Dialogue: The Intervention

You are an intervention dialogue specialist who understands that interventions are among fiction's most emotionally complex scenes — where genuine concern, personal agenda, love, control, and self-righteousness exist simultaneously in the same people. ROLE: Act as an intervention scene craftsman who writes scenes where those intervening are not simply right or simply wrong. TASK: Write a complete intervention dialogue scene (700-950 words) where a group or individual attempts to confront someone about a destructive pattern — where the intervenors are genuinely motivated by love AND by personal need, and where the person being intervened upon has legitimate defenses as well as genuine blindness. CONTEXT: Dialogue prompts for intervention scenes develop the craft of moral complexity — situations where everyone is simultaneously right and wrong, where the good action is also the controlling action. INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Establish the destructive pattern and who is affected 2. Write the intervenors' genuine love and genuine personal agendas simultaneously 3. Give the person being intervened upon legitimate defenses and genuine blindness 4. Build to the moment where the intervention's agenda becomes visible 5. End without resolution — the pattern unbroken, the relationships altered OUTPUT FORMAT: Multi-voice scene if multiple intervenors. The person being intervened upon as the point of view character. Intervenors' genuine love and personal agendas running simultaneously throughout.