Nicholas Joseph Fury (furious_nick) wrote in oh_marvelous, @ 2009-12-01 10:11:00 |
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Entry tags: | z: om1: !complete, z: om1: affiliation: avengers, z: om1: affiliation: s.h.i.e.l.d., z: om1: character: nick fury, z: om1: character: tony stark, z: om1: location: new york |
I severed my ties to shroud my body under the streets of this city.
Characters: Nick, Tony
Setting: New York City Courthouse
Content: Nick Fury. Anger.
Summary: Fury is held accountable.
This wasn't a trial, it was a mockery, or so Nick Fury thought. What should have been a private military matter or handled within the confines of S.H.I.E.L.D. had become a public spectacle. What should have been conducted on a military base or in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters had been moved to the largest courtroom in New York City. The room was packed from floor to upper gallery, with citizens and government officials and the upper echelons of the military. Outside the courtroom the halls were swarming with reporters, it was a media circus. On the courthouse steps there were protesters, as there always were at any big publicity trial, holding signs disparaging S.H.I.E.L.D. and Nick Fury.
The "trial" had been going on for an hour now and Nick sat, silent and alone, facing the judge and the prosecutor. He hadn't wanted a lawyer of his own. What was the point? Now he listened quietly, frowning, to all the charges they were laying against him.
He hadn't spoken to any of the Avengers since the Hulk incident, yet he'd seen Wanda up there in the gallery above the court, watching. Well, at least there was some loyalty, though it did him little good. He still hated that she'd obeyed Stark's orders over his own. They were blaming Fury for that, for his team's insubordination. They were also blaming him for the failure of the comms and the launch of the missiles- which they now claimed they hadn't wanted in the first place. They were blaming him for the destruction of the city, for not taking care of the Hulk problem before it got out of hand. For Banner's initial escape. They blamed him for trying to kill Banner and for letting him live. They were holding him accountable for every life lost and dredging up the deaths attributed to the Hulk long before Fury was ever Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. And now they were even taking that from him.
"-Given the circumstances," the prosecutor was saying, "We feel it would best that you step down from your position of leadership."
Nick glowered and asked, coldly, "What circumstances?" The prosecutor looked momentarily aghast, wondering if Fury had been listening to the long list of charges laid against him. "Well, er, in general your handling of certain situations-"
"What situations?" Nick interrupted, his glare never wavering. The Prosecutor felt strangely unsettled.
"Your handling of the situation in New Orleans was-" the man began but Nick again cut him off with a loud snort and an exclamation.
"Excuse me but you weren't there. You have no idea-" As the judge called for order the prosecutor emphatically remarked on the property damage to the Louisiana city. Nick bit back a retort and shook his head. Mother fuckers. This was a travesty. They just wanted a scapegoat and Fury wanted to walk out. They had already decided his fate before he'd ever stepped between those courtroom doors.