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"I don't know, he never told me. Look, Enya, this is important. I, uh... I kind of lost it last time I saw him, just blew up; I don't remember everything I said, but there was a lot of stuff I didn't really mean, and I'm being deployed soon. I might not have another chance to get some stuff out there, to at least apologise."
As she starts to slam the door, a bit of its shadow comes up to keep it from closing all the way.
"Please. This is way too important to screw around like this. If he doesn't want to see me, fine, but can you at least be serious with me? Tell him I came by and I'd like to apologise before they send me out there, or something?"
Enya watches the door bounce back as she laughs maniacally, slowly stopping as she narrows her eyes.
"No one turns away Aaron Silverman....no one." she says in some kind of Batman impression.
"Y'know girls don't like it when boys do that." she points to the fact the shadow kept the door from closing. "And Eric's not actually here right now. You wanna wait on the couch? Because I don't really want to be part of whatever it is that's happening here."
She's all about sitting there and watching it happen, though.
"I'm sorry, Enya. It's just that this really is too important for playing games."
The shadow had faded once its job was done, leaving just Aaron there, looking serious but guilty. Especially at the suddenly more serious answer and offer.
"Thanks, but I'm intruding enough as it is. I'll wait for a bit out here, guess I'll leave a note if he never shows. Sorry for taking up your time with all this."
Well, that's better than just appearing, Aaron supposes. He's looking in the direction Rebecca and Eric's voices are coming from, and on hearing them together, can't help look a little confused. What he thought was happening... isn't? Maybe? Then what the hell was all this for?
Once they're in view, he'll try to wipe the confusion from his face as he gives them a little wave, since he's been announced. He tries to keep his expression the calm, mature look Becca last saw.
"Seriously?" Rebecca doesn't try to hide her laugh at this point, shaking her head. "Good job, Captain." She gives a small pout. "I'm still jealous, though." Looking over at Enya, she smiles and waves, gaze shifting over to Aaron when her friend mentions. Her expression turns neutral, already anticipating things being less than pleasant before the end.
"Yeah, and the Director just kind of watched it happened. I think he was just confounded that it was going on in his office."
Eric continued to laugh until Enya's voice caught his attention. He'd look up with a huge shit eating grin which froze in place and immediately faded upon seeing Aaron at the door.
Eric looks like an idiot in that hat, and the grin turns Aaron's blood to ice. Still, he forces that down, takes a breath, keeps his face the mature and serious mask, but injects a little warmth into it. This could go badly, but shit, he wants to at least try.
"Can I talk to you? I just want a couple minutes of your time, before they send me off."
« Last Edit: Feb 25, 2016 0:16:05 GMT -6 by Aaron Silverman »
He'd give Enya a sidelong look at the bow and title. He felt like he had missed something, but he trusted her so he'd just roll with it. Fuck it.
"Very good."
He'd say in his best haughty tone as the top hat changed shape into that of a golden and bejeweled crown atop his head. Once they were inside he'd let Enya, who was apparently playing a game of door keeper shut the door as he'd resume staring down Aaron.
"Thank you for seeing to our lord's guests while we were away," Rebecca gives a nod with a haughty expression to Enya, eyes bright as they walk back into their own home, leaving Aaron the odd man out.
This side of Eric was new. She knew he was angry, but seeing it first hand for herself was almost unsettling. She stays beside him for now, waiting for Aaron to speak his mind. She hopes it's better than what happened in the library.
It's like he's controlling that hat in the ways he knows will piss off Aaron as much as possible. Of course he'd walk around with a goddamn crown on his head.
Still. Calm, mature, like an equal. Not begging and not haughty, talking like this is someone at some point he considered a friend because that's how it is. Part of him's glad to see Eric angry, actually, acting like a human being instead of some god.
