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He said he moved there. At first I thought he hit his head and woke up British, but his accent was way off.

Look on the bright side, he'll be out of our lives one day. We just have to deal with him here for hopefully a short time...

Are you okay? Did he hurt you?

Hopefully.

[Isaac sighs before shaking his head.]

No. He wasn't up for a fight. [You shouldn't have been either! :( ]

No you're not okay or no he didn't hurt you? [ Isaac please be more specific. ]

He didn't fight you back? [ Huh. ] You must have scared him. [ This worries Scott deeply. ]

He couldn't hurt me if he tried, Scott.

[Isaac rolls his eyes for a moment, before Scott's other statement catches his attention and he turns back toward him.]

Must have. Serves him right.

Hopefully he'll be too scared to provoke you again. [ Who is he kidding. Jackson is totally stupid enough to keep antagonizing Isaac. And Isaac will keep letting Jackson get to him. And so much for trying to tame Isaac's violent side. ]

You don't know how many times I've wanted to hit him after he's said something to me. [ The only time he's ever hit Jackson - when he's not been the Kanima - is when he walked in on him naked with a terrified Allison. ] But he's not worth your time. Just ignore him and walk away next time.

Scott, he killed my father.

[Isaac just says that matter-of-factly, looking down toward the ground.]

I don't care if he doesn't remember doing it. I don't care if someone else was controlling him. He ripped his body to shreds and then gave the police a motive for me, so I took the fall for it- I had to go on the run, sleep in train cars, hell I almost died for what he told them.

[Isaac's jaw goes tense, his eyes narrowing in anger. He still can't look at the screen.]

And you know what, Scott? That was the only time he told anyone about what my dad did to me. Not in the years it was happening, not when he saw it and heard it throughout middle school, throughout high school. Just when it would benefit him. So- yeah. I think I'm justified in beating the crap out of him when he turns around and makes fun of me for it.

The kanima killed your father.

[ Scott sees the kanima as something separate from Jackson. It might not matter to Isaac that Jackson had no control of himself but it's an important detail to Scott. It's why he insisted on keeping Jackson alive, because he was innocent. Even if he was an asshole, he didn't want to murder people. ]

I know he's not a good person. I'm not defending him... I'm on your side.

[ He's just worried what Isaac might become from all this fighting. He doesn't like seeing the similarities between him and Derek. ]

Then you should act like it.

[It's sudden, a little hostile, and Isaac's voice is raising slightly. Scott's words don't sit well with him, and Isaac finds himself bristling at them. Jackson killed his father, Jackson told the police that Isaac had a reason to kill him, Jackson almost murdered them all multiple times- and sure, Isaac teamed up with Scott to save him, but that wasn't really for Jackson at all.]

Don't make excuses for him.

So I should just let you beat him up whenever you feel like it? Watch you become your dad? I can't do that, Isaac.

[Isaac's shoulders go tense almost immediately after Scott speaks. There's a line there, and Scott has crossed it, and done it in such a way that Isaac is stunned into a bitter silence for all of a few long moments. When he responds, his tone is deadpan, full of a barely-restrained emotion.]

Don't you ever compare me to him.

[And he hangs up.]

[ Scott doesn't know what to do with this conversation. He doesn't know why Isaac told him about making Jackson bleed in the first place. Was he expecting Scott to be happy about that? Surely Isaac knows him well enough by now to know he doesn't advocate violence.

But he knows he's gone too far with the comment about his dad and immediately wants to take it back. ]

Wait, Isaac, that's not what I--

[ But it's too late. He's gone. And Scott is left staring at his bracelet. ]

...Damn it.

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