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Leon Vance (leon_vance) wrote in omega_reality,
@ 2012-10-02 08:28:00

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*complete, 2012 10, character: alexis castle, character: april kepner, character: brian kinney, character: bud hammond, character: claudia donovan, character: derek morgan, character: derek reese, character: dominic vail, character: douglas hammond, character: elaine barrish hammond, character: eliot spencer, character: emily prentiss, character: g callen, character: john connor, character: margaret barrish, character: marty deeks, character: nell jones, character: robert callen, character: sam hanna, character: savannah monroe, character: sean hanna, character: thomas hammond, character: tim riggins, character: travis marks, character: troy bolton, dead: eric beale, dead: jenna hanna, dead: leon vance, dead: mike renko, dead: nathan ford, dead: nick green, dead: sheldon cooper

RP: Decision time
Who: Everyone
Where: Dining Room
When: 0800, October 2, 2012
Summary: Leon shares some news

Leon waited for people to have breakfast. He wanted everyone's attention before finally starting the meeting that would change their lives once again, because this time it wasn't just moving to a different location, but changing the way they did things. Their covers would not about names, but about pretending to fit in a world that wasn't theirs while working their own agenda and hoping to succeed before a new attack.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if I might have your attetion. I'm sure you all understand why actions must be taken. While our job is to survive and find a way home, we can't let others with our powers destroy the people here. Only we have the knowledge and powers needed to stop them, or at least keep them in check. Last night, I had a meeting with President Allen, and she wants to reinstate ICIS." It was so much easier to hide behind names, titles, federal structures. Both sides were using them for their own purposes, Leon knew that, but at this point it was the best they could do to protect all involved.

"I agreed with her. We will be stationed at the base again. However, it won't be a full brigade. We will have instead a special troops battalion and support battalion. Each battallion will have its own Colonel and they will report to me. For those who don't know about military structure, the special troops battalion includes the MPs, a support platoon, a CBRN Reconnaissance Platoon, a Military Intelligence Company, Network Signal Company and Combat Engineer Company. While the support battallion includes a Distribution Company, Maintenance Company, Medical Company, two Infantry Platoons, one Cavarly RSTA and Fires Platoon, al Forward Support Companies. The MPs will run security through the base. Medical will still run the hospital. We will need the forward support company and the CBRN platoon to help out with the cleaning up at the WTC. However, that means that we have four platoons with capabilities of taking us out." He didn't want anyone to forget that little part.

"This move will mean that our lives will change radically. As some of you know, ICIS is a federal agency and as such we must work within an established framework of rules and titles. You will have official positions that might not reflect your real job. It also means that suddenly we have military answering to us and we need to deal with that." He turned to the two people who helped the most in the office. "Ms. Jones, Mr. Kinney, you will have planty of work, but they aren't going to be the only ones. Mr. Callen, Mr. Morgan, the President wants a more regulated agency, which means titles, dress codes. On the other hand, I have obtained some leeway on how to deal with arrivals. Not everyone will have to be a field agent, however that's something to be used very rarely and for good reason: disability, age. Again the fact that everyone will have to qualify doesn't mean that we need everyone in the field.

"For those you were here before, you will have backpay into your account. That's close to $90,000 for the year, minus all deductions. We'll need someone to make taxes, file it retroactively. Once we figure out what's left, I'd ask 10% from each of you to give to the new people. Also, you will need to decide what to do about marriage status. We'll need to create marriage licenses and birth certificates for the children for taxation purposes." He stopped for a moment, giving them time to assimilate everything. "These perks come with lots of strings attached, like the fact that we can never be safe. It's only an apparent safety that we have, and everyone should remember that. The reason I'm saying all of this is because while I told the President that ICIS will return, I am gving you the option to leave. Now, remember that our primary mission is to find every dimensional traveler. If you don't join us, you will have to stay off the grid. We'll provide new documents and even some money, but after that, you are on your own. If you pop up in any records, we will have to find you and bring you in for your own safety. If you chose to go, you can also find us at the base at a later time. The cover story will be very simple. While on the run, people were given the option of going off on their own. You heard ICIS was back, you returned. However, this is a one time deal. If you choose to stay, that's it. If you choose to go, you do it now. If you choose to come back, it's a one time thing. Unfortunately you don't have time to think, we need to close down this facility and try to be at the base by the end of the week, which gives us only a few days. I need to know now so that arrangements can be made. Also after we're done with this, I need to see all four leads. Training is done for the rest of the week. Ladies and gentlemen start pack things up, decide what you want to bring with you and what you'd like to have stored in case we have to run again.

