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Leon Vance (leon_vance) wrote in omega_reality,
@ 2013-02-04 17:13:00

Entry tags:

*complete, 2013 02, character: alexis castle, character: april kepner, character: claudia donovan, character: derek reese, character: douglas hammond, character: eliot spencer, character: marty deeks, character: nell jones, character: robert callen, character: tim riggins, character: troy bolton, dead: bill croelick, dead: leon vance, dead: nathan ford

RP: Finding a killer
Who: Leon, Deeks, Others
Where: the island, Chicago
When: Monday, February 4, 2013
Summary: They go find a serial killer

Another one bites the dust

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Leon/Deeks

leon_vance
2013-02-01 10:28 pm UTC (link)

The day before, Eric had spent the day keeping their suspect under surveillance. Leon had asked Nell to start looking at Chicago and possible ties. While making the connection could be easy, he was not going to send a hit squad after a man without more information.

And this was a hit squad.

There were no judges and juries here. If the suspect turned out to be bad, they'd have to kill him, but there was still the possibility that he wasn't bad. So he waited, and he had Deeks and his team looking at the evidence and going over Morgan's file.

It was after lunchtime when Deeks arrived to his office. Leon closed the door. "It looks like it's him." He'd already gotten the report from Nell. "We also don't know for sure." If Sam had been around, he'd have sent the man and let him deal with it, but Sam wasn't around and he had to deal with Deeks. It wasn't that he didn't like the man, but he was a cop through and through, and that came with a different set of morals. "Can you make sure that it is him?" Leon was being careful not to ask how. "And if it is, we need to ensure a natural death. We have drugs in the infirmary that can happen if those are necessary, however, there should be no marks. If you have any objections, we can send Mr. Reese's team."

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Re: Leon/Deeks

deeks_marty
2013-02-01 11:34 pm UTC (link)

Marty pursed his lips, turning over what Vance was asking in his mind. He was under no illusions that someone like G or Sam had been asked to do this sometime in their past. But, Marty wasn't military and he wasn't an agent or a spy. He was a cop. He collared the bad guys and let someone else hash out the details of what justice entailed. Hell, he was from California where they had the Death Penalty and never actually used it. So, there really weren't any executioners around once the judge and jury finished.

He knew, from their earlier discussion some time ago, that Vance knew there was more to his power than Marty and G had let on. And, he appreciated the discretion even now in the way the Director posed his questions. But it wasn't a question of means. He knew from experience he had the power necessary to find out if this was the man they'd sought and to make it look like a natural death, no one the wiser, even his own unit.

It was the fact he was being asked to make that call, to decide if this was a man who needed to die, that made Marty take his time before answering. This wasn't what he did. It sure as hell wasn't what he'd signed up for at any time. But, his hands were tied.

Vance's hands were tied.

They couldn't let this guy continue on if he was the killer they'd hunted, not because he needed to be brought to justice, which he did. No, because his actions were a threat to their own security, the security of the team, his family. Hell, even the those who had abandoned the team and then put them in this position in the first place.

"I can get it done," he said after a couple moments. "It'll be cleaner if I do it."