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Winifred "Fred" Burkle ([info]i_figure) wrote in [info]we_coexist,
@ 2011-12-06 17:45:00

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Entry tags:dinah lance, jake jensen, lindsey mcdonald, winifred burkle

Let's get litigious (Lindsey, Dinah, Jensen)
Fred had been woken from a somewhat pleasant sleep by knocking upstairs. The knocking was rather demanding, and she was a little afraid that it would break something soon. She grabbed a robe, put on her slippers, and headed upstairs to find a rather large gruff looking man banging at the office outer door. She opened it and didn't get a chance to say anything. The man shoved paper at her and walked away with a grunt. She looked from the large man to the paper.

"But he said it was okay." She was more than a little confused.

Hours later she was sitting in an appointed room in a building she'd only passed by but never entered. City Courts. She was being sued. The room was seen as neutral territory. It looked like some room she'd seen on tv, when she had one that worked. She expected some really nice looking lawyers to come in to tell her what was going on. Maybe it was some weird joke. Maybe Jensen had broken into the court system and put out the summons. It was to get back for the rough handling?

She sat there in a nice skirt and sweater set. She had dressed up a little to look presentable. She didn't know who her lawyer would be, it was court appointed? She thought people usually picked their own lawyers when they were being sued. Didn't they see judges or something too? Let's just say this didn't seem right to her and her limited experience with courts and lawyers - it was all tv based.

"Jake Jensen vs. Winifred 'Fred' Burkle, Dinah Lance. Sexual Harassment, suing for emotional and physical abuse." Fred's nose wrinkled. "I didn't even think he knew who she was. This just don't make any sense." She wasn't even certain the summons looked right. Someone was playing at someone, surely.

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[info]i_changed
2011-12-07 01:29 am UTC (link)
There were shocks. And then there were shocks.

Generally speaking, Lindsey didn't shock too easy, and never had. You didn't work for Holland Manners without developing a pretty thick skin concerning just what people were capable of.

But when his secretary dropped a file on his desk, and told him he was defending two people, and quite soon, Lindsey was more than a little taken aback.

He'd opened the file and looked everything over, and he felt a little off. WINIFRED BURKLE. She should be heading a science department back home, with disgusting amounts of funding and an ingratiating assistant.

He snorted. "Guess the place got to you after all," he said. He still had a hard time believing any of it.

But this was easy. Or it should be. Dinah Lance... that was the Black Canary. She was the one Murphy said her buddy dated. These were the good guys. He had to defend them.

But what they'd done made no sense, out of context. Or rather, what the paperwork was saying they did and what it was being called made no sense.

Lindsey hadn't been inside a courtroom in years, and he still wasn't sure who the Hell he worked for. He put on most of a suit (fuck the jacket) and went to the courthouse.

Fred was sitting there, at a table. He sat down next to her and arched an eyebrow.

"I'd introduce myself," Lindsey said, "but I'm thinkin' that day came and went."

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[info]i_crylikeabird
2011-12-07 01:53 am UTC (link)
Dinah might have roughed up a lot of bad guys in her time, but surprisingly she'd never had trouble with the law. And she'd certainly never been sued for... sexual harassment? Really?

If anything, she'd figure that Jensen would have sued for the fact that she'd hit him and that Fred had shot him with tranq darts.

She was a little bit shellshocked when she'd received the summons and hadn't quite come out of that by the time she got to the courthouse. She'd also wanted to find her own lawyer, but apparently that had been assigned to her. As far as she knew, that wasn't how lawsuits usually worked. But she supposed the laws in the City might be different.

She showed up shortly after Fred and their appointed lawyer. She waited for him to finish greeting Fred before holding out her hand and introducing herself.

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[info]i_figure
2011-12-07 02:38 am UTC (link)
Fred looked at the man who sat down beside her; he was familiar, but she couldn't place why at first. Then her eyes widened as who he was finally sunk in. Lindsey McDonald. He was one of the bad guys, sort of. He was sometimes one of the team after all.

Thankfully she was afforded a distraction in the form of a friend she very much needed to be there.

"Dinah, this is Lindsey McDonald. Mr. McDonald, this is Dinah." She shrugged. "Not sure why he's here. He's a lawyer." The fact that he was sitting on her side suggested that he was their lawyer. It was a little strange.

