Third Trial.

[withthemost]

[The Mayor is oddly silent today. Contemplative. It may have something to do with the wallpaper here now being very obviously reinforced. Don’t try to tear it down again, kids. You won’t like what happens.

Both Martin and Alfred’s podiums have been smashed to pieces, one of those might come as a shock if you weren’t around when the other body was found. But in the end, you’ll have to press onwards regardless of how many people have fallen today.]

Trial start.

Comments

[junosteel]

Stop.

[He sounds utterly defeated.]

[hydrazine]

Like hell I will! It wasn’t your fault!

[junosteel]

Why can't you just accept that it was? If I hadn't gone to Watson, I would've been the one rightly executed!

[hydrazine]

You tried to save him! You did the right thing!

[junosteel]

Last time I checked, trying to save people doesn't bring them back to life.

[There's venom in his words.]

I deserve to be punished. Just let me die!

[spiritoso]

But if you didn't try then he definitely would have died! The fact that you did something does make a difference!

[junosteel]

He's. Still. Dead.

[spiritoso]

[ She clenches her fists. ]

You still tried to save him even after he attacked you! Maybe it doesn't mean anything to you but it means something to a lot of us.

[junosteel]

....

[He gives her a weary, resigned look. It's clear he doesn't think it matters, but at this point, he's too tired to argue.]

[hydrazine]

[When she answers, she matches that venom.]

You self pitying, self absorbed asshole! Don’t you get it? We need you!

[junosteel]

Last I checked, some people said otherwise.

[hydrazine]

Dammit, Juno, you...

[Her voice breaks again.]

You’re my friend.

[junosteel]

....

[Juno is tired. He's been tired since he saw Alfred and Martin's dead body in the woods. He's been tired since this damn trial started.]

I'm sorry.