It’s snapped out. Defensive. He tugs the next suture a little too hard, inadvertently, then curses.
“I stopped to… Try and de-escalate. To see if I could talk him down and explain what was going on, once I realised he was real.”
He’s quiet for a long, drawn out moment as he continues closing the wound, trying to figure out how to word it. It’s not a case of him blaming Monty. After the hydra, the doppelgangers - Montgomery being wary of things that resemble him in strange situations was fair after he’d taken a death as a result of the hydra, for one thing.
“Monty didn’t. He didn’t stop until I was-”
He doesn’t say nearly dead, instead choosing to cut himself off.
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Date: 2022-11-24 02:44 pm (UTC)It’s snapped out. Defensive. He tugs the next suture a little too hard, inadvertently, then curses.
“I stopped to… Try and de-escalate. To see if I could talk him down and explain what was going on, once I realised he was real.”
He’s quiet for a long, drawn out moment as he continues closing the wound, trying to figure out how to word it. It’s not a case of him blaming Monty. After the hydra, the doppelgangers - Montgomery being wary of things that resemble him in strange situations was fair after he’d taken a death as a result of the hydra, for one thing.
“Monty didn’t. He didn’t stop until I was-”
He doesn’t say nearly dead, instead choosing to cut himself off.
“He stopped eventually.”