Looks like this will be a weekly thing

[forcegalactic]

[This whole week has been awful. This whole experience has been awful. Mordecai wants to go straight to his room and deal with his frustrations, but that's not what a mayor does. A mayor takes charge, a mayor fixes what's wrong, a mayor makes things better. Even if he can't do everything on his own, he's has to do something.

Two hours after the end of the trial, the living will find another note slipped underneath their doors.]

There's cookies in the kitchen. The dining room is ready for anyone who needs a quiet place to talk it out. I'll be in the bar if you need a drink, alcoholic or something more appropriate for the underage crowd.

-Mordecai Benmont Jiminy

[There's a pile of warm chocolate chip cookies in the kitchen. Two more candles are lit at the memorial - one for the victim, one for the culprit - and Mordecai has left a pile of blankets from the storage room on one of the dining room tables.]

Comments

[heymcfly]

[ p h e w ]

Okay, I guess. I mean, okay as we're gonna get here. Right?

[ He offers a (rather shaky) smile. ] I'm here if you wanna talk about it. Y'know. With you being upset and everything.

[icysemblance]

[She nods.]

Yeah, as okay as we'll get.

...mm. Honestly, it was a matter of too d-

[She stops herself.]

- too many murders, too many executions, and too much awful behavior from that dolt.

[heymcfly]

[ Marty wants to know what she was about to say...but he also doesn't. Most likely he would end up agreeing, though. Rick seemed to be more of a jerk than he wasn't.

He shrugged, rubbing the back of his neck. [ He had it coming. Guy's a jackass.

Not sure how morty gets stuck being around him l. Y'know?

[icysemblance]

['Too many damn murders', she was going to say. Everyone else is wearing off on her.]

...yeah. He is, and he's long since had it coming.

I suppose family bonds are stronger for some people than for others.

[heymcfly]

[ That's...true. Someone at school asked him how he can stick around his dad when he was an asshole. Marty said it was just because he was his dad, because hello? Wimp or not, Marty loved his dad. So maybe it was like that?

George was a wimp, though. Rick was a drunk asshole. George was not. ]

Guess so. Whatever floats his boat.

...Are you okay with everything else, though? I mean, ah... [ Stupid question, Marty. ]

[icysemblance]

I'm okay as I can be. That's not very, but I'm dealing.

...I'd still rather be back at Beacon with everyone, though.

[heymcfly]

Beacon? What's Beacon?

I don't think I've ever talked to you much before this though. I mean, other than once or twice during trials or something.