deadliestviper | 007 VIDEO LIST 3

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[Private – to Steve Rogers]
Sorry to bother you, but my warden can't exactly help me with this. You're the one I talk to about using the gym, right?

[Private – to Kon]
Have you got a minute? I wanted to ask you something.

[And afterward; Public]
Hey Barge, Beth here.

There's been a little interest in it lately, so I thought I'd offer. For the last month or so Kon and I have been training together – it's a mix of meditation and basic martial arts. It's strictly beginner stuff, since I don't know enough to teach anything too advanced, but if anyone's interested we usually meet in the gym before breakfast. If there's a lot of interest and that doesn't work for people, we can talk about changing the meeting time. Warden or inmate, experienced or not, you're welcome to stop on by.

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From:

deadliestviper

I'd like to see that.

[She shrugs as if it's nothing exceptional.] I've clocked a few people while sparring and been hit pretty hard. It's just a hazard of the practice.

You're really one for looking at the bright side, aren't you?

From:

an_abomination

It's not hard for me to do it here. Back home someone is trying to kill me every other girl and just about every girl I've met has tried to punch me in the face. [Smirks.] So far I haven't come close to dying and I have a girlfriend. It doesn't hurt that she talked to me awhile back about the benefits of looking for the silver lining in any situation.

From:

deadliestviper

Lucky you. [She smiles back; she really is happy for him, a state she wouldn't have guessed was possible when she arrived here.] I met your girlfriend once. She seemed like a sharp cookie.

From:

an_abomination

She is. [Someone looks very smitten.] Do you have anyone like that back in your world?

From:

deadliestviper

[It's very cute, and she smiles until he asks the question.] Nah, not – not me. [She almost said "not anymore."]

From:

an_abomination

Did our imaginary time together mean nothing to you? [He teased her, thinking back to their history from the last flood.]

From:

deadliestviper

[She giggles, something she hasn't done in a long time.] It'll always have a special place in my heart.

From:

an_abomination

[Follows up her giggle with a chuckle.] Phew! My ego just avoided a crushing blow.

From:

deadliestviper

I'd never do that to you.

From:

an_abomination

You know, you should give the whole relationship thing a try sometime. I think it'd suit you. [Her hesitation in her initial response makes him wonder if it's one of those complicated things, like with Steph and Tim.]

From:

deadliestviper

I might someday. Once I got engaged, but it didn't quite work out. [That sounds casual enough, right? Engagements break off all the time.]

From:

an_abomination

[B, you are talking to the same guy who didn't think it would be awkward to ask his girlfriend how you know when you love someone. He doesn't know anyone personally who has gotten engaged before or at least they haven't talked about it to him.]

I'm sorry to hear that, what happened?

From:

deadliestviper

Oh... he died. [She glances down and shrugs.] I don't really like to talk about it. Needless to say, it kind of put me off relationships for a while.

From:

an_abomination

Oh, that's understandable. Most people would probably feel the same way.

From:

deadliestviper

I'd rather that didn't get widely discussed, by the way. The last thing I want is anyone's pity.

From:

an_abomination

I won't say a word about it to anyone. What about sympathy? They are not one in the same.

From:

deadliestviper

Acceptable, but in my experience uncomfortably close to pity.

From:

an_abomination

I've noticed a lot of people here don't like to talk about things that are bothering them. Maybe that's part of the reason.

From:

deadliestviper

That, and they probably don't want to relive the details. I know I sure don't.

From:

an_abomination

I get that but I feel like Wardens should do whatever it is they need to do to work past it. I was talking to a Warden the other day who said he was able to save an entire world because he graduated one Inmate.

Think of the countless lives and the war and the destruction that people could change back in their world if they graduated someone here. That's amazing. [Kon, your Kryptonian sidei s showing.]

From:

deadliestviper

That's incredible, and more power to anyone who's trying for that. But meanwhile, I've still got my doubts how well this system works.

From:

an_abomination

The system's messed up but I've had enough people tell me that it works to put some faith in it. Claire graduated several Inmates and she got to return home to see her dad again.

I want to graduate and come back as a Warden.

From:

deadliestviper

It might work for some people, but I've got my doubts that it will for everyone. There are people who just can't be redeemed, I think.

That's very altruistic of you.

From:

an_abomination

Heh, that's another one of those "opposing forces" I have going on in me. Logically, I agree with you and wonder how someone like Harvest could ever be redeemed. But there's this part of me that's fighting against that belief. I blame it on the guy I was cloned after.

Think so? I've seen the difference between what I'm like here and what I'm like back home. It only seems right to give back.