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Yeah she said it to me. Why's that so shocking?

Yeah, that would be when I meant.

Oh, only because for the last three decades or so (barring the years she was dead) she was fairly vicious about reminding me and everyone else she was my ex-wife.

That is strange. Maybe she's changing her mind?

It does seem like it.

Things have been better since she came back--much better.

But that... that was new.

I can imagine how it would be better.

There had to be a reason for her to come back.

Ressurections in this world have never made a lick of sense, but hers, my son's... I'm just going to be grateful.

I've brought people back. There's a price but sometimes it's worth it.

--I'm not sure I want to know how you managed it.

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Back on the topic of your chat with my wife... Thank you for being the catalyst to warn me that she... hasn't dealt with some leftover trauma.

Oh, this is going to be fun to deal with, God damn it to hell and back.

Probably better that way.

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Think we're all right there with her on that shit.

Always is.

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She spent quite a while both insane and knowing that she was. Among the things she did specifically to hurt me is torturing my lover.

She was still insane when she died, and obviously, she really hasn't had time to deal with the fact that she's not insane anymore.

Convincing my psy-ops wife that she needs to talk to someone... *sigh*

Not sure I'm the best to talk to about this.

Hell, if they can convince me to "talk to someone" anything is possible.

You're the one she spent a while trying to convince not to trust her because of the period of time she spent where no-one could, despite that she's not insane anymore. If anyone ought to have the explanation of why, it's you.

...Good point. *wry look* Wish me luck?

OOC: you're going to be getting the default icon for a while b/c I'm posting from yahoo. Just imagine it's one of the unmasked ones?

That's the point. I don't trust people. Ain't too hard to convince me not to trust you if you say I shouldn't.

If you think it'll help.

OOC: NP. I have a good imagination.

Once we manage to double-check why she still won't trust herself, let alone want anyone else to trust her, I'll let you know. *is not a happy man, at all, but at least it's something they can deal with*

Thanks.

You do realize paranoia don't need a reason?

Of course, I live it.

But I trust my wife, despite what she said.

I also know why she's not trusting herself, and ~~it's my fault~~ it's not something that's there anymore.

She got dosed with a chemical cocktail that drove her mad. It's not in her blood anymore, and... I thought she was all right.

But we didn't have time to deal with anything before we went after the HIVE, and--

Obviously she's not.

After you get drove insane you're never alright again even after it gets better. Twenty years and I'm still not alright with it. Might be easier for her to change since it was a chemical did it to her.

*bitter, dark noise*

Recovering from insanity seems to be a goddamned survival skill in the part of the world I run in.

Between my temporary bouts with post-resurrection madness, Joe's... Joe is doing fine, even if he is doubting himself too much after what he was used to do.

Rose seems to be coming back from her bout with it well. Now I just have to work on Addie.

...And keep my eye on some of the Titans. Those kids are broken in ways that make me very uneasy, right now, from the originals down to the newest ones.

I live where 2/3rds of the entire population is insane from poison gas let alone the people who've seen people eaten alive, had family hauled off by the government or went through the war.

You don't recover because it just keeps getting forced on you day in and day out. When the hospitals are run by the government and mental illness is punishable by imprisonment or worse. No one gets help. You just give up on getting better if it ever does happen.

*goes carefully still*

There are days that the damned crazy telepaths, random Wednesday alien invasions, extra-dimensional evil entities, and swarms of random ninja and yakuza don't seem so bad in comparison to what might be.

Today's one of them.

Come take a vacation over here.

At least the enemy is known. I'd prefer it over shooting friends in the head when they come awake and try to take a bite out of you or seeing people dragged down and eaten alive like some bad 50's horror film.

One false move on the street, huff too much of that odorless, colorless gas and you lose all bets. I'll take something I can see coming any day over that bullshit.

*faint shudder of muscle, almost too fast to be seen* You're right about that.

*wonders if odorless and colorless applies to his senses of taste and sight and smell, but doesn't voice the question--also, never wants to find out.*

I would too. No doubt on it.

i>Snake smiled rather cynically. Days I wonder if it's hell instead of being alive. Glad I don't have to always be there now. Probably be out of my mind if my kids were there.

I'd wonder that too. It sounds kind of like the hell-world I stumbled into, or one of Rose's visions.

And I'm glad you don't as well.

I can't imagine having kids in a world like that one, it'd drive me crazier than most people think I am.

Trapped in my nightmares crosses my mind sometimes.

Drives me crazy enough now without the gas. Somehow my record was nice enough to follow me along with some of the more annoying bastards from home.

Your record followed you? Now that's just a few dozen kinds of unfair.

Hm. Wonder if an ally of mine might be able to help you with that... *thoughtful*

And don't kids drive everyone crazy?

OOC: care to rethread this? bet it's getting tiny

It's bullshit.

I've got a pouch to stop nightmares made by some vouldun priest or something. Helps when I sleep but not the ones I get awake.

Was talking more about the cops shooting at them. The kids are the least of my hassle most days.

You're right about that. Addie made some interesting noises about some of what she found.

Huh. That would come in useful, but no, nothing stops what you see when you blink wrong and you're back somewhere you never wanted to see again.

Aaah. *nods*

I'm sure she did. Some good ones on my wrap sheet.

No, nothing does unfortunately. My mind doesn't help that much either.

Smiles proudly. My kids are angels.

Some things that make me regret trying to stop that bomb going off in the Capitol, more like.

Nor here.

Wry smile Joe was always an angel. Grant on the other hand, was a bit of a holy terror. Too much my kid. Though where Joe gets the sweetness I have no idea, it surely wasn't from Addie.

I can imagine.

Think the boy is going to be like that when he starts walking. Swear the women cursed him by giving him my name.

Joe's the one that got my name, and he managed to avoid it--at least mostly.

Always impresses me how much a kid unrelated to me can pick up so much and act like me.

Just goes to show your father's the man that raises you, right?

Suppose it does in most cases.

Most cases is true enough, I guess. Mine wasn't worth the powder and lead it'd have taken to shoot him, after all.

My stepmother's second husband, though, was a good man, and taught me a lot.

My dad was a good man. Kids be well off if I'm half what he was.

You sound like the kind of man who's going to give it his best to be.

Way I treat everything.

Seems like the only way to do things, much as I've screwed up sometimes.

I get it for doing right. Fucked up world.

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