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un:BtchCrft- Meet a Wild Maggie- Video OTA

[ The screen pops to life and on the screen is a woman with long firey red hair. There is a smile on her face and she waves lightly.]

Well, it looks like we have some old and new faces around here this time. Now that everyone has had a little time to settle in for this mega fun ride we are all on together I thought I should say hello and introduce myself.

Hi~ I'm Maggie.

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[ Coming to terms with things in ones life was often the hardest part of learning to live with them. The path is never easy,and often comes with a ton of stumbling blocks, Maggie knows this quite well. She gave him a bitter sweet smile, it must have been hard whatever he went through. Maybe someday she'd get the story from him.]

Sometimes surviving is the bravest thing we can do in a given situation. I believe in you though, I think if you give yourself some time it will get easier.

Even if I can't help with the physical scars, I can with the ones that can't be seen and I want you to know I am here for you through your journey.

[Someday, maybe, he'll tell her, or at least see the nightmare that Jordan and Claudia had wrought. For right now, though, the thought leaves him feeling vulnerable, naked in a way he rarely is, and it's not a comfortable feeling no matter how kind she's been.]

Thank you. Sometime, maybe, I'll tell you more but the details aren't very kind. I'm still coming to terms with a lot of it, and it's been six years.

Maybe this place will be better for me, I don't know. But being able to just stop and breathe...that's been something. Even if it comes with its own problems.

[ Trauma can do that to a person. She knows that it will take time, she'd never pry and make things worse on that front. Not unless it was the difference between life and death.]

When you're ready, if you're ready. No thanks needed really.

It could be, not everything here is nice either but...it's not all bad either. I am glad that you have been able to get a little break from things, you sounded like you really could use it.

I suppose it speaks volumes that this place seems to be an improvement, all told.

I'm wary still, because I know there's...complications here, but I'm appreciating what time I have that I can decompress, now that I'm used to the idea.

As used to it as anyone can be, at least.

How have you been settling back in? Besides the shop?

[ She gave a small nod]

It does, but one mans trash is another's treasure. Taking it in while you can is pretty much all you can do. Breath while you can.

It's a bit like riding a bike, once you get back on and get yourself used to the seat and how it works again, you're okay.

I take what I can get, under the circumstances. I won't fool myself into thinking it's idyllic, but it's better than where I cane from for the time being so...one day at a time.

I'm glad you're getting your footing again. I think it still amazes me how normal it can all feel once you find the routine. A job, a place to live, deciding where to get coffee or eat dinner.

[ Maggie gives him a smile]

A wise man. My original home wasn't a very nice place either, so I get where you are coming from.

That's kind of what it's all about here, finding your place and setting your way of life here.

I already like you a lot, so I really do hope that you can find some solace here.

If I'm going to be here, I can make the best of it. I'm used to adapting and I suppose I'm lucky in that way...that I'm used to some very strange things.

[He smiles a little, though Maggie might want to hold off on thinking too highly of him. In his opinion, at least, but...it's still charmimg.]

You'll have to tell me about where you're from, sometime. I have to admit, the existence of other worlds is pretty new to me...I'm still getting my head around the idea.

There ya go. I knew you would be okay if given time.

[ She looked a bit away from the camera.]

Originally? Or before I was here? Different places entirely, and one is easier to talk about than the other. But....there is a big big universe out there. We will probably never know or understand all of it, or all of the possibilities that are out there.

I do my best, even if "okay" can be very relative at times.

And the idea of other worlds...that may take me some time. There's enough strange and, honestly, rather terrifying in my own world. We have things that we think come from "other" places, but no one's every really sure. The concepts are there, but we can only guess.

So...you've been to other worlds like this, besides your own?

Okay, is always retaliative.

Other worlds and such, I think I was more accepting of that kind of thing because I spent my whole childhood hoping that something else was out there other than what I had.

Two others.

[ Spoken with a nod of her head.]

[It's his turn to nod, looking thoughtful as he takes that in.]

This has been a learning experience. I was raised with a very clear awareness of the world around me, and truthfully I've always been more focused on that than speculation. The immediate, the concrete.

So we're either of those places much like this one? The world I'm from, the one I know, has some similarities, but also a great deal of differences.

[ She looked thoughtful a moment before speaking again]

I think when we are uprooted from what we know as normal, it should be a learning experiance from anyone. If you aren't learning then you aren't trying to adapt to things.

One was paradise, large beautiful gardens and the whole shebang. The other...

[ She paused a little bit of a bitter sweet smile on her face]

I had a family of my own. Very different from this one we are in now, but they weren't with out their own issues too.

Pride and ignorance are funny things.

[Not so long ago, he was like that. A fool, really, secure in a world that he was certain would never change.

But oh, how it had, and how it had cost him.

His expression shifts, then, softening. Family. Another painful loss he knows too well.]

I'm sorry.

they are but I have heard some say that at least ignorance is bliss. I can't say I agree given the boogy men and women and other that could be under your bed.

[ Everyone had moments like that, no one becomes wise with out being a fool at first.

She gently lifted a shoulder.]

Thank you, but it's just part of life. You live you learn you win you lose. Spend your time sifting though it all and hope that you're not a shit of a person because of it.

It's hard to tell, in my experience. Some things, one is better off not knowing. But there's risk in it either way.

[He exhales softly. Danger either way, a fixed game that can't really be won. It sucks, but...he could only choose what he hoped was the lesser evil.]

Sometimes it's more than that, it's...

I don't know. I suppose it's harder for me, having made some...

"Mistakes" is an incredible understatement, I think. I wish I could be as accepting, but I'm not quite there yet.

You're right there, but I am a nosy gal. Personally, I just want to know what to expect.

[ Once again quiet took her, as she looked like she was debating on something. She brought her hand up extending a finger to tap the side of her mouth. Fuck it.]

I've killed with out mercy or care. I understand about it taking time to come to terms with your past. It's okay to be afraid of the things you see in the rear view mirror, but just know they are in the rear view. And should any of them try to come closer than that? You're building friendships now, you're not alone.

That's true. Being able to prepare for something makes a difference over being completely surprised. When you know it's coming, it makes it a different situation.

Still difficult, but at least you know.

[He's quiet for a few moments too, listening and then thinking about what she's said.]

I appreciate it, I really do. My hands are not clean by any means, I've gotten used to being the man who does bad things for good reasons.

For a long time, I was involved with some very bad people. I didn't know. Didn't let myself realize. I did things I'm not proud of, thinking they were right, until I learned the truth. But I've tried to be better since, tried to make things right.

It's all I can do, these days, but I'm getting there. Trying to make some peace with who I've been and who I am now.

[Older, sadder, wiser.]

Well, if it makes any difference.. I have a good instinct about people, and my guts are telling me you are a good person. Everyone has imperfections in their porcelain. Clean or dirty...I already like you quite a bit.

[ She fixed him with a little smile]

And I truly look forward to getting to know you better.

I appreciate it. I try to remind myself of the reasons I have to be better, the things I want to set right. Maybe this is a new opportunity, this place. I'm choosing to treat it as such, at least, because really, what else can I do?

[He might go home, someday, or he might not. He might be dead, or captured, or any of those uncertain fates. At least here, he wakes up in the morning without a blood price on his head. Or a bullet in his skull.]

But I'm glad to have met you, too. You've been a great help and that means a lot to me.

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