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Micah Castro Braden // Doctor Watson, I presume (acatalyst) wrote in bellumlogs,
@ 2010-05-29 17:07:00

Entry tags:

dorian gray, dr. watson, ichabod crane

Who: Micah, Cole and Trenton
What: ~~Revenge~~ Justice
Where: P4
When: Immediately after this
Warnings: Going on a limb and guessing language and violence

Irene's voice had been playing in the background when Micah had received Cole's forum post.

The timing couldn't have possibly been worse.

Micah had known that Iris was afraid, that she'd been through terrible things, that she was in love with Eliot and not with him. He'd known all of those things, but he'd never (even once) thought he was making things worse for her.

He scared her.

Iris had told him before that Irene knew her, that they were almost one in the same. He didn't once think Irene was lying in the recording.

He scared her.

And she (through Irene) was letting him know; letting him know to stay away, to stop, to leave her alone.

He played the recording once more, and then he slammed his fist into computer desk, bruising his knuckles against the thick, expensive, new wood.

Then he grabbed his gun, and he climbed the floor to the P-level to deal with a murderer.

The timing couldn't have possibly been worse.

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blackcatsrbad
2010-05-31 05:38 pm UTC (link)

He tried to move as quietly as possible as they made their way down to the basement, not that anyone seemed to be around. The last time he'd been down here he and John were following the trail of blood, and he knew he would never be able to forget what had been at the end of it. That poor kid in the trunk, and Aaron... it seemed almost fitting that Trenton be locked up down here. The idea of posting to the entire forums made him nervous, but he couldn't let someone else do it. He'd let Ella take the fall for the list, but this one was going to be on him. "Okay." He grabbed the supplies and followed him into the catacombs, wishing they'd brought a flashlight or something.

"Five might be better." Surely they could find five people the majority of the building trusted, although he couldn't deny that he hoped Micah and himself were on it. Appointing themselves, though, wouldn't be a very good start. "I'm assuming you and I don't get default positions or anything. I'm not sure people would like that very much. Should the vote be over the forums, then? I guess... people could lock their individual posts to me, since I'd be posting, and then I can tally up the votes?"

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acatalyst
2010-05-31 08:34 pm UTC (link)

Micah was exactly the opposite of gentle as he let Trenton fall to the dirty floor, and he crouched over the unconscious man and reached a hand out for the handcuffs. "Five," he agreed, cuffing Trenton's hands behind his back, making it impossible for him to use his hands to free himself. "Anonymous voting, and we hope we end up on the tribunal. Appointing ourselves is only going to cause problems. Everyone gets one vote, and the five with the most get appointed."

Admittedly, he was hoping certain people didn't make it on the tribunal, including most of the women in the building and whoever was responsible for the other attacks, but they had to be democratic and fair - it was, after all, the only reason Trenton was still alive.

He held a hand out for the chain. "Loop the other end on the well's metal."

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blackcatsrbad
2010-05-31 09:02 pm UTC (link)

He wasn't overly fond of the fact that there was a possibility he and Micah might be left off the tribunal, and to sit back and hope that the five people chosen would be fair required a lot of trust he didn't think he had, but there was nothing else they could do. "What do we do if there's a tie between more than five people? And if it's anonymous, how do we make sure people don't vote more than once?" Cole had a feeling the answer was going to be something along the lines of hoping people were honest enough to do this right.

He took the chain and glanced down at Trenton for a moment before doing what Micah instructed, looping it around as tightly as he could. "Some people aren't going to like the fact that we incarcerated Trenton on our own. Still, let's hope they can see reason. I'll post telling them about the tribunal and how the voting will work, and maybe for organizational purposes, have a separate post just for the voting."

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acatalyst
2010-05-31 09:16 pm UTC (link)

Micah took the end of the chain, opened the cuffs and closed them firmly through the metal loops. Trenton could walk about 10 feet around the well, and he could jump in and drown himself, but that was the extent of it.

He stood back, and he looked at the unconscious man with no small amount of pleasure, and then he wiped his hands on his jeans as he looked at Cole. "We trust them," he finally said, which was not what Cole wanted to hear. "It's the only thing we can do."

He stepped away, out of hearing range from Trenton. He didn't want to talk to the other man when he woke up; he just wanted to know if the piece of shit tried to get away. "Go. Remember to contact Joanie, and let's just fucking do this."

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blackcatsrbad
2010-05-31 10:56 pm UTC (link)

Cole nodded, resigned to the fact that they had to take a risk in order to try to maintain some semblance of law and order in the building. "Alright. I'll tell Joanie to come down here, and... let everyone else know what's going on." He felt better knowing that Micah had a gun, just in case someone tried to find Trenton and let him go. "Wish me luck." It was meant to be a joke but failed miserably, and he gave a half-shrug before turning and heading back up to his apartment.

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