choosetruth | ic contact post (entranceway)

so i guess you've met jay

I have. Nice guy. Are you still bleeding out?

[Funny how "nice" directly translates to "contributed to said bleeding out."]

not as much.
i'll live.

[HE DIDN'T INFORM HER OF THAT PART.]

What happened? Besides obviously you running around the woods when you were supposed to be resting.

[She'd do the same in his shoes. But it still was dumb.]

jay and i weren't exactly getting along when we saw each other last.
he had some stuff he had to work out of his sytem.

Did he not notice the part where you've been all but chopped in half?

he noticed.
he just didn't care.

[It's how he'd known he could hold Tim down and be effective in actually getting the answers he so badly wanted. How else would he have taken down someone so obviously bigger and more solid?]

[.....there's not really a reason for Tim to lie about this unless he wants to turn her against Jay for some reason, but it's so incongruous with the reading she'd got on Jay. And especially the reading she'd got on Jay and Tim.]

Why were you two hanging out then? After he hurt you?

i owed him some answers

[So maybe Jay's tried to kill him a few times. It's not like Tim's guilt-free of the same crime. Especially where he himself is concerned.]

He's never heard of asking nicely? He did say he's not a journalist. Guess I see why if torture is the interrogation technique he goes to.

we didn't part on real great terms.
he was still pretty angry.

[Tim doesn't blame him.]

But you're on better terms now? Nothing a little bleeding all over the place couldn't fix?

for now

[That's...really the best he can give her.]

he's paranoid, and i don't give him a lot of reason to trust me.

Haven't given him a lot of reasons to trust you, or have given him a lot of reasons to distrust you?

[Subtle, but very important distinction.]

both.

[He won't sugarcoat it. He's been far from the sort of ally Jay probably wanted.]

Sounds complicated.

Is he dangerous?

[A long moment passes before he answers that. What can he say to that, exactly? He's lied to her before, but at this point in time -

Fuck.

She's helped him more than he's helped her. He owes her more than what he's been giving her.]

maybe.
not on his own.

he's

susceptible

easy to lead into trouble.

[Ah yes. Heaven help the chronically gullible and their good intentions. She knows the type. Fuck, the type were partially responsible for starting the zombie apocalypse. People with all the good intentions in the world and none of the critical thinking skills or fact-checking.

Sometimes, that's even more dangerous than bad intentions.]

Noted. I'll keep an eye on him, then.

[Like she wouldn't have otherwise. She keeps at least half an eye on most people.]

I was thinking of offering him a job.

doing what?

[That is...either a really good idea or a really bad one. Depending on the idea. Still, George has a much better sense of long-term planning than Jay ever did. Maybe with someone like her as a "boss," he'll be less liable to get into trouble.

...right. As if that's possible.]

Same thing I do. Reporting the news.

[She honestly isn't sure if it's a good idea or not, which is part of why she's running it by Tim, who knows Jay better.]

He seems to care about telling the truth. [For better or worse.] And like I said. I want to keep an eye on him.

you're not wrong there.
though as a warning he'll kind of prioritize that over everything else.
including himself.

[Including...everyone else, too. The well-being and safety of everyone around him, the privacy of them, be damned.]

Wow, prioritizing the truth above all else including yourself.

Wonder what that's like.

except unlike you he hasn't been doing this his whole life.
he's done this for five years and he doesn't exactly sort stuff before he sticks it on the internet for everyone to see.
including people who might want to see him dead.

I wasn't saying it's a good thing.

[She's dead. A whole lot of other people are too, and it might not be her fault exactly, but she's still responsible. Her words. Her truths. Her blast zone.]

I'm saying I know exactly what that's like. But like you said, I've been doing this my whole life. I can help him get his shit together.

that would

[...That would what? That would be nice? Give him a chance, maybe? Allow him to do something better with himself? He wanted to be, he knows he did; the idea of being perpetually on the run from a former friend had been, apparently, more appealing to Jay than sitting alone in a shitty apartment doing nothing.

Like It gave him meaning.

It gives him a better chance of being able to...to expose Tim further. His Mirror's warnings and pronouncements, except coming from a more credible source. Better at uncovering what Tim's still trying to hide, at the risk of his own damn life.

Maybe that's worth it, in the end.

If it lets him have more of a chance than he had back home.]

thanks.

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text on 6/06 shortly after jay's arrival

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