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[Scott hasn't been out and about lately, but the few who have seen him around will note that he looks better. A little less freaked, less drawn, less doubting why he's here. He looks solid again - and concerned.

And maybe a touch afraid because this is a big thing for him, okay.]

I'm a werewolf.

[Oh god he just said it this is huge-ish] I only have been for a few - I guess a couple months, now. I don't really know crap about it, but I know - I'm not that douche from the flood, or the other Barge, or whatever that was. I'm not an alpha. I couldn't turn anyone even if I wanted to and trust me - I really, really don't.

I know everyone's tired of apologies, but I just need to say it, for me. I'm not that guy. I'm nothing like that guy, cause that guy was like the psycho who bit me, and I don't ever want to be like him.

So. Okay. Thanks, I guess. And if you're going to like, grab pitchforks and torches or something, can you just let me know, first? And if you need me, I'm gonna be in the CES with some lacrosse stuff. [Which is his way of saying he's available for lighthearted sports fun if anyone needs to loosen up.]

[Filtered to all his friends, IF YOU THINK YOU ARE ON IT, YOU ARE!!]

I know it's a little late, but if we haven't talked yet can you just - let me know you're okay? Please?

[Do it, because anyone who doesn't respond will absolutely be hunted down.]

[Private to Elena]

I'm sorry. [Apologies are not hard for him: there is always something or other to apologize for, and Elena definitely, definitely deserves one. He attacked her, for no reason, he was a budding psycho, and maybe it wasn't him, but he doesn't think he could live with not apologizing.]

I know it's all messed up and that wasn't even really me, but I'm sorry. Can I, I dunno...can I do anything? Do you need anything?

[Spam for Cassel]

[Knock knock, buddy. Scott knows how to return a favor. He's got a six pack of beer in one hand and a bottle of Jack Daniels in the other.]

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[Because Cassel is a good dude, and Scott will remind him of it now and then.]

I'll drink to that. [Seriously. Fuck. Wolf. Politics. He doesn't even get regular politics.

No? I mean, I don't think so. I just, um. I was surprised she came to see me. And the other stuff started...fading.

Why were you surprised? Daneca's a better person than pretty much any other person who exists, to the extent that her nice may actually register on a supernatural scale. And she hates people who do what she did to you there.

Yeah, well I hate people who do what I did, too.

That's normal, where you come from? Everybody really wears gloves, even the people who don't work? I mean - are there people who don't work?

What she did there isn't normal. But yeah, the gloves are a thing. You're basically a pariah and a dangerous freak if you don't wear them, worker or not. Plenty of people aren't, but once you are that's all you are.

Why? [He's trying to picture it. It's not easy.]

Why's that all you are, or why the gloves?

The first one.

Because as soon as you work, even if it's by accident, you're a felon, which means that's all people see when they look at you.

I mean, Daneca gets the history of it better than I do. But . . . you have three choices. Turn yourself in and never work again, keep it a secret and never work again, or ally yourself with a worker family.

[He takes another sip contemplatively.]

By which I mean the mob. I picked door number three. It was a stupid door.

[Blank staring is turning into furrowed brow staring.] How does that make you a felon?

'Cause it's illegal. Doing what we do. I don't know why, it just is.

But you're - aren't you born that way?

Yeeeeep.

[Just going to drink the rest of this beer in one go and reach for another one.]

That's bullshit. [All yours, dude, you deserve it.]

How is that legal?

I have no goddamn idea, Scott. Seriously. Daneca gets the politics of it better than I do. But I think people are mostly scared and stupid.

Man. That's - I mean I guess I see why they'd be scared, but...

[He shakes his head, leans his elbows on his knees.] That's just messed up.

Emotion work is fucking terrifying.

[He blinks slowly and taps the neck of the bottle.]

But so's every kind of work. And so are people who carry guns, or people who can use their minds as weapons, or people who just don't care about other people. So it's an excuse. I think that's what she was trying to tell me the whole time. It's an excuse.

People need a target.

[He nods slowly, turning the beer bottle in his hands.]

A scape goat. That's messed up.

...

So does she want to go into politics, then? Change things?

She used to. I don't know what she wants to do now.

[At least not all of it. Part of it he does - the part Daneca can only get from the Admiral. Cassel fidgets for a minute, and then admits,] I didn't used to be . . . very good at listening to her. Or want to. And then I ran away, and then I ended up here, so - it might have changed.

But she was already in politics, in school. She was crazy active.

Oh. [He wants to know, doesn't want to pry. It's a hard line to walk.] So what, like, is she class president or something?

Nah. She'd have to obey the rules better to be class president. She headed a workers' rights club.

I got her into a lot of trouble.

[By existing, basically.]

I get the feeling this is a bad question to ask, but - what did you do?

. . . Got her involved in mob infighting? To start with.

Wow.

[Seriously, dude. He's not even bothering to drink, he's just holding the bottle now.]

Dude, your life is complicated.

No. Really? You think? My life is a fucking telenovela.

I'd almost rather that than like...I don't even know what my life is like now. Twilight? I'd rather have a telemundo soap than Twilight.

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