[ic thread continuation -- franz and albert]

[count_onme]

[continued from here because LJ is a cockblocking h0r]

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[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

Because you'll be unhappy.

[count_onme]

Isn't that for me to decide? And who says I'll be unhappy?!

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

You can't decide whether or not you're happy.

[count_onme]

What-- of course I can! What do you take me for?

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

Human.

[count_onme]

... Why do you think I'll be unhappy, then?

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

There will be no future for you.

[count_onme]

How can you say that? Franz, I can make my future anywhere! Having "a future" isn't dependant on where I am, or what I'm doing, or who I'm married to! Or do you also intend to tell me what my future should be?

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

What future could you have here?

[count_onme]

I told you, there's always the chance that we can go somewhere else. After camp. Other people... other people have said it's possible, Franz. Why not us?

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

It's just a chance.

[count_onme]

So? Isn't that better than nothing?

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

Not if we never get it.

[count_onme]

That's why it's called a chance, Franz! Of course it might not happen-- but it might happen, too! Do you really want to just... ignore that?

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

The price of depending on a mere chance is too high.

[count_onme]

What's that supposed to mean?

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

It means you're only looking at what you want to happen, instead of what probably will.

[count_onme]

You have no more idea of what "probably" will happen than I do!

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

I do, because I'm looking at the reality of what happens to people here.

[count_onme]

Oh? And what's that?

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

Most of them don't choose when they leave, or where they are going. And the dead... go back to being dead.

[count_onme]

Not... always...

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

Most of the time.

[count_onme]

But wouldn't you rather... isn't it better to be happy for a short time instead of just being okay for a long time, and-- and wondering if maybe it would have turned out all right?

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

And if it doesn't?

[count_onme]

Then... at least I'll have had that short time, rather than nothing at all.

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

And what would you do then?

[count_onme]

I don't-- I don't know, Franz! But the answer to that would be the same, regardless!

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

You'd be worse off.

[count_onme]

Would I? Would I really?

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[count_onme]

... Fine! Have it your way. Fine. I don't even know why we're arguing about this anyway, since it's clear you don't--... whatever.

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

[oh, ouch]

[but this is what he wanted, right?]

[count_onme]

[moving away now]

... Hey. Good luck with your wish, whatever it was.

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

[...yeah, in too much pain to respond to him]

[count_onme]

...

[walking away, then.]

[wearswallpaper.livejournal.com]

[I'll just be here.]

[...for a long time.]

[Don't expect me in the room tonight.]