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abrightboy

Remember the Sweeney punch? The bruise began to bloom before it started to heal. It knocked me back.

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cactusy

But still just a bruise. Okay.

[She relaxes a little.]

I'd feel condescended to too, for the record, if you invited me to sit in on a lecture on violence. Especially if you sounded friendly and sincere. You know that thing where my, uh-- demeanor makes everyone think I'm pissed off and hateful all the time, even when I'm not? That's you and condescension.

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abrightboy

She did only use her fist, as opposed to the last person that assaulted me for almost nothing. [He presses his lips together.] So do you think being condescending is a good enough reason for violent assault?

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cactusy

Nope. But--

[She blows out a breath.]

A punch isn't really violent assault by my book, either. You know what kind of world I'm from.

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abrightboy

So… let me get this straight: In your world, if someone walks up to someone at a party and hits them for no reason, that’s fine. But reprisal - the natural escalation of violence - is not okay?

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cactusy

Okay, one, I thought she hit you because of something you said; which is it? And two, there's a difference between a punch and breaking someone's face.

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abrightboy

One: I never said a word to her; she walked up to me at the party and just punched me in the face without so much as a howdy-doo, so I don't know where you got that impression. And two: she wanted and tried to break my face, I just got the Gaius healing like Will because if I don't almost die from people taking violent offence to attempts to help them graduate, then Will won't have to kill them.

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cactusy

For god's sake--

[She mutters it under her breath, leaning forward far enough that both arms dangle over the railing, and her forehead presses to the metal of the topmost bar.]

If Graham kills anybody, that's on me, not you. You don't have to take on that job, or that blame.

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abrightboy

It’s not a job. When you care about someone, you try to make their life better. Anyway. We both thought it was a good idea after Lestat. Reid never took it seriously enough for either of us and I think Will feels people inclined to lash out on this ship think that lashing out at me is somehow acceptable, so. Healing. And that’s exactly what happened and it worked as designed and it still shouldn’t be okay that she did it, but it was and now I’m a wolf.