fireincarnate: (Smile)
Jean Grey ([personal profile] fireincarnate) wrote2015-01-31 01:27 pm

Video | Backdated to 30th | Private To Phillip


[She's nervous.

There's no getting around it, really. This is her first Inmate since Jason, and while that went well - she was a different person, then. It feels like a lifetime ago.

But it doesn't show in her smile. (She's grateful, today, that Phoenix doesn't need to sleep; the shadows of her nightmares don't hang beneath her eyes.]


Hey, Phillip. I'm Jean.

[She gestures to the file on her desk.]

I wanted to talk to you, before I read this. I won't do it at all, if you don't want me to.

broughtwhiskey: (❖ workin' in the dark)

[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-01-31 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Philip doesn't believe that she won't read it if he tells her not to. There's a lot of power to be had at knowing that many things about a person even if they don't immediately use it. He doesn't know her well enough to think she would respect his wish that she stay out of it. She'd be kind enough to lie to his face about it, sure. It gives the illusion that he has any power over what happens from this point forward. But sooner or later, she'd slip unless she was careful. Or at the very least, they'd both know the truth the entire time.]

That's considerate of you, though I'm not sure what exactly there is to talk about.
broughtwhiskey: (❖ god's gonna cut 'em down)

[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-02-01 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a brief flash of a derisive smile as Philip looks away for a moment. Is it a chance to confess his sins before she reads all about it? Or is it a chance to explain his side of the story? Whichever it may be, he's not interested.]

Read it. [He makes a face and shrugs a shoulder.] Or don't.

It doesn't matter to me.

[Only it does. It matters so much that it's enough to drive him insane, to drive him to do the terrible, unforgivable things he's done. It matters so much that he has to tell himself it doesn't to feign any sense of stability.]

It won't make a difference.

[And it might. He changed his name, tried to be someone else for a reason. He knew no one could accept him if they knew the things he had done. They'd be afraid of him. They wouldn't need him the way the Chamblers had. But he doesn't want to be needed and he doesn't want to be accepted by anyone here. So it does make a difference, but it's the difference he wants right now as long as it makes people like Jean keep their distance.]
broughtwhiskey: (❖ the shuffle of angel's feet)

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[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-02-01 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't say things I don't mean.
broughtwhiskey: (❖ no shalom)

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[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-02-08 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
As far as I'm concerned, you're free to do whatever you like with what I say.

[His feelings about the Barge and what it stands for should be starting to become clear.]
broughtwhiskey: (❖ voices cryin')

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[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-02-08 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I never said anything about wanting to go back.

[And he hasn't. People seem to assume that's the end goal of every inmate here, but it isn't his. He doesn't care where he is; if he stays or goes. There's nothing to go back to in his world and there's nothing waiting for him anywhere else. He was expecting oblivion when Lilly pulled the trigger.]
broughtwhiskey: (❖ listen to the words)

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[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-02-08 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
["First" to Philip signifies that she thinks it will change. That he can change. But he sees both of these things as impossibilities. Circumstances only differ, they never. And him? Well, he's fallen over into the abyss. There's no coming back out of that.]

That's a nice thought.

[But that's all it is.]
broughtwhiskey: (❖ one hundred million angels singin')

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[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-02-08 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[It is very much at the crux of everything. Philip knows his answer, but he's not going to share with the class if he doesn't have to.]

Aren't you supposed to figure that out?
broughtwhiskey: (❖ against your fellow man)

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[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-02-08 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
As far as I can tell, that's all I have.

[So, no.]
broughtwhiskey: (❖ go and tell)

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[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-02-08 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shrugs a shoulder.]

Fine.
broughtwhiskey: (❖ you can run on)

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[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-02-08 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[She can be as cheerful as she wants. It won't get a rise out of Philip one way or another.]

Wherever's fine with me.
broughtwhiskey: (❖ i thought i heard)

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[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-02-08 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't know what Savage Land is and doesn't particularly care. Zero fucks, lady. Z e r o.]

[But he nods and cuts the feed there to meet her outside the Enclosure.]
broughtwhiskey: (❖ hear the pipers)

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[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-02-09 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
[He gives a cursory once-over, but gives no comment to her outfit or anything about this. It's fairly obvious that although he's doing this for her, he's not all that interested in this taking or lasting for long. Philip approaches this as he does most things: just get it over and done with.]

Mmhm.

[He's not really any more for conversation in-person than he is over the communicator.]
broughtwhiskey: (❖ tell the rambler)

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[personal profile] broughtwhiskey 2015-02-11 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[He wouldn't be all that concerned if they could die in there in the first place. He's already died once since his arrival here and he recovered quickly enough that he's not all that bothered by the idea of dying again.]

I won't go wandering off on my own.

[He gestures for her to go on ahead.]

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