griefprofiled said:
❝ It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness; that is life. ❞ (helen, for adam) ---- “I hope that wasn’t meant to be compassionate, dear Helen, or else I’d say you’ve lost your touch.” Adam drawled, looking up from the small security cell he was currently sat in. He’d been a far more broken man than she’d likely ever seen before, which was likely the only reason he was sat in that room, as opposed to shot dead when he first arrived. He shuddered, blinking rapidly for a moment as he reached out an arm to steady himself on the wall, finally taking a shuddering breath when the apparent dizzy spell had passed. “What is it called then...” he continued, this time with his Irish lilt present, “when someone makes no mistakes and only loses because of someone else? Of some five others?” There was no real venom in his voice, he was far too tired for that, and instead he looked back up with an expression that almost seemed... sad. “I had done nothing wrong back then, you know? At Oxford. There was no real reason to reject me except your own pride, and I believed that there had to be a reason for that pride, all the way up to Imogene...” “What if she could have been saved, had I been truly working with you? Truly one of your group, one of your friends? What if together we could have saved her, but instead, though I made no mistakes, she’s gone?”
