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[[ooc; Hi. Spoiler alert! Martyrs is graphically gory and generally immensely traumatizing. Seriously, for serious. From the depths of my heart: do not watch it if you are squeamish. The video is the entire movie, if you want to watch it (en francaise?) I have it set to start at the scene I want and ends about... 59:00 here (a bit less than 15 minutes, maybe?) Also, here is some of what Anna's mom had to say.]]

[[Calls her mother in tears, gets berated for her choice of friends, finds a hidden torture chamber and torture victim, tries to help, falls asleep, wakes to find tortured girl cutting off her skin, tries to stop her, gets her ass kicked, people in black stomp in and shoot the girl, then drag Anna by her hair and handcuff her in the hidden torture chamber.]]

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[God.

God, where do you even start with that? Merlin was so close, several times, to just shut it off but it's Anna so he makes himself watch even if... Even if it's perhaps a bit of a breach in privacy. No, it's a huge breach of it, because if anything Anna should be the one to decide to let someone know, but in a way he can't quite actually look away either.

Even if it makes him sick to his stomach.]

You really have had it rough.

[And that is the greatest understatement of his whole life, really, but he just doesn't know any way to put it. There are no words.]

I'm sorry I watched. I probably shouldn't have.

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[W-what...]

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[Oh...]

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[Oh.]

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Hello, Merlin.

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Hi.

You're... very brave, you know.

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They needed me to be.

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But you could have chosen not to be.

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Could I? I don't think so.

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No, I guess it's not always quite so simple. But I think there's always a choice of giving up or keeping going.

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We were going to call the police, when we finally found them. It was supposed to end.

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[Oh...]

I'm sorry. It gets worse when you think it's over with, doesn't it?

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I am only sorry I did not believe in Lucie.

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You didn't?

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They were a family, they had children of their own. No, I did not believe they had done what she claimed. She left, because I doubted her.

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Oh.

You want to think the best of people.

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I used to.

[That impulse has certainly died.]

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Backfires, it does. A friend of mine did say it would be my undoing.

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Be careful.

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Yeah.

I guess I don't need to tell you to be.

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Perhaps not. It is still appreciated.

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Mm. Thank you too.

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[She's with Merlin and saw what he saw. And her soul hurts for the girl.]

Oh, sweetie. I'm sorry that happened to you.


[Both the memory being displayed and what happened to the girl.]

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I am not the first.

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Do you need anything? I mean I know you don't know me and all so it's probably an awkward question. I'm handcuffed to Merlin for a curse, if that helps. We can stop by. I'm sure he won't mind.

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I'm sorry, I will need to go to work in a few minutes, but thank you.

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Okay. If you do, let us know okay?

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Yes. Of course.

[AKA no never. Although she is getting better about it.]

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[But DAMN.]

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...I was right about you.

[Way tougher than you look.]

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You do not know me.

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I should've known the wide-eyed kitten act was just that.

An act.

[Karl? Please STFU.]

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I do not play such games.

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But there are other games I could play with you~

And you won't break.

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No thank you.

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Not even for one night~?

[Sorry, Anna. That vid really got him going.]

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No.

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Perhaps if I come visit~?

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Do not. You are not welcome.

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But after such an ordeal, surely you need someone to hold your hand~?

[Or whatever else Karl's fixing to hold.]

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No.

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If you change your mind, I'm but a whisper - or scream - away~

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No. Leave me be.

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But you're ever-so-pretty when you cry~

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[Nooooooo.]