"All the things I would have initially gone with in this situation," Hickey points out, with a shrug. "Putting Billy out of his misery. The cannibalism. Goodsir."
Because of course Crozier must have told Fitzjames that. Fitzjames missed the worst of it, the worst of the mutiny. Oh, he probably talked around bits of it: the Goodsir of it all, for example. But what happened to Billy would certainly have been mentioned. Hickey suspects that the lieutenants still hold delusions of removing Billy from his devious influence (as if Billy wasn't the first one to make some of the more devious suggestions). It wouldn't surprise him if Crozier did as well.
"Course, if you don't know anything about that, I will happily elaborate further. We both know it's going to be me who gets us out of this anyway."
Because Hickey's the only person on the goddamn expedition who believes in getting things done.
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Because of course Crozier must have told Fitzjames that. Fitzjames missed the worst of it, the worst of the mutiny. Oh, he probably talked around bits of it: the Goodsir of it all, for example. But what happened to Billy would certainly have been mentioned. Hickey suspects that the lieutenants still hold delusions of removing Billy from his devious influence (as if Billy wasn't the first one to make some of the more devious suggestions). It wouldn't surprise him if Crozier did as well.
"Course, if you don't know anything about that, I will happily elaborate further. We both know it's going to be me who gets us out of this anyway."
Because Hickey's the only person on the goddamn expedition who believes in getting things done.