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[info]i_chatter
2011-12-07 05:12 am UTC (link)
"This is absolutely ridiculous and that's saying something coming from me!" That was Cpl. Jake Jensen's entrance to this, walking beside a stuffed suit while he was wearing black cargo pants and a bright green shirt with lettering that read Orgasm Donations. When he turned around to walk backwards in front of his obvious lawyer the back of his shirt could be seen with the lettering ask me how.

"Corporal Jensen, I highly recommend that you let me handle this. Your presence here is as a witness only." The aging man had a hint of a southern drawl and a decided lack of humor.

"Then why the hell did you tell me there would be a monetary compensation for my pain and-," he had turned around and spotted Fred and Blondie...heretoafter referred to as Dinah. He smiled meekly and lifted a hand. "Hey."

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[info]i_changed
2011-12-07 05:24 am UTC (link)
The look on Fred's face was very telling. Lindsey pressed his lips together in something like a smile. This wasn't that Fred. He hadn't been here that long, but Lindsey was always a fast learner. He didn't know which Fred she was, but she wasn't the one that turned into head of the evil science department. She was younger, and probably nicer, and that made this even weirder.

"It's nice to meetya," he said, shaking her hand. She was a comic book character and he was holding her hand. Still hadn't really settled into that yet.

... He's a lawyer.

"I'm YOUR lawyer," Lindsey corrected. He let go of Dinah's hand with a brief smile, then looked to Fred. He knew that wasn't going to go over well. "Look, putting everything else aside, you know I'm damn good at my job." He raised an eyebrow at her. "And from what I've seen of the paperwork for this, I... sexual harassment? You? C'mon. Cakewalk."

He turned his head when the loud guy in the dumb shirt came in. That was classy, the shirt. But it cemented a few things for Lindsey: Jensen (he knew that must be him, based on the file) was just as shocked by this as they were.

Huh.

Lindsey looked the opposing counsel over with a scowl. "What kinda court is this place runnin', anyhow?"

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[info]i_figure
2011-12-07 06:20 am UTC (link)
"It probably watched too many cable shows about law. You know, Law & Order..." Fred paused, her mind blanking. "Oh, Perry Mason! Matlock! Though always thought there was a judge." She wasn't the Fred he knew, but she wasn't the Fred he hadn't known either. She was the Fred who'd lived in the City for a few years, and was still able to retain a bit of the gal who gave second chances. Lindsey was getting one now.

"How'd you end up my...our lawyer anyway?" Fred had already started talking and was about to explain the sexual harassment when he walked in. She didn't even hide the eye roll at the shirt.

"I think this is some sort of joke." Fred leaned over toward Dinah, her voice lowering, not that it made much difference in this room apparently. "That or he's a bit of an ass. It's not like anyone got naked or anything."

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[info]i_crylikeabird
2011-12-07 10:50 pm UTC (link)
Dinah rolled her eyes at Jensen's t-shirt as well and then turned her attention back to Fred. Her eyes widened and she gave Fred look that would hopefully warn the brainy female to not say things like that out loud. In fact, it was probably better if they let the lawyers do the talking.

At least, she hoped so. Fred seemed to know the lawyer, which she hoped was a good sign.

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[info]i_chatter
2011-12-07 11:17 pm UTC (link)
"The kind that takes sexual harrassment and assault seriously, counselor." The lawyer more or less escorting Jensen to the tables sniffed indignantly, ignoring the two women (and his client for the most part) in favor of Linsdey.

Jensen leaned around the fat man in a suit, holding up a finger. "I didn't do this. I have nothing to do with this. They told me I'd be arrested if I didn't come."

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[info]i_changed
2011-12-08 04:27 pm UTC (link)
How'd you end up... our lawyer anyway?

Lindsey opened up the file folder he'd been given, setting it on the table. "Got me," he said. "I haven't been here that long. Don't even know who I work for. Got an office, and an overly-enthusiastic secretary, but no firm name on anything." He offered Fred a slightly more in-character, more potentially menacing smile. "That kinda scares the shit outta me. I was off the grid for a damn reason."

Well, that was a ridiculous thing to overhear, when you knew the law and how it should work.

"Wait... he doesn't even want to be here?" Lindsey asked, eyebrows raising.

That had been left out of the file. And then there was Fred's comment. It wasn't like he got naked or anything?

Lindsey couldn't help the slight chuckle. "Ms. Burkle," he said, finding himself unable to call her Fred, even though he knew that was what she preferred to be called, "I think you two better tell me what happened. What it doesn't say in my seriously unhelpful file, here."

