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Abel (Ethan Lamaire) ([personal profile] inthebiblicalsense) wrote2024-09-23 01:30 am
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[In a very serious, business tone, Abel's answering machine sounds after any attempted calls that aren't responded to right away.]

You've reached Abel. I am not available at the moment, but I'll get back to you as soon as I can. If this is urgent, leave the line open.

And if this is Fitz I hope you're having a good day.
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Re: 4WD

[personal profile] deservesavoice 2025-04-20 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh that type of crazy idea.

[She sighs.]

Yeah, I wish he wouldn't try to just erase it. I know why he started, but there's so much more for him now.
deservesavoice: (look down)

Re: 4WD

[personal profile] deservesavoice 2025-04-20 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Counseling. [As she's frequently said to Fitz.]

Talking to anyone would be good, but when awful stuff happens to you while traveling like we did... Sometimes it's hard to talk to the people in close quarters. But there were options.

I wouldn't go to a psychiatrist in his time, and I doubt it would've helped him. But not everywhere is the 1950s. Honestly, he had enough reasons for counseling even before we started traveling together. He's not good at pretending to be OK, but he's great at pretending nothing happened.
deservesavoice: (look to the side)

Re: 4WD

[personal profile] deservesavoice 2025-04-20 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
He hasn't had the best experience, but he refuses to try so he can't get new experiences.

[It can be very frustrating. Sam knows it's partly because she doesn't how not to try as hard as she can. She's old enough to know that she couldn't force him into it, but she can't turn off her concern even if she wanted to. It's kind of nice to talk to someone who seems to get it.]

...Has he ever talked about his mother?
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Re: 4WD

[personal profile] deservesavoice 2025-04-21 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't have many friends either. It's not cool to believe in things too strongly. [She still remembers being sixteen and both wanting friends and refusing to back down from what she believed was right. She had held to her convictions, but it had been lonely. The Doctor had let her escape that world and given her a chance to actually change things.

She nods.]
I was, though I only met her as herself briefly. Fitz never talked about her, afterwards. I know she loved him very much. [She hesitates. She had gone along with the Doctor because Fitz hadn't asked and she hadn't known him then, but now she's thinking back:] I don't know if he explained that she was taken over by outside forces when she tried to kill him. And then the group almost destroyed the world. But she came back to herself at the very end. Fitz wasn't there for that.
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Re: 4WD

[personal profile] deservesavoice 2025-04-21 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
It would've destroyed the world. There are rules to time travel, though I don't know if Fitz remembers them. [Her own flash of humor before growing more serious.]

Even if it was possible... She screamed for him when she died. I'm not sure he'd want that to be his last memory of her.
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Re: 4WD

[personal profile] deservesavoice 2025-04-21 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Abel, her brain exploded. Along with her head.

[Fitz likes to skip over blood in his stories, so she's not sure what sort of picture he's painted of their travels.]
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Re: 4WD

[personal profile] deservesavoice 2025-04-21 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Sam doesn't know who Abel might mean. The Doctor hadn't made the choice 'for' Fitz. He had made the choice to save the world. He might tell Sam it was for the best, but that's because she had been there to see it.

Even the Doctor isn't bad enough when it comes to trying to comfort people to tell Fitz it was for the best. Which was lucky, as Fitz already had to deal with enough without having another lost fight on top of it.]


Are you sure we're talking about the same Fitz? He's not really into 'believing'.
deservesavoice: (look down)

Re: 4WD

[personal profile] deservesavoice 2025-04-21 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
On the Doctor? They're friends, and I know Fitz thinks he's interesting. But he doesn't have much faith in him.

That's why I mentioned his mother [the flashback to her death had just been an unfortunate side effect of stirring up old memories]. After growing up like that, I don't think Fitz knows how to believe in people.
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Re: 4WD

[personal profile] deservesavoice 2025-04-21 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
He usually doesn't put in that much effort in general. Not when I knew him.

[An alien abduction inside an alien abduction, that happens all the time.]

The Doctor would get caught up in something like that. [She shakes her head.] Never heard of them.
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Re: 4WD

[personal profile] deservesavoice 2025-04-21 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, he used to try to hide when he was like that.

[Perhaps it's progress that it's noticeable? She had seen Fitz doing his best not to let anyone catch sight of his grief over his mother.

Sam has met Compassion, though it would be strange to think of her as one of the Doctor's companions.]


Fitz likes to pick and chose how he tells stories. It does make for better stories [to be fair to Fitz], but it can make is hard to tell which parts were important for him.
deservesavoice: (look up and off)

Re: 4WD

[personal profile] deservesavoice 2025-04-23 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
He doesn't want you to understand what's wrong, because it might make you feel bad but not in the way he aims for when complaining. [Based on her experiences with trying to get Fitz to talk about what's wrong.]

I'm not sure if it's on purpose or if Fitz just wouldn't be able to stand actually including himself. [She thinks it's the second, because Fitz has a lot of problems and it doesn't really sound like he's gotten over them.]