Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-5999656-20160207063839/@comment-5999656-20160604052035

The moment Cyzarine entered, Fen had opened her mouth, ready to let loose a torrent of hatred just as she had to Raizel. But the green-haired girl had cut her off first. And as Fen listened, the fire in her heart flickered and weakened. She had expected the girl to be just as hard-headed as she had always been, sidestepping responsibility and basically saying, "Well it's not my fault", in a roundabout fashion. Fen had expected Cyzarine to be the same heartless child soldier as always, ready to deflect all consequences onto the victims themselves and continuing contently with her destructive manner of behavior. She hadn't expected Cyzarine to even be able to grasp the gravity of the situation, let alone speak up and finally take responsibility for everything. She had been ready to finally unleash just a fraction of the pain Cyzarine had caused to her back, but now she couldn't do that.

A long silence ensued as Fen struggled to reorganize her new thoughts and reconcile them with the old ones. So Platinum felt it was time to speak up instead. The detective paused, trying her best to understand the weight of what she was about to say. One misplaced word and it was over.

"Cyzarine," she began slowly, hesitatingly, "At this point you cannot be forgiven. We couldn't forgive you even if we tried, and believe me, Fen and I don't hate easily, even if we're impulsive sometimes. It's just that the situation has gone far beyond what we would allow for any of our acquaintances." She paused again, trying to smooth over what might come from Fen's mouth once her friend had composed herself.

"I really appreciate you trying to rescue me, and for sending a healer just now. If you two hadn't gotten there first, there might not have been enough time for Fen to jump in with her people. But everything else - having a team with you wasn't worth the effort it took. So I dropped it for everyone's good."

Platinum was just trying to be logical, to speak the truth. She couldn't become the bad guy, but she and her friends simply didn't have the capabilities to deal with two very dysfunctional teenagers.

Another silence opened up, only for Fen to break it.

"Cyzarine, do you know how badly I wish I could just go back to how things were before I met you? Every bad thing that's happened to me has been related to you, and that's not even an exaggeration."

She was calm enough so far, but to go easy on Cyzarine would be an insult to Raizel, whom she'd attacked so readily. She walked up so she was staring the younger girl in the eye. When she spoke it was a menacing hush that Platinum could not hear.

"If I wanted you dead I would have let them finish you off in the forest, where no one could see anything. It wasn't like this before. When you hurt people, you make your own enemies. But I don't want you dead," Fen said, stepping back and resuming a normal volume, "I'm a better person than you. I can control my base desires and rationalize."

Fen took a deep breath. Being hard on Cyzarine was hard, but she needed to make absolutely sure the girl knew what she wanted, and make a veiled threat in case Cyzarine tried to interfere again.

"Don't die, Cyz. I want you to grow up so you understand perfectly what you've done. That's it. And if you become a better person because of it, then that's even better. But for now, stay out of my life or I promise I'm going to fuck you up the same way you fucked up me. We're done. I'm giving you one last chance to make this up to me, by doing your best to run every time I come near."

And with that Fen strode out of the room, leaving Platinum still standing in place. The silver-haired girl didn't fully grasp what Fen was referring to, but she could ask later. If she could patch things up a tiny bit here, that would make a huge difference for the future.

"Fen's really angry right now, so I'm pretty sure she didn't exactly mean what she just said. I know she told you to stay away, but if... if you try to make it up to her, even if she doesn't accept it outwardly it means a lot to hear it, at least. It might just be because my fights were mostly wth Raizel, but I already feel better knowing that you realize what you've done. It means that you want to do better, and with that we might be able to forgive you one day. But until you've shown to her and the rest of us that you've had a clear improvement in character, it's best to keep a distance. And if you can't change, that just means you should never come to us again."

It was difficult to not end everything on a harsh note, Platinum thought, considering her own negative feelings toward the whole issue. Cyzarine was really just a messed up kid, just like Raizel. But the fact was that, in the end, no matter what anyone else tried to do, the only people who could help those two was themselves. So this was the best possible end to a difficult issue.

"We can't help you with your demons, Cyz. All I can say is sorry about how we acted. Neither of us are perfect. Fen and I tried our best, but we can't handle much more than ourselves right now."

Platinum wanted to say something more, and she wasn't going anywhere soon anyway, with all the paperwork that she was going to have to fill out and Fen walking out on her. It really was hard to keep everything she said from ending on a negative note.

"So yeah, you can go now if you want. What happens to you from now on is your responsibility, and every choice you make and every consequence from those choices is up to you. So..."

"Good luck."