𝙿𝚕𝚘𝚝: Isabelle finds out about Elliot's secret... 𝙸𝚗𝚟𝚘𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚍: @helloxfriend, @isabelle-madeux
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Elliot had asked Isabelle if she could watch Flipper for him while he went out of town. Being his... whatever they were calling this, and loving Flipper, she of course said yes.
Elliot lent her a spare key to get into his apartment. She went there to check on Flipper, greeting her excitedly as usual.
"Hey there, you cutie!"
Flipper wagged her tail in response, also fond of Isabelle.
As Isabelle leaned down to pet her, she noticed Elliot's desktop was on, which was unusual—he was normally so secure, sometimes to a paranoid extent.
She noticed the screen read "f-society", which was all too familiar now to the world, including her. Knowing how detrimental the group had been, she couldn't stop herself from walking over to the desk, curious what Elliot was doing involving that name.
Then she saw it...
Elliot eventually had come back to his girlfriend and to his apartment after finishing a mission that fsociety needed to be completed to continue on. What he wasn’t expecting was to see Isabelle to be standing in front of his computer with what he thought he had put away.
“I… I guess the cats out of the bag, I was going to figure out how to eventually tell you once I… I could figure out how to.” He didn’t want her to leave, he cares and loves her so much. Just the thought of her leaving was already heartbreaking to him.
All Isabelle could do in that moment was blink profusely. “Elliot.. you..” she couldn’t even form a coherent sentence in this moment. Her boyfriend was working with f-society? She backed up a bit, her anxiety rising.
Elliot didn’t know what to say for a moment either “I swear it’s for good.” He could try to fix this “I know this hard to know, trust me, it was a lot to take in to.” How he’d explain his alters started this.
“But… this group has hurt people, how can it be for good? How are you involved in it?” Isabelle seems to be a mixture of confused and hurt. She doesn’t understand why Elliot would be part of something like this, he wasn’t a bad person. He wasn’t a menace.
Elliot thought how to approach this better “I’d never hurt anyone, I help protect, protect people from people like Ron from the coffee shop.” He explained “Somewhere I didn’t know about fsociety but Mr. Robot showed up when work was getting shitty with Angela and it just went from there and I promise I’d never hurt anyone, I try to save.”
Isabelle realistically knew that Elliot would never hurt anyone, she knew how caring he was. She had seen it first hand. She knew about his alters, too, so it did make sense from that point that Mr. Robot had started the whole thing. She had talked with him before. He seemed to like to scheme. She thought about everything for a minute before responding.
“I just… when you said you were against big corporations I thought you meant you avoided shopping at Target. I never thought it was this deep,” the situation was still confusing and scary to her. Her boyfriend had been involved in a major hack. “What if you get in trouble?”
“I understand there are some risks that can come from this and we accept it if that happens.” Elliot replied “But I promise this is for the good, I wouldn’t have done if it wasn’t.” Running a hand through his hair “All I know this started somewhere after I had gotten locked in a computer room from my old job because they couldn’t of leaved because I kept finding flaws in their codes. And next I knew I woke up to it destroyed… And it was just me still alone over the holiday.”
“Am I safe knowing about this?” She asks with worry for herself.
The question made him pause for a second, Shayla was a different situation than this one, he’s never let anyone get this close to cross this bridge of a situation before until right now. He doesn’t want her to become like Shayla. “I promise I will shred anybody down to protect you.” He’d never give a thought of any a split second chance to harm anyone he cares about.
She looks down, concern now going from herself to Elliot. “What about you? What if you get hurt? Or go to prison?” She cared about Elliot too much to see either of those things happen.
Elliot’s fingers fidgeted with the sleeves of his hoodie. “I’ll be fine.” Convincing the both of them at the same time. He’d avoid jail time again like a plague. Reaching down to pet flipper before she just went and did her own thing again.
Isabelle simply sat at the foot of his bed, thinking over what she has just found out. It was a lot to take in. She still had so many questions, and she thought over everything the vigilante group had done. She thought over her own morals and ethics and how she had reacted to the news of it each night. In reality, she wasn’t fully against what they were doing. She felt the security of the country was inadequate, and that f-society might be a solution, albeit the riots and such that broke out from it raised her anxiety. At least she knew that Elliot wasn’t behind that part. These things of course would have a ripple effect.
Elliot just stood where he was, continuing to let his girlfriend process everything that she just learned, he fidgeted with his hoodie sleeves.
