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duke_of_illusions ([personal profile] duke_of_illusions) wrote2010-06-23 07:20 pm

morality

As Barma promised, he returns the next morning, ready to help poor Jack acclimatize to the mansion. He knocks on the door gently, reluctant to wake him if he's sleeping.

"Jack?"

[identity profile] info-barma.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Barma comes in slowly, and gives him a nod and faint smile.

"You're awake."

[identity profile] surfacage.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
He smiles brightly at the older man, letting the bandages fall all over the bed.

"Uh-huh. And I'm still here!"

[identity profile] info-barma.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Why are you taking those off?"

He asks, curiously.

[identity profile] surfacage.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
"I think they're pretty," he answers, raising a hand over his eyes. "And once they heal, I don't want to forget how they look like right now."

His tone is laced with childish vindictiveness, and he giggles. "I'm going to take scissors and do the same thing to who made me do this!"

[identity profile] info-barma.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Jack."

Barma's voice takes on a stern note.

[identity profile] surfacage.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Jack stares at the older man, shivering a little at his tone of voice. Maybe he shouldn'tve told Barma that...

"I'll be neat, I promise!"

[identity profile] info-barma.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Do you understand that hurting people is wrong?"

[identity profile] surfacage.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
"They hurt me first."

He doesn't see the problem either way.

[identity profile] info-barma.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
"And you didn't like that, yes? So it would be wrong to do to anyone else. You know that they would feel the way you do."

[identity profile] surfacage.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
"But...that would be why I would do it!"

He defends, rolling over and propping himself up on his elbows. "If they make me feel bad, then I make them feel bad too."

[identity profile] info-barma.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
"No, Jack. There are far more rewarding things than petty revenge."

[identity profile] surfacage.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Is that what it's called?"

Blinks up, curiously, wiggling his fingers.

"What does that mean?"

[identity profile] info-barma.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"It means you should focus on getting better and growing yourself, rather than hurting others."

[identity profile] surfacage.livejournal.com 2010-06-24 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"...why would I do that?"

An honest question. "It sounds boring."

[identity profile] info-barma.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Because it's right, Jack."

[identity profile] surfacage.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Why is it right? Is there a book somewhere saying it is...?"

[identity profile] info-barma.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
"No. It's an unspoken social contract."

[identity profile] surfacage.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Jack stares at him for a full minute, and his face falls. He doesn't understand any of it, and he's taking it as being reprimanded for one of the rules that older people always liked to impose on him.

"...'kay, sir."

Not that he's going to follow Barma anyway.

[identity profile] info-barma.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Do you understand, Jack? Mindless obedience means nothing, I want you to know what I mean."

[identity profile] surfacage.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
He shakes his head. "Um, I don't. But I'll be good!"

[identity profile] info-barma.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
"All right. Let's try again."

They'll get this.

"Would you say you liked me, when you first met me?"

[identity profile] surfacage.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Uh-huh."

He sits up properly for this, hair all over the place.

[identity profile] info-barma.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Would you have liked me if I had done that to your hands, rather than helping heal them?"

Barma smiles, and moves forward.

"Sit up, I'll braid."

[identity profile] surfacage.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
The thought makes him flinch, and he scrambles back on the bed, away from Rufus. He did wake up with his hands already that way, and the man was there, and --

He shakes his head, terrified.

[identity profile] info-barma.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
"I would never, ever, do a thing like that to you."

Barma swears to him.

"On my life."

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