text | in spacetext no one can see you crying like a toddler.

[borndying]

Who cares if you die?

( feel free to interpret that however you please, denizens of the EXTREMELY POORLY NAMED tranquility! all possible interpretations are acceptable in harry's current state of complete emotional breakdown. he probably doesn't care if any of you die, for instance, and may bitterly resent you for having an actual answer to this question.

who cared when norman died? who really cared. people mourned the man who'd contributed so much, but that man was an idea. an image carefully cultivated. harry knew enough to know better, but even he wouldn't pretend to have known his father, and who's going to care when harry dies? just like norman did.

harry's legacy is just disappointment and isolation. his best friend is his only friend and he's pretty sure they're totally not friends any more, also. everything sucks and he broke a bottle when he got back to his room and he can't be bothered to clean it up, he's just going to sit here and hate all of you, publicly and violently, and

you know, by text, because he looks even shitter than usual. )

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[borndying]

( his head hurts way too much for this, severus, oh my god. )

Theoretically, yeah.

[darkart]

Good.

Why are you having a tantrum?

[borndying]

You'd need some kind of flashcards or something to start it off. Images of the signs you're trying to teach.

[darkart]

I have the material.

I'll find out eventually, Osborn.

[borndying]

Why does it matter?

[darkart]

Knock that off.

[borndying]

Eat me.

[darkart]

Is that what the fit's about, then.

[borndying]

Peter lied to me. He lied to me when I asked him for help because I don't want to die like this. He said he'd try and he fucking lied.

[darkart]

Then he's a fucking prick.

[borndying]

( on the other end, several moments of shocked silence. he expected sally to take his side because sally is nice to him and makes him sandwiches and frankly has obviously poor judgement in who she befriends. that was a gimme.

he was sort of expecting severus to call him a whinerbaby. )

Yeah.

[darkart]

What are you going to do about it?

[borndying]

I was thinking of playing chicken with my liver until I die of one thing or the other.

[darkart]

Then it doesn't matter if anyone's lied to you, if all you want to do is die anyway.

[borndying]

I don't want to die.

[darkart]

There. You answered your question.

[borndying]

( wait, what. )

What?

[darkart]

Get it out of your system, take a bloody nap, reread this conversation in a day. I have more work for you.

[borndying]

Okay.

( WAT ???????????? )