#( MUSE. x6.88 ) you'll have to break me open to hear anything

[gwinnetts]

@america-redefined, more like @enclaveborn​ actually // muse intro meme //

Elle is... nervous. She thinks that’s understandable. She’s pretty sure anyone else in her position would be nervous. (But then, anyone else probably wouldn’t be in her position.) She knows she couldn’t put this off forever, and she already knows Carrington isn’t happy about it, but... well...

They don’t — They don’t have any choice. X6-88′s wounds are too awful for her to be able to handle by herself. She’s confident in her ability as a field medic, and she knows she’s been able to save people others with more training than her couldn’t help, but — Carrington is a good doctor, even if he hadn’t started out as one. And... and, she... She trusts him. She knows he’ll do everything he can to save someone, even... even a courser.

That particular argument — It’s going to stay with her, a heavy weight in her chest, she knows that. Carrington’s point about how if he saves X6 now, then he could be signing the death warrants of Railroad agents in the future. How he isn’t happy to be doing this, but he’ll do it anyway, because it’s what’s right.

She’s gotten enough lectures about X6-88 since she started traveling with him. She knows the risks she’s been taking, not just for herself, but for the Railroad. For Deacon. For Carrington.  She’s had to explain, over and over, why she’s friends with someone before, but this — this is a lot more serious than trying to justify Dean Domino to her friends at the Lucky 38. She... She knows she’s putting everyone in danger by letting a courser work with her. But... she...

She hasn’t been able to bring herself to turn her back on him. And she especially can’t do it now, when — when he’s so close to death because he was protecting her. But if something happened to the Railroad, to Deacon, to Carrington because of her, she doesn’t think she’d —

Elle fidgets with her gloves, her hands tugging and twisting anxiously as she stares down at X6-88, unconscious on the bed and bleeding through his bandages.

“C... Carrington, this — He’s... This is... him. X6.” She doesn’t say his full designation out of habit, out of familiarity. “I... This is really... I’m s...” She probably shouldn’t apologize again. “... Thank you.”

[dicepools]

// cookies to the first person who picks up on the significance between when x6′s narration switches between referring to him as his full designation vs just “x6″

[gwinnetts]

tag drop 05: muses pt1

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