i scream, you scream, we all scream because we just fucking do

[throwabookatit]

Private Conversations with Viral! please keep yelling to a minimum (jk go wild)

Comments

[machrophage]

...Even if that's similar, that's not all you are.

And it doesn't mean that the person who is important to you is anything like his.

[throwabookatit]

[ ...It's true. Whatever relationship, it- it doesn't compare to hers with Ashton. To seventeen years. To what he means to her. ]

Really, he would be furious, if I even... [ Her hand at her eyes again, and a taut smile. ] I- don't know why I'm saying all this. We barely know each other, after all, you were...you were just the first person, who came to see me.

[machrophage]

Maybe that's all it takes, sometimes. Someone willing to listen.

[throwabookatit]

[ Her voice is, strangely for her, soft. Incredibly so. ]

Then... Thank you. For listening.

[machrophage]

...Any time.

[It's not quite a promise, but. It's a Thing.]

[throwabookatit]

...You too, you know? If...you need to talk about anything, I- I'd...be able to return the favor.

[machrophage]

...If there ever is anything, I might take you up on that.

[throwabookatit]

Just let me know.

[ A moment's hesitation. ]

You're...a lot nicer than I first thought.

[machrophage]

...Humans are more complex than I imagined.

[It's not quite the same thing, and yet, it says a lot, doesn't it?]

[throwabookatit]

[ A soundless laugh. ]

I suppose we're both learning a thing or two here, after all.

[machrophage]

[A similar one from Viral, showing all of those teeth.]

Perhaps the only kind of learning going on at this 'school.'

[throwabookatit]

[ That first day, the sight of his sharp, sharp teeth frightened her, but now?

Not one bit. ]

I won't breathe a word of it to those bawheids if you don't.