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( I offered Ren my condolences. With Steve, it was a response. )

[ Stiffly. He knows when he's been made out to be the at-fault party already. ]

[ you are the party at fault, you turd basket. ]

( You pushed someone grieving and in an emotional break into unbridled violence, and almost cost him another piece of his family. You think that was gonna help him? I know Steve told you to stop, cut the shit. )

( Not everyone grieves silently or peacefully, Sam. I did not push him to that.

As for Steve, I distinctly remember telling him I thought it unwise to repress him. He reached out, I responded. He struck, I...

Regret lashing out in return. )

( You think I don’t know who the frak Kylo Ren is and exactly how unpeaceful he gets? I’ve been farther in his head a hell of a lot longer than you have.

Steve was trying to take care of him, and you feeding Ren your crap, when he was already barely holding it together, meant reaching him was impossible. That’s not helping him, that’s manipulating him.

Let me get this one thing clear right now - you don’t know us, you don’t know Ren, and you’ve got no place messing with this brood. Stay the frak away from us, and keep your godsdamn encouragement to yourself. )

[ a weighted pause. he considers his words, his options. and when he responds, it's as though all emotion has been purged out. ]

( I see you've decided my role in things on my behalf. And that this was more of a courtesy call, on that matter.

Then, by all means. Do what you must, make me your monster.

Only stop treating him like an animal that needs to be muzzled, in return. That's all I ask. )

( I was in Steve's head. I saw your role in it, but if there's an explanation for it that somehow makes nearly getting him killed better, by all means, share with the class.

I've seen monsters, and believe me, you're not one. What you are is a lonely, bitter man intent on proving he's right in being so by dragging others down with him. You're so far gone you can't even understand what we're trying to do for him. You really think making a bloodbath is the only way for him to expend grief? What shortsighted bullshit.

Ren can have peace still, and he needs it, because if you haven't noticed, he's frakking miserable. I don't care if what he's doing is wrong or right, but it's sure as hell not helping him. )

Edited 2016-08-10 10:30 (UTC)

( You put him down, like an animal. You stripped him of his right to choose anything, Sam. And you consider yourself justified, in that. No, perhaps I am not the monster here. )

[ not implying anything here. ] ( So, if the only peace he, or any of us may know, is the peace you provide - I will respectfully decline it.

And if you want me to stay away from anyone within OUR nest, your choices are very limited. )

( Gods, you're insufferable. No, what I did was put him to sleep before he made a massacre, that would've gotten all of us, the whole frakking Nest, screwed. He woke up later just fine. What I did was more gentle than any cop that would've wandered in could've done. )

[ can he just... reach through the mental link and throttle this dude? ] ( Did I say it was something I'm giving him? You can't give peace, it's not a godsdamn giftcard for Mental Harmony R Us. What we are giving him is a family and support. The rest is him.

Do whatever you want with your own brood or anyone else, but Castor's connected to me. If you hurt one of them, it's a strike against me too. )

( Someone killed a member of your brood, Sam. And I am deeply sorry for that loss. I thought, like Ren, that we could have found them. We could have gained information from them, and we could have had some small measure of peace, of satisfaction.

That is what I offered, nothing more or less. The same as you do. )

[ he understands the need to keep the peace, but seriously? let a huntsman hunt. ]

( I would not hurt the nest. Or you. I may not agree with you or what you do, but I respect you. )

( You didn't honestly think he was in any state to start a freaking investigation right then, did you?

What would've been help is if someone started scavenging for pieces of that bomb, or talking to the others about what they might've seen. But because everyone was too concerned either trying to get away from Ren's rampage, or stop it, no one had time for that. )

[ they're going to find who planted that bomb and there'll be hell to pay, because Sam may have a stronger moral compass that half the people here, but he's no saint. but the chances it would've been someone lying around at the time Ren finally snapped are absurdly small. why would the bomber put themselves inside the blast range? ]

( Tell that to Steve's swollen face. ) [ snapped out a little too fast, and sam takes a moment to mentally breathe, before coming back to it. ] ( Look, I'm not interested in watching my ass inside the Nest anymore than anyone else is. So let's say you were trying to help, and it just went sideways and call that it. We can agree that what we both want is to protect this Nest, right? )

( Of course not. ) [ he KNEW what he was doing. he's told sam as much, and is loathe to repeat himself.

in fact, he's just plain loathe to continue this patronizing, directionless conversation. sam won't listen to him, he has it all figured out already. ]

( I was already clear about my intentions regarding the nest. Brood, or nest - you are all mine.

Please. Let us we reconvene later, after everyone else has recovered. )

[ and that would be his very, very polite dismissal of you, mr anders. literally just kicking him out and severing their conversation with all observed courtesies. ]

[ he can’t honestly make any real sense out of what the Darkling’s saying, doesn’t understand the logic, or how it came out the way it did. How it turned into him insisting on fueling Ren while he was kicking the crap out of Steve. How giving him that boost had anything to do with comfort to begin with.

But he’s just as done with this as the Darkling is. They aren’t seeing eye to eye and he doubts they will. There’s a mental note to watch him, watch what he does with Ilde and Ren, but otherwise, he’s letting it go for now.

Larger things to worry about. With a vague sentiment of agreement, he lets the connection go as well. ]

there are NO OTHERS like us.	i taught him that he had NO EQUAL
i understand the desire TO REMAIN FREE	peace, on my terms. (WITHOUT REMORSE) [or you] will cease to exist.

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