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Dillon Cole || Scorpion Shard ([personal profile] orderfromchaos) wrote2014-08-02 11:06 pm

12. Mea...culpa?

[Public, video]

[They're the kitchen of Dillon's parents' house: relentlessly suburban, a few southwestern touches, from the touristy Navajo-ish vase on the table to the sepia color palette, well-coordinated. There are floral magnets on the fridge, and one Hannibal Lecter humming as he makes what appears to be gourmet tomato soup and fresh-baked bread. He's wearing an open lab coat over his suit that he grabbed while attempting to join an infirmary shift, right before Dillon hurriedly hustled him out.]

I kind of...fixed him.

[Not like you fix a car; Hannibal wasn't broken, he was himself. Like you fix a dog.]

I thought it would wear off but it hasn't, and his room is the same so it doesn't count for graduation but I don't. Actually know how to undo it.

He's not faking, either.

[Voice pitched more deliberately across the room, though he hasn't been been whispering or anything; Hannibal could have heard him before if he was listening.

Hey, Hannibal, say sorry to the nice people.

[Hannibal pauses, sets down the wooden spoon and turns to the comm, contrite, shifting, a little uncertain.]

I'm terribly sorry for what I've done. It seems almost unreal, but I do not mean to belittle anyone's suffering. I apologize.

[Dillon waves him back to the soup.]


[Private to Jean]

I'm pretty sure what you do is more. Versatile, than mine. I know it's a lot to ask, but could you check and see if you can reverse it?
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[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-03 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I don't see why anyone should care.

Just have the Admiral put him back. Eventually.
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[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-03 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
That's different. He hasn't spent so much of his life having his will taken away.
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[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-04 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Because you had to. Because he doesn't understand suffering and fear and powerlessness.
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[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-04 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe he'll learn.