Who: Cole and Peter What: A visit of slight desperation Where: 1104 When: Tonight Warnings: Likely none
Batman. Was that what people thought of him now, that he was running around playing vigilante superhero? Even behind her teasing, Cole could tell that Ileana wasn't thrilled with what he was doing. No one was, really. Some wanted no part of it and others were reluctant to become involved, but even so there was no one - aside from Isobel - who actively stood against the idea. Trenton was locked in a cell in the catacombs and no one protested about how unfair it was or how it violated his basic human rights. Why didn't anyone say something?
Then it hit him - he'd once been the kind of person who would. He would have thought it was insanity, breaking down someone's door and dragging them down to be locked up until a bunch of people could decide his fate. When had he become the kind of person who actually did that kind of thing? He couldn't figure out the middle ground, if there was any.
Aaron deserved justice. Boyd deserved justice. So what was wrong? Why did he feel like he'd crossed some kind of line?
Being alone with his thoughts was going to drive him insane. He tried three times to make the post Micah had suggested, locked to the 'unbiased' people, but he couldn't do it. He wanted to crawl into bed and sleep for the next few weeks, maybe. There were a lot of things he wanted to do, but dealing with this wasn't one of them. He needed someone to talk to, someone sane and rational who wasn't personally invested like he was.
Peter.
It was impulse that led him to bypass a forum post and just go straight to his friend's apartment. Peter was a lawyer, and he seemed to be one of the few people who were openly wary of this tribunal. He needed advice, and he needed it now; before he dug himself a hole he couldn't get out of. The fact that he was showing up unannounced didn't even hit him until he'd already knocked on the door; too late for him to reconsider.