004 || Veronica Mars || video

[shesamarshmallow]

I hope we're still doing this.

Angels?

Activate.

[ She pauses dramatically, waiting as seconds tick by. ]

That means report. Seriously. I have to hobble. You talk to me, I'll talk to you. Maybe you'll swing me around and use my cast as a weapon. But talk to me.

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[audio; private]

[shesamarshmallow]

And you're just... going to roll with it?

[audio; private]

[afallenstar]

No.

[ That at least comes with conviction, without hesitation. She hadn't been in the right frame of mind to weigh up the risks when she'd responded to Sharon's call to arms, and had it not been for Balthazar's disappearance she probably wouldn't have joined them at all.

In hindsight though, she's really glad she did. ]

No one's making that mistake again, not if I can help it.

[audio; private]

[shesamarshmallow]

Does she still want to escape, though?

[Veronica, wasting time with a question, beating around the bush? Nope. Not really.]

[audio; private]

[afallenstar]

Don't most people?

[ Yeah, notice how it's most and not all. Sometimes Anna's more honest than she realises. ]

[audio; private]

[shesamarshmallow]

Yeah, but does she have to be so stupid about it?

Come on, angel in the machine. How many things would you have done differently?

[audio; private]

[afallenstar]

[ She's pushing buttons that probably should be pushed, in all honesty, but Anna doesn't know how to handle that. That's why Veronica just gets to deal with a sudden, angry outburst instead. ]

Everything! None of us were in our right mind, people went missing, we all got worked up into this...this frenzy. No one knew what they were doing, what we would be up against. Why didn't anyone who went for Bruce think to tell us what was on the other side of those woods? People almost died. It's not happening again.

[audio; private]

[shesamarshmallow]

Glad to hear it. [Her tone is wry, with a thread of cruelty that dances just beneath the surface and refuses to rise.]

It shouldn't have been allowed to happen in the first place.

[And with that, she cuts the feed, because she thinks she's proven her point and she has to seethe quietly for a couple minutes.]