Emails to Nathan and Pete from Domino

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To: [old man]
From: [thorn in your side]
Subject: still coming over this weekend, yeah?

Just because I've had all the break I can stand, I think. Everyone else seems content to sit around and admire the view, but I'm getting tired of it. Not that it's not a very nice view.

If you don't hurry up and find me something to do I'm going to have to start amusing myself.


Dom

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To: [you over there]
From: [me over here]
Subject: hypothetical question

I know what Nate's feeling on the subject is, because he told me that if I went off to do anything stupid, he'd track me down and put me in the hospital for my own good. But if you came along it wouldn't be stupid, would it? I'd have backup and all.

Just a hypothetical.

I am drinking far too much of Billie's Scotch. I think the others think I'm turning into a lush.


D.

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To: [tiger]
From: [old man]
Subject: yes, I'm still coming

And don't worry. If you all like my plan, you won't be on Muir come Monday.

Why didn't you want to talk to me when I called earlier?

N.

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To: [paranoid]
From: [hungover]
Subject: I didn't not want to talk to you.

I was drunk. Now I am less drunk, and more headachey.

And this sounds promising. Tell me more.

D.

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To: [grumpy tiger]
From: [not paranoid, damn it]
Subject: It's complicated.

You'll think I'm making it too complicated. We'll see if the plan survives intact once MacInnis gets his hands on it. Or whether it gets more complicated.

But I made a promise. So we're going to do this right.

N.

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To: [stupid]
From: [aggravated]
Subject: Complicated is not good.

Simple is good. Putting a bullet in your uncle's head would be good. This is all very basic, Nathan.

If you don't want to do it yourself, fine. In fact, that's probably smart, given that he tends to borrow your powers and spank you with them on a regular basis. Or kill your friends with them.

D.

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To: [Nate]
From: [Dom]
Subject: I'm sorry.

I didn't mean that the way it sounded.

Fuck.

D.

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To: [tiger]
From: [old man]
Subject: yeah, I know.

Go to bed, Dom. I'll talk to you in the morning.

N.

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I don't think it'd be stupid, but somehow, I don't see Nate agreeing with me, and it's not beyond him to put the pair of us in the hospital. He's been wearing that "I've got a plan that I think is terribly clever" look for the last day or two, though, so I suspect that once someone's pointed out all the things he's forgotten, there might be something for you to do anyway.

I'm fucking buried in files here. Next time I decide I'm allowed a holiday, please shoot me in the head. It'll be less painful than catching up on paperwork.

I finally read back on the fucking journals the other day, too, saw the responses to all the shit with Amanda in the autumn. Please remind me that now would be a really, really bad time to start screaming at the entire school, when it's partly my fault anyway.

Pete

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So he tells me, about the plan. Nate's got a new love for plans, these last few months - I think he thinks he's got to keep up with his scheming family. It's kind of disturbing. He's not very good at it, and even when he is, his instinct is still to drop the plan and go for the jugular. He and GW would have these long phone conversations about it...

And you're probably right about the matching hospital beds. I think there's a twisted part of him that still thinks he owes you a hospital stay, too, so if we were mutually stupid, it would probably just encourage him.

Now would be a very, very bad time to start screaming at the entire school, as therapeutic as it might sound. She's alive, Pete, and she's off trying to have the normal life she always wanted. The fault goes enough different ways on this (including hers) that screaming's probably not going to do any good. Go drag Nate down to Harry's and break out the tequila and Scotch, then broach the subject. I imagine that'll provide enough room for self-flagellation for both of you, and since that's what you both really want to do, why not just get right to the point?

... that sounded much more hostile than I meant it to sound. God, I'm a bitch this week.

D.

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If he'd just learn to plan to go for the jugular...

And yeah, I know about how fault goes every which way, and I'm slowly getting past my urge to self flagelate on that score. I know what I did wrong, and I'll won't pretend that I wouldn't do it again, because I know what I'm like, and that's all there is to my end of it. I'll live with it.

But the rest of them? I read back, and when all the shit went down that lead to her getting kicked out, no-one stood up for her. Not a damn one of them. Even fucking Wanger just declared himself biased, and stood back, and let the rest of them tell her she was wrong.

She saved LeBeau's fucking life, and they all fucking stood in judgement, despite the fact that they couldn't have done it and no-one was hurt, and not a damn one of them had the spine to speak up in public and disagree. She wasn't fucking wrong.

What the hell did I spend the last year trying to do, for fuck's sake? What was I trying to keep safe?

Sorry. You're right, shouting at the school will do no fucking good, even though they all fucking deserve it. And Nate's on at me to go meet the kid. Calm thoughts...

Pete.

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Look, I wasn't there, I don't know what went on. And even if I had been, I'm not a mindreader. I know what I got out of Nate when I got him drunk and poked him on the subject at Christmas, and I don't think it's as cut and dried as you're seeing it. Especially since you knew what was going on the whole time, and most of the people you're angry at didn't. Kind of hard to make the right choice when you're not seeing the whole picture, and even those that were - where the hell was your sister, for example? That was the one thing Nate told me he didn't understand, why Rom didn't come and get her when she was expelled. If we're playing what-if, how would this all have gone down if she'd never gotten the chance to run to Selene?

And more to the point, maybe the people who should have stood up for her back then didn't, but they sure as hell did when it came right down to it at the Hellfire Club, from what I understand. Hold them culpable for the rest of it if you want, but don't forget that part.

And now I'm speechifying. Shit. Go meet Rachel... she's cute. Kind of scary, but cute. You know, Moira and Nate asked GW to be her godfather at Christmas?

D.