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.

Comments

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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.