Night 56: Stairwell by Waiting Room/Lobby 1

[saviored]

[from here]

Of course Stefan would've checked up on Wally. No surprises there after the guy had had a run-in with Damon, a fact Stefan no doubt had learned from Alaric. Damon's interest in Wally remained, but it hadn't been enough for him to go out of his way today to actually find him. Especially not since Rick had solved that little issue with

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[tasteoftruth]

[ From here.]

Badd shone the flashlight up the stairs as they entered. After a moment's thought he also checked the dark corners, the walls, and the ceiling just to make sure no gigantic bugs were hiding somewhere that a human couldn't.

"It got down to the wire. The whole thing came to a head about three days before my retirement, when the ring started getting twitchy. As far as I can tell there was some power struggle going on between Coachen and the ring, the details are a little hazy, but that would have made them unsteady. Besides that Interpol was tightening the noose around their holdings, they even got the hooks into Ernest Amano and finally got that video tape they took from us ten years back. They started trying to destroy all traces of their actions in this country, and I didn't have much time to get my hands on it before they got there first, they had connections going all the way to the top."

Even though Faraday was in front of him and couldn't look him in the eye, Badd gave the floor a moment's awkward glance. It hadn't been something he was proud of (despite some minor personal satisfaction), and his voice was a low mumble when he continued. "So I broke into the High Prosecutor's office and held Miles Edgeworth up at gunpoint."

[corvus_veritas]

Byrne listened hard as they went along, trying his best to absorb every bit of Badd's tale without a word. Sheesh, there was so much to hear and so little time to take it in. So Little Thief was found by Kay, Cohdopia went into war and split in two--seriously?--Kay took up the Yatagarasu name, von Karma got--woah wait slow down--Calisto got into Interpol, everything became tense with Coachen and some power struggle, the video tape from ten years ago popped up again, and Badd held Edgeworth at gunpoint. Yes, these were a lot of details to absorb here. He might need to ask for some more explana...

--W-wait a second! Badd did what now?!

"Wha--?!" The prosecutor stopped halfway up the stairs and flipped around to face Badd with an expression to match his shocked tone. "Woah, hold it! Badd, what did you just--? You did what?"

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Badd twisted his glance away and pulled at his lollipop stick. "It was two in the morning," he grunted, trying to defend himself. "Nobody should have been in the building, let alone the office. He walked in before I was finished and I didn't have any way of getting out without him seeing my face." Edgeworth had handled it rather maturely, too. For a man who'd lost his father to a gunshot in the darkness, he'd treated Badd like an insubordinate waiter rather than a potential killer.

Badd shrugged, hoping he could just move on with the story now. "I got the card back, and I got the video back later on. Nobody was hurt." Except Buddy. But that hadn't been on him.

[corvus_veritas]

It wasn't like Byrne didn't understand Badd's reasoning, and he knew he would never have gone and shot Edgeworth, either. But the fact of the matter was Badd held a prosecutor up at gunpoint. A well known one, at that! He did something incredibly dangerous all by himself without any sort of backup to make sure he wouldn't get caught. That was practically the whole point of the Yatagarasu having three legs! If there was anything Byrne would love to say right now, it was a million things on how dangerous and stupid and reckless and unsafe Badd had been.

There was also his wanting to hear more details on Calisto, Kay, Cohdopia's civil war, the power struggle... Heck, he wanted more details on everything. But first, before more chastising or explanations occurred, maybe they should get out of this stairwell. That would kind of be a good idea right now.

Byrne turned back around to start walking again, sighing softly. "I get you, Badd, I know - and that was damn dangerous of you, too - but can you just--I don't know--start over?" Normally he could handle hearing ninety details a second, but not now. He could only dwell on one bad thing at a time.

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