Jesus gets to know that from this side of it, after the truth came out, after he met the man knowing who and what he is - and isn't. Rosita still remembers the gutpunch of it, standing on a sweltering, cracked highway in Georgia, trying desperately to keep Abraham from killing them all by refusing to compromise, Eugene screaming that he's not a scientist and Abraham's face -
She shakes her head. "I didn't, for a long time. I was furious. I was done with him. I told myself - and him - that I didn't care if he lived or died, after all those people were killed trying to get him to DC. We lost... so many good people, Jesus. We lost them when we didn't have to because they believed he would save everyone left. And I helped make those decisions."
It's a long way from the middle of Texas to the East coast on foot, day by day in a truck they had to repair as best they could, scavenging as they went. They grew close despite themselves, just not as close as Rosita had thought they were.
"But... you know Eugene. He's just Eugene. It's just the way he is, he can't really help it. He saw a way to survive and he took it, and isn't that all that any of us do? And it kept Abraham alive, for a while."
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Date: 2022-11-04 12:04 am (UTC)From:She shakes her head. "I didn't, for a long time. I was furious. I was done with him. I told myself - and him - that I didn't care if he lived or died, after all those people were killed trying to get him to DC. We lost... so many good people, Jesus. We lost them when we didn't have to because they believed he would save everyone left. And I helped make those decisions."
It's a long way from the middle of Texas to the East coast on foot, day by day in a truck they had to repair as best they could, scavenging as they went. They grew close despite themselves, just not as close as Rosita had thought they were.
"But... you know Eugene. He's just Eugene. It's just the way he is, he can't really help it. He saw a way to survive and he took it, and isn't that all that any of us do? And it kept Abraham alive, for a while."