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[info]i_figure
2011-12-08 07:27 pm UTC (link)
Fred was about to say something more when she got looks from a friend and a lawyer. She glanced at Dinah to see if she wanted to answer Lindsey's question. The truth was a little tricky, and the City didn't seem that interested in the truth anyway. It was doing what it wanted to as usual.

Out of all the people in the room, other than the opposing counsel who might have been conjured up just for this particular occasion, Fred had been in the City the longest. She had no idea how long Lindsey had been around, but he had that lost new feeling to him...of course she could have been wrong about that feeling. Fred would just go with it for now; at least the City wasn't locking her up in a room with a man who liked to eat brains just to see what they tasted like.

"Dinah, if you want..."

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[info]i_crylikeabird
2011-12-08 10:52 pm UTC (link)
He didn't even want to be here. Dinah shot Jensen a confused and slightly disbelieving look. As far as she knew, a person couldn't be forced to sue another person. Then she raised an eyebrow at Jensen's lawyer, who seemed highly motivated in all of this. Was he the one who'd threatened him with jail?

She really didn't want to launch into the details because, admittedly, it sounded pretty bad. But then again, he'd been the one leering and making comments about her fishnets. Not to mention he'd been the one to tell them where the drive was and didn't seem too keen on cooperating.

"He hacked into our computer system. There's some-ah-sensitive information in there. We thought he was going to use it to hurt someone, so we were just trying to get the drive with our files back."

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[info]i_chatter
2011-12-08 11:13 pm UTC (link)
The stuffed suit was setting out files and a recording device without so much as looking at the three or his witness. "Counselor. May I remind you that this is a deposition? The accounts of the incident in question will be given by all parties so that cases can be prepared for the trial." He gave a crocodile smile. "And what is presented here will be examined so that it can be decided if this will be a criminal trial as well as the precursor to a motion by the City to halt any formation of a vigilante organization."

Jensen blinked more than once then frowned and rubbed at the back of his neck. "Huh?"

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[info]i_changed
2011-12-09 07:39 pm UTC (link)
Okay. The computer system thing sounded like something Fred would do. Like something Angel and his groupies would've done. And their motivations, the reasons why Dinah and Fred had been interacting with Jensen to begin with, that hadn't been in the file.

This file was not that useful. It seemed to have just enough information to not give a full picture, but it was the information, Lindsey was realizing, that the City thought he should have. That didn't mean it was correct.

The little jibe at him from the opposing counsel earned a scowl from Lindsey.

... to halt any formation of a vigilante organization.

Lindsey's eyebrows drew themselves into a line, then a focused, evil-looking V. Technically, until he'd had the backing of Wolfram and Hart, Angel was always a vigilante. What was that damn commercial? They help the helpless. He'd gone after Holland and Darla and every evil client Lindsey'd ever had with something like a zealot's conviction. If that was what the City was worried about, here, Lindsey hate to say it might have a point. Fred was a White Hat. She was probably still doin' her thing, helping people.

He'd bet his hand that got in the City's way.

"Counselor," Lindsey said in response, a fuck-you smile on his face, "may I remind you that there's no reason for a law suit of this nature to go to trial, unless and until all other reasonable solutions and settlements aren't desireable. There's absolutely no reason to involve a judge in this. Matter of fact, this'd be wasting a court's time."

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[info]i_figure
2011-12-09 08:59 pm UTC (link)
Fred's brows furrowed at the mention of vigilantes. This didn't sound good, and this was before they'd even gotten a chance to start the JLC. The City couldn't be that much against vigilantes, right? It would have stopped Batman long ago, kicked him right out. Maybe the City was testing again, always testing.

"Settlement?" Fred looked at Dinah, brow raised. "We don't have any money." That was Batman's deal, being rich and somewhat famous, even his alternate identity. Her hands rested on the table top, her fingers tracing equations in an attempt to stay calm. This was getting a little silly. Actually it had long ago gotten silly.

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[info]i_crylikeabird
2011-12-09 09:18 pm UTC (link)
Actually, Dinah did have money if needed. She looked over at Jensen, ignoring his lawyer for now.

A settlement would be good. A fast settlement before they had to go over any more details that might roll into a criminal case, or might interfere with the League's goodwill with the City.

"What would it take for you to consider this matter settled and forgiven?"