"To say I'm sorry. For everything, especially back there. I didn't want that to happen, for Jack -" he was too angry at the Director to call him 'Director Makaila' lately - "to put you all on the spot like that, and... I didn't mean most of what I said. I was so hurt by everything, so angry about everything, that I just snapped and everything I've been penning up for the past month blew up. I remember like, half of that argument, and I'm pretty sure I said stuff that just straight up made no sense or had nothing to do with anything, but... still, dude. I should've been better to you, and I'm sorry."
His voice is sincere, because so is he. Really, Sarah's who he should be mad at, who he is mostly mad at, not this guy. There's a lot of stuff about Eric he doesn't like, but for the most part? Dude's collateral damage, he'd blow up just as much at anyone Sarah'd cheated on him with.
"I can't just walk in here and expect you to instantly forgive me and act like nothing happened, I'm not an idiot. I've got to fix myself before I really work to fix things with you, and Sarah, and everyone, but... it wasn't right to treat you like that for something someone else did."
Admitting he was wrong has to count for something, right?
He'd didn't say anything at first. He'd let Aaron get through his speech, waiting until he was sure he was finished.
"You're right, you can't act like nothing happened. And you said enough, and you know what. You're right. We are not friends. Maybe we never were. I don't care how pissed you were, some of the shit you said is unacceptable. And I'm not okay with it."
He'd fold his arms over his chest.
"You said it, it had to come from somewhere. But you know what, I don't care. I'm done with it. You are without a doubt the most selfish asshole I've ever met in my life. If we have to work together fine, but frankly outside of that I don't care. And frankly, after what you said I don't know why you care."
Rebecca also listens to the speech in silence, brows raised as Aaron tries to apologize for what happened in Director Mikaila's office. This isn't her conversation or argument, however, so she doesn't add anything to it.
Once Eric pulls his arms away, you know it's big. Frowning, Becca pulls out her phone and sends Sarah a text, warning her about Aaron making his rounds for apology if she wants to avoid him. He's already pissing off Eric. Again.
"Because I was wrong, and I want to make things right, even if it takes a long time. I have been acting like an asshole lately, I haven't been acting like the kind of guy I should be, that I want to be, so yeah, I'm trying to open the door and at least start to repair things and clear the air. And you're right, it did come from somewhere, but not where you think."
Well, time to drop the bomb.
"I don't hate you, man. I envy you. How you could change the entire world with a wave of your hand, make everything better for everyone. You could just think about it and there's a cure for cancer, or whatever. Nothing I can do, no matter how hard I work, is worth anything when you can pull the answer to everything out of thin air, and I let that drive me crazy, especially once... you know."
It was probably a mistake to even try this, but he did have to try.
"I didn't know about the whole... what was it you said? 'Ripping apart reality' thing? I'll cop to that, I didn't know that was a thing - but I'm not like you, I'm not perfect and I can't pull out an instant fix to everything whenever I want. I was in too much pain to handle it and I just lashed out. If me having feelings, if me being hurt by everything that's happened over the past month, makes me an asshole? Fine. But I'm trying not to be, to get back away from that. And I wanted to do the right thing, which meant coming over here and talking about all this like adults."
Even though they're teenagers.
« Last Edit: Feb 25, 2016 1:16:54 GMT -6 by Aaron Silverman »
"Do you even hear yourself? Or let what I told you sink in? You just acknowledged that my power is literally ripping the world apart. And then you go one to talk about how I can pull out the answer to any problem. It doesn't work like that!"
He was almost yelling at this point.
"I don't have an answer to this. I don't have an answer to the Empire, and you projecting your insecurities on me isn't going to make me have the answers either. Jesus Christ! Do you even see reality or do you just see and hear what you want? You are so worried about trying to come across as whatever it is you are trying to be that you just cherry pick the parts of reality that you want at any given moment. To fit whatever narrative you are trying to sell to me, or whatever."
His arms unfolded and and ran down his face in frustration.
"This might surprise you Silverman. But I'm more than my power, and I have more to offer people than what I can pull out of a hat."