[After Last Session. Sometime After The Heinrick/Rose mini.] [Having been treated to a severely awkward dinner by Mario, the team has now returned to the lab to get a much-needed night's rest.] [Rose's room, like most of the others, is fairly spartan, with a painting and a couple of plants to liven it up, and a decent sized table with a few chairs in the center of the room.] [Suddenly, a knock on the door!] [Mini start] * Roseli is seated at her table. Her gun's there, as are various clips of ammunition and other equipment she's picked up. Seems she's taking stock of what she has. She looks up at the knock and grabs a clip, putting it back into her gun. "Come in." * Togo opens the door and takes a slow step in, holding a bottle of vodka. "I come in peace." * Roseli eyes, but she doesn't point the gun at him. "Sure." She nods to one of the nearby chairs. "Sit?" * Togo closes the door behind him, put the bottle down in the center of the table, and sits down, gesturing to the bottle. "Want some?" * Roseli looks almost wistfully at the bottle. "Maybe." She stands and busies herself, putting her equipment, including her gun, away. Togo can see that her everpresent bracelet is gone; instead, her wrist is bandaged up. * Togo takes two shot glasses out of his coat, puts one in front of Rose, then pours himself a shot and downs it. "At your leisure, then. I damn well need one." He takes the deep breath, then puts the glass down. "You got questions, ask away." * Roseli shrugs, still sequesting her equipment. "Not in the business of asking questions." She gets to her comm unit and eyes it. "Got a hammer?" (sequestering) * Togo pulls out a hammer from his coat and hands it over. "Well, I'll start then." My mission was purely a matter of observation. No sabotage or anything like that. Just do my job, report back in order to figure out if Blitzkreig was as compromised as we know Zunkuft was. At no point did I ever do anything to endanger the team in the field. *rubs neck* Hell, my status is what got us outta that shit at the lab when Sherman's team nearly had us. * Roseli takes it. "Thanks." She blinks at Togo. "Then your story was bullshit." * Roseli sets her comm firmly on the table, takes the hammer in her other hand, and smashes it a few times until it's good and busted. * Togo tilts his head, pulls his comm out of his coat, and slides it over the table. "About how I got us outta that?" * Roseli nods. * Roseli takes Togo's comm, too, and starts smashing that without a word. "Need to get everyone's. Should have disposed of them sooner; wasn't thinking. Well, I did threaten them with the grenades, like I said. But I wasn't exactly looking forward to blowing myself up, so when it looked like they were gonna call my bluff, I played the other card I had. I'd worked with Sherman a coupla decades back taking down Asahara's European branch, so I was able to get through to him. Right. Never mentioned. * Roseli tosses the now thoroughly busted comms in the garbage and walks back, sitting heavily in her seat. She returns Togo's hammer. * Togo slides the hammer back into his coat. "Not an association that woulda helped my cover." * Roseli snerks. "No joke." She picks up the shot of vodka and downs it, then pulls out some gum and starts chewing on that. Alcohol and gum probably don't go well together, but Rose doesn't seem to care much. Pretty much as soon as I got a look at the ward thing, I knew things were bad, but I gotta admit I was holding out hope that at least it was bad means to a good cause. It was. Far as I could tell. * Roseli slides her glass back to the bottle with a chink. Until late, did plenty of good. * Togo shakes his head. "Oh, cause was good, despite the corruption. But the means were worse than I thought... what they did to those kids was fucking sick." * Togo pours himself another shot. "And I only just found out the worst of it." * Roseli nods, looking down. "Didn't know. Knew two guardians would take ten years off Jamie's life, but..." Lydia was talking about using her long term. Not what I'm talkin' about. *downs the shot* They moved on from finding broken kids with powers, breakin' them down further, and using them. * Togo slams his glass back down on the table. "They've been kidnapping established operators, mindwiping them, and putting them into the program as wards." * Roseli blinks. "What?" Just found