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[info]i_chatter
2011-12-09 09:25 pm UTC (link)
"A six pack of good beer." Jensen grinned at Blondie then sputtered when the stuffed shirt pushing in front of him, blocking his view of the other three.

"It isn't the victim that brings this suit to the table, counselor but the City itself." He harumphed as he flipped open a case file and put on a pair of reading glasses. "There is some concern that if measures are not taken to police the vigilantes that more incidents like this...public assault...will happen willy nilly." He closed the file. "The City does have a commendable police force which begs the question of why would it need a band of vigilantes? This..gentleman..is being seen as the first of such assaults. We would like to not see another."

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[info]i_changed
2011-12-10 06:57 pm UTC (link)
Lindsey ignored what Fred said for the moment. It really didn't matter if she didn't have money. Ending up more broke was preferable to ending up locked away in some prison that The City decided was a good idea. Dinah seemed to realize that, at least, so he waited to speak until her question was answered.

A six pack of good beer.

Lindsey smirked.

He'd had about enough of Jensen's lawyer. Where had the City found this guy? Was he brainwashed?

He arched an eyebrow at Dinah and Fred.

The City was full of comic book characters. Hadn't Murphy told him Batman was here? If he and Fred could be here, that meant any of the L.A. or Sunnydale White Hats could be, too. Lindsey could think of a handful of other comic book characters that were good guys, like Dinah was, that would show up and just... be good guys. What the fuck?

"Counselor, this event is... blown entirely out of proportion. And so is the process. Now, I haven't been in town all that long, but I find it incredibily difficult to believe that given the nature of this City THIS is the incident that's chosen as an example. Retrieval of stolen property is well within their rights. Your... well, he's not your client, so, your witness, here?" He smiled at Jensen. "He's a hacker. Back home we take that real seriously. Protection of intellectual property, privacy laws... the whole nine."

He paused. "I find it hard to believe that he's less of a threat than these two."

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[info]i_figure
2011-12-11 12:26 am UTC (link)
Fred gave Jensen a look. He was taking this as some big joke when it could end up being very serious for Dinah and herself. At first she couldn't believe the City even cared, then she remembered that the City did like to do strange things, very strange things. She sighed softly and decided to just sit quietly.

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[info]i_crylikeabird
2011-12-11 01:55 am UTC (link)
Dinah did her best not to smile, but their lawyer was good. Very good. She wasn't sure why the City would have thrown them into this situation and assigned them a lawyer who seemed to know his stuff, but she was glad that it had.

"Counselor," she addressed the lawyer in a polite but firm tone. "If this is a criminal trial, I think we should have been told about that. The papers I received were for a lawsuit and I would like to see what we can do to settle the lawsuit."

She might have been pushing her luck just a bit, but Jensen's attorney was starting to get to her and she really didn't think it was right to treat a lawsuit that was supposedly a case where they were being sued like a criminal trial. If he wanted a criminal trial, then she would gladly stand trial and explain herself. She might operate outside the law in many cases, but she didn't consider herself above the law. So she would answer to any consequences that came her way.

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[info]i_chatter
2011-12-11 02:13 am UTC (link)
The stuffed shirt smiled coldly at Lindsey. "They do not have the right to assault the victim, but if they wish to bring a civil suit complaint against his invasion then they are within their rights to file one with the City clerk."

He reached behind him, clapping a hand onto Jensen's shoulder hard enough to illicit a hey! from him and pulled him up beside him. "This man was assaulted by your clients, drugged and held against his will based on circumstantial evidence brought about by Miss Burkle there. Miss Lance, I am given to understand, handled him in a manner quite rough when he offered neither of them any violence. Witnesses in the coffee house say that he didn't even raise his voice until Miss Burkle sunk a needle into his backside."

He kept his hand on Jensen's shoulder but never once looked at him, just solidly at Lindsey. "Now." That crocodile smile was back. "We are not unreasonable people. I do believe an...agreement can be reached. Provided, of course, the City is satisfied that these vigilantes won't be roughing up everyone they suspect of violating even the slightest of infractions."

They had something in mind, apparently.

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[info]i_changed
2011-12-12 06:42 pm UTC (link)
Lindsey narrowed his eyes when the guy--who he decided was named Dick, and would be forever, at least in his mind-- kept talking.

There was bullshit, and there was bullshit. Lindsey was proficient in selling a lie, or making evidence appear to show something it really didn't. He was confident that, if motivated, and certainly in his heyday at Wolfram and Hart, he could've gotten anyone acquitted of anything--if the matter ever saw the inside of the court.

