58. Poker.

[yourunichase]

I'm bored. Who wants poker?

[Added later]

8 in the dining hall.

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[voice]

[yourunichase]

At least I don't need to worry about being strip-searched.

Unless I want it, that is.

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

Would Denise be giving you your strip searches, in the event you want them? I'll need to know what my responsibilities are here for my own inmate.

[voice]

[yourunichase]

Suddenly developed lesbian fantasies have you?

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

I remember the thoroughness of the strip search at that hotel. If you equate that level of ferocity with a fantasy, Miss Parker, it really might be healthy for you to find someone to talk to. I worked as a sex therapist, you know.

[voice]

[yourunichase]

You remember the thoroughness?

...Did you watch?

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

I was head of security, Miss Parker. I had other possible scams to deal with.

I was long gone before you made it back into the building.

[voice]

[yourunichase]

Well it's good to know you have some standards.

[voice]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

And unlike the Centre, there aren't cameras in every room. In the real world, people are allowed privacy.

[voice-private.]

[yourunichase]

Because I have so much control over that.

[voice - private]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

I've already told you that I think you do.

[voice - private]

[yourunichase]

I don't want to get into this with you again.

What do you want? Do you want me to make a deal for you? For it not to have happened?

[voice - private]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

I don't want you to die before your time.

[voice - private]

[yourunichase]

Why are you so damn sure it's before my time?

[voice - private]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

Because you never got a chance to live a life for you.

[voice - private]

[yourunichase]

Tried once. Didn't work so well, remember?

[voice - private]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

How can you think of the life you had with Thomas as a failure, even if the Centre took him too soon? You experienced love. That's enough.

[voice - private]

[yourunichase]

For someone so damned smart you're so stupid!

He died because of me. And all those people, those people involved in the investigation? They died because of me too. And they died because you wouldn't let it go and you wouldn't just let me grieve.

[voice - private]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

They died because someone killed them. Someone murdered them and then killed more people to cover it up.

If you're going to blame someone, blame the right people!

[voice - private]

[yourunichase]

I do, Jarod. I do. Every day.

Do you know my biggest regret about being here? I don't get to find which one did it so I can make them pay.

[voice - private]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

Isn't that a reason to bargain for your life?

[voice - private]

[yourunichase]

[A laugh.]

Wouldn't that completely defeat the purpose of being redeemed?

[voice - private]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

Well, that depends if you think retribution is something that requires redemption.

[voice - private]

[yourunichase]

This wouldn't be retribution, Jarod. You saw me during that. Do you think it would be anything but vengeance?

[voice - private]

[i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com]

It all depends on how you see it, Miss Parker.

[voice - private]

[yourunichase]

Do you know who did it?