lydiascreams | [032. And you want three wishes.]

[Today, a basket of candy showed up in everyone's cabin.

The candy will be personalized to match people's tastes. If for some reason someone's world doesn't have candy, it'll be a collection of the best candy from Lydia's Earth.

There'll be a note on the basket that says:

Be Sweeter!
♥ Lydia

Those who eat the candy will be feeling a lot more mellow, calm, and will be overall less likely to get involved in fights or anything violent.

The more candy consumed, the stronger the effect will be. The time it lasts will depend on everyone's biology and metabolism. The only side effect is that-- it might make people hungrier than usual.

She's fully expecting people to ask her about the candy, and she'll be glad to answer questions anyone might have. Even if she is pretty worn out from getting all of that done.]

[Video - Wardens]
[She's also exhausted from the other thing she did. After Arthas was released, she wasted no time before taking care of him.

When she starts the video, she has a tired, but satisfied smile on her lips.]

I have taken care of Arthas for the time being. He won't be hurting anyone.

[She turns the camera to show a bunny in a pen, and he's showing her his teeth. So she turns the camera back to herself.]

He's pretty vicious for now. I encourage anyone who knows him to come see him and talk to him. He's still himself and he'll remain this way until he starts to listen to us.

For his safety, I won't let him out of my sight, but his communicator is with him in case you want to leave him a message.

[Private - Pounce]
[She's still more than a little shaken up. She doesn't know what she was thinking, she doesn't understand how she couldn't see it before, but she does now. And she wants to fix it. So she follows Letty's suggestion and doesn't hesitate before asking for more help.]

I need your help with Arthas. It's urgent.

[Spam - Stiles]
[It's not until after she took care of everything with Arthas. Until after she spoke with Letty, took a shower and she managed to calm down that she makes her way over to his cabin with Prada in her arms.

She finds it strange that he hasn't checked in on her yet, but as she uses her key and quietly steps into his room only to find him passed out on his desk, it suddenly makes sense why.

So she closes the door quietly, sets Prada down, then silently makes her way over to her boyfriend.

If he was in bed, she wouldn't wake him. But as it is, he just looks uncomfortable.]

Stiles. [She whispers quietly, then places a hand on his arm.]

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[Letty, following her into the room, is looking her over too. She spots the scratches and, without asking, reaches for the girl's wrist to pull her hand up where she can see the damage. She's not gentle, but she is careful.]

Good. I don't know what the hell the furball is doing, but it seems to be working. For now.

[She can see the cleaning efforts, anyway, and there's not as much damage as there could be; impressive, for a rabbit, but not bad. Letty lets go and disappears for a moment into the kitchen, returning with a bottle of tylenol and a glass of water, both of which go onto the coffee table before she reclaims her beer and a seat in one of the chairs. She folds one leg up under her and levels her dark eyes on Lydia.]

Wanna tell me what's going on now?

[A few months back, she'd have pulled her hand away. But between Stiles, Allison and Scott, she got used to people touching her and checking on her like that.

She watches as Letty moves around in silence and after she settles down on a chair, Lydia takes a moment before taking a sip from the glass of water.]

Thank you.

[She's pretty sure the question is about her and not the inmate, but in case it isn't...]

I'm not doing anything else. I told Pounce to ask me for help if he needs it, but I'm not going after Arthas again. [Or anyone else. In fact, if it wasn't for her deal and the people that'll be affected by it, she'd probably just leave. But she can't. She has to stay. For them.]

"Going after."

[Letty repeats the word selection skeptically, because she can still clearly hear the way Lydia was putting her off before, the way she was evading when Letty was asking her about what she realizes now was the plan that culminated in the candy baskets, in what happened today. And she knows it was a plan, something Lydia did for a reason, something she thought would work - it wasn't like what Letty did, a reflex, the powers equivalent of a kneejerk reaction. She just also doesn't know how they got from where they were when they were talking about accountability, to here.]

You gotta give me something, man. You gotta tell me what you were even thinking with that kind of bullshit.

I get this much: I know you thought it would help. You aren't mean, or I'd've laid you out straight in the door. But you gotta help me understand.

[It feels like that's what she did now. She went after him, she hurt him, she made things worse. And getting to justify what she did just doesn't feel right, because it doesn't matter what her reasoning was, it was still wrong.

But she feels like she owes Letty an explanation, so she'll get one.]

I couldn't let anyone else die. [It keeps happening, it's her responsibility. Double so when she's assigned to the most dangerous inmate and she's a banshee.]

You told me he was coming for you and for other people, so I tried to think of a way to stop him, make him harmless and still make him listen. Because I didn't wanna make it all about stopping him. I wanted to find a way to get through to him, too.

[On the contrary, Letty only really cares about what her reasoning was; she wants to know what the justification is so she can try to see what Lydia saw, why this made sense to her. Yeah, obviously Letty gets the part about making Arthas into something more or less harmless, but the rest of it...

She chews her lip as she listens, and shakes her head.]

Remember what we were talking about? Working together?

It's not on you alone. Not with someone like Arthas.

Yes.

[She sighs deeply and run her hand through her hair after she sets the glass back down.]

But what if I get assigned to someone like him? I can't expect all you other wardens to come help me whenever I have issues. I should be able to figure this out, to help them. [She has to, for Allison.]

Why the hell not?

[Letty's response is immediate and firm, her voice sharp. This is exactly what they were talking about.]

I mean yeah, don't go crying for help if you don't need it, but believe me. Everyone needs help sometimes. Especially with all this... bullshit.

What's more important: doing it on your own, or doing it well?

[032. And you want three wishes.]

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