sleepallthewayhome: (Clings to)
Rebecca "Newt" Jorden ([personal profile] sleepallthewayhome) wrote 2018-06-16 10:05 pm (UTC)

[That actually gets him to sit still for a moment because ....oh.]

[While he thinks, Newt listens to what she's being told.]


He doesn't?....I glad. I ....was just so afraid he'd die....back home, Billy tried to be brave and then he died too. Even though I yelled at him to come back and.....and...it didn't matter...if you're brave you die...

[She trails off, her voice losing the emotion it gained.]

That's what happens to everyone or they get really hurt. The only person who ever didn't was Ripley and she's ...Ripley. And one of the other two only survived because he's an android.

I....got so scared I went back there in my head and I was ....I couldn't let them die. They're too important. I ....just couldn't....

[And Jonesy seems to be listening as well because he's looking over at Newt. Then back to Botan.]

.....so the others were right, it's not me. It's because of the bad place she came from? And death being, really, really bad?

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