I always put myself in destructive situations [W5, Friday]

[hydrokinetics]

[It took time. Everything took time as it always did. It took time for them to all calm down, it took time to heal physical wounds, it took time to properly remove the evidence of obscene crimes...but in the evening they were able to gather in one place away from everyone else. It hadn't been easy coordinating everything, but it was necessary.

And so here they were. All seven of them.]

...I don't really know where to start. [His voice is tight, but determined.] But we need everybody on the same page. Who wants to go first?

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[hydrokinetics]

[.......]

Wait does that mean that if we're right Hal really thought it was a good idea to pit a 10 year old against an old married dude?

[robitussin]

Would you really be surprised? It's Hal.

[hydrokinetics]

Look at everybody in this room. He thought it was a good idea to get all of us involved, so maybe you're right.

Goes back to what he said about the Deputy being a "good guy" role and the Bounty Leader being a "bad guy" role. Most people would argue that a doctor is a good guy. And a vigilante's a bad guy.

Too much makes sense, and I really don't know how to feel about that.

[robitussin]

...I really hope we're wrong. But even if we were, I'm never going to be able to stop thinking about the drunk cows thing now, so. Shit.

I probably should have, like, not brushed that off? Since it was obviously really fucking creepy?

[hydrokinetics]

It's Will. You couldn't have known even if it's really creepy. And I don't want to think about drunk cows. Or cows in general? Or eating cows? Or anything?

[He carried a human heart today, this was a weird day.] Did Will say anything else to you that stood out in that same line of thought?

[robitussin]

[Okay. Okay, let her think.]

...Will said he killed them? Like, he said Hannibal hadn't done something "since I killed us". I feel like that's something he might have been getting confused on, that doesn't make sense. He was really drunk. Then, uh... He said Hannibal made his wife leave him, and he misses his wife... He said the first time he met Hannibal, he psychoanalyzed him and compared him to a serial killer. Said he would strangle him with his bare hands if he could.

Then he told me to have better taste in men than he does? It got weird really fast. [Yikes.] Anyways, he told me my problems were stupid, so I dumped a glass of water on him and left.

[hydrokinetics]

...I like Will, but gods he's weird. [But he's busy thinking...thinking...thinking...]

The relationship kind of sounds a little...[Yeah, he's not finishing that thought. This isn't the time.] I'm not saying that Will's words are right, but with everything we know now maybe we should really read between his lines, too. And not dump more water on his head.

[robitussin]

If we're not off about Hannibal, you shouldn't like Will, either. From what he was saying, he knows better than anyone what Hannibal is like, and sticks around anyways.

I didn't dump it on his head. [A fake offended scoff.] I dumped it on his lap so everyone would think he pissed himself.

[hydrokinetics]

[That earns her a startled laugh.] Of course that's what you did.

[But the amusement fades shortly after.] My mom stayed with a jerk who abused her for years because he was so awful it kept monsters away from me while I was growing up. I'm not saying that Will might not be as trustworthy as I want him to be, but it's also possible that he's with Hannibal for a whole other reason.

[Too bad Percy knows nothing about how Hannibal and Will really are, RIP us.]