the other side of the glass

[justforthegun]

STATUS: OPEN
CHARACTERS: justforthegun (Tohru Adachi, Persona 4) & ~*YOU*~
LOCATION: A prison.
SUMMARY: You are not visiting Adachi. Adachi is visiting you.
WARNINGS: Persona 4 spoilers.
NOTES: Adachi is visiting your character, who is in prison. Why are they in prison? Falsely accused or not, should be more interesting than the other way around.

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[justforthegun]

Inmates rarely continued to plead innocence. Once the reality of their situation set in (that they were convicted, that they would stay convicted) they quickly saw the appeal in giving up.

So, why? That was the question Adachi was expected to answer in this paper. Was this man (who still hadn't told him his damn name- he'd have to look it up later) truly innocent, or under the impression that if he stuck to his story, he'd eventually be exonerated?

One thing was for sure- this man (ah, "Burrows", he finally caught the name when Burrows leaned back and scribbled it down, right beside "Steadman", "already dead", and other pertinent bits of information he caught from Burrows's rambling) was adamant about pleading innocence.

Adachi found it all a little hard to believe ("already dead when I got there"? how cliche could you get?) but... well, like he said, he hadn't even known Burrows's name when he came here. His assignment was clear: he had no choice but to coax the full story out of Burrows as best he could.

So he held back a sigh at Burrows's abrasiveness and tried again.

"So let me get this straight... you're here for the murder of this 'Steadman'? And you were going to kill him, but he was already dead when you got there?"

He kept most of the skepticism out of his voice; it was a clear invitation for more. No matter how stubborn a guy acted, when it came down to it, the one thing everyone loved doing was talking.