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...Daddy?

Come on. Grab your things.

We're going home. *not making eye contact- quiet and distant but that really isn't anything new is it*

Edited 2008-12-29 06:48 (UTC)

Re-really? We are?

*stops and doesn't look at her* Really.

I'... *stops, and rolls his shoulders back* I lost...

We're going home.

What - what do you mean you lost?

Dad. What happened?

*stops and looks over at her, and seeing too much of that little girl in Shilo, and hating himself for everything he has done- he doesn't move to grab her- to touch her-

instead he focuses on the corner of the ceiling* I'm leaving GeneCo. I...

Shilo. I've done things I'm not proud of. I've...said it was for you, or for Marni because I couldn't....walk away. Because, I needed it. *looks disgusted with himself* but I can't...need it anymore. It's cost too much. It cost me Marni, and Rotti and Mag...and it almost cost me you...and that's something I can't give up.

I can't lose you. Not...to this. Not to the man I am. I can't.

Edited 2008-12-29 07:04 (UTC)

You're... leaving? For real?

*eyes the sweater in her hands and then the one she's wearing and flinches* I am.

*swallows as he kneels down before her* ...he won't... I helped build the company I'm walking away from. It's not going to be an easy break. It won't be...

I think- I think... *swallows and forces up a smile* Whatever happens though? I'm going to be right there beside you. I know I haven't been and I'm sorry I failed you...but... *looks right at her for a second, and whispers* Marni, I'm sorry I let it get this bad... But we can handle whatever he throws at us...he can't touch us if we're together.

*seems to realize himself and looks away* ...Shilo...

We can go away! We can get out of here! Just like we said we would, Dad. We can go.

*blinks and looks at her- a slow smile tugging on his lips* Grab your things.

We're going home.

Thank you thank you thank you...

*she's off duty - having heard about the note from Sigma before she'd gone and seen it herself - so her stalking in civilian clothes looks a bit disturbing as she approaches Nathan*

What on Earth do you think that you're doing? Are you insane?

Lion is more then capable of handling the Repo Men. Rotti was able to handle GeneCo long before he found me cleaving body parts.

*walking, also in civilian clothes and not even looking back or breaking his stride* And I am through doing his killing for him.

I'm done.

Edited 2008-12-29 06:58 (UTC)

*with a slight huff, she speeds up until she's standing in front of him*

I could give a flying rat's ass about the Repos... *she hisses*

He's going to kill you. *she moves forward, pointing a finger at him*

*because she's in his way and only in his way does he stop and there's just a quick dart to her eyes before he stares down to a corner*

*he stops for a second and only one to look at her for her confession about the Repos, before he chuckles* He killed me the moment he gave me that helm.

I'm just saving the corpse from being violated anymore. He can get what he wants from someone else *and steps around her to keep moving*

No. You killed yourself when you killed her, Nathan. Don't blame it on Rotti. He just took advantage of a situation presented to him.

*she reaches out to catch his arm to keep him from going any further - he's not running away from her if she can help it*

He's not going to let you go. Not without a fight. Not until he takes everything from you. I've seen it, you've seen it. You know what happens next!

That was an accident! *forceful but not shouting, and the first time he's ever said it- and something in his eyes gives*

And I am through paying for the mistakes I made as a fucking child. *trembling although from fear, pain or anger it's hard to tell* I'm sorry I couldn't save her. I am. And I'm sorry I couldn't trade places with her- believe me, I would in a moment if I could but I can't. Nothing can bring her back...

And I'm sorry I couldn't save her for him. I'm sorry I couldn't do what he wanted but I've tried to make it up to him, I have. I've given him 17 years of my life- and he's had every chance to make me bleed or kill me for what I took from him. But he wants me to live.

So...I'm sorry...but I'm going to live. I don't know what that makes me, a coward or a monster or just a man who's tired...

If he wants my life, he can have it but until he decides to take it...it's mine.

I'm taking back whatever fucked up remains of that man that Marni loved, who was Shilo's father is left and I'm walking away.

I'm sorry I couldn't fix things Theta. I'm sorry I couldn't be strong enough to do it...

So I'm walking away.

*she's surprised at his initial response - after twelve years of taunting him, she's never heard him admit to that*

*she listens to him, her face serious as she stares him down, processing what he's saying - and he's right, Rotti wants him alive so that he can torture him, exactly what he's been doing for over fifteen years*

*when she does speak, her usually flat voice has a pleading tone* You're not just playing with your life here, Nathan. You're playing with Shilo's too. With everyone you've ever cared about or ever loved. He won't strike directly at you, that's not how he works. Please, you have to understand that. You have to understand.

*staring at her and then very quietly*

I craved the lungs out a seventeen year old girl. She begged. They all do. Some want to bribe me, some plead, some- Mako- cursed my very name. Called me a monster. A butcher. Do you know what Sarah asked for?

*recites it perfectly* "Please, please don't do this here. Don't kill me in front of my parents, please." *there's no tears in his eyes, more like a quiet madness: he looks like every other Repo Man but without the malice, a creature of instinct* Do you want to know her last words? Ask me. Ask me.

You're not listening to me...I've done enough in their name. Trying to protect them; and from what? Chaos, Repo Men, me? *motions out to the city* How have they benefited from my protection? How has anything I've done mattered except there are more graves, more torn apart families...

I'm done.

*she turns her face away from him as he recites, closing her eyes briefly before she shakes her head* No. I don't want to know. I don't need to know.

*pulling her hand away from his arm, she takes a step back, looking stricken* I can't answer that, Nathan. I can't. But you have to realize what you're doing and I don't think you do. You have no idea.

*she swallows, reaching up to run a hand through her dark hair* He's not finished with you. He'll never be finished with you.

"I forgive you." *there's a pause* "Daddy."

*staring at her, looking somewhere between torn and desperate* Tell me why I should even care anymore? I'm a murderer and a monster.

*when she lets go, begins to walk away again- turning around and facing her while walking backwards- he shrugs sadly* ...save yourselves...

*turns and walks away*

*she feels sick at that, the comment hitting a little too closely, though she doubts she'll ever say those words in her life*

You're quitting because of her. Don't you want to protect her? Nathan...

*she pauses, watching him walk, and she clenches her fists* Nathan...Nathan! You can't turn your back on this! You're just lying to yourself...goddamn it, you selfish bastard.

Edited 2008-12-29 08:42 (UTC)

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