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[iceboxed]

Hayley--

[a pause. okay, so this really sucks. he hadn't asked him about keeping her here. hayley wasn't on the list, and now--]

Hayley Marshall has gone home, which...I guess is a good thing. She had a kid back there, and...

[no, it sucks. and now that means he's down one of the few good things he had left here.]

Whatever. She's gone, and considering it looks like nobody else turned up this jump, she probably won't be back.

I just wanted to make sure her friends here knew. Sorry.


locked to beacon hills crew;

[a lock, and a short delay while he works out what to say here. he isn't sure how well any of this will go down. whether he even can come back, given all that's happened. but he at least has to try.]

...I want to come back.

[it's a quiet admission. it's still difficult, and he doesn't know how he will take this. (he's not fooling himself in to thinking that he can't see this.]

I want to come back, and I know you're just gonna want to lock me up again. But don't make me stay in there. You can't.

[it isn't a statement. isn't anywhere near as certain as it would have once been. instead, it's a request. a plead. he wants to come back, but he can't if it means staying locked up indefinitely.]

Tell me there's a way to make it work. Please.

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[strayed]

[Part of Cora thinks she shouldn't respond, shouldn't reach out just to get hurt again. But she can't ignore him pleading. Despite what he thinks, he's still pack.]

Are you going to listen to us?

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[iceboxed]

I always listened. I just-- I can't talk to you guys like this.

voice; group private

[strayed]

No you didn't. You listened to that thing before you listened to us.

voice; group private

[iceboxed]

You don't get it. He was helping me.

voice; group private

[strayed]

Helping you with what, Isaac? Surviving here? It never helped anyone with that.

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[overdraws]

Don't try to tell us that you can't talk to us, Isaac. You won't talk to us. You'd rather talk to that thing.

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[iceboxed]

I'm talking to you right now. You're just not listening.

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[overdraws]

I've been listening, Isaac. You've made your point clear.

voice; group private

[altercate]

Why?

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[iceboxed]

He won't like it.

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[altercate]

What it likes doesn't matter. Cora's right. It's not helping you. What if it told you to kill us? What would you do then?

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[better]

Why do you keep putting the demands and wants of an anonymous source over your own? You want to come back - why can't you just realize that you need to put what you want ahead of what you think it wants from you?

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[50000volts]

Hey... You okay?

[ Darcy doesn't presume to think she and Isaac are friends, but they have a connection all the same. It isn't that she feels obligated to reach out to him, but it feels right. ]

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[iceboxed]

Of course. Why wouldn't I be?

[you know, smiley-related reasons aside]

[50000volts]

I can think of about fifty reasons just off the top of my head why you wouldn't be. And I'm kind of slow on the draw on that stuff.

[ Also, she's not setting those reasons aside. ]

[iceboxed]

She's better off back there. So I'm happy for her.

[and if he keeps saying it enough, one day he may even believe it]

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[immuno]

How are we supposed to know we can trust you?

[ There's a lingering sentiment of understanding there. She'd betrayed them all once, too. Twice, if Scott's explanation was to be understood correctly. Peter had climbed inside of her and manipulated her until she'd felt like she had no other choice. She could empathize with Isaac's position, but at the same time, and though that meant she understood him, it didn't necessarily mean she could forgive him, given how Derek had explained the situation. ]

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[better]

Wouldn't it be easier to bring him back and then make sure he feels like he can trust us, too? He's had that thing telling him that we aren't helping him the way it can. [She knows that it doesn't feel right, that it could be a trick, but she's trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. She just wants him to feel like he can at least talk to them.]

Trying to prove something... That something won't happen - it just feels like we should just get him back and then figure it out.

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[immuno]

That sounds like a good way to get a bunch of us killed. You might be willing to take that risk, but I'm not sure all of us should.

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[better]

[She wants to start out with that irrational response of 'you honestly think he'd do that?' but all she has is the echo of Allison bringing up the incident that Derek pushed them to. It's all too reminiscent of that. Someone they thought was helping, only pushing to help themselves... Isaac and her and Boyd were all too quick to sign onto that and look where it got them.]

So we just abandon him because it might be a risk? Or is this where the only solution is to lock him up, because that's not a solution. That's just hiding the problem away and not dealing with it.

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[immuno]

It's not abandonment if he betrayed us first.

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[iceboxed]

You don't.

[it's about as honest and answer as he can give. there's no way for him to prove himself. so all he can do is make the request and hope it works]

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[immuno]

[ Thought as much. ]

Is it still talking to you?

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[iceboxed]

[cue a long, long pause.]

Not right now. But sometimes.

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[immuno]

[ Thought so. She presses her lips together, pausing as well. Swallowing that. She wants to give him the benefit of the doubt, but she also knows how desperate Peter made her. How desperate Isaac must be to have given into Smiley in the first place. ] What are you gonna do the next time he tries?