Video - Filtered away from Beatty and O'Brien

[buywithme]

Comrades!

[Pause]

I mean, post-graduate Comrades... or... long term resident institutionalized Comrades, or really just anyone who thinks this makes sense to them. Do you ever feel like... I mean, did anyone else start out disliking it here and thinking that it was entirely wrong, then eventually came around to thinking that even though they weren't happy here, maybe what was happening and what the wardens were doing was something that needed to happen, and then eventually, if you started to think that it was entirely right, what was happening here, did thinking that you were doing the right thing by being here make you begin to like it?

[That probably didn't make sense, did it? Let's try again.]

I mean, what I meant to say was that... [Fffff, let's try for some context on why he's worrying here:]

Back home in the Factory I didn't really have friends. Or books, or alcohol, or hobbies, or free will. And I didn't technically get paid for my work, and everything I did was evil, but I was happy and I felt fulfilled because I believed that what I was doing was right. So, I guess what I'm saying, Comrades, is that it has come to my attention that I have a tendency to look for validation through my work and that I'm afraid I might have accidentally slipped into being blindly subservient to the Admiral because that is exactly the kind of thing that I could imagine myself doing.

I mean, it could be that I actually like it here and that I really do think that being a warden is a good thing, I'm not sure how you're supposed to tell the difference in these circumstances, Comrades.

[Private to O'Brien]

Comrade, did you know you can put alcohol in coffee?

Comments

private

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

I don't think it works with Gin, but I got some whiskey from the pub.

Would you like to come and execute this plan with me?

Re: private

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

...I think that sounds like a very good idea.

If Be... I promise... yes, I'll come.

Re: private

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Comrade.

...If Beatty asks, I could lie about it, if you wanted.

Re: private

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

That's not the problem, comrade.

I might just have to go. That's all.

Re: private

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

You'll have to go, Comrade? Go where?

What about the whiskey coffee?

Re: private

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

...I made a promise to Beatty. If he needs me, I'll have to go, comrade.

I don't think he will. I'm going to act like he won't.

private

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

...Comrade, I understand that you might not want to tell me because I'm technically a warden now, but if he's likely to maybe be in some kind of trouble, then I would try to help without actually saying anything to anyone who might need to know, if he needed help.

Re: private

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

Comrade, it's not the sort of thing you could or should help with.

private

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

I don't want to help to do anything evil, but if it's something evil that he might get hurt doing, and he gets hurt? Then you know that I'll help if you need it.

Re: private

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

It's nothing 'evil', Prefect.

Re: private

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

Sorry Comrade. I meant I don't want to help to do anything 'naughty'.

Re: private

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

...Comrade, it's not even that, stop making assumptions.

I'm just helping him prove a point to someone. A point that's wrong. Nobody gets hurt.

Re: private

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to make sure you knew that if it was something bad, then you could still tell me if it went wrong and you needed help.

But... if no one gets hurt then that's okay, Comrade.

[Pause]

Perhaps you could come over for coffee afterward?

Re: private

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

Ugh, comrade, you sound like Persson.

I will.

I'll probably need it.

private

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

No I don't!

[He might, a little bit.]

Okay, Comrade. I'll see you later then.

Re: private

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

You do, comrade, but I'll forgive you.

I'll see you later.