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Theresa "Tess" Servopoulos ([personal profile] dog_eat_dog) wrote2020-05-13 08:24 pm
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[personal profile] stand_unshaken 2021-07-12 08:29 am (UTC)(link)

"For being a damned idiot," Arthur predicts, fondly. "If he hadn't found Abigail and got her to stick around, he'd have been dead long ago."

He takes a breath, then holds a hand out so he can see the message, even if it's just the bar that he has to press to get the audio to start.

"Eleven years ago. Why'd you go that far back?"

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[personal profile] stand_unshaken 2021-07-14 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)

"Hell yeah, it is," he says, firmly. He looks at the screen, then hits play again, just to hear her curse again.

"Don't remember her bein' this crude," he says, with a laugh. "Poor Abigail. Jesus."

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[personal profile] stand_unshaken 2021-07-17 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)

He snorts, then hands it back over to her. "You got any for John? You - did they talk about any of us, much?"

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[personal profile] stand_unshaken 2021-07-18 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)

That's the man who came closest to ever being his brother. His real brother, not just a friendly hey, brother at a bar. Arthur misses him like a limb, the stupid mutt.

"What's he doin' pallin' around with Bill and Javier, huh? Jesus. Now I know for sure he had to be years ahead of me. Ain't nobody askin' about Bill Williamson if he weren't the last man on earth left."

Arthur has gotten very used to all the weird time stuff on the Barge, by now, but it still feels a little strange. Maybe Arthur didn't survive, for this John. Maybe he died rescuing Abigail, and she got away.

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[personal profile] stand_unshaken 2021-07-19 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)

"Different world, maybe," he says, quietly, as he takes the communicator back from her so he can listen to the message again. He's silent a moment, then looks back up at her.

"Thank you for showin' me this, Tess. I - I ain't realized how bad I missed 'em. Feels like it's been half a lifetime."

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[personal profile] stand_unshaken 2021-07-23 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)

"A family guy?"

He considers that. "Never thought of myself as that, tell you the truth."

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[personal profile] stand_unshaken 2021-07-23 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)

"You're right. I know not all gangs was like ours, but I never knew another."

He thinks again, then needs to make sure he says it, out loud, like he'd be betraying the memory of each man and woman they ever lost if he doesn't say it:

"They are like family. More family'n the ones I was born with, or - or the one I never really could make."

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[personal profile] stand_unshaken 2021-07-24 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)

"I'm gonna get one of 'em their life back," he says. He doesn't often talk about John like he's dead, though he does really believe he died. He's never had to mourn him, because he's going to get his deal, and then it won't ever have happened.

"But after I do that, they gotta go have their own life. Miss Adler, too. Hangin' around, it ain't gonna help any of us."