justprompts Veronika by Tricky
Dead/Guilty now here/there's no mercy for you/I stint/burning your image/ your lies and your hints/You're dead
[ed note: based on rp instances with dyingking,livingalie, and leftthefather in sixwordstories rated R for violence. My apologies if I'm god-modding or anything. :3]
When I need you, you can do for me. will that be all right?
Half starved for an answer and blinking back anger his answer, his damning answer is a heartbeat slower then he'd like it to be.
"Of course."
Of course, is calling Charlotte and trying to ignore the workmen she has around the house (just what the hell is she doing?) of course is over six hours of waiting and Dr. Wallace promising-always promising-that it'll work. It's Maggie holding his hand and life in her cheeks and falling asleep by her bedside as Wallace and Largo look down