cape_kore | Day 90; Video 003

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Day 90; Video 003

[The breeze pushes her heavy hair behind her. She takes a deep breath and then puts a smile on for the camera. It's tentative, but there.]

I owe apologies. Quite a few of them. Riley, Charlie, St. Raphael, Derek....

[She pauses.]

Dilandau.

I had some personal trouble recently and lashed out at those that didn't deserve it. I apologize for not being able to keep my temper and for not explaining anything.

[Another pause.]

And for still not explaining anything.

I just... Please accept my apology. For those that don't wish to, [Dilandau] I understand.

I'm going to be staying at the lighthouse a bit, I think. I need the perspective and if something happens again, there won't be anyone to take the brunt of it. Except some seagulls, but they're usually pretty forgiving.

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Two months or so, now. Maybe two and a half? It's been a while. There was still snow on the ground when I got here.

[She smiles, tucking bright red hair out of her face again. It won't stay put.]

I have to take responsibility. It's the way my Da raised me.

That's good. A lot of people don't seem to think they have to own up to the things they do. Wish I saw that attitude more often.

[She presses her lips together, thoughtful.]

A couple of months... pretty big chunk of time. Does it ever get easier, as time goes on? Being stuck here, that is.

That's what Confession and Penance are for. To take responsibility for your actions. This is part of my penance.

[Brigid grimaces.]

No. I still miss my family and friends and everyone left behind. And Boston. I... miss home just as much as I did when I arrived. Maybe more.

[Oh, huh. A religious type. Interesting.]

Your penance, huh. Sounds heavy.

[The secrets a hunter would have to spill at confession... kind of overwhelming just thinking about it.]

Guess that's to be expected. No matter how long you're away from them, you never forget the people who matter most to you.

Can be. Sometimes it isn't. This... is simple, really. A public apology to those I wronged. If I can have the courage to do it, I've learned something.

[No more than what the werewolf has to confess.]

I've never been gone more than a night or two my entire life. We're a close knit group.

Sounds straightforward enough.

[Interesting outlook, really.]

Really? You've never traveled or anything?

[She'd gone the first twenty-one years of her life without traveling, but now? It's hard to imagine living life stuck in one place.]

[Brigid's view on religion is different. She doesn't follow the Church blindly.]

If we traveled, it was as a family. We went to Disney every year for the high school graduates. And my uncle would gather up all the school kids a couple times a summer and we'd go camping.

[An excuse to have young wolves to run through the woods and be able to howl without too much worry.]

High school graduates? Plural?

[She raises an eyebrow.]

Sounds like a pretty big family.

There's almost always two or three. The year I graduated there were five. So, yeah. We're a huge family.

[She shrugs.]

How do you even keep track of everyone?

[She's guessing it's comparable to how she and her mom kept track of everyone who came into the roadhouse more than once, but still.]

[Brigid laughs.]

We're Boston Irish Catholic. Well, most of us. We know how to take care of everyone and keep track. You get used to it.

Used to it or not, sounds like a lot of work.

So I'm guessing you have a bunch of brothers and sisters, too?

Well, it was. Babysitting was always an adventure.

[Brigid shakes her head.]

No. I'm an only child.

Me, too.

[She smiles a little, sympathetic.]

Except without all the cousins and other family to keep me company, I guess. Being an only child can get pretty lonely otherwise.

I don't know what I'd do without the family. When my mother passed, I stayed with my aunt and uncle for eighteen months, until Da could come home permanently. Then, when he died in the line of duty, I moved in with them again.

After that I appreciated being an only child.

[She grins.]

[Jo's first instinct is to grin back, but she can't quite manage it -- not when she hears about her parents.]

I'm sorry to hear that. I lost my dad, too.

[And her mother, technically, though Kore had been uncommonly kind in letting them be reunited so soon after their deaths.]

[Brigid blinks. She's so used to her losses that she forgets other people might not be as well adjusted as she is.]

Oh. I'm sorry, Jo.

It was a long time ago. I was still in pigtails, but--

[She smiles a little, sympathetic.]

I remember how hard it was. It's not easy to lose family. It's not easy to lose anyone.

No it isn't. I haven't lost many, but it always hurts.

[It helps having a huge family around. Then, you're not alone.]

It changes you, doesn't it? Makes you have to grow up real fast, sometimes.

[She pauses for a moment, considering.]

How old were you...? If you don't mind my asking.

It changes the world.

[It's soft, the plea of a child. She misses her Da, especially.]

I was six when Mom died. Car accident.

[Guilt. So much guilt.]

Da died a couple years ago, when I was in high school.

... I was eight when I lost my dad. He had an accident, too.

[She won't go so far as to say what kind, but clearly, she sympathizes.]

I'm sorry. Nobody should have to go through that at all. [Death happens to everyone, but violent death? That's a little different. More traumatic.] Let alone twice.

Mom was a shock. Drunk driver. By the time I woke up, she was gone.

[She'd been six. Any death is a shock.]

Da... He was a cop. Not exactly expected, but he died in the line of duty.

Your Mom is still alive?

... yeah. Sort of.

[Their situation is pretty singular. Not easy to explain, but she'll try.]

She's here, too, but the truth of it is -- back home? We were both on our way out. We just ended up here instead.

The angels, maybe?

[The faith is strong with this one.]

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