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Derek Morgan (derek__morgan) wrote in omega_reality,
@ 2013-06-11 15:07:00

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*complete, 2013 06, character: april kepner, character: derek morgan, character: eliot spencer

RP: Derek, Eliot, April
Who: Derek, Eliot, April
Where: Camp Site
When: Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Summary: Derek tries to talk to Eliot again

The past few days had been extremely busy, trying to adjust schedules and routines to a world with no schedules and routines, using the sun and the rain as much as the watches. Still there was time to catch up with people, and Derek was trying to use the time to talk to the new arrivals, get a sense of who they were, profiling without meaning to. There were two people that he wanted to talk to. Not new arrivals, but they might as well be in a way, because half of the team didn't know. Of course, they also had it worse, because the half that did know didn't trust them.

He approached Eliot, while April was putting Eve in the car to sleep. "Hey there. Maybe we could join your wife and have a little talk." It wouldnt give them complete privacy, but there was no such things as privacy when they were living on top of each other, and this was the best they could do without risking lives.

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_eliot_spencer
2013-06-16 06:43 pm UTC (link)

"Yet, as you pointed out, even before we left we weren't a part of this team. If we had been, do you think we would've gone? And do you think that I'm stupid enough to believe that it was my sight that benched me when I was an integral part of things at the ranch, when I worked daily with the units and then was even given more responsibility? No, it was my failure with the students and punishment for it. It either was Vance or one of you four deciding I was useless, or worse: to even have around your units."

Vermont had been one of the unhappier periods of Eliot's life, and it hadn't been until Nate arrived and told him to stop trying to be what he wasn't that he'd given up on fitting in. April had been relegated to babysitter, so it wasn't as if she wasn't depressed. Not that anyone but him noticed or cared.

"My daughter comes first. How she's raised is up to me and April to decide. If she has family, she has roots, and that's us, not you or the others. While we're thankful Vance decided not to kill us like he'd promised, it doesn't change the fact that we haven't been wanted around since last August, which being the grand profiler you are, you already knew."

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derek__morgan
2013-06-16 07:08 pm UTC (link)

"Jesus, you're paranoid." And not even the way they were. "There was no punishment at all. Vance wanted you to work with the kids and you worked with the kids. At the school, we needed something completely different and that's what we did. You couldn't drive on those roads, you couldn't shoot. You trained with the rest of the office personnel, because that was what you could do. Or do you think that Nell and Brian and Sean were there for punishment too? We don't do punishment. We put people where we need them."

Derek snorted. "So we're back to you and your feelings. You know, you two have decided, and that's fine. I won't try to change your minds again, but don't tell me this is for the good of the team, or even for your daughter's future. This is for you, both of you, because you don't feel appreciated. You think that we're some kind of drones, following what our superiors tell us without thinking and April? I don't know why you think that the government would turn anyone into a criminal or a killer, and I'd truly like to know where you got that deluded idea, especially if you're using it not to give Eve a decent future. When you're willing to talk about whatever story you think you know, I'll be happy to listen."

He reached for the handle to go, but still looked at them. "I said my peace, but I hope you'll reconsider, for your daughter's sake, because Eliot, you've mentioned how you felt, but you hadn't said anything about what I said about the future and being the grand profiler I am, I know it's because you know that I'm right. That in dimensions with no contacts, you'll be nothing but low level criminals always on the run. That in our dimension, you'll be hunted down like an animal. That there is only one choice if you want to give her a future. I know that you know, because when you don't like the options, you scowl and change the subject. You don't like to face reality, but this time, it's not you or April paying the price. Think about that."

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april_kepner
2013-06-17 06:25 pm UTC (link)

There were few things April was not willing to discuss, but to discuss details of Eliot's past with anyone but him was one of those things. The government had asked him to kill, and anything he'd done thereafter had been done as a result of the damage done to him because of those orders. There were things she would say however, to both the men in the car.

"Eliot, you were a criminal, you aren't one, keep your tenses straight," she said firmly, before turning to look at Derek. "Nor will Eliot ever be one again. In any dimension or any possible future. He's not that man any longer and the fact that you'd draw the conclusion that that's his only option other than staying with the team says more about you than him. You talk about Eve, but don't you think we've thought about her? That we always think of her?"

"I don't know that we have all the answers, or that we've made the right choice, but it's not as clear cut as you make it out to be either. The options aren't safe and happy with the team or miserable and future as a criminal without it. I don't know what's best for my family right now, and we need time to figure out what is best for our family, and our daughter."

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