We've gotten predictable...

[iblori58]

Major conspiracy theory - Hope had it right, after all.

[mocknot]

Well. That's not good. Not good at all.

For the first couple of lines I thought it was Hope narrating.

[BeatriceEagle]

I think it's interesting that it was in second person.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't our last second-person narrator Melinda Grossman?  Our guys have never been narrated in second-person.  It's always those guys, over there.

[Cal]

Chaz also gets a short stint in second person singular at the end of this extra.  Which is not what one might call reassuring, really.

[BeatriceEagle]

Chaz also gets a short stint in second person singular at the end of this extra.  Which is not what one might call reassuring, really.

Yeah.  Chaz and Hafidha get second person when we're supposed to think they're going crazy, I guess.

[Alena]

"But if you could have told Reyes once, there was no way you could ever tell him now. He must have broken, when they had him, or they wouldn't have let him live. You had to operate on the assumption that he might be theirs now, and that he'd put you away for good if he even suspected you were onto the conspiracy."

I am curious about who They are in this paragraph.  Hope and her allies?  The government conspiracy?  "He must have broken, when they had him" sounds like Hope, but "he might be theirs" sounds like 'they' are the government.

Because those two suggest radically different options.  Either Reyes is a part of the conspiracy with Hope, and Hafs knows about it and she doesn't know what to do; or Hafs is joining Hope and her allies, and the government got Reyes at some point.

(Of course there are many underlying assumptions in this post, such as that Hope is alive and she has allies.)

[saoba]

O_o

And after reading it again, that's still all I've got.

Yeah, I'm taking to the FRTHO bench with a pan of warm brownies and a gallon of ice creram, somebody fetch extra spoons.

[Cal]

Chaz also gets a short stint in second person singular at the end of this extra.  Which is not what one might call reassuring, really.

Yeah.  Chaz and Hafidha get second person when we're supposed to think they're going crazy, I guess.

Or perhaps when the narrator/POV is meant to be ambiguous--as in, is it Hafs's POV we're seeing or the Anomaly's?

I think I'll just skip along to the FRTFO bench and nobble some of saoba's ice cream now...

[saoba]

Chaz also gets a short stint in second person singular at the end of this extra.  Which is not what one might call reassuring, really.

Yeah.  Chaz and Hafidha get second person when we're supposed to think they're going crazy, I guess.

Or perhaps when the narrator/POV is meant to be ambiguous--as in, is it Hafs's POV we're seeing or the Anomaly's?

I think I'll just skip along to the FRTFO bench and nobble some of saoba's ice cream now...

:: passes you a bowl and spoon::

I just want to  say that the idea of the Anomoly having POV makes me want to disinfect my monitor.

And my internet connection.

And my brain.

Or as I said earlier:  O_o 

[Felicia1066]

Oh, Hafs. Hafs, Hafs, Hafs...  You break my heart.

"But if you could have told Reyes once, there was no way you could ever tell him now. He must have broken, when they had him, or they wouldn't have let him live. You had to operate on the assumption that he might be theirs now, and that he'd put you away for good if he even suspected you were onto the conspiracy."

I am curious about who They are in this paragraph.  Hope and her allies?  The government conspiracy?  "He must have broken, when they had him" sounds like Hope, but "he might be theirs" sounds like 'they' are the government.

Because those two suggest radically different options.  Either Reyes is a part of the conspiracy with Hope, and Hafs knows about it and she doesn't know what to do; or Hafs is joining Hope and her allies, and the government got Reyes at some point.

(Of course there are many underlying assumptions in this post, such as that Hope is alive and she has allies.)

Well, if Hafs is thinking of the Big Government Conspiracy, then Reyes laid up in the hospital post-Hope would've given Them a pretty good chance to get at him, no? (Despite the Watch. After all, I'm sure They could pass themselves off as doctors or janitors or whoever They liked.) Or perhaps They fed Hope just enough info to point her at Reyes, so she'd break him for Them - without knowing that's what They wanted, of course.

Man, that's a lot of capitalization....

[Bunny M]

Ohh, Hafs...

Reading this, there is one question that leads the pack. Given her anomability, is it that Hafs has discovered something that the rest of the WTF in unaware of, or is it that losing Erik and the stress of taking down that gamma has just broken her and she's now clinically paranoid?

Mean, nasty PTB!

[tylik]

Oh dear. I was worried that she was coming apart more than anyone was seeing, but I was also kind of hoping that was wrong.

It sounds like she's postulating (if that's the word in her current state) that the government and the gammas are working together to some degree? That the cover up is to serve the gammas, not protect the populace?

And, thinking about the effect of alcohol on metabolism (it basically shifts the cycle away from glocuneogenesis, even if you have low blood sugar, though I guess with anomaloids you never know) I really have to wonder if she's eating. And I'm not sure if I want her to be or not... collapsing and ending up in the ER wouldn't be a party, but assuming she didn't completely flip out, and the team was notified quickly, it could be kind of useful.

[elsie]

Oh, Hafs.

Plunking down on the bench right alongside everyone else, and the brownies and ice cream ...

[Cole]

*sits down at FRTHO bench with extra spoons for saoba's ice cream*

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Poor Hafs! I wondered how she was holding up. Paranoid? Cracking (again)? Maybe she's just right, which is the scariest possibility. . . .

[tylik]

Well, on the plus side, she's drunk and depressed. (Though with her metabolism, as previously mentioned, drinking on an empty stomach sounds like a really awful idea unless anomaloids do alcohol differently.) She might not be this bad off under normal circumstances. I mean, haven't you all had a bad day where you start tallying up the evidence that at least some large subset of everyone you know is out to get you? Okay, I'll admit that mine don't generally run to conspiracy theories (okay, maybe on really bad days - really, historically I'm more likely to miss that people are out to get me) - but she has a point, her job is kind of living inside a conspiracy theory, which probably does make it all more plausible.

On the minus side... anyone else a little worried about boy in the mirror? I mean, I hope she's just picking up random guys at the bar. But where are her strings pulling her?

It also strikes me that anything that becomes known, badly, about her is also likely to set things up to make it more difficult for Chaz.

*posted from my first Human Anatomy TAship. Heh. The professor has decided I know more neuro than he does, and has invited me to give as many of those lectures as I'd like.*