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you saying he's holding his own against a guy named "batman" means nothing to me
you do realize this, right?
just checking

there shouldn't have been casualties here
there shouldn't be any more
this is stupid
you believe him when he says he wasn't planning something?

Batman is one of the most powerful people on my planet. I don't know. He might not have planned anything for the immediate future, but he would have gone off the deep end at some point. He always does.

and i set him off early
ruined the "punchline"
gee, don't i feel more like crap than usual

[House is going to try to play that off as sarcasm. He doesn't need this truth nonsense starting up again.]

you know even if they take him down now he might come back
so, what?
gonna post guards at all the places he could wake up?
doesn't really work for anywhere except the hospital

[ She was expecting to have to berate him more. This conversation is weirdly candid. ]

I've lived in Gotham all my life, and if there's one thing I've learned it's that the bad guys always come back. We deal with it as it comes, there's nothing more we can do. On the one hand crippling him might be useful if it's doable.

[ It's uncomfortably candid for the both of them. ]

i saw the guy get half-strangled and pummeled by a metal fist up against a wall
and then he came after me
pretty sure the only way we're crippling him is hobbling
"misery" style
hell if i'm getting anywhere near him again even with that

Yeah I know the feeling I've done everything I can. If he comes after me I'm ready to kill him.

and what're you gonna do?
if this guy can go toe-to-toe with some superhero
and al
and everyone else and his brother going after him
doesn't seem like you'll do much other than maybe survive

he seemed pretty pissed the "little bird" crowed, anyway
and yeah
it's my fault he knows
sorry

Edited 2016-03-31 22:18 (UTC)

What do you want me to say, that it's okay? My best friend was almost killed. He still could be, because some psycopath knew my dad and I talked to him. I laughed at his jokes. And now I'm just a helpless little bird watching while he hurts people I care about, that I should have been able to protect

i want you to say you'll run the hell away from him if you see him
because you're a freaking kid!
all of you goddamn kids
even the one that's a suit of armor bleeds!
jesus christ

quark nearly gets in the middle of beckett pulverizing me
the spider chick just lets herself get murdered
frisk has to listen to me dying in the morgue and gets eaten by a monster
hamada gets eaten by a monster
the dog chick watches me getting strangled
you're on a psychopath's hitlist
hawkins' got ptsd
it doesn't end

you can't keep anyone safe
i sure as hell can't keep anyone safe
so you run
and if you can't run
then call the freaking admin and hope to hell they're feeling generous

[ That sure is a wall of text he hadn't meant to send. He really, really hates whatever it is that's going on. ]

Edited 2016-04-01 00:43 (UTC)

[ The important thing that Steph takes out of this wall of text (besides that House apparently gives a shit) is "you can't keep anyone safe". And he's right, she can't. She can't protect anyone, and it kills her. ]

I have to try. I can't let anyone else die because of me.

no
you don't

and if anyone's dying it's not because of you, gossip girl
i'm the one who shot the hornet's nest
it's pretty much what i do

That cross is for us both to bear.

so i finally take responsibility for something and now you don't want me to?
that's an interesting tactic

You know exactly what you're responsible for. And I know what part I played in it.

oh, pls
i'm a paranoid bastard
i've been suspicious of that guy since he started quoting emily dickinsen to one of the resident headcases
you just gave me a better reason

And I knew damn well you couldn't keep it to yourself, and I did nothing.

i told elric like i told you i would
that's it
he's the one who couldn't follow the "just play on the fact that dr. house is a paranoid bastard and leave the girl out of it" direction
somehow i actually thought he could lie when it mattered
silly me