francis drake, jr. (isthereacure) wrote in genome_project, @ 2011-02-11 14:16:00 |
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Entry tags: | february 2011 |
WHO: Christine and Francis
WHAT: Francis decides to come clean about the project to Christine since Seth told her, and then they wallow in their singleness.
WHEN: Monday, February 14th oooooh.
RATING: Probably PG-13 for language, alcohol, and the usual Francis fare.
Francis showed up at 5:30pm sharp with a bottle of alcohol under his arm. The way he was acting already suggested he'd been dipping into it, and it just so happened that the bottle had been opened previously. Actually, it was the very vodka Christine had gotten him for Christmas, and he set it on the kitchen table between them so they could share.
First, he questioned Christine on what Seth had told her, and thankfully Christine didn't seem to feel it prudent to keep that information from him. She recounted Seth telling her about the experiments on the patients in the beginning, about the young people under 25 being the next stage – how they were all controlled from leaving, how Francis thought this was a good thing and was helping, and about his power.
"Bastard," Francis muttered around his shot glass, even more annoyed that Seth had been talking about his involvement with Dietre to Christine. The guy had bared all without a care to how it made anyone other than himself feel, except maybe Christine, and Francis resented it. He felt exposed against his wishes, and even though Christine was one of the two people who knew him best (Seth being the other), he didn't want her to look at him with all of that knowledge.
"I'm not going to speak for him, but I didn't say anything because I was told not to. This isn't a matter of obeying mommy and daddy, Christine; everything will be fucked up if whatever control they have in place is upset. I don't think it's the passing of information or they wouldn't have people who aren't scientists running around with this knowledge, but Seth's mother pays him to keep quiet. It's important." Francis knew that wasn't going to impress Christine very much, but that was the truth.
"It has nothing to do with me not trusting you," he said, looking at Christine briefly before his eyes fell to the glass in his hand. "Seth's right: I work for the scientists, and I do what they tell me to."