out a coupla weeks back. Mitsuji... the guy with the sword who worked with Sherman... arrainged a meeting right before the shit went down with the President. I'd worked with him as well a coupla decades back... the reason he's in Germany is that one of his former teammates was taken by Zunkuft and put into the system." ( EDIT delete the " ) * Roseli frowns. "Zunkuft or Blitzkrieg?" Or Society. Fuck, hardly matters anymore. Fuck if I know. * Roseli pours more vodka. Needs vodka. * Togo thinks Rose has a really good idea, and pours himself another shot. "That's when I started making arraingements to get all of us the fuck outta there. That was enough to get the ball rolling on going after Zunkuft, and I didn't want the wards anywhere near that place." That, among other things, did not go exactly as planned. * Roseli downs her shot, takes in what Togo said, and laughs suddenly. "No shit?" She pours more alcohol. "Should tell Heinrick about this. He'd get a kick out of it." * Togo nods. "What I said on the train still holds. When we finish all this, I can arrainge secure relocation if you want. Wards get the help they need, supervised personally by me to make sure no bullshit occurs." * Roseli shakes her head. See what the wards want. Should be able to make their own decisions, by then. * Togo downs his shot, and puts the glass back down on the table. "'course. Same deal applies to them. If they want help, they get it. If they wanna stay in the business, they can. If they want out, they're out." * Roseli looks out the window. "Broken, yes. Psychological help, definitely. Manditory in any sane government system. But their first, biggest decision in ages..." Their life to destroy if they want. * Roseli shrugs philisophically and downs another shot. You gonna stick with Jamie? * Roseli smiles faintly. "If she wants me." Have nothing else to do. I dunno. I'm gettin' old, and there's a whole lotta fuckers that need to be shot in the head. * Roseli laughs, again. "You want me for a protege?" For some reason, she seems to find this insanely funny. * Togo smirks. "I think you could pull off the trenchcoat." He shakes his head. "But no. But I'm still in this business 'cause I can't sit still knowing I could be out there doing something. Bad habit of mine to put that on other people too." * Roseli grins, suddenly. "Good for you. I'm in this business because I have to be." * Togo pours himself another shot, downing it immediately. "I tried quitting. A few times. Longest lasted a week and a half. then some werewolves starting running around Manchester, an old friend asked for help just this once..." He chuckles. "My girl was pissed, 'cause she had two weeks in the pool." Then you're where you should be. Congratulations. * Roseli pours herself a fourth shot and downs it. "Nice to know someone's fulfilled in life." She eyes the bottle, then puts the glass solidly away from her. "Fucking... drop one drug and pick up another." * Togo shrugs. "Friends always joke it's the American in me... big cowboy, always wantin' to ride to the rescue." He stoppers the bottle, and puts it and the glasses back in his coat. "Ditto. I still gotta talk to Luana after this..." Mmm. * Roseli turns her attention to Togo. "Luana's like you." Does it 'cause she wants to. Watch your words. * Togo nods slowly. "A bit too much for my comfort. And yeah, I will." * Roseli rubs at her eyes. "After all, few decades to save your country... price I was willing to pay." * Togo scowls. "... she's already paid enough." * Roseli raises her hands, waving them in a placating gesture. "'Sokay. Not arguin'. Jus' talk to her. * Togo stands up. "... gonna hafta talk to Keiko too. Shit." * Roseli shrugs. She doesn't know anything about this Togo talking to Keiko stuff. That's weird. * Togo fails to notice Rose's reaction. "Anything else you wanna know? Full disclosure mode here." Yeah no. Too drunk to do much but rant. * Roseli waves offhandedly. "You go have a miserable time. Talk to you later, might have questions then." * Togo nods. "If you here crashing later, that'll be Keiko holding me upside down and dropping me on my head repeatedly. Just go back to sleep." He heads out. ( EDIT hear, not here ) * Roseli thumbs ups. "Sure." * Togo closes the door behind him, pulls out a piece of Badass Gum(TM), and starts chewing as he walks down the hall to Luana's room. [Mini End]