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annabelle van der graft ([personal profile] the) wrote in [community profile] crypt2011-12-21 01:09 am

meme | #001 -- hardest words to say ( and i'd do anything to make you stay )

HARDEST THING TO SAY MEME


Sometimes the hardest things to say are also the most important. It doesn't matter how much it scares you to do so, it's finally time to be honest.

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- others go to RNG and roll numbers 1-22 then respond setting up a scenario.
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01. I DON'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE Unfortunately, you can't keep lying to your partner/friend/family anymore. You just don't feel the same for them anymore.
02. I WOULD KILL YOU The person who means so much to you has done something completely unforgivable and now it's time to make sure they know where they stand. You would kill them if you ever got the chance.
03. I LOVE YOU, BUT... A bittersweet love confession. You know you love this person more than anything, but you're not sure you can give them what they need.
04. I DON'T TRUST YOU No matter how you feel about this person, you really can't trust them anymore.
05. SACRIFICE You're going to sacrifice yourself, for the person you're talking with or for the good of all humanity. You want them to know the reasons and that there's no stopping you.
06. TROUBLE You're in trouble and you might not make it through. You need to let at least one person know how you feel before it's too late though.
07. CRIME CONFESSION You did something you weren't proud of and now it's time to admit it.
08. DEMONS We've all got our demons and we've all got our own personal nightmares we have to face, but this time? You can't hold it all back.
09. I'M PREGNANT... Now's not the best time for it maybe or maybe you're just nervous how your partner will react, but they need to hear it.
10. BETRAYAL You've betrayed this person and you have to tell them the truth, no more running from it
11. CHEATED You've been unfaithful and it's time to tell your lover.
12. BROKEN That's it. You've had it. You are entirely broken and tired of everything.
13. AFRAID Something has you deathly afraid and you need to talk about it.
14. HELP ME You need someone to help you, bad. You can't do it alone anymore, you've tried.
15. I'M SORRY You said something or did something horrible and now it's time to ask for forgiveness.
16. YOU WERE A MISTAKE Sorry, but whoever you're talking to was the biggest mistake of your life or maybe it was just something you did together.
17. NOT WHO I SAY I AM You're so far from who they think you are, you need to finally tell the truth.
18. LET'S RUN AWAY You want to just get out, leave everything behind and be with this one person for the rest of your life.
19. ASHAMED Either you're ashamed of something they have done or something you did, either way you need to bring it up.
20. CAN'T REMEMBER The person standing in front of you looks so happy to see you, so relieved, but how do you tell them you can't remember a thing about them?
21. HOW COULD YOU You don't understand how they could treat you like they have, do what they have done when you've done nothing but be good to them.
22. YOUR CHOICE Either choose an option from above, mix and match, or make up your own idea.

yep. totally stolen from memebells.
frolic with your subject lines and be free!
herotypical: [ sad ; action ] (✝ out of sentimental gain)

[personal profile] herotypical 2011-12-28 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ now that she's been given it, the unornamented first name barely registers. she is far more focused on his injuries -- careful, curious, concerned fingers easing a coat sleeve off one limb. she wonders if he's in any fit state to carry.

but then horatio confesses that he ordered the line to hold and she sucks in a rough, surprised breath. dear lord. she bows her head and tries to bury her instant reproach in the task at hand. the man is broken enough, she believes -- he doesn't need her disapproval to add to his guilt.

she deduces this because she can still feel her own guilt heavy on her shoulders. so many bodies and the slayer -- as ever -- took each one as a personal responsibility. ]
captainhornblower: (World falls apart)

[personal profile] captainhornblower 2011-12-28 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
I know.

[She doesn't need to say it. He knows. He knows that every death is his fault.]

I... I was wrong. There-- My figures were wrong. [His information had been wrong, his scouts had counted incorrectly. But it was not their fault. It was his own. He had not double-checked the information, had not planned for the worst.

Every man and woman dead had their blood on his hands. He had caused every single death.

And his own wounds weren't bad enough to give him the release of death in battle. He would have to live knowing that he had led them into disaster.]


They're all dead. Because they listened to me.
herotypical: [ angry ; invading your personal space ] (✝ silver over everything)

[personal profile] herotypical 2011-12-28 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
They are -- [ she affirms his guilt and then does him the mercy of sharing it ] -- and they're dead because I...I didn't get to where I needed to be fast enough.

[ she had gotten waylaid by the general; it had to have been a strategy on the other side's part. it had been deadly. ] So what we're both going to do, Horatio? We're going to shut up and stomp those feelings well and truly down and we are going to stand up and get the hell out of here. There are people left. They need us. Capice?

[ she draws the navyman to his feet. ]
captainhornblower: (...Please?)

[personal profile] captainhornblower 2011-12-28 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Horatio bites back a cry of pain. The sudden rise did nothing but rend the wounds on his more. Still, he forces himself to make no other sound, even as his eyes close against the pain and lack of balance he feels.

She's right. This is his fault, but he can keep the situation from getting worse. His own wounds are nothing. His pain selfish.

He has to fight through this. Find some redemption in those still alive.]


Y--yes.

I-- [It's hard to say, but his pride is battered enough-- shattered, even-- that the words will come out after a struggle.] I am at your command.
herotypical: (✝ try to break a gold rule)

[personal profile] herotypical 2011-12-28 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
I don't command. [ she reminds him gently as she wraps his arm over her shoulder -- supporting him with ease. ] Not here. We do this together or we don't do it at all. We gotta be each other's checks and balances, Horatio. We should've been...

[ she trails off. she wears her grief and her culpability with grace. she has a decade's worth of a guilt complex under her belt -- her own breaking would come later. alone and white-hot. ]
captainhornblower: (Default)

[personal profile] captainhornblower 2011-12-28 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
...Wonderful job I've done.

[Self-reproach comes naturally. It isn't harshly said or meant to draw reassurance. He says it as simply as if stating the weather. The defeat in his voice, though, says it all.

This battle, this moment... is done. And he can look about at the carnage and see all his mistakes, relive every moment and see the little things. Every detail he had missed. Every way he could have at least reduced the causalities.]
herotypical: [ angry ; snarky ] (✝ i'm faking that i'm aching)

[personal profile] herotypical 2011-12-28 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
See? That's your problem. [ she berates him as she helps him. ] You can't see this as a job. This isn't a job.

[ she had been forced to learn that fact in a very tough way. ] This is what we are. Who we are. [ it barely provides reassurance; it only enforces the truth. ] If it were a job? All this...it wouldn't hit us the way it hits us.