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the lyric prompt meme

HOW TO PLAY:

♪ Comment with your characters.
♪ Post to other characters with lyric prompts and, optionally, a picture to go with it.
♪ The lyrics can come from any song you like, or, hell, you can just link some instrumental music as well. Just so long as there's a song.
♪ Threads happen! Tears are shed.

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[divorce]

Opportunities? [ he repeats it with incredulity. ] It wasn't an opportunity, it was a death wish.

[ he walks forward, scowling. ] We saved the people on Nibiru and you. I told Jim you'd let him die if he was in your place, you know that? And I was right, wasn't I. [ he stares into spock's face, searching for denial he knows isn't coming. when he doesn't see anything, it only makes him angrier. ] When he looked for someone to convince him you were worth saving, he looked to Uhura and me. Jim thinks better of you, for some fool reason, and he wanted to think you'd do the same for him if the roles were reversed. But you'll be happy to know no one was willing to lie for you. [ bones' gaze bores into spock's. ] Uhura and I didn't misrepresent you, even though I think you were damn wrong. The only thing we sacrificed was a rule that didn't apply anyway. Their survival and yours are equal. The same sacrifice you wanted to make for them is the same we'd want to make for you. It's the same Jim — [ he abruptly cuts off, then continues: ] You do understand that, don't you?