029 - How is hope feeling today? / Tired and sick of this place

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Misaki is sitting at her good ol' kitchen table, staring at a copy of a note in her hands. Her badge and sheets of notes are scattered across the scrubbed tabletop in no apparent order.

She's pale. Tight-lipped. Her eyes bright and intense. She sets the note down, closes her eyes and rests her head in one hand.]


...bastards.

Comments

[lamb_of_gold]

We both know that's untrue.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I don't know how Hei managed to keep himself from killing you ages ago.

[lamb_of_gold]

He knew I was right.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. [Head in hand, glaring into space.] Does rightness give you automatic jurisdiction over whatever has me upset?

[lamb_of_gold]

No need to grow angry at me because something has your nerves on edge, Misaki.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Sorry. [She crosses her arms on the table and lays her head on top of them.]

[lamb_of_gold]

But I am curious, and, considering myself your friend, somewhat concerned, as well.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

The Gate. PANDORA.

...I have to go back.

[lamb_of_gold]

Why not send someone in your stead?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

No. [She looks up at him grimly.] I'm the head of this investigation--I am not bowing out.

[lamb_of_gold]

Considering what you've been through, I doubt anyone would blame you if you did. But you're as stubborn as I, aren't you?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Probably.

[lamb_of_gold]

What would draw you back there, though.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

The Kindershrecker. What else? [She taps the note.] They've publicly declared their previous actions to be in protest of the child Contractors being kept as subjects within PANDORA. [Snort.]

Naturally, they're threatening to blow the facility up, should the UN not release every Contractor they have in custody. They've planted one bomb to 'prove they're serious'. We have two days to find it.

It's framed as a humanitarian act, but if you ask me they're trying to refresh their ranks after what happened. Recruiting probably didn't go as well once the Contractors in Tokyo found out that the cops had powerful people on their side.

[lamb_of_gold]

Perhaps it is, indeed, the former. Children should not be held captive in a place such as that.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Children shouldn't be killed either, but they don't seem to object to that.

[lamb_of_gold]

Also true. It seems there is no compromise here.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Of course there's no compromise. Whether or not I hate PANDORA isn't the question. These bastards have terrorized my city--and they've done it long enough.