xp_communication | Email to Amanda Sefton

To: [Amanda]
From: [Doug]
Subject: Manny's faux pas

Amanda-

Okay, I don't know if there is anything I can do to help, or even if I can. But if there's anything I can do, please tell me? And please don't go hiding. You really think that the scars matter to those of us who care about you? Fuck, you know I've seen them, and I know what they mean, and it just reinforces to me what an amazing person you are to have survived something that shitty. And I would have said all this in the journal comments, but I don't want to cause any more problems for you, and I didn't know if admitting to knowing about them would do that.

I wish I knew what to say. :-/ For all the usefulness of my mutant power, I seem to say that an awful lot.

-Doug

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It's people like Lee or Monet who... well, they're both seen some of them, by accident, and Monet's is one reaction I never want to have to relive. And people like Jane - she's an innocent, she doesn't need to know about this shite, she's got enough on her plate with the Skippy thing.

The scars make me either a victim or a freak, and I'm buggered if I'm going to be either. But at this stage of the game I don't care who says what now - it's out in the open and there's nothing to be done about it.

A.

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Yeah, well, Miss Perfect can go fuck herself and that high horse she rode in on. And Jubes...she should learn a bit of understanding, what with whatever exactly it was that happened when Pete's former employers came to call. Jane...yeah, I can see not wanting her to know. But she can't stay innocent forever, and events of the past year should make it painfully obvious that we can't protect her. The best we can do is try to help her understand things.

You're neither a victim nor a freak. Rack's six feet under right now, and you're no more a freak than the rest of us. And yeah, I get that there's nothing to be done about it being out there. But promise you'll tell me if there's anything I can do for _you_?

Gotta go have a conversation with Angie that I'm...well, nervous about, and wishing we didn't have to talk about it, and so forth. *shrug* Anyway, will be back in a while.

-Doug

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xp_daytripper

Thanks, Doug. I will let you know if you can help, tho' I'm not sure how...

Good luck. If that conversation's what I think it's about, well, you know my opinions on holding back and being wishy-washy. ;)

A.