Dossier Two

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Henrietta, thanks to Hei showing her the kitchen, has decided to try and cook. She is not a very good cook. In fact, she is a very bad cook. BUT THIS DOES NOT STOP HER FROM TRYING. Currently she is standing on the counter and trying to get a particular pan out from under a bunch of other ones. Doing it carefully isn't working, so SUPERHUMAN WRENCH OF POWAH is a go.

Of course, this sends her off balance and pinwheeling backwards off the counter with pots and pans falling down around her. SHOULD YOU WISH TO BRAVE THE METAL SHOWER, FEEL FREE TO CATCH HER. Or not. :|

Also, I should have mentioned, thanks to her modifications she is substantially heavier than a normal girl of her size. |D ]

Comments

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Well, that's not all we do. We're stronger, and faster, and we have better hearing and eyesight than normal people. We track people down sometimes, and they use us in raids and in special ops. People don't expect us to be the shooters, so it's easier to get away.

[ghostlighter]

... Again, they need little kids for that? Why can't they just... turns adults into cyborgs or whatever?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Um. I don't know. I think it doesn't work as well. And Rico is happy to be a cyborg. She couldn't move before they picked her--she was in the hospital all the time, and her parents signed her over to the Agency. She'd never been outside before, even, because she was sick.

[ghostlighter]

But... she's killing people, isn't she?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Well... yes. But we all do that.

[ghostlighter]

Why?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Because that's what we're for.

[ghostlighter]

No. I mean, why do you kill people? Do you even know?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Considers this] Sometimes. It doesn't really matter though, does it? We do what the Agency tells us, and obey our fratello. That's all we have to do.

[ghostlighter]

But, you can't— What if someone wanted to kill you, even if you hadn't done anything wrong?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Well. I'd kill them first, or I'd die, I guess.

[ghostlighter]

[... auuugh.] But what about the people who can't defend themselves, people who don't deserve to die?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

It doesn't matter. We do what the Agency tells us.

[ghostlighter]

You shouldn't have to.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Why not? I don't think it would be very different anywhere else. We're kids. We always have to listen to someone, don't we? We just have to listen more than other kids, because of conditioning.

[ghostlighter]

Kids don't usually have to kill people.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Not looking at him now.] But I'm not a usual kid, either.

[ghostlighter]

No. But... [He sighs a little.]

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

Even if I didn't have to, I'm no use as anything else.

[ghostlighter]

You're just a kid. No kid is of use to anything. You could just... be a kid.

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

But... [Retrieving and clinging to her violin case.] But I can't be. I can't just be a kid.

[ghostlighter]

... why not?

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

[Rubbing her eyes. Yeah, she's starting to cry.] Because. I'm really strong, and really fast, and I can see and hear better than anyone else. I know how to kill people without guns, and when I get hurt the pain goes away really quick. I'm not a normal kid. I can't ever be. Even if I didn't have to protect Signore Jose or do what the Agency says.

[ghostlighter]

[He totally didn't mean to make her cry... so now he reaches over and takes one of her hands carefully.]

Yeah, you can be.

... You know, even before I was a ghost, I wasn't really normal. I could do things that weren't natural, and people tried to kill me or my family a lot. We fought back, and defended ourselves, but... I still got to be a kid between all of that. [At least, up until his life went to hell, but she really doesn't need to know that.]

[fireintothesky.livejournal.com]

But I've never been anything else.