One more plea bargain and the Special Projects division owed him a set of steak knives.

Lindsey arched an eyebrow. "Well, we're certainly prepared to hear what you have to say," he said.

The look on his face said he was getting ready to dismantle what was said, piece by piece.

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[info]i_figure
2011-12-12 07:19 pm UTC (link)
Fred's lips thinned. Something was certainly fishy with all this. There were plans, and this guy had a few. She looked at Jensen in disbelief. He was smart, but was he smart enough to have all this planned? Had he lied about reading the files, or in his case, not reading the files?

She glanced at Lindsey; she'd seen the look before. Of course, she'd never experienced the look, not first hand. Not the way it seemed on the show. Then again, her other self had never really dealt with Lindsey, not much anyway. Not before...Well, by then she wasn't Fred, was she? Actually she wasn't that Fred because this Fred had never been that Fred. This Fred had spent all this time here not there. She shook her head a little and tried to push that thinking away. It was easier than not to reconcile, but it was one of those trains of thought that would just keep going if she let it.

Her hand reached under the table and softly touched Dinah's side. Just a "we'll get through this." Fred didn't think Dinah needed it; she was a strong woman. But, the brainy female thought it was a nice thing to do, needed or not. Well, Fred needed it.

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[info]i_crylikeabird
2011-12-12 10:52 pm UTC (link)
Dinah was glad for the little reassuring touch. Fred was a lot stronger than people (and possibly even Fred herself) gave her credit for, and Dinah was happy to have the support of her friend, even if she wished that Fred hadn't been dragged into this to begin with.

Playing the role of dispatcher for the Justice League was supposed to be behind the scenes. Not... getting into this sort of trouble. Or any sort of trouble, if Dinah had her way.

She focused her gaze on Jensen's lawyer, who seemed to be taking a roundabout trip to whatever he was trying to get out of this.

She crossed her arms and waited for him to elaborate, choosing to let her lawyer do the talking for the time being.

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[info]i_chatter
2011-12-13 09:55 pm UTC (link)
"What agreement?" Jensen was looking at the stuffed shirt as if he were negotiating to sell his liver then made an ow face when the lawyer's hand tightened on his shoulder.

"The young man allegedly hacked into a secure system, potentially gaining access to sensative information. It stands to reason that this came as something of a surprise considering the reaction by Miss Burkle and Miss Lance." He grinned. "Perhaps this new vigilante group could use someone like that in their employ."

Jensen blinked before giving "his" lawyer a blank look. "...what?"

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[info]i_changed
2011-12-14 06:18 pm UTC (link)
There was something that sounded suspiciously like a growl inside Lindsey's throat. It wasn't very loud, but it was there.

"So you're gonna sit here and take these two women to task for being vigilantes, and then tell me you want this guy," Lindsey said, pointing to Jensen, "to join the vigilantes?"

He smiled, looking from Jensen, to Dinah, and finally to Fred.

"You don't want more 'incidents' of things like this," he continued, air quotes evident because of voice inflection, "but you want to populate a group that you've just accused of what you consider a crime with a criminal?"

The lawyer scratched his head.

"You're gonna have to pardon me a second. Y'see, in law school, they taught me logic."

Once he could stop smiling at Dick's expense, Lindsey continued. Angel Investigations had never had a hacker on staff. They'd had help when they needed it from a witch named Willow in Sunnydale, Lindsey knew. The file Wolfram and Hart had on her was a goddamn cabinet. But there was never someone on staff to do that sort of thing. And while he wasn't sure that was still the name of the company, Lindsey'd put a little bit of money behind the idea that Fred was still the brains behind something similar.

"Why would that be something that the City sees as just?"

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[info]i_figure
2011-12-15 01:31 am UTC (link)
Fred was following the arguments being made, but she didn't understand. The City had set this up, and it was to do what? She looked at the hacker, trying to figure out what he was getting out of all this. Why would he want to be a part of the group at all? Other than it did have Batman and girls in fishnets involved, and the computers were kind of nifty. More than kind of.

She gave a quick glance at Dinah to see how the superheroine was taking all this. Fred didn't mind if Jensen was a good guy joining the group, but they didn't know much about him. They didn't even know what he could do other than hacking computers. He could be a bad guy in disguise.

