[ Family is the hardest thing to deal with, wasn't it? The ones you don't get to pick, they can be the best people you've ever known, or the most terrible, the most heinous. And the ones you do pick - what if they betray you, in the end? How do you know for sure they're what you need in life?
Or Dagger's just projecting. That happens. ]
FROM: dagger@cdc.org
They're assholes a lot of the time. I hate them too.
[It surprises her to hear her instructor being so openly negative about other aspects of the organisation. But it also encourages her, makes her feel like he's not the enemy she's always viewed him as in terms of being the authority figure over her, that she'd always tried to close herself off from.]
FROM: stark.arya@cdc.org
Did they lie to you too? When you were first recruited.
no subject
Or Dagger's just projecting. That happens. ]
FROM: dagger@cdc.org
They're assholes a lot of the time. I hate them too.
no subject
FROM: stark.arya@cdc.org
Did they lie to you too? When you were first recruited.
no subject
[ He can be moral. Or at least understanding. ]
FROM: dagger@cdc.org
No. I volunteered. I knew what I was in for, coming in. They weren't big on surprise recruitment back then.
no subject
You must have really loved your world or really hated it, in that case.
[Loved it enough to sacrifice everything to save it, or hated it enough to jump at the chance to leave with the CDC.]