[Dillon makes a bit of a face, because - this is hard question, even before he gets into the question of who Bill lets Dillon believe he is, and who else he might really be. Dillon doesn't totally know what it means to have - or be - a friend, or whether they have to go together. He didn't have any, really, until he came here. There was Maddie in the interregnum, as it were, but god knows how that turned out.
Abigail. Tiffany. Steve. Scott. Alec. Gene and Jean. He can't rely on Bill, but he can't rely on Steve, either. Is he still Steve's friend?
Was he Lourdes?
Not that philosophy is the point of the question. Lourdes, though.]
Yes, Bill, I'm your friend. So yeah, there's - things I owe to you that I don't owe to him, or to lots of inmates that I just ignore. That's true.
[Whether or not Bill is his, which is a separate question, probably, from whether Bill would say so.]
But friends don't enable friends' bad patterns. And if he's as dangerous as you say he is, then I'm one of the wardens who shouldn't ignore him, and I think it's part of my job here not to make inmates worse.
And. Which is maybe the real point, I'm not ashamed of being your friend. I don't care what he thinks about that, or what threats he'd try to make. I refuse to act like I am.
[Well, ok, that's weird. This is the sound of mental notes being reshuffled. Bad backfire. He can't push against this now.]
YEAH, THAT'S NOT GOING TO END WELL. BUT YOU DO WHAT YOU WANNA DO I GUESS!
[It's not that he thinks what Dillon said is completely meaningless, but, mm, yeah, any interaction with Ford is going to kill Bill's chances of getting any help in the future.
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orderfromchaos) wrote2012-07-01 06:39 am
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So, I'm not going to pretend I don't know you like you're a wacky yellow leper, or pretend that I'm not invested in your whole -
[Dillon waves a hand]
- situation, here. But I'll consider everything you've told me to be in confidence, when it comes to him.
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[bill does not have leprosy.]
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[8O !!!!]
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[theres no way to prove for sure!!]
LOOK, HE'LL BE EASIER TO DEAL WITH IF HE THINKS I DON'T HAVE ALLIES.
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TOLD YOU, I KNOW HIM. HERE'S THE NARRATIVE HE WANTS: I'M THE BAD GUY AND NOBODY LIKES ME. HE GETS THAT, HE'LL MOVE IN A PREDICTABLE WAY.
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[So, obviously, Dillon should render it a moot tactic.]
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But I'm not his warden in exactly the same way I'm not yours.
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Abigail. Tiffany. Steve. Scott. Alec. Gene and Jean. He can't rely on Bill, but he can't rely on Steve, either. Is he still Steve's friend?
Was he Lourdes?
Not that philosophy is the point of the question. Lourdes, though.]
Yes, Bill, I'm your friend. So yeah, there's - things I owe to you that I don't owe to him, or to lots of inmates that I just ignore. That's true.
[Whether or not Bill is his, which is a separate question, probably, from whether Bill would say so.]
But friends don't enable friends' bad patterns. And if he's as dangerous as you say he is, then I'm one of the wardens who shouldn't ignore him, and I think it's part of my job here not to make inmates worse.
And. Which is maybe the real point, I'm not ashamed of being your friend. I don't care what he thinks about that, or what threats he'd try to make. I refuse to act like I am.
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[Well, ok, that's weird. This is the sound of mental notes being reshuffled. Bad backfire. He can't push against this now.]
YEAH, THAT'S NOT GOING TO END WELL. BUT YOU DO WHAT YOU WANNA DO I GUESS!
[It's not that he thinks what Dillon said is completely meaningless, but, mm, yeah, any interaction with Ford is going to kill Bill's chances of getting any help in the future.
Oh well, that's why you make backups.]
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[This is more rueful and less smug than it would be with almost anyone else, somehow.]
If it does, I promise you can vandalize my cabin with several creative renditions of 'I told you so.'
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Guess I just have to not let him kill us.