While Fred knew she shouldn't like Lindsey, for the moment, she was a little glad he was around. He of all people could get them out of something...she hoped. It wasn't like they'd done anything that would make Angel want to kill them, and usually those were the people Lindsey represented. Those were the ones Wolfram & Hart represented, the kind of people/things Angel wanted to kill.

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[info]i_crylikeabird
2011-12-15 02:40 am UTC (link)
Dinah's eyes widened as Jensen's lawyer laid out the proposed settlement. That was... not where she thought he was going with this. At all.

She suspected the lawyer and this whole damn case was just representing the whims of the City. She didn't trust the whims of the City very much at all.

She certainly wasn't sure about handing Jensen the keys to the Clocktower and its computers and trusting their lives to him.

However, she had a feeling that no matter how good their lawyer was, the City would get its way. This kind of made her wish that the City had an actual face so she could punch it.

She tried to catch Fred's eye, hoping to get a feel for what Fred thought of all of this. She had mentioned asking Jensen for help with patching up the holes in their computer security. If that was what the City wanted and would get the City off their backs, Dinah... well, she wasn't sure what to make of even that really. Would it be that bad to let him do something like that?

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[info]i_chatter
2011-12-15 03:10 am UTC (link)
"That is precisely what the City would prefer, counselor." The stuffed shirt couldn't possibly puff out his chest more or wear a more smarmy smirk on his face. "The City makes no mistake in believing that these vigilantes will continue with their errant quest so it would prefer to have someone it has hand picked to be in their employ."

That smirk got a bit more nefarious then. "Or the City could continue with its inquest into the actions of the young women and employ the victim itself."

Jensen looked like he might have swallowed his tongue.

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[info]i_changed
2011-12-16 06:17 pm UTC (link)
Lindsey was glowering by now. Any pretense of being amiable or civil was gone from his face.

It didn't matter who he worked for, he decided--the fact that the City pulled things like this made it actually worse than working for Wolfram and Hart. At least at the firm, they'd followed the actual law. They'd just exploited it. That was why it was so dangerous, and had the reputation it did. No Wolfram and Hart attorney ever blackmailed anyone they were going to court with. They didn't have to. Breaking the basic rules of engagement to get things done was more heavy-handed than any Senior Partner had ever been.

"Those are your two options?" Lindsey asked. The tone was not nice.

He was not happy, or impressed. If this was going to be how it was, he'd take the City apart.

He looked at Dinah and Fred. This was their decision, and not his. And he would wait to see what they said. "I'm going to take a moment to discuss this with my clients," he said.

He nodded to Dinah and Fred to follow him and got up from the table.

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[info]i_figure
2011-12-16 09:22 pm UTC (link)
Fred's brows furrowed as she listened to the lawyers. This was one of the stranger things the City had decided to get involved in. Bad things happened all the time, yet nowit wanted to have a hand in the vigilante side of things? Why not before? Some part of her wondered if it wasn't just taking another step to keep her away from computers. That small part wasn't often told to hush because everyone knew that she was very small in mattering the grand scheme of fhings.

With Lindsey's nodd, Fred glanced at Dinah, giving her a small shrug, and got up to follow. Now she was going to be given advice by a very bad man, or a morally questionable man. Then again who wasn't morally questionable these days? He was a good lawyer at least.

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[info]i_crylikeabird
2011-12-16 11:42 pm UTC (link)
Dinah didn't like the implications that the City wanted a hand in who was in their employ. But she didn't like the idea of Jensen being used against him. If he could get past the safeguards that had been set up by Barbara and maintained by Fred... well, they didn't have much chance against him.

The only small comfort was that Jensen looked as surprised by the options presented as she and Fred were. She hoped that he wasn't merely a good actor and was, in fact, not harboring a desire to help the City get in their way.

She followed Lindsey and Fred out into the hallway. She was still a little shellshocked by the very direct hand the Cityw as taking in this matter. She had known that forming the City's chapter of the Justice League would eventually require making contact with those in charge of the City. Namely, the mayor at this point in time, but she hadn't expected the faceless entity of the City to step in and want a say too.

Once they were out in the hall, she waited for Lindsey or Fred to offer up their opinions.

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[info]i_changed
2011-12-17 01:41 am UTC (link)
Once they had a little privacy, Lindsey looked from Fred to Dinah.

"I don't think I have to tell you this is completely fucking ridiculous," he said. "But it's also not my choice. It's your... operation. Company. Whatever. If he's someone you feel like you can use, I mean, that's not something I can gauge for ya."

