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[notwalking]

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Here's what I don't get. As of tomorrow, I'll have been here for five months. Five fucking months, but it doesn't matter, we've talked about that. What I don't get is that I've been saying this shit since the night I showed up. We've been saying it since then. Five months of talking about the government and about Petrelli, and maybe our actions have overshadowed our words, but that doesn't change the fact that we've been saying these things longer than they have. It just doesn't sit well with me.

And I guess it's good that there are people who think like us. Not entirely like us, though. But I'm going to Mitsuru's dinner anyway, just to see what they're about. I'd like it if you came, but it's up to you.

People complain about people complaining about the government, and they say that we should do something about it if we don't like it. What pisses me off is that we've been trying to do just that. It's good that people are starting to open their eyes, but the fact is that we're the ones they should listen to.

I don't get it.



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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.

I got the job. Not a very good one, but still. I'll work my way up. Turns out they hire ex-cons after all. Who knew?

So fucking glad that I dropped out. Honest, every day I find a new reason why the high school isn't any better than the one I came from. Uniforms are bullshit. And the English department's still a sorry state. Neil, Knoxious, Todd, I feel bad for you guys. Don't fall back into routine too quickly, boys.

I think it's to the point where I can pick up my sax. Typing doesn't hurt as much, in any case. Maybe it's time to start writing music again.

Chemicals in the water is nothing. I still think it's too peaceful here. You know what they say about still waters. Something's going to happen. Something is always going to happen.

Comments

[hellbounded.livejournal.com]

are you seriously fucking complaining about a uniform?

[notwalking]

Yes and no. It's not really about the clothes, it's about what it represents.

[hellbounded.livejournal.com]

oh, well that makes sense. kids should just wear what they want. i mean, what's the government going to do, throw them in jail for not?

this place is fucking ridiculous.

[notwalking]

The government itself bad enough. A group of kids my age or younger trying to act like them is worse.

Yeah. Welcome to the club. I'm Charlie Dalton, I've been saying this shit for months.

[hellbounded.livejournal.com]

i'm nero.

[notwalking]

Good to know you haven't been suckered into the government's bullshit too, Nero.

[andiburn.livejournal.com]

It's only going to get worse.

[notwalking]

Of course it is. How do you know?

[andiburn.livejournal.com]

One of the members of the Disciplinary Committee is my sister.

[notwalking]

Fun. How much worse is it going to get?

[andiburn.livejournal.com]

She won't stop until she's controlling everything, no matter what she has to do.

[notwalking]

I'm not in the school anymore, but I don't like the sound of that.

[andiburn.livejournal.com]

It'll go beyond the school.

[notwalking]

Doesn't it always.

[deliberately]

We won't.

[notwalking]

Good man.

I'd say be careful, but I think that'd be considered hypocrisy. So, give them hell.

[deliberately]

That's the general plan.

[notwalking]

Tables, how they turn.

[deliberately]

If I end up in hospital, bring me grapes.

[notwalking]

Grapes, got it. Christ, do I need to teach you how to punch people?

[deliberately]

I'm not going to hit anyone, Charlie.

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[captnkennit.livejournal.com]

She's the same as Petrelli; pretty words, self-deprecation and a desire for power. She sounds almost the same as he did when he first got here, except now he's part of the government she says should be looking out for us. Petrelli changed nothing, and no matter how much she tries to return to typical systems of laws and elections, I doubt she will either. It's bureaucracy. I won't be attending.

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[notwalking]

Something about all of it bothers me, and I can't put my finger on what. I'm going anyway. Just in case. Even if it is going to be the most boring dinner party ever, and I've gone to a lot of those, so that's saying something.

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[captnkennit.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think you should. And I at least admire the irony in people finally succumbing to the idea of being a 'community' in the way Petrelli used to ramble on about, just to move against him. If I had to choose, they have my support over his but you're right; the casual assumption that she should be the one to disparage him and tell us what to do is interesting but ultimately sits not well with me.

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[notwalking]

He's being pretty quiet about it, actually.