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[sunnydalealum]

There aren't any guards posted outside the doors of these rooms, just a single sentry at the end of the hall, and the doors themselves aren't locked. The three young women in the rooms are in a position somewhere between house arrest and honorable parole.

Jordie's in the second room on the right.

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Just before he reaches the door: "I didn't use the wristblades."

It's abrupt, and shaky, and sounds close to tears.

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He pauses, with one hand on the door frame, and then turns back, "Thank you." his voice is soft, gentle, "An' I still love you, Jordie. Still me favourite. Just - think you have a lot of growing up that we stole from you. So you're having to learn things the hard way instead.

"Sorry for that."

[sunnydalealum]

Red floods Jordie's face, anger and shame and frustration and humiliation all blended together, and she twists her head aside and down.

Just a kid, that's what he thinks. Irresponsible. Wrapped up in self-righteousness. Nothing but a disappointment. Or an embarrassment --

He kissed me back, that last time. He did --

So what? You knew that was goodbye. Nothing's changed.

The tears are back, but this time she turns her back before he can see them fall.

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He's not human. Never will be again. He moves towards her and presses her head against his shoulder. He can no more not try to comfort her than he can not smell her sorrow.

"Think you did a bad thing, lass." gruff, but honest, "But don't think you're a bad person. You can grow past it. Not the end of the world this time."

[sunnydalealum]

She wants to lean into him, bury her face in his shirt and bawl; she wants to pull away and move to the window, keep her back to him, stay silent and cold.

A shudder passes through her, and she doesn't move at all.

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He keeps, ever so gently, petting her shoulders. Lecture time is, at least for now, over.

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"You should go."

It comes out unsteady and strained and not as loud as she'd like, barely a squeak ... but it comes out.

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Spoon nods and lets go of her.

"Be at your trial if they let me." he says quietly.

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Her shoulders jerk at the word trial, but she nods. Silently.

(She has to admit it now, to herself if nobody else: she's scared.)

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He brushes his hand across her hair and heads out, not stopping this time.