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[Louie Harris]

When you were alone, you had a lot of time to think. And Louie was alone a lot. By choice, everyone here was just... intimidating. He was used to being around dangerous people, don't get him wrong. Derick, Susie, Cat, even the other cultists in Mourningstar. He wouldn't cross any of them in a million years, and they were his father, his best friend and brother. Now he was in a feral rat's nest - at least he had a pretty good idea of what his friend and fellow cultists had been capable of. There was no way to tell here. He just knew any one of them could kill him without so much as breaking a sweat.

But when you were alone, over analyzing every little thing, you started over analyzing just being alone too. Wondering what would happen if he did try to make friends - it wasn't like he wanted to be isolated. Well, he'd tried chatting with Addy, and look how that had gone. He'd blown his - and Cat's - biggest secret right out of the water, while drinking, and now Cat was mad at him and still hadn't forgiven him.

They probably weren't the only one that thought ill of him. Surely they all knew what a pathetic drunk he was, and that's if they didn't know he was an ex cultist still desperately following his false god around. Then he was a fucking fool, too. It probably wouldn't be that hard to find a reason to call him a coward, huh? After all, all these people scared him into hiding.

He wasn't hiding now, though. He was outside, sitting in the shade of an apple tree, picking at an ever-growing hole in the knee of his jeans.

[ADDY.]

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— addy used to think he preferred being alone. people always managed to let him down or leave him in the end, or sometimes they managed to do one and really leave addy fucked up. all the people he once thought were his friends left him feeling like he couldn’t trust them again- most of them being druggies or just straight-up bullshit excuses for friends… some people he kept in touch with despite no longer trusting them, like catalyst. they weren’t his good friend at the moment - but addy still found himself hanging around them when they were around. sometimes wondering why the fuck he did this to himself.

but it was truly because addy didn’t like being alone like he once thought. it took a lot of thinking, but once the redhead got to thinking it seemed he trusted everyone more than he trusted himself. that was why he drug himself around to talk to people, even if they weren’t always the most pleasant of conversations.

it was probably why he had the audacity to even step foot near louie again. the guy had managed to piss of catalyst by telling addy of their little secret-- and it seemed almost like louie didn’t want anything to do with the redhead. fair enough. but that didn’t keep addy away, the man looking for some sort of company. besides, he couldn’t remember the last time he’d seen someone just sitting under an apple tree, doing nothing.

“what’re you up to?” just by looking he could already tell he was doing jack-shit, but he figured it was better than simply launching into the poor man like he did with everyone else.