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

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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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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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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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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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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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