Aaron

Your grace is wasted in your face.
Your boldness stands alone among the wreck...
// Walking with @_FindThatStar // {SV RP 18+} #TWDRP AU #BPRP #IntoTheFire

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

A glass floor.

{tightly} If the person who designed /that/ is still around, I've got a few serious words for them. #TWD

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

-- die. Please... Give me /something/. Something to show that there's still life in you. Give me that, and I'll call the doctors right now. You have my word.

@ChangedTheWater

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

-- clear box holding her prisoner and stilled, feet apart, hands clasped behind his back.}

The difference is she was open minded enough to know a friend when she saw one... {quietly} Paula. I know you don't trust me. It's mutual. But I hope you can believe I don't want you to --

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

-- That she'd found friends.

That @SpunkyWasteland wasn't alone.}

She was strong, like you. Fearless. She could see straight through somone's BS, and wasn't afraid to call them on it. Usually at top volume.

{Gaze locked on @ChangedTheWater, he moved towards the --

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

-- dog who hadn't eaten in weeks. Her name was Althea.

{A small smile crossing his face as he pictured @SpunkyWasteland in her element, the pixie of a woman thundering away at a man three times her size, he shook his head, hoping like hell she was still out there. --

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

-- had hardened @ChangedTheWater to granite, maybe he could still reach her.

He had to try.}

A journalist. She was interviewing a militia leader on the day we crossed paths. Completely devoted to getting the story. Like a dog with a bone. {snorting} A --

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

-- for composure. For some measure of grace in front of @ChangedTheWater, a woman for whom mourning would undoubtedly be chalked up to weakness.

#Eric wouldn't want him to give up on #Paula. She was, after all, alive. Even if @FcknFriendly had blinded her, if the world --

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

-- Relief missions, you know? Bringing food and medicine to people that would consider themselves lucky to see one solitary aspirin tablet. And...

{Falling silent, the sudden rush of memories of #Eric taking his breath away, he clenched his jaw and looked away, fighting --

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

You know what? You remind me of someone.

{Eyes locked on @ChangedTheWater, he dropped to a seat, wondering how long it would be before either #Paula passed out from blood loss or told him what he could go do with himself.}

Before all this, I worked with humanitarian aid. --

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

-- box, I need an answer to one question. No pretense. No guile. It won't fly with me. {quietly} Ignorant or broken. Which are you?

@ChangedTheWater

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

-- alert for and damned hopeful that he might see some sign @ChangedTheWater was listening to him.}

I'm not naive enough to think that if I offer trust, you'd take it. But I do know that pain is a powerful motivator. You've been shot, Paula. If you don't want to die in that --

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

-- and locked up, literally scarred for life in the building you called home. /Or/ you're unbelievably broken. Cracked so far that you actually think what Negan and his people do is /good/.

{Holding @ChangedTheWater's gaze for a beat, he leaned back against his chair, --

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

-- Humiliated and degraded them, all under your nose. Which makes /you/ one of two people... Either you're woefully ignorant.

{Fingers tented, he bowed his head, looking up @ChangedTheWater.} Blissful in not knowing a damn thing about women being stripped --

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

-- To tell you the truth, I don't know what to think.

{Pulling a molded plastic chair from the wall to the Box, he dropped to a seat, the clatter of a full med bottle in his pocket seeming to echo through the silence.}

Your people. They've hurt my family. Burned them. --

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

They tell me you're not worth saving.

{His gentle voice sounding large in the cavernous space, he stepped from the shadows and into @ChangedTheWater's line of sight, quietly studying the injured woman.}

That you're too far gone. Lost... --

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[Carl Grimes @_FindThatStar]

@SaddleUpAnyway He's doesn't scare me. He's /crazy/. *shaking his head he glanced up @SaddleUpAnyway* Fear's not the same as respect.

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

Bigger men, stronger men would have quaked, @_FindThatStar.

I'm proud of you.
#TWD

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

@_FindThatStar @DeafToTheDead @Lethal4ATwinkie @NoSafeHaven_ -- {Skidding to a stop, he beckoned to #Rick and #Jaz, hooking a thumb back the way he'd come.} Carl. He's okay. He's on the radio. Now.

[Aaron @SaddleUpAnyway]

@_FindThatStar @DeafToTheDead @Lethal4ATwinkie @NoSafeHaven_ -- got to... I'll be right back.

{Sprinting from the comm room, he sprinted down the hall, calling out to @NoSafeHaven_.} Rick! Hold up! -