Email to Betsy
Nov. 15th, 2005 06:12 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
To: [Ms. Braddock]
From: [the kitten]
Subject: Request
Hey Ms. Braddock,
I guess maybe this will sound a little strange, but then, maybe it won't. You know what happened, so I don't need to explain that, but maybe I need to explain why I'm asking this.
Well, but probably I should ask it first.
Would you be willing to give me some serious self defense lessons?
Maybe it wouldn't have helped, but now it feels like... Like I just couldn't do anything, even if I had been in my right mind. It's been a long time since I took any of the defense courses, and I never exactly applied myself to them. Always thought I'd be able to just get away. But I guess that's not true anymore, and I don't like having to rely on someone else. Jamie was here this time, and Jamie will always be there for me, but I don't like feeling I need a bodyguard, or something.
And I'm asking you... well, because I trust you. Because you're one of my favorite teachers and you know how I learn and just... because it feels right. And Dr. Samson and everybody is saying I should do what feels right now to feel safe.
So, yeah. Would you?
-Kitty
From: [the kitten]
Subject: Request
Hey Ms. Braddock,
I guess maybe this will sound a little strange, but then, maybe it won't. You know what happened, so I don't need to explain that, but maybe I need to explain why I'm asking this.
Well, but probably I should ask it first.
Would you be willing to give me some serious self defense lessons?
Maybe it wouldn't have helped, but now it feels like... Like I just couldn't do anything, even if I had been in my right mind. It's been a long time since I took any of the defense courses, and I never exactly applied myself to them. Always thought I'd be able to just get away. But I guess that's not true anymore, and I don't like having to rely on someone else. Jamie was here this time, and Jamie will always be there for me, but I don't like feeling I need a bodyguard, or something.
And I'm asking you... well, because I trust you. Because you're one of my favorite teachers and you know how I learn and just... because it feels right. And Dr. Samson and everybody is saying I should do what feels right now to feel safe.
So, yeah. Would you?
-Kitty