We Lost Our Doctor and All We Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

[namisan]

Who: Bloodsport crew and visitors!
Broadcast: Nope
Action: Bloodsport
When: It's a mingle!

[New crew!  Old crew!   Something something dark side of the force.  (Sue me, your captain's tired.)]

Comments

[namisan]

[Bite's long healed, dude. And now Nami's just irritated that apparently you're gonna hide forever, geez, that's no way to live. It's also kinda cowardly, in her books.]

Close enough. Come in, sit. Let's talk about horrible stuff.

[pneumo]

[ Welcome to Sascha's entire existence :Db ]

--I didn't do anything! I think? I promise-- [ Yup he's already fretting and babbling, that's how anxious he is about all of this. ]

[namisan]

[She lifts her gaze from the juice she's drinking, giving him a lazy look.] You mean besides the slew of biting you did not so long ago?

[Hi, I'm brutal today.]

[pneumo]

[ Hi Brutal I'm sorry today ]

I.... [ Sascha fidgets immediately, shrinking back against the door frame as his gaze heads immediately to the floor. ] I'm really sorry...

[namisan]

Good. That's all I wanted to hear. [Stiff apologies from your other creepy self didn't count. She puts her juice down.] Apology accepted.

Have you apologised to the other people you hurt?

[pneumo]

Yes! [ Sascha nods quickly. ]

I said sorry to Kitty and Winn and you... [ Not Sam yet but he's been in solitude so far ]

[namisan]

So there's just Sam left. Or is there someone else I don't know about?

[pneumo]

I don't remember biting anyone else...

[namisan]

Mmm. So did Kitty and Winn accept your apology?

[pneumo]

Uh-huh.... [ Kitty even hugged him! Total forgiveness right? ]

[namisan]

Great! So seems like people at least understand what was going on.

So why are you still hiding in Bigby's room?

[pneumo]

H, hiding?? [ BUT ISN'T THAT WHERE HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE NAMI? ]

[namisan]

You've barely left that room in over a month. You don't call that hiding?

[pneumo]

Well...'cause... I didn't want anyone to have to see me and get mad....

[namisan]

So hiding.

Look, Sascha-- [Mrr. How to word this.] If people are mad at you for what happened, hiding isn't gonna change that. It's not fair if anyone thinks you should, either.

[pneumo]

But... If I'm not around, they won't be mad at me or scared. And I can stay, and no one will hate me. [ That's the theory, anyway. It's what he's used to doing back home--staying out of the way, watching when he can, wishing he was somehow a part of it all. ]

[namisan]

Do you think people hate you now?

[She can't say nobody hates you, because look... people get freaked out easy. She did. Instead, let's make another point.]

Hiding because you did something wrong, that's just... quitting. You'll never feel better. Nobody will ever get the chance to feel otherwise about you. And you'll sure as hell be miserable for the rest of your stay here, and nobody who matters wants that.

Here's another question while we're at it: do you think you did something wrong? Or are you just repeating back what other people said?

[pneumo]

I... [ Well that's...a good question, actually. Sascha doesn't usually think on those terms. He's used to doing nothing wrong and being hated for it, thinking the problem just lied intrinsically with himself and he ought to fix it somehow. He's always done whatever he can to please people. ]

...I made Winn scared. That's wrong, right? And I bit you.

[namisan]

You apologised. People are gonna be freaked for a while, but they'll get over it. If you really feel bad about it, get out there and make sure that's not the last memory they have of you.

[pneumo]

You mean--talk to them....? [ That's a mildly terrifying thought Nami ]

[namisan]

Only if you want to. But you should still be out there having a life, either way. They'll come to you when they're ready.

[pneumo]

But I feel bad about it... [ And that guilt is enough to make him want to avoid putting the "burden" of seeing him again on them. ]

[namisan]

That's good. It means you're not a jerk.

But you can stop wallowing in it now. It's been weeks.

[pneumo]

W, wallowing...? [ Does that meaning hiding? Because he's still mostly behind the door frame right now ]

[namisan]

Wallowing. [It sure does mean that, and-- Sascha. 8|]

Will you stop doing that? Sit down. I'm not gonna bite.