I10DT - Cancer for the Cure

[Samantha McManus]

Across from Isabel's cell, Ms. McManus pulled up a chair and had a seat.

"Suffering isn't a virtue, you know. Especially not your own."

[Isabel Galen]

"What else am I supposed to do? They won't let me out of here."

[Samantha McManus]

"I think you know why, aye?"

"It's not entirely because we think you're a danger to others, either."

[Isabel Galen]

"Two of the people I got sick died. I am a danger to other's."

[Samantha McManus]

"From what the staff tell me, you seem to want nothing more than for the lot of us to hate you, to give up on you."

"You're a danger to yourself, I think."

[Isabel Galen]

"Nope, sorry. New guess?"

[Samantha McManus]

"Are you expecting me to react like Cassiel did? Would that be easier for you?"

[Isabel Galen]

"Yes, it would be. I don't want to be 'reformed'. I deserve to live my life in a cell. So let me out or leave me alone."

[Samantha McManus]

"You were the one who was out of left field for us, Isabel. The one we didn't understand."

"It would be easy to just lock you up forever, but I'm afraid I don't do easy answers."

[Isabel Galen]

"Think of this as a chance to practice."

[Samantha McManus]

"So what do you expect me to believe? That this secret self was just lurking in you all along?"

[Isabel Galen]

"Ask your girlfriend what I'm capable of doing."

[Samantha McManus]

"A great many of us are capable of frightening things, but is that you?"

[Isabel Galen]

"Its what I was becoming."

[Samantha McManus]

"Do you want to become that?"

[Isabel Galen]

"I want to make sure I don't become that."

[Samantha McManus]

"That's a good answer, but somehow I think we're not envisioning the same solution here."

[Isabel Galen]

"Possibly not."

[Samantha McManus]

"Righting this isn't just keeping you off that path, Isabel."

[Isabel Galen]

"No, but its part of it. Its the part I can do."

[Samantha McManus]

"It's the path you can see where you are right now, not the only path."

[Isabel Galen]

"I've figured out a way to solve the problem, and to give some closure to the people I hurt. I don't see a problem."

[Samantha McManus]

"And do you really think that's what they want?"

[Isabel Galen]

"Yes."

[Samantha McManus]

"Then I think you're doing Mister Stanton especially a disservice."

[Isabel Galen]

"He doesn't know the whole truth." Isabel said "He'd want it most of all, if he did."

[Samantha McManus]

"And what is the whole truth, Isabel?"

[Isabel Galen]

"He'd never forgive me."

[Samantha McManus]

"How well do you really know him?"

[Isabel Galen]

"Well enough to know that he loves his wife and daughter."

[Samantha McManus]

"But you also should know he'd never want you to suffer."

[Isabel Galen]

"That isn't what he said to me."

[Samantha McManus]

"Do we mean all words said in anger?"

[Isabel Galen]

"Sometimes anger frees us to tell the truth."

[Samantha McManus]

"And you can handle him hating you better than you could him forgiving you."