[truth plot] Asher

[speakscanadian]

In all his time on the island, this was the first that Ray had stood within the orchard overlooking the garden. He'd needed a quiet place to think, where he wouldn't risk questions coming at him left, right and centre. After badgering Danica for twenty minutes in the morning, he'd made the nasty discovery that he too was a pawn in the island's antics today. The trees provided the kind of cover he needed.

Not that he was hiding. He wasn't the one that had been hiding anything.

Groaning when he realised he was still thinking about it, Ray tipped his head back and took a deep breath. Overhanging leaves filled his vision, all fresh and bursting with color. It was pretty depressing, considering how he was feeling inside.

Asher had bitten Stephen and he'd shot a bear. The words had come out of his own mouth. And still he'd lied about Rorshach, despite those confessions. Granted, Ray and he hadn't been on the best of terms back then, but he had had every opportunity to come clean since.

Maybe he shouldn't have been surprised. Maybe deep down he'd known all along and had decided it wasn't a big enough deal to stop him getting closer to Asher. If that was the case, then it was all on Ray.

Dropping his head, he walked aimlessly amongst the trees towards the pathway. He'd spent most of his life relying on his hunches but it had only taken one man, this man, to stop him doing what he did best. Instinct was key to avoiding mistakes but Ray had stopped listening to his. He'd thought he'd been following it when he'd brushed aside his uncertainties and let himself fall for Asher but perhaps he'd hadn't. Maybe he'd been wrong. Maybe.

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"Why can't you just admit that you're in the wrong for once?" Ray asked, shaking his head in disbelief. It was like Asher just didn't care. "You're making me feel like I ain't got a right to feel this way."

[asher_talos]

"Because I don't think that I am. Feel what you need to, but it's not going to change my opinion. Someone fucked with my sister, I took care of it, you were the cop just looking for an excuse to slap me with a charge. It's as simple as that." Or it was to him. If Ray wanted to complicate things then Asher could hardly be blamed for that.

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"No, I was the cop doing my job," Ray snapped, his job being to put away people exactly like Asher. He'd been doing it pretty damn well until he'd let personal issues get in the way. "I didn't suddenly change when we got together, you know. I'm the same person you point blank lied to. That doesn't change just because you had reasons for lyin'."

[asher_talos]

"Fine. Then I was the criminal trying to save his own ass. Still plenty of reason not to tell you, still not sorry. I'm done." Neither of them seemed prepared to budge on their views, and he wasn't going to argue about it anymore.

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He should have gotten it out of his system on his own, he knew that, but hindsight was a bitch. Later on he'd realize yet again that he really shouldn't let himself talk to Asher when he was angry.

"You said it, not me," Ray shrugged, stepping aside so he no longer provided shade for Asher. "I hope you get sun burn," he muttered as he walked away.

[asher_talos]

"Asshole," Asher said to the empty spot where Ray stood the moment before.

The truth was supposed to set you free, but every time the island pulled this forced honesty thing, he just wound up wishing he'd decided to stay in bed that morning.