[He's dead, and they'd killed him without even knowing it.]
[That snarl turns into a lopsided grin, and after a moment Wash starts laughing, quiet and wide-eyed and vicious with an awful jagged edge, and-]
[Well, maybe Wash's sanity isn't as solid as he'd like to think. It still has some cracks, and the Counselor had definitely slithered his way deep into them-]
[And now he's dead. Courtesy of Wash and Carolina, and completely without their knowledge. Collateral damage of a larger - and largely successful - plan. For the first time in a long time, vengeance feels good.]
[It takes him a moment or two to calm down. He straightens and rolls his shoulders back. Right. This isn't about him. Shift focus. But-]
I needed that.
[That doesn't mean he can leave that little detour unaddressed.]
[Anyway. Back to the subject at hand.]
My point was, you can be functional and still broken. [A beat.] Obviously.
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[He's dead, and they'd killed him without even knowing it.]
[That snarl turns into a lopsided grin, and after a moment Wash starts laughing, quiet and wide-eyed and vicious with an awful jagged edge, and-]
[Well, maybe Wash's sanity isn't as solid as he'd like to think. It still has some cracks, and the Counselor had definitely slithered his way deep into them-]
[And now he's dead. Courtesy of Wash and Carolina, and completely without their knowledge. Collateral damage of a larger - and largely successful - plan. For the first time in a long time, vengeance feels good.]
[It takes him a moment or two to calm down. He straightens and rolls his shoulders back. Right. This isn't about him. Shift focus. But-]
I needed that.
[That doesn't mean he can leave that little detour unaddressed.]
[Anyway. Back to the subject at hand.]
My point was, you can be functional and still broken. [A beat.] Obviously.