Because my dad was never around, and my mom didn't have the heart to say
'no' to me most of the time. When my dad was around we fought, once I got
old enough.
Needed a diploma to get into the Police Academy, learn how to do that. But by that time I knew what I was doing it for. I never really got why I needed to learn some of the stuff I did-- and in the Academy it was cool, 'cause I got to learn stuff I needed to learn about and then go out and train.
[Credence is the second person to ask him that, and he wonders
why. He's been a cop for almost half his life, what the hell
else would he do? He's good at it, it's what he knows.]
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Date: 2019-03-27 04:18 pm (UTC)Sounds like the sort of thing Ma wanted us to do. Except for liking us.
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Date: 2019-03-27 04:26 pm (UTC)Yeah, like I said. Most of my teachers were glad to have an excuse to kick me outta class.
Got a lot worse once I got to high school and bought a motorcycle, too. Not that my parents knew.
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Date: 2019-03-27 04:27 pm (UTC)Didn't your teachers talk to your parents?
[that's how it works right]
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Date: 2019-03-27 04:30 pm (UTC)[He snorts.]
Yeah, sure. But I didn't really listen to my parents, either.
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Date: 2019-03-27 04:35 pm (UTC)Why not?
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Date: 2019-03-27 04:42 pm (UTC)[He shrugs.]
Because my dad was never around, and my mom didn't have the heart to say 'no' to me most of the time. When my dad was around we fought, once I got old enough.
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Date: 2019-03-27 05:01 pm (UTC)[He has nothing to say to that. Fighting with Mary Lou had seemed unimaginable until the day he killed her.]
...I wish I'd been able to go to school. I've spent so long here learning to read and write better, and I'm still not very good at it.
[Not that you should feel bad about forsaking your education or anything!]
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Date: 2019-03-27 06:00 pm (UTC)I'm not saying I made good choices for myself. I think I even knew it back then.
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Date: 2019-03-27 06:26 pm (UTC)[noooo comment]
Didn't you need school to be a policeman?
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Date: 2019-03-27 07:19 pm (UTC)Needed a diploma to get into the Police Academy, learn how to do that. But by that time I knew what I was doing it for. I never really got why I needed to learn some of the stuff I did-- and in the Academy it was cool, 'cause I got to learn stuff I needed to learn about and then go out and train.
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Date: 2019-03-27 07:22 pm (UTC)How long ago was that?
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Date: 2019-03-27 07:27 pm (UTC)So... Sixteen or seventeen years ago.
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Date: 2019-03-27 07:40 pm (UTC)Are you going to go back to it when you go home?
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Date: 2019-03-27 07:44 pm (UTC)My job?
[Credence is the second person to ask him that, and he wonders why. He's been a cop for almost half his life, what the hell else would he do? He's good at it, it's what he knows.]
Why not?
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Date: 2019-03-27 07:45 pm (UTC)No reason. Some people just...change their plans when they're here, that's all.
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Date: 2019-03-27 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-27 07:47 pm (UTC)Oh. I don't know her. Why was she asking?
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Date: 2019-03-27 07:49 pm (UTC)'Cause I asked her what she was gonna do after she went home. She used to be a scientist.
You don't know her? She graduated right before she became Fraser's warden.
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Date: 2019-03-27 07:50 pm (UTC)I know her name but I can't remember ever talking to her.
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Date: 2019-03-27 07:52 pm (UTC)