He offered a thin smile.

"If it were me, I'd tell that guy to go fuck himself. But is that worth the City breathin' down your necks? I don't wanna open my mouth in there until I know what your thoughts are on this."

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[info]i_figure
2011-12-17 04:13 am UTC (link)
"The City can make life hell." Fred explained to both of them. She knew very well how much the City could screw with the life. Her hands smoothed over her shirt as she looked the two.

"He could be useful, but can we trust him?" She glanced at Dinah, giving a slight shrug. "He did hand over the drive eventually, and I don't think he had enough time to make a copy. I don't know."

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[info]i_crylikeabird
2011-12-17 05:03 am UTC (link)
Dinah looked over at Fred and sighed.

"I think the harder question is-can we afford to have him working against us?"

She didn't like it, but she thought that having him where they could watch him was safer than having him in the City's employ.

"If we go through with this settlement, would you be able to keep an eye on him?" she asked Fred. "I know you don't want to work in the Clocktower full-time, but maybe you could check in on there from time to time?"

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[info]i_changed
2011-12-19 06:17 pm UTC (link)
Lindsey nodded. Dinah had a point. And it was still a decision he couldn't make for them. He was too new to the City. He didn't know Jensen. He barely knew Fred. And all he knew about Dinah Lance was that she was the Black Canary. How it would all shake out for all of them was not something he would even pretend to speculate on.

Clocktower. Interesting. His eyebrow rose.

"All I can say, and it ain't even legal advice, in the strictest sense of those words... is this: are you realistically a big enough threat for the City to keep comin' at you with things like this?"

He looked at Fred, pretty sure she'd understand.

"Because if the City's what I think it is, it will go out of its way to sabotage and hurt you."

Lindsey had a feeling, anyway. Because that was what Wolfram and Hart paid him to do. Special Projects Division. It was code for "fuck with Angel and turn him to the dark side." Was Fred that heavy a hitter? Who else did they have working with them?

"If you guys can take it--take the interference, I mean--I'd say let me tell him to stick his head up his ass. But if you can't..."

He remembered the decisions Angel made, toward the end. The way things happened, once he ran Wolfram and Hart. Lindsey watched a champion stop fighting as hard, when he knew that champion believed he was taking something apart from the inside.

"... you make sure you still do things your way. Don't let them have any influence."

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[info]i_figure
2011-12-20 04:28 am UTC (link)
"The City can be difficult." Fred smiled slightly before looking back at the hacker. "But, I said that already. Actually what I said was something about Hell. He may be a good guy. Anyone can be a good guy though, if they wanna be. We could give him a chance."

The brainy female shrugged, looking back at Dinah. "Plus, if the City wants him to be involved, it'll keep putting him in the way." She paused a moment. "I don't mind checking in. Just as long as I don't have to be pretending not to check in. I don't really like doing the whole espionage thing."

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[info]i_crylikeabird
2011-12-20 01:01 pm UTC (link)
"Oh no, I'm not asking you to spy. I think it'll be good for him to know that someone's watching. We're not going to just give him the keys to our computer system and turn a blind eye."

She glanced back at the doorway to the room and then back to their lawyer.

"We're not going to just roll over and let the City run things, but I think this is one concession that we'll have to make for now. We should probably go back in there and tell them."

Regardless of how the City tried to interfere, they would find a way to do things their way. Their way would just have to include Jensen for now.

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[info]i_changed
2011-12-20 07:10 pm UTC (link)
Lindsey nodded. "Okay."

He didn't pass any judgement on them, one way or another. If they wanted to do it, he'd back their play. And something told him that if it bit them in the ass, he'd be the one getting them out of a jam then, too.

He opened the door and held it open for both women before going through himself.

And he waited until everyone was sitting back at the table before addressing Dick or his hacker pawn. That's what Jensen was, here. A pawn. To some greater purpose.

Lindsey arched an eyebrow. "We accept the proposal," he said.

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[info]i_figure
2011-12-20 08:05 pm UTC (link)
Fred gave Dinah the best reassuring smile she could before following Lindsey in. She didn't exactly glare at the lawyer or his client, but she wasn't exactly smiling either. Now she would just have to wait to see just what would become of her place in all of this. The brainy female might have been feeling a little selfish and self-centered at the moment. Though she was definitely concerned with her friends.

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