And if I get home nice and safe, you won't have to find out what a taser is. [To be fair, she didn't know what a taser was either before she'd arrived here, but circumstances forced her to become at least somewhat familiar with futuristic weaponry. Elizabeth wasn't about to trust something in a spray can, so taser it was.]
[She walks along with him, looking like a very cross baby owl with a fat lip, but the further away from the bar they get, the more Alexander talks about his own children, the looser Elizabeth's shoulders get.] ...my father's not here. But I imagine... even knowing me, he wouldn't want me walking around like this either.
[He'd be horrified to see her drunk, probably. He'd feel responsible, he'd tell her what a stupid mistake she just made and she-- if she really wanted to hurt him-- would say that she learned how to solve her problems by following his example.]
But that's n-neither here nor there because I'm-- [Elizabeth swallows and tries to steady her voice, but she's intoxicated and also talking about the worst thing that's happened to her. She's starting to cry.] --I'm never going to see him again.
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[She walks along with him, looking like a very cross baby owl with a fat lip, but the further away from the bar they get, the more Alexander talks about his own children, the looser Elizabeth's shoulders get.] ...my father's not here. But I imagine... even knowing me, he wouldn't want me walking around like this either.
[He'd be horrified to see her drunk, probably. He'd feel responsible, he'd tell her what a stupid mistake she just made and she-- if she really wanted to hurt him-- would say that she learned how to solve her problems by following his example.]
But that's n-neither here nor there because I'm-- [Elizabeth swallows and tries to steady her voice, but she's intoxicated and also talking about the worst thing that's happened to her. She's starting to cry.] --I'm never going to see him again.