#v.cab

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"Not exactly the sort of welcome I was expectin." It's stated flatly as the door to the home he's been offered comes open. "Well. I expected the hate an' loathing- the folks tellin' me to walk outside at night. Didn't expect... all of you to be stuck here. You look well, Cabell." He grimaces, slightly, at his full name, even without the vitriol, being 'Victor' had weight around here. "Uh. Ziggy, if you rather. Tryin' to make up for who I used to be is easier when folk ain't hissin' my name like it's poison." He looks almost the same as the day he was carted off to prison, maybe more tired, older, with some gray casting in his hair- but he'd not changed enough to make his return anything but a painful reminder, for most.

"Listen. I... Want to apologize, first off. I'm gonna be doin' it a lot around town, and I've been told to shove it more than a few times already. But... I wasn't a good person when we were growin' up, and if I ever did anything to you to hurt you I do... wanna make up for it. If we're all going to be here- now's as good a time as any to repent."

It wasn't like Cab and Vic were buddies. In fact, they were often at odds with one another but never directly at each other's throats. Victor was nasty and mean and Cab did what he could to buffet the man's attacks away from those who didn't deserve them. They danced their way through high school without really knowing each other outside of status and name and then Vic graduated and got into more trouble and dissapeared. And that was that. At the time, Cab remembers thinking nothing more than 'good riddance' which he regrets now. Obviously, Vic had more going on in his home life than Cab could have possibly understood.

When the door open Cabell took his father's hat off his head. A gesture of respect given freely. An olive branch perhaps.

"Y'know, I wa'n't sure I'd ever see you again, Victor. Much less under such..." he exhaled, squinting out over the road, sun illuminating his face, "--Unfortunate circumstances. But. For what it's worth..." Cab -- now Reverend McCay -- turned his attention back to Victor, "Welcome back, Brother Calhoun."

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