole thing who wanted to shut me up.

It was just in the last month before I ended up here that I finally got to put a plan in motion to start taking out all the people who'd made my life such a living hell.

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