lillium
Fatima's Sexophone
He Who Fights Monsters
just another dead composer
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Post by lillium on Mar 18, 2011 23:43:02 GMT -6
Marian sighed at that terrible excuse. He was trained as a lawyer, dammit. Was Dago really trying to pull that shit with him? "You thought he'd call sooner," he repeated. "You thought he'd call sooner. Are you fucking kidding me? He probably could have killed someone or himself, and then we'd have dead people on our hands. You know what he could have done. Assuming he would have called sooner wasn't exactly the best assumption ever."
Marian sat back in his chair, trying not to overreact and trying not to make anything explode, although it was a tempting thought, making something explode. Maybe then Dago would realize what an idiotic thing he had done. He rubbed his temples, trying to think clearer. Alright, so Dago had done this, and now Marian had to fix whatever he had done. He had to teach this kid how to control his magic, otherwise someone would end up dead.
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Post by Soprano on Mar 18, 2011 23:51:29 GMT -6
Dago wasn’t exactly trying to defend himself on the witness stand. He was being honest about his thought process and already knew that he was guilty. Being yelled at was starting to get him a bit agitated, he was trying to refrain from getting defensive. He accepted and admitted he’d made a mistake; a huge one. He intended on fixing it; he didn’t need Marian to clean up his messes.
“No, I’m not fucking kidding you,” he said, trying his best to keep his voice even, “You’re right, it wasn’t. I fucked up, I know. I fucked up really bad and I’m going to fix it.”
He knew that Marian was going to argue that he wasn’t exactly magical right now, but the only magic Dimitri used to train anyone else was summoning. Marian was the only one who knew how to do that, but Dago wasn’t in the dark about theory. He could coach Hans on keeping his powers in check until he was ready for actual training.
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lillium
Fatima's Sexophone
He Who Fights Monsters
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Post by lillium on Mar 18, 2011 23:58:02 GMT -6
To Marian, Dago was trying to defend himself on the witness stand, and with shitty excuses, too. Then again, to Marian, almost everyone was trying to defend themself on the witness stand when they were sitting there coming up with lame excuses. Probably something he'd picked up in law school. He was going to become a prosecutor, really, before that whole sacrifice ritual thing had happened.
He raised his eyebrows. "Oh?" he asked. "And how are you going to do that?" The thought was a little laughable, but Marian kept his face straight. He genuinely wanted to know how Dago planned to clean up this little mess that he had made. Marian only used summoning magic to train his students, like Dimitri, but he hadn't really thought about it very much.
Just the thought of Dago, who wasn't even a mage anymore and instead a demon, training mages, was a little weird. But, if Dago had a good idea, then Marian was fine letting him clean up his mess- As long as he did a good job of it.
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Post by Soprano on Mar 19, 2011 0:07:20 GMT -6
Dago was using shitty excuses because that’s all he could think of when he thought about why he’d abandoned Hans there. Hans had a point when he said he could have taken him with, but there were too many risks. Marian was completely in the right for getting angry when Dago conveniently forgot to tell him about the botched up bite-victim.
Dago’s shoulders relaxed a bit when Marian actually seemed receptive to allowing him to fix the mistake he’d made.
“I trained Willow, she was halfway decent, wasn’t she?” he pointed out, “I wasn’t an aggressive mage, but I know the theory. I borrowed Zed’s bracer and Hans is wearing it, I can get him to keep from turning everyone around him into meat popsicles, then he’s yours to teach. Until he's ready, I made him somewhat safe.”
That didn’t fix the trust breach, or the fact that he’d abandoned Hans, but Dago hoped it’d start the process of patching up what he’d fucked up.
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lillium
Fatima's Sexophone
He Who Fights Monsters
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Post by lillium on Mar 19, 2011 13:25:30 GMT -6
Marian didn't say anything for a moment, he just looked at Dago, weighing the pros and cons. Well, on one hand, Dago had trained Willow and done a good job, and Dago was right: He did know the basic theory. On the other hand, Dago could totally botch it up and screw up Hans even more.
It was a tough choice.
He continued weighing the pros and cons until he finally came to a decision. "Fine," he finally said. "But you'd better do a good job of it." Dago would. Otherwise, Marian would simply reach another level of pissed off. And that just wouldn't be fun for either of them.
Marian didn't really care about Dago's shitty excuses or why he was using them. He just was angry, and Dago wasn't providing him with good reasons why he had left Hans there, so the fact that Dago had been continuing to use shitty excuses was just making it worse.
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Post by Soprano on Mar 19, 2011 13:32:52 GMT -6
Dago hadn’t fucked up with Willow, not even a little bit. He’d probably have to do a bit more reading on aggressive magic than he wanted, but that was a small price to pay.
“I will,” he said firmly.
A ‘whole other level of pissed off’ wasn’t someplace he could afford to go with Marian, ‘not fun’ didn’t even cover it. He knew the consequences and if he honestly had a better argument for why he hadn’t told Marian about Hans, he might have had something better than a shitty excuse. He had plenty for why he left Hans there, but nothing for his lack of responsibility. It was a hell of a lot easier to defend oneself when one actually had a leg to stand on; Dago did not.
“I’ll let you know when he’s ready,” he said, standing up.
He started to walk toward the Library, intent on finding some resources.
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