It's not -- [ just? ] -- parenthood. If -- [ He stops himself. Edits. Redirects. ] -- being with someone isn't worth the risk of pain and having to fight to keep it, why would children be?
I said that because I was afraid. Too afraid, back then. If you asked the same question now, it'd be different. I'd put up with damn near anything to be with you.
[ Freeza won't be the one to tell him that it's obvious he'd put up with a lot, because gods if he hasn't dragged his feet every inch through this. He's quiet a moment, and to his credit, he doesn't immediately call Marty an idiot for being straightforwardly sentimental. ]
I'm angry that he's right. [ That other self. ] I simply...need to learn to think of this as something I want to keep and not merely as something I am inevitably going to lose, and I don't know how to do that yet.
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Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-21 03:19 pm (UTC)Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-21 03:29 pm (UTC)I suppose I was hoping for something.
Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-21 04:00 pm (UTC)Just because parenthood is a risk doesn't mean it's not one worth taking, though.
Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-21 04:05 pm (UTC)Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-21 04:47 pm (UTC)I said that because I was afraid. Too afraid, back then. If you asked the same question now, it'd be different. I'd put up with damn near anything to be with you.
And I'd do the same for my girls.
Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-21 05:07 pm (UTC)I'm angry that he's right. [ That other self. ] I simply...need to learn to think of this as something I want to keep and not merely as something I am inevitably going to lose, and I don't know how to do that yet.
Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-21 05:58 pm (UTC)Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-21 08:42 pm (UTC)[ There's a frown in his voice as he second-guesses himself. ]
...I suppose it is tiresome to hear that more than once.
Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-21 11:10 pm (UTC)[Freeza will probably scoff at that, but it's true.]
Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-21 11:56 pm (UTC)Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-22 12:04 am (UTC)A line, yeah. At least you realize I'm not feeding you one. Not that it would work.
Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-22 12:13 am (UTC)Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-22 12:37 am (UTC)Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-22 12:41 am (UTC)...Promises, promises.
Re: Audio --> Later
Date: 2020-09-22 12:44 am (UTC)