he's got that dog in him

[friendsfordinner]

Who: Hickey & OPEN!
What: tracking training! couples talking! dog??
When: throughout the month.
Where: in Milton and the surrounding wilds.

Content Warnings: usual Hickey warnings apply (possible talk of violence, cannibalism, starvation, Terror's everything)

( catch-alls and closed starters within. hmu if you want one! )

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[friendsfordinner]

"I know," Hickey says, as he takes a few steps closer to Sveta. There's something gentle in his tone. It's a calculated gentleness, deployed entirely to keep her on his side, but it's sincere enough that the fakery could be overlooked.

"But there wasn't much I could do during all of that. There wasn't much any of us can do. So I did what I could, focusing on me and my friends."

[balancedlight]

She shakes her head, taking a step back. "But you didn't ask. And you killed someone. He didn't have to die."

[friendsfordinner]

"I didn't plan on killing him," he points out. "It happened during that mess, when we all were changed by the Darkwalker. He attacked me first. I retaliated."

[balancedlight]

"You didn't have to kill him," she mutters. "And you don't feel anything about it."

[friendsfordinner]

"Like I said, he attacked me first. I wouldn't have killed him if we weren't in the middle of all that mess."

Hickey's emphatic about this. As far as he's concerned? He's not in the wrong.

[balancedlight]

"You didn't have to kill him," she repeats, shaking his head. "You need to learn how to be a friend."

[friendsfordinner]

"I thought I had to at the time," Hickey simply says. "You know what it was like. You know how we were all out of our mind. Obviously I wouldn't have killed him if everything was normal, but it wasn't."

[balancedlight]

She shakes her head again, taking a step back. "No. Not everyone killed."

[friendsfordinner]

"Not everyone was attacked," he retorts. "You didn't have anybody come at you with a knife, did you?"

[balancedlight]

"No, of course not," she snorts.

[friendsfordinner]

"Then you don't know what it's like. Then you have no reason to judge me for what I did, how I reacted in that moment."

[balancedlight]

"I do," she tells him firmly. "I do have a reason to. You made bad choice after bad choice and still see nothing wrong with it."

And she turns again to walk off.

[friendsfordinner]

"I hope the next time this happens, you're out of harm's way," Hickey calls out, frown on his face, as he watches Sveta leave.