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specifications) wrote2017-06-22 08:26 am
specifications) wrote2017-06-22 08:26 am
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You'll have to be more specific.
[ Whatever, Arthur, you know precisely what he's talking about. ]
Teaching. You do have the skills for it.
Teaching. You do have the skills for it.
[ He's not the mindreader here, Chaz. ]
Not you, too. I don't. I don't have the patience for kids or teenagers.
Not you, too. I don't. I don't have the patience for kids or teenagers.
Darling, you can hold your own with me. And, as humbly as I can mean that, that's no small feat.
In terms of intelligence OR patience.
In terms of intelligence OR patience.
Edited 2017-11-28 01:15 (UTC)
You also live in a wing of the barracks overrun with teenagers. Your point?
As good as you are at dodging this? Needs work.
You do realize this is what life is, with me?
You do realize this is what life is, with me?
You got no room to talk, Charlie.
What? Being roped in to teaching?
[ Yeah, just gonna play dumb for a moment. ]
What? Being roped in to teaching?
[ Yeah, just gonna play dumb for a moment. ]
[ Not quite what he meant, but it isn't altogether wrong, is it? ]
You know precisely what I mean. The kids are not going away.
I'm not going to force your hand, I'm simply asking that you don't dismiss it outright.
You know precisely what I mean. The kids are not going away.
I'm not going to force your hand, I'm simply asking that you don't dismiss it outright.
I know they aren't.
I just don't know what makes you - or her - think that I'm capable of teaching kids.
I just don't know what makes you - or her - think that I'm capable of teaching kids.
I don't know what makes you think you're not.
[ He has no reason to hide it. Subtlety here may have been necessary, but certainly hasn't been present. ]
You care far more than you let on, and you know it as well as I do.
But fine, if you're determined, I'll not push.
[Much. ]
You care far more than you let on, and you know it as well as I do.
But fine, if you're determined, I'll not push.
[
[ He sighs because he kinda hates it when the other man is right. He still maintains he wouldn't be a good teacher of teenagers but he knows Charles' kids are good kids. He also has experience with younger children due to James and Phillipa. It just hurts to think about them. He can only hope Dom will take care of them and not allow history to repeat itself.
Finally, ]
The last kids I looked after were still being potty trained. Pretty sure I only had the patience for them because I had known them since they were born.
Finally, ]
The last kids I looked after were still being potty trained. Pretty sure I only had the patience for them because I had known them since they were born.
Arthur, I mean this in the best of ways, but you don't talk about much, period. And I try not to push.
But I can read between the lines.
But I can read between the lines.
Edited 2017-11-28 04:49 (UTC)
That despite your insistence otherwise, you don't hold these children (or others to my, forgive me, limited experience) in anything near contempt.
That you have people who trust you enough to trust you with their children, again despite protest to the contrary.
That the only thing saying no right now is you, not your experience. So there's a reason, I think, that sits deeper than the belief that wouldn't be any good at it.
That you have people who trust you enough to trust you with their children, again despite protest to the contrary.
That the only thing saying no right now is you, not your experience. So there's a reason, I think, that sits deeper than the belief that wouldn't be any good at it.
[ gdi charles ]
Had. I don't have them anymore.
Had. I don't have them anymore.
HAVE.
Not the same, perhaps, and believe me, I know first-hand how that never gets easier. But I trust you with mine. The point stands.
[ A pause, and then: ]
And what's to say they're not there when you find your way home?
Not the same, perhaps, and believe me, I know first-hand how that never gets easier. But I trust you with mine. The point stands.
[ A pause, and then: ]
And what's to say they're not there when you find your way home?
Edited 2017-11-28 05:13 (UTC)
One of them will never be there. And the children will hopefully be safe with their father.
But I don't think there is a place for me back there.
But I don't think there is a place for me back there.
[ He couldn't lie and say there isn't a little bit of hope clinging to the last part of that statement, were he asked. ]
I realize this will likely take a miracle, but what will do you if we do actually manage to find a way back?
I realize this will likely take a miracle, but what will do you if we do actually manage to find a way back?
[ That's... a good question. It's not really something he's thought about, resigning himself to just learning how to live in the situation they were in right now. ]
I don't know. There's not much of a reason for me to go back.
[ Mal is gone, Dom is with his kids again, and this is the first time he doesn't really have to look over his shoulder all the time. ]
I don't know. There's not much of a reason for me to go back.
[ Mal is gone, Dom is with his kids again, and this is the first time he doesn't really have to look over his shoulder all the time. ]
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