IT'S THAT VERY SPECIAL TIME AGAIN.

[goodburger]

Time for.......


THE GODDAMN TEST DRIVE MEME

1. COMMENT WITH A JOURNAL OF A CHARACTER YOU'VE THOUGHT OF APPING/WOULD LIKE TO APP AS THOUGH THEY'RE ALREADY IN C&C
2. TAG AROUND WITH NEW JOURNALS OR OLD!
3. APP THEM ALL NOW!
4. IT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO BE LATE SO DON'T YOU EVEN GO THERE
5. LINK THIS POST TO ATP ADS YOU POST LATER
6. THIS TEXT HAS BEEN RECYCLED AT LEAST 25 TIMES
7. HAVE SOME FUCKING FUN

Comments

[enabeled]

I know that I'm clever. I'm not really aching to prove it, either, by way of guinea pigs. It's just too bad you can't brag about it.

I bet that makes you a little mad. Angry mad, I mean, not... crazy.

[slightlyoffchilt]

I can brag about it. [A sniff, as he pulls at his tie, straightening it. Upon immediate hindsight, "inform" would have been a better verb. Oh well.] I simply need to find authority that is intelligent enough to listen to me.

[enabeled]

Good luck with that. And careful that you don't get locked up yourself in the process.

[ The most insincere suggestion ever. ]

[slightlyoffchilt]

I'm not insane, Gideon. I know enough about psychosis to appreciate that much, you see.

Lots of experience.

[enabeled]

I'm not insane either.

Just occasionally irrational.

[slightlyoffchilt]

To a homicidal degree.

Do you realize what you did was wrong?

[enabeled]

That wholly depends on what you're referring to.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Your murders, Gideon. Your -- [beat] serial homicides included.

[enabeled]

How does this sound to you: I realize murder is wrong. I realize my murders were... "wrong." By that technicality. Bearing in mind that the nurse was only half mine.

But remember, I'm not a serial killer.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Only half yours? I'm sorry -- did we miss someone sneak into your fraudulent emergency and murder her with you?

[enabeled]

Apparently so.

But thank goodness for Dr. Bloom's eye for detail.

[slightlyoffchilt]

I did not influence you to murder my nurse.

[enabeled]

Already heard that one before. Beginning to get very tired of it.

[slightlyoffchilt]

How quickly must you tire from the truth, Abel?

[enabeled]

You know. I'd been prepared to forgive you. I even did, briefly, before I changed my mind. Glad I did it, too. No one likes jury duty.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Forgive me for what, Abel? For helping you? For guiding you to your broken pieces? Your jigsaw mind?

[enabeled]

That.

Is.

Enough.

It doesn't count when you're using pieces from the wrong puzzle.

[slightlyoffchilt]

You just don't like my methods. I work corners in.

[enabeled]

Not just me. I think plenty would disapprove of your methods. They are rather questionable, after all.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Questionable methods for questionable minds.

[enabeled]

Flattery won't change my mind back.

[slightlyoffchilt]

What mind is that, to even turn back?

[enabeled]

Insulting your former patients isn't the most recommended therapeutic tactic. Particularly not ones you suspect of being serial killers.

[slightlyoffchilt]

You took that as an insult?

Must be a symptom of narcissism.

[enabeled]

I may be a narcissist, but so are you.

[ "May be," because he still has to leave room for reasonable doubt. ]