She asked him — no, begged him to give in, as if his life depended on it. What crimes had he committed, admitting himself to the sea and rain? The only offenses he had made were those of past moons, of distant days: allowing Geneva to leave him to die, allowing himself not to. He was no father, no role model for Pripyat, and under his guidance the boy would surely grow to be as great a monster as he. Jefferson would not allow it to let the blood and stink of the murderous father blossom like life in his son's heart and chest, but what fate determined for Pripyat was inevitable. He would not be his father, no, but without Geneva he would not be his mother either. Jefferson had damned him simply by siring him. The boy had survived his siblings' miscarriage, and yet he was as damned as all the rest.
No amount of her pleading and desperate arguments budged him; he remained stiff, stolid like stone buried in sea and sand. She lay her fingers at his shoulder, a touch so delicate and pure that surely his monstrous skin should have burned like acid. A slight flinch met his eye as visions of Geneva flashed before his vision once more; they were too alike, and yet thousands of years apart. Geneva had intruded; Alaine only knocked at the door. Such knocking ceased, all too suddenly, with a slight gasp in her rabbit tone. He knew what it meant, what she had seen, and with a closed eye he bowed his head. Still the empty cuff of his sleeve drifted in the sea, tainted with salt, and a healer like she would never overlook such a thing. Jefferson only wished she would, if not just this one time.
"There's nothing you can do," he said, gravel in his otherwise unfeeling tone. "There's nothing you've ever been able to do for me, Alaine." I am a sinner.
A great sigh, and with the wind picking up at the waved ponytail on his shoulders, he closed his eye once more, succumbing to the visions of terror and trauma embedded in the flesh and bone of his mind. "Go home."
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