[ Because he might be dead as soon as he gets back. Shotgun in the face, etc. He doesn't see it ending well. ]
I don't know if it works that way. If people remember all of - this. There's a kid here who left the ship and came back. He doesn't remember ever being here.
[ There's no spite, just tiredness. And pessimism, because that's what he's good at. ]
[ Henry's always had a proclivity for optomism. How else could he have ever thought that he'd be accepted back into the family after the whole ordeal with Suren? The chance may be slim, but he's hoping that one of them will remember, that he's not dead. ]
Aidan's not going to die there, Josh. He can't. [ Though Henry probably does know that. ] Hunger doesn't kill us, it just dries us up. Makes us go mad. And he'll be stuck there until someone digs him up. [ Again. ] He's in trouble because I screwed up. I have to try and do something.
[ As far as Josh is concerned, Henry represents everything about Aidan that they've been trying to avoid, the worst kind of backsliding - so it's bizarre to have anything in common with him, or have even the smallest bit of respect for what he's saying.
So even if it's there, there's no way he's going to express any sympathy on that front. The lack of criticism (asking how exactly Henry screwed up, how he made a bigger mess of the one Aidan - and Josh - had already made with the other vampires) is as good as it gets. He's not ready to talk feelings with you, man, but he knows better than to mock them. ]
Was there anything else, or are we done? [ Dismissive, but it's said without much hostility. He can't pretend there isn't some warped comfort in talking to someone from back home about people who matter, even if it's very nearly the last person he'd like. ]
[ Aidan doesn't need Henry to backslide, when he had already fallen off the cliff alone.
But Henry gets it. Josh has turned him into a symbol of everything he refuses to acknowledge about Aidan. Easier to make him culpable, than to acknowledge that his friend was drinking live, that even now he is still a killer.
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[ Because he might be dead as soon as he gets back. Shotgun in the face, etc. He doesn't see it ending well. ]
I don't know if it works that way. If people remember all of - this. There's a kid here who left the ship and came back. He doesn't remember ever being here.
[ There's no spite, just tiredness. And pessimism, because that's what he's good at. ]
tube jammed down his throat* ffffgds
[ Henry's always had a proclivity for optomism. How else could he have ever thought that he'd be accepted back into the family after the whole ordeal with Suren? The chance may be slim, but he's hoping that one of them will remember, that he's not dead. ]
Aidan's not going to die there, Josh. He can't. [ Though Henry probably does know that. ] Hunger doesn't kill us, it just dries us up. Makes us go mad. And he'll be stuck there until someone digs him up. [ Again. ] He's in trouble because I screwed up. I have to try and do something.
lskdfj also SORRY SLOW
So even if it's there, there's no way he's going to express any sympathy on that front. The lack of criticism (asking how exactly Henry screwed up, how he made a bigger mess of the one Aidan - and Josh - had already made with the other vampires) is as good as it gets. He's not ready to talk feelings with you, man, but he knows better than to mock them. ]
Was there anything else, or are we done? [ Dismissive, but it's said without much hostility. He can't pretend there isn't some warped comfort in talking to someone from back home about people who matter, even if it's very nearly the last person he'd like. ]
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But Henry gets it. Josh has turned him into a symbol of everything he refuses to acknowledge about Aidan. Easier to make him culpable, than to acknowledge that his friend was drinking live, that even now he is still a killer.
What does Josh actually know about Henry? ]
No.