Cassandra (predicted) wrote in musingslogs, @ 2011-02-18 19:05:00 |
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Entry tags: | batgirl |
Who: Quinn
What: Quinn narrative dealing with the outcome of this
Where: Court to Bathos to out in Seattle
When: After the court hearing.
Warnings: None
No one had bothered to explain to Quinn that the justice system was flawed. It was as if they left her out of the equation the entire time. The rotund lawyer with a sweaty brow and a pulled thin face in a grimace as the case was discarded. Quinn watched from her seat in the back of the court room the man who spent three days taking knives to her skin walk out the door with a smile on his face. The words they said didn't make sense. None if it did.
All they could do was say they were sorry to her. How would an apology make the scars disappear? How would their failure do anything for her?
She brushed off hands that went to help her stand. Brushed away concerned looks and sympathetic eyes, forcing herself to stand on her own two feet. She wouldn't accept the help anymore. Why rely on them when they couldn't finish the job? For the first time, she was starting to believe she may be her father's daughter. The hum of rage radiating through her veins and pouring out of every pore.
Quinn didn't wait for the help out of the car, past the concern of Darwin, Gwen, and Wren. Past a puppy that scrambled around her feet and the door to her room shut soundly behind her. A click of a lock to keep them out while she moved with careful precision. Every movement still brought sharp pains and aches, but Quinn grit her teeth through it to change in to dirty street clothes. Maybe she was looking for a fight, maybe she was looking for the place to pour out the vicious anger that clawed in her lungs that made her want to scream.
There was a simple note put on the front of her laptop: Left.
Then she was out the window with slow movements and down the alleyway.
Maybe in the end, Quinn would make her father proud with the brutality she would inflict. The justice system had failed her, but she wouldn't fail herself.