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[Filtered away from Angel/ Angelus]

I need any information on magic pertaining to souls, unleashing or releasing them. Any information would be helpful. 

This is not the first time Angelus has been released. The first time it was released by ancient Asian magic. It took a powerful witch to get it back. And in the meantime, he went on a rampage.

I don't care if he's on some bounty. This isn't who he is, and I'm sure it's to be said for the other vampire. I'm not the most skilled in magic, but I think I could do this. I simply don't have the right resources.

If any need information on protecting yourself, holy water and crosses will fend him off, but I advice staying in your house or apartment.

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He won't hear it that way.

Then he needs a friggin Xanax.

Yes he does.

The boy's been hunted his entire life Chuck. Watched his parents murdered when he was just a little boy, been on his own since. Because he was born different. Born with a special power.

If he lives long enough, he'll learn not everyone is out to hurt him. But it takes a long time.

[Not like he has personal experience.]

[That's super interesting and tragic and stuff, Erik, but Chuck is still tweaking mildly from the echoing void of Anna disappearing and is resisting a more or less constant urge to tell everyone around him to fuck the hell off. So he struggles to keep looking as engaged as he probably should.]

I get the tragic backstory and it's awful, but he needs to not get his issues all over Fred when she doesn't need that shit. That's called being a decent human being with a grain of empathy.

I'm gonna go make more coffee.

[Sadly, because he knows this reaction.]

He's not a decent human being Chuck. He's a frightened, angry boy who has had his place of safety violated. That makes him violate and reactionary, dangerous, and lashing out at those who would help.

That doesn't make him taking it out on Fred all right, it doesn't. Nothing does.

But that is why I said I would handle him.

I'm agreeing with all of that? And I'm also gonna stop talking about this and go make coffee, because I have too much on my mind right now.

How d'you want it?

I'm just clarifying. I was worse at his age.

[Much. Much worse.]

Depends on what kind you are making. I've been on a Turkish kick lately.

I'm not hardcore enough for that right now. I'll make it extra for you.

Thank you.

I'll get Fred to slow her roll and rest somehow, but when she wakes up you have to, too.

Warm, bordering on hot shower. Then hide her NV and make her just lay down for a few minutes. Talk her through deep, slow breathing. Exhaustion should take care of the rest.

I have slept in the past 36 hours. I will again before sundown.

The last cup of coffee I gave her was decaf, that should help. Good. Someone around here has to have their shit straight.

Probably.

This is sort of my life Chuck. A few months of relative peace, with people only wishing you dead, with a few days or weeks of intense threat. This? This is normal, this what I know. I take better care of myself now than in other times.

That's actually reassuring. I'm used to people just self-destructing during times like this.

Chaos, violence, warfare, survival...it's were I feel settled. It's what I understand.

Peace? I have no idea what it is, or what to do with it.

You live, Erik. That's all. That's where most people mature, grow, and can work through their crap because they aren't too busy to focus on themselves.

Any time I try? I bury people I love.

I'm not saying it's not possible. I'm saying in seventy years, I haven't found a way.

I'd think a scientist, of all people, would know that correlation doesn't equal causation.

Israel wasn't. But the rest? A direct result of my temper, hubris, complacency, or a combination of the three.

Not only did I destroy my family because I couldn't control my temper...sixteen million people are dead because I picked a fight and was injured.

Those and many others? They are my fault.]

You can't change that now. The best you can do is figure out how to not repeat those mistakes. Put a lid on the hubris, deal with your temper, etc. It's just being human.

Mutants aren't Human Chuck. It might not mean much to you, but in our world, it matters quite a lot.

It is something I am trying to figure out. Something I haven't been able to.

God, don't you have idioms in your world? Human nature, the human condition, being human. I'm trying to talk to you here using language that unites us, not divisive political terminology. This is like when Lucifer seriously argued to me that he's not a person. I don't understand you people.

Edited 2012-02-26 20:28 (UTC)

We're people, we have personhood. We're not Human. That's not an insult towards those who are. Four kinds of people exists back home, and we on Earth? Is a fraction, minuet fraction, of the sentient life in the universe.

In many places back home we aren't legally Human, in some we don't even have personhood rights. It's not something we can ever forget, because if we do, we're threatened.

And rather fundamental to our culture, our existence? We are never safe. We are hunted. Hated. For being born. Because we are different, are dangerous.

Why is anyone from your world so eager to get home? Ever? You can be human here- last I checked, Siren's Port hasn't redefined the biological species concept to suit their needs like it sounds like your world has. You can be anything you want.

Some aren't. But I don't want to be Human Chuck. I'm a Mutant. I'm proud of what I am. I have a people who need me, children who need me. My eldest is very ill at home. She needs me.

They've gone years wanting nothing to do with me. Hating me for not being there when they were young. I didn't. I wouldn't have left them if I had.

But when she needed me, really needed me, was scared and in pain, she called to me. And half a world away, every fibre in my being felt it. I gave up every safety I had in the world believing I was dead to answer her. She needs me. And I need to save her.

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here have His baggage

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have return baggage!