58. Poker.

[yourunichase]

I'm bored. Who wants poker?

[Added later]

8 in the dining hall.

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[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?

[voice - private]

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

What I told you before, it's true even now.

Missing pieces. You can't find them if you're here.

[voice - private]

[yourunichase]

Which means you know and like screwing with me too much to tell me.

[voice - private]

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

Think about where I am, Miss Parker.

How could I know?

[voice - private]

[yourunichase]

You didn't figure it out in the year after I died?

[voice - private]

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

I was captured right after you were shot.

[voice - private]

[yourunichase]

[A note of concern in her voice.]

They held onto you for a year?

[voice - private]

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

The Centre holds onto people for as long as they can. And if they can't, they dispose of them. Or the ones they love.