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[isawallflower]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CHEERYCHERRY. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 019.46.820.17 *** CHEERYCHERRY has joined 019.46.820.17 <CHEERYCHERRY> It's Riley! <CHEERYCHERRY> Please leave a message! <CHEERYCHERRY> Please be someone with their priorities sorted out properly!

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anonymous: panthera, aed
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<CheeryCherry>

[isawallflower]

YOU did that.
You did nothing but give me attention that I DID NOT WANT.
Couldn't you see what it was doing to her?
Do you even care?
Have you even SEEN her


You killed her you son of a bitch.
She's dead and it's your fault.

<saturnschild> cw: truly terrible ideas about suicide

[marcato]

[At first, he doesn't believe her. It's a coping mechanism, one he's used before with Riley, when she admitted that she knew about his relationship with Danny. Liar, his mind hisses. Delusional liar.

But then something else happens. The denial shifts, twists, sours like milk, and he feels like he's inside and outside of his body all at once. He's floating. He's buzzing.

He's smiling.]

Did she kill herself, dear Riley? [His mind is as feverish as his fingers.] She always said she deserved punishment, no matter how much I tried to nourish her spirit. Without my aid, I wouldn't be surprised if she stumbled.

<CheeryCherry> | cw: also terrible mental health statements

[isawallflower]

[ She feels sick.

She feels absolutely sick. ]

She loves you
you WORTHLESS

You don't deserve her.
And she died BECAUSE of what YOU DID!
The flowers that killed her were for you

[ She would feel bad about this.

If it was anyone else.

If she hadn't watched Rachel die— ]

Because you can't love her, she died.
Because you're too defected to love her
She didn't kill herself. You did.

<saturnschild>

[marcato]

[He clenches his jaw.]

Perhaps if she found me and begged me forgiveness, it would have turned out differently.

Now, shall we return to our earlier topic?

<CheeryCherry>

[isawallflower]

[ Rachel, who couldn't even bring enough of herself together to reach the laptop, or to see. Rachel, who knew Aunamee wouldn't listen to what she had to say. Rachel, who loved him, nevertheless.

Riley grits her teeth. ]

No.

<saturnschild>

[marcato]

I'll stab you in the stomach, for one. Then, as you bleed out, I'll force you to dwell on how much easier things would have been if you simply listened to me.

I should have never treated this like a game between us, Riley. I should have simply stamped you out like the aberration you are.

<CheeryCherry>

[isawallflower]

What you should've done is focused on your own family instead of someone else's. But the fact that you're still going on about this tells me you never will.

Be a better father to her or fuck off and die.
I'm done indulging you. Goodbye.

[ Her heart pounds, in rage and fear. She's terrified. She knows she's in trouble. She knows, and it'll all settle in later, in an explosion of terror as she throws the Fog's key away, like she should've done the moment she remembered receiving it.

But right now, there's something in her that's perhaps more similar to Aunamee than she wants to admit. Something that wants to deny him the pleasure he seeks. Something that hopes, in some way, her words cut him.

Something that wants him to feel even a fraction of the pain he's caused. ]