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[hippie_ninja]

"He's a good choice for that." He's glad Shaw has Kiryu as a resource.

[abrightboy]

"I didn't know she'd spoken to him before I did until later. But when it came up, he told me," Malcolm says. He considers Jesus a moment. "She said you reached out to her, though. So who told you I was a problem?"

[hippie_ninja]

"No one." He gives him a wry smile. "It's not always about you," he teases. "I reached out to her after Will told me what happened because I assumed she'd be stressed and I wanted to see if I could help somehow."

[abrightboy]

"So Shaw did. It wasn't that nobody told you, it was that you contacted her and then she told you," Malcolm points out. "Because that's the help she was looking for."

[hippie_ninja]

"I guess? But she didn't go looking for me for it, and I didn't contact her because I thought you were trouble."

[abrightboy]

"Semantics. Because she didn't think to look for you. She looked for other people and told them and you showed up and she told you too. It's worse that she didn't call you and still told you my business anyway. How was it anyone's business? I wasn't doing anything," Malcolm points out.

[hippie_ninja]

"You don't think you were doing anything. There's a difference. She was reacting to something, Malcolm, it didn't come out of nothing. You may not realize you were putting pressure on her, but clearly she was feeling it."

[abrightboy]

"Because she has notions about me, many of which are untrue assumptions, but that doesn't warrant jumping all over me just for existing. Or does it?" Malcolm asks.

[hippie_ninja]

"No and that's not what she was doing. Every person in that situation was trying to do right by Will the best they knew how, Malcolm."

[abrightboy]

"So was I, so how am I the bad guy here and everyone else's intentions were noble?" Malcolm asks. "I was in my own cabin, not disturbing her or him. What kind of 'pressure' was I putting on her, exactly, that warranted mobilizing a whole bunch of Wardens against me? If it wasn't in her head, what was it? Point to it."

[hippie_ninja]

"Yes, I meant you, too, Malcolm. Why don't we bring Shaw in and ask her what she experienced?"

[abrightboy]

"I'm already supposed to do that with Will and Kiryu. How many of that meeting do you think I need to have?" Malcolm asks. He holds up a finger. "I'll tell you what: I'll let you know after the Kiryu meeting if we need another one. Or you can ask her. But let's just put this out there: you didn't know and you still don't know what I actually did but you still thought you would call me the day after someone who tortured my boyfriend to death had their hands on him again and use her vague accusations about me to push your break up agenda. Unless you would like to dispute that observation?"

[hippie_ninja]

Wait. What? "My break up agenda?"

[abrightboy]

"You're the only one who suggested we separate. You have already come down on the side of we shouldn't be together to start with. That wasn't in your calculations when you pulled out that suggestion?" Malcolm asks.

[hippie_ninja]

"No. Now you think I'm calculating?" All Malcolm has done this whole talk is paint himself as a victim, he probably shouldn't be surprised that Jesus's concerns are being vilified now, too.

"This was a mistake, Malcolm. I'm sorry I hurt you, but if all you can see are malicious intentions being flung at you when all the rest of us were doing was trying to help Will...I don't know what else there is to say."

[abrightboy]

“I appreciate you trying to help Will, I’m just trying to understand how you thought what you did would accomplish that,” Malcolm tells him. “And every time I question that, you try to leave instead of explaining. Am I asking wrong?” He’s really asking.

[hippie_ninja]

"It feels like you're ascribing motives to me that aren't there, and nothing I say can change your mind. It feels like you've already made up your mind that I'm persecuting you and Will, that none of my concerns are valid so you've dismissed them or--worse--decided that it's part of some weird agenda. I have no agenda, Malcolm."

[abrightboy]

“And that’s what my whole day was like that day. If two or three more people you kind of know and/or respect showed up to tell you the same thing and also pay no heed to what you tell them was actually true, about how far would you throw your phone if one of them gave you the runaround to one simple question?” Malcolm asks. “Hypothetically.”

[hippie_ninja]

"Do I get someone to yell at you when you do start to listen to me, too?"

[abrightboy]

“How were he or I supposed to know you were about to listen to me? Nobody else had. You barely have today. And I get it. It’s not about me. It wasn’t then and it isn’t now. Can you tell me just one thing, though? Please?” Malcolm asks leaning forward with earnest.

[hippie_ninja]

"Maybe."

[abrightboy]

“What was the thing Will said that you wanted me to know? You said you’d tell me if Neal wasn’t here. And he’s not here,” Malcolm points out.

[hippie_ninja]

"His response to killing people. It's like mine. And as a therapist that should worry you. I didn't think Neal needed to hear it; it's a personal thing."

[abrightboy]

“An exact quote, please. I’m not familiar with your response to killing people,” Malcolm tells him.

[hippie_ninja]

"Is the cumulative impression from the whole conversation not just one thing that was said," he shakes his head. "But I assume you are familiar with his response already anyway."