[It takes him a while to be able to respond. He doesn't want to, at first. His first instinct is absolutely to blame Chris. He's Vic's warden, Cassel's boyfriend -- if it were him, Mickey thinks, he would have never let this happen.
Except that eventually, he remembers that this could easily be him but for the grace of God. Where Chris has Cassel and Vic, Mickey had Ian and Jerry. Maybe Mickey had thought first, tried harder -- put himself between the two of them whenever he could, made some bullshit truce that Jerry could have torn through like tissue paper if he'd wanted to -- but if the vampire had had it in his head to fuck with him like this, Mickey would have been just as helpless as Chris is now.]
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Except that eventually, he remembers that this could easily be him but for the grace of God. Where Chris has Cassel and Vic, Mickey had Ian and Jerry. Maybe Mickey had thought first, tried harder -- put himself between the two of them whenever he could, made some bullshit truce that Jerry could have torn through like tissue paper if he'd wanted to -- but if the vampire had had it in his head to fuck with him like this, Mickey would have been just as helpless as Chris is now.]
it wasnt ur fault