The One With No Good-Byes [Video]

[twoheadsofcabbage]

[The boys are standing in front of a Barge-normal door. You know what that means kids...]

Our warden flew the coop.

[Scrad announces flatly. Charlie sarcastically adds:]

Big surprise.

[Actually, it is. They liked Drake; thought he was an okay guy. Trusted him, kinda. Almost. This hurts.

Don't expect them to admit that, though.]

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[timesbureaucrat]

Ah.

[Narvin is also emotionally stunted. But at least Drake graduated so Narvin can be fairly confident that when the Barge punted him off at least he's alive back in his world. Still, Drake was his first successfully graduated inmate and now he's gone.]

You had reason to think he would leave?

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Obviously.

[Scrad says. Charlie hooks a thumb at themself.]

Yo.

[They are a great reason to leave. Totally hopeless. Get out while you still can, everyone.]

[timesbureaucrat]

You do realize his best friend was Arthas, don't you? Someone like you was hardly going to scare him away.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Who said anything about scaring him.

[Scrad says. They push people away through sucking.]

[timesbureaucrat]

Then what did you mean? [Drake had such a history of following sucky people that the idea of him leaving due to suckiness doesn't even occur to Narvin.]

[twoheadsofcabbage]

That he figured out he was better off giving up on us. Everybody does.

[Scrad says nonchalantly. Charlie offers:]

Go ahead. Give it a try. ...There ya go!

[Charlie: available to positively reinforce all of your negative thoughts.]

[timesbureaucrat]

To give up on you, I'd have to have had trust in you at some point. [The snark is automatic, even though he does actually think that Scrad and Charlie are the sort who might indeed graduate.]

But as far as Drake goes, again, I cite Arthas. Who has been here for four years and yet Drake was still convinced of his "inner goodness" and ability to graduate. Unless you're more hopelessly irredeemable than a mass murdering zombie lord, which I doubt, I find it hard to believe that Drake simply gave up.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Maybe we are.

[Charlie pouts.]

[timesbureaucrat]

Only in your delusions of villainous grandeur.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Maybe we just aren't worth it.

[Scrad suggests.]

[timesbureaucrat]

My first inmate was a Time Lord criminal who once destroyed a third of the universe. He was a waste of carbon whom, off the ship, I would have gladly seen vaporized. But on the ship, it didn't matter whether or not he was worth rehabilitation, I'd come here to do a job and I was going to do it. He disappeared, but I didn't.

In the grand scheme of the universe, none of us are worth very much. But one of Drake's notable qualities was that he was loyal. If he left without saying a word and settling his affairs, then he didn't leave by choice. [Narvin's a wee bit protective of the reputation of his former inmate.]

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Whatever, he's gone either way.

[Scrad sulks.]

[timesbureaucrat]

Yes, he has.

But remarkably enough, it is possible to miss someone without belittling their character.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

Tell it to somebody who misses someone.

[Charlie says.]