[Pokey was never good at reading emotional cues, and in many ways it wouldn't matter. Anger or not...
He can sympathize with her. But at the same time everything she's saying is just making him so. Damn. Mad. He runs his hands through his hair, slowly for a moment, before gripping at his scalp and...trying not to growl. But it doesn't work well.]
Will you shut up?
[He is, at least, enough of a man at this point to look up at her when he speaks, to show that he's trying to fight back crying now too.]
What, you think you're the only one getting their teeth kicked in by life? Hey, guess what? The world is a stupid, ugly, sucky place and it's out to punch out every single person who dares to live in it. And a bunch of the people in it? Are morons who are as ugly and gross and dumb as the world itself. But not everyone; not even the majority, maybe, and you've seen that. And you've seen that just about everyone is getting hit hard in their own ways.
You think you're the only one whose lost a lot, or who doesn't have anything? Who's seen people you care about get hurt? Do you know how many people I'd known in Mayfield who I had to watch disappear, or get turned into mindless drones, or die? People I...I loved?
Yeah. Sure. Throw yourself away. That'll teach him for having spent so much time showing you concern and care and love. Guess you're showing how much you really care about him now, huh?
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Date: 2015-07-16 07:42 am (UTC)He can sympathize with her. But at the same time everything she's saying is just making him so. Damn. Mad. He runs his hands through his hair, slowly for a moment, before gripping at his scalp and...trying not to growl. But it doesn't work well.]
Will you shut up?
[He is, at least, enough of a man at this point to look up at her when he speaks, to show that he's trying to fight back crying now too.]
What, you think you're the only one getting their teeth kicked in by life? Hey, guess what? The world is a stupid, ugly, sucky place and it's out to punch out every single person who dares to live in it. And a bunch of the people in it? Are morons who are as ugly and gross and dumb as the world itself. But not everyone; not even the majority, maybe, and you've seen that. And you've seen that just about everyone is getting hit hard in their own ways.
You think you're the only one whose lost a lot, or who doesn't have anything? Who's seen people you care about get hurt? Do you know how many people I'd known in Mayfield who I had to watch disappear, or get turned into mindless drones, or die? People I...I loved?
Yeah. Sure. Throw yourself away. That'll teach him for having spent so much time showing you concern and care and love. Guess you're showing how much you really care about him now, huh?