I was protecting myself. That's what I do when I'm threatened.
[Even if Caroline hadn't intended to make her feel pain, Clarke only knows about the countless times she's been on the receiving end of an assault. She might speak of war, but she won't talk about herself as a victim.
Most of the time, other people are her victims. So, there is that.
(All of that is in the name of survival. So, there is also that.]
I never said you were a monster. You come off like a lot of the kids I went to the ground with. Don't take offense to that. It just means that it feels like you have a lot to prove by being as rough and brusque and weirdly cheery all at once, so that no one can show that you're scared and just a kid.
Cutting the cheery part? I've been there.
But I get the sense that you've been called a monster before. Sorry if I gave you the impression that I was with them on that.
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[Even if Caroline hadn't intended to make her feel pain, Clarke only knows about the countless times she's been on the receiving end of an assault. She might speak of war, but she won't talk about herself as a victim.
Most of the time, other people are her victims. So, there is that.
(All of that is in the name of survival. So, there is also that.]
I never said you were a monster. You come off like a lot of the kids I went to the ground with. Don't take offense to that. It just means that it feels like you have a lot to prove by being as rough and brusque and weirdly cheery all at once, so that no one can show that you're scared and just a kid.
Cutting the cheery part? I've been there.
But I get the sense that you've been called a monster before. Sorry if I gave you the impression that I was with them on that.