"So does anyone want to leave?"

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Re: April and Eliot

_eliot_spencer
2012-09-30 10:46 pm UTC (link)

Eliot's first response was to help. It was always to help those that needed helping, since Nate and the others came into his life back home. But with the move to the school, it was pretty damned clear that his help wasn't wanted in ways that mattered. Neither was April an integral part of anything, other than being available to babysit the kids.

"You're not selfish, you're a parent, and every single other parent with children there was thinking the same thing. If they didn't, they suck as parents. Vance's children are safe at home, not being put directly in the line of fire, which is what's happening here. I know from Nate that the life of your own child is worth more than the life a thousand strangers. It doesn't mean that you don't care, it's just how it is."

Eliot pushed his hand through his recently cut hair, blowing out a breath of frustration. "Vance said we'd be ICIS agents again. We're both certified, but with my disability and your pregnancy, I don't think we're going to do anything. You're not going to work medical. I strongly doubt I'll be going into the field. The only, and I mean only, reason to stay would be to protect the children of those parents who are staying, who are all needed elsewhere. That's if Vance and the others even let us take care of the children full time, and we know exactly how Callen and Renko feel about us."

There was also Nate to consider. Though, if they went, Eliot would simply hogtie the man and take him with them.

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Re: April and Eliot

april_kepner
2012-10-01 05:39 pm UTC (link)

It might be how it was, but it didn't stop April from feeling guilty about it. Yesterday she, like everyone else, had watched in horror as those towers came down, remembering the first time she'd seen the same thing. She'd been nineteen then, still in Ohio, never having been anywhere.

Things had changed since then. She'd seen those towers in real life, she'd been in the city where they had stood. It was easier to imagine when it wasn't just images on a TV screen, and when some of the people around you had actually been there when it happened the first time.

Still, she couldn't just blindly go back to the base when her instincts told her it was dangerous for her child. But then not going was dangerous too. If they went she'd be bringing their child into the lions den, if they didn't they were facing a life on the run and a delivery at home with no assistance. Neither was a safe option.

She moved closer to Eliot, slipping her arms under his and burying her face in his chest. "There is a hospital at the base, anything not power related they're better equipped to handle at this point," she said. She might read as much as she could but as much as she loved reading she couldn't make up for lack of training. With every passing week and months she knew her skills were slipping. It was inevitable. Easy, standard procedures and smaller injuries wouldn't be a problem, but if someone was truly seriously injured they would be safer at the hospital than with her at this point, and there was nothing she could do about it.

"They won't let you take care of them because of your eyesight," she said. "Me, they'll reluctantly trust because there is no one else." Maybe that should be enough reason to make her stay, but she was still uncertain.

"If we stay, we'll help them but we'll risk our own daughter's life. If we leave, we're faced with always living in hiding, with never finding a way to a dimension where we'll be free, with handling the delivery by ourselves since it's not safe to go to a hospital with her being able to display her power - whatever that might be - already at birth. Neither option is good."

"I guess the question is which is safer for her, and if we truly can make a difference if we stay." She looked up at Eliot.

"You never said what you want to do," she said. "What does your gut and heart tell you to do?"

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Re: April and Eliot

_eliot_spencer
2012-10-01 06:11 pm UTC (link)

"To help, because help is needed," Eliot replied. "But that doesn't mean my help is wanted. Being here at the school proves it. I stock groceries and fix things on occasion. The rest of the time I've been aimless. What am I contributing? An extra hand at meals?" Eliot shook his head. "Being a burden on their resources when I'm not useful isn't helping anything."

Eliot glanced at April. "I can't tell you what's safer for her, though. If you're still babysitting, you'd protect her, but I have too many doubts that Callen or Renko would bother if the rotation continues. There's safety in numbers. There's a different type of safety in being off the grid. And you're right, if we're gone, we'd never know if they found a way out of this dimension," he said.

"What about you? When it comes down to it, what do you want to do? Stick with the group, even if we're just there doing nothing, or make our own way?

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Re: April and Eliot

april_kepner
2012-10-01 06:40 pm UTC (link)

"I don't know if we'll be allowed to help, or how much," she said with a sigh. She brushed away his hair from his face. "At least with the babies I'm doing something, though mostly it's just providing an extra pair of hands in care of an emergency."

"Then again, the risk of an emergency is a lot higher at the base. Everything we do will be different at the base."

"I don't know," April answered unhappily, feeling absolutely torn. She'd never hesitated about going with the group before, not once, but this was different than just staying hidden with the group. Could she run with their child if the attack came - or rather when the attack came? Also did she want to live through that one more time? Did she want to be forced to kill people again? She didn't question that she'd do it, to protect her child and her family she'd do anything, but to put herself in a position where it was very likely to happen...? No matter what the people in there thought, it wasn't an easy choice to make.

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Re: April and Eliot

_eliot_spencer
2012-10-01 07:46 pm UTC (link)

Eliot didn't know what to do. What was apparently easy for everyone else wasn't for them. Then again, they were all family and could rely on each other without question. Eliot and April only had Nate. They were going to be sitting in the laps of those that tried to kill them a year ago, and it was just a matter of time before they did it again. There were no guarantees that any of them would get out alive, but the lack of trust that there'd be someone who would help April and eventually their child was a glaring negative to staying.

"I really don't know, April," Eliot finally said after a prolonged silence, as Cody romped around the yard. "Who's well and truly going to help us if and when we need help? We're as alone in this group as we'd be away from them. The move from the ranch has managed to ostracize and belittle us. Sitting around talking in the common room in the evenings doesn't integrate us because during the day we're not involved in any of the 'important' things that are happening."

Eliot usually didn't talk about it, about how unhappy and useless he felt since coming to the school. He'd tried to be an integral part of things at the ranch and thought he'd finally gotten into the 'group', only to be put to pasture upon moving. Even his friendship with Morgan had seemingly vanished, though he saw the other man daily.

"They have resources, technology, powers, and numbers, but does that mean anything for us, I don't know. I don't know at all."

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Re: April and Eliot

april_kepner
2012-10-01 08:04 pm UTC (link)

"We have friends, Eliot," April said, because she knew that to be true. "And there is Nick." He might not be as close to them as he'd once been, which for his sake was a good thing, but the fact that he was more distant from them didn't mean that they cared less. At least it didn't mean that she cared less. Nick would always hold a reserved place in her heart. The thought of leaving him behind hurt more than the thought of leaving anyone else.

"Even if we have no one, they'll help because it's their responsibility, because it's in their code of ethics. It's the same reason that they're helping the very people who targeted us a year ago, because it's what they do. It's who they are. They'll help because it's the right thing to do."

"Well most of them." She couldn't see Robert helping them if he could get away with not doing it, and she wasn't sure about Mike though he wasn't as hostile as Robert. But then it was hard to be as hostile as Robert.

Moving, April put her hand to her stomach, a movement she'd started doing more and more as her stomach grew. It was soothing and relaxing and reminded her about what really mattered. She'd never see why people disliked pregnancy, she loved every minute of hers. "I wish we could have more time to decide," she said. "How are we expected to make this kind of decision in no time at all?"

"I keep coming back to the delivery though. Who is going to deliver her if we're on our own?" she said. "And what if something happens? At least there we'll have a hospital if something goes wrong." If Vance let them use it that was.

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	Re: April and Eliot _eliot_spencer 2012-10-01 08:14 pm UTC (link)
	"I think I would've preferred not to be given a choice. There's an attack, we move together, we do our best to keep everyone safe, the end." Eliot pinched the bridge of his nose. They were going in circles, getting nowhere. How could he weigh the responsibility to his wife and child if the options were bad on both sides of the scale? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: April and Eliot

april_kepner
2012-10-01 08:26 pm UTC (link)

"So we stop thinking and we stop reasoning because there is no logical answer, and I can't believe I just said that but it's nevertheless true," April said. "We can't make this decision based on logic, so we'll base it on our gut instincts."

She still wasn't sure, but she'd asked what Eliot wanted to do and it was the only solid answer they had since her mind - and gut - was too torn. "We stay and help, and pray that when the attack comes we'll be prepared enough."

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	Re: April and Eliot _eliot_spencer 2012-10-01 08:35 pm UTC (link)
	Eliot exhaled heavily. "I reckon I'd better tell Vance. I can only hope people will be too busy to hold it against us for not immediately jumping on the bandwagon, like we didn't care what happened in New York." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: April and Eliot

april_kepner
2012-10-01 08:46 pm UTC (link)

"Don't hope too much," April said. "I know I insulted half the room in there, but I won't regret thinking of our child. I can't. We're won't be the only one protecting her, but we're the only ones who put her before anything and everything else."

She leaned up and kissed him. "Now go tell Vance before we change our minds. Again." She wasn't sure they'd just made the right decision, but in the end it was the only one they could make. She just hoped they wouldn't end up regretting it.

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