Front Lines Communications

[P:A]
Backdated to 12/23, a few hours after this

Desai and I have contained the situation and Way security personnel are in custody. Looks like the crowd spooked the security detail and they decided de-escalation meant shooting into a mass of bodies. Three baseline casualties, plus about a dozen injuries.

We have statements, and the injured have been sent off to the nearby hospital to get patched up. NYPD is offering to inform the families of the deceased in our stead.

[NETTA]
I'm fine. I knocked the fuckers out before they noticed we were there.

[ESPO]
Up to five minutes now.

Christmas music before Thanksgiving should be illegal. Or should be subject to a purge.

[SOL]
You've been quiet lately. Everything okay?

[NETTA]
You need to get out of the house, Netta. Let's go see a movie or something. Get dinner. Go to Central Park and be fucking tourists. Something. Please.

[PAUL]
Have a good birthday, kiddo?

Oh look. A refutation nearly a month later. How nice of you to finally get to that. Very timely, really.

Also, I'd appreciate it if you all kept my brother out of your supposed motivations here. He didn't mean a damn thing to you, with the exception of Davenport. To the rest of you, he was an excuse, so fuck off. None of what you did had anything to do with him and everything to do with proving some damn point. What happened to him was simply convenient for you, considering you were the ones who sent him to his death in the first damn place.

And, just to make sure we're counting correctly: that's two people you've kidnapped now, right? And one of them has ended up dead, and now you're missing an operative, and you want P:A to help you find her. The very organization you've been raging against. When it's convenient for you, it's okay to cooperate. I've got that right, right?

Perpetrating reckless and senseless injury and death upon atavists and baselines alike is something that we have and will continue to condemn in the most emphatic of ways. Such acts are in direct contradiction of our stated mission and manifesto.

Really? Because I'm pretty sure there're six baseline deaths you guys are complicit in, along with the death of Harper, raising your tangential kill count to six. Were those not senseless or reckless?

What rights are you defending? The ones that guarantee the kidnapping of atavists when you want to know something? Because I haven't seen or heard of a damn thing you've done to make the lives of atavists better. Just give me one example of something you guys have made better. Just one.

Is anyone else watching Mayweather v MacGregor? Who do you think'll win?

[ANNETTE]
Staying at Espo's tonight.

Anyone been to Indoor Extreme Sports on Staten Island?

Espo
You made it another year. Congratulations. I owe you a drink.

Soledad
What Chris doesn't know what get me a lecture - drinks this weekend.

P:A
Does anyone know what happened to Kevin? Is he still at D Archer's?

And have we notified his sister that he's in custody?

I'll give New York this: they've got damn good fireworks displays. Better than Maryland and DC.

[ANNETTE + CHRISTIAN]
If Frank makes one more damn comment about me quitting my job, I'm going to knock him the fuck out and neither of you are going to stop me. His smug, condescending ass will go down, I swear to God.

On that note, I talked to Harper the other day. I'm supposed to give her an answer by the end of the week, but [...] I'm going to join.

[ALEXA + PAUL]
Are you too old to go to the movies with your aunt because I want to see Spider-man this weekend.

[DAX]
I'm stopping by tomorrow to see Kevin. Heads up.

I need to get out and do something. Anyone interested in checking out Adventures NYC in Central Park this weekend? I'm curious about the zip lines and obstacle course.

Also crowdsourcing things to do. If I'm stuck here, I may as well enjoy myself.

[CHRISTIAN]
Spar with me. I'm bored as hell and I still don't feel comfortable going back to the bjj gym.

[DAX]
I'm back. Got back on Saturday, but needed a few days to myself.

Can we talk about the coconut cult in Moana? And, speaking of cults, anyone know when the next info session for The Way is?

[PROJECT ASCENSION]
Is there anything I need to be aware of when conducting my exit interview tomorrow? Statute of Secrecy compels me to keep anything atavism-related regarding my resignation unsaid, but is there anything else?

[SIBLINGS]
My exit interview is tomorrow afternoon, so I'm heading down in the morning. I'll check in Mom after. Probably'll be back Friday or Saturday.

[DAX]
Out of town for a few days. Tell Kevin I'll miss him.

[NIBLINGS (Alexa + Paul)]
I'm going out of town for a few days. Anything you want me to con Grandma and Grandpa out of when I see them?


TO: Patrick (Burner)
FROM: Peyton (Burner)

[1] Learn any new acronyms lately?

I didn't turn you in.

I let you go into the deep roads.

I helped you with your psycho friend.

I let you move in with me and leave your damn manifesto all over my desk.

I even defend you to our friends who think you're going off the damn deep end.

And you repay me by blowing up a goddamn church like a low rate terrorist?

Damn it, Anders.


In other news, the American Ninja Warrior classes at Danger's gym are amazing.

May the fourth be with you. Now, let's get down to business.

After sitting around for a week and weighing my options, I've got some questions, and I'd appreciate answers. Preferably from people I'm not related to, but, Russos, feel free to toss your two cents at me, too.

I've accepted that I'm stuck here, and since my cu former position isn't relocatable, I'm considering job options. If I have to go another week without something to do, I may actually try to get Emo Ren to fight me. Fun as that would be, given what today and tomorrow are, I'm pretty sure that would be frowned upon.

I'm the [...] former Assistant Deputy Director of the Directorate of Operations of the CIA. Basically, if you're a hashtag person, I'm #bossbitch and don't take kindly to demotions, which is what taking a field operative job in NYC would be. I haven't ruled it out, but the thought makes me cranky. Still, it's a possibility.

So, I could take a field position, I could try my luck with the NYPD, [...] or, apparently, I can take a position with the Project.

For those who work for the Project, pros/cons? I've talked with a few people, gotten some runaround bullshit on what exactly is going on, so I figured I'd go to the people who do the job.

Additionally, someone not affiliated with the Project want to give me a rundown on the MAL/P:A break up? Much as I trust the people who've tried to bring me up to speed, I've never said no to a different perspective. Right now, it just sounds like the MAL had a temper tantrum and got pissed when they couldn't break the toy so no one else could play with it.

Hi.

I'm Special Agent Peyton Russo. Or, I guess, just Peyton Russo now, since it's hard to keep a DC job when you're stuck in NYC. You might know me from season 1 of Keeping Up With The Russos, playing the role of Annette's and Christian's younger sister. (Look, Netta! Look, Christian! I'm playing nice.)

I like long walks on the beach, piña coladas, guillotine chokes, bench presses, and for people to do their damn jobs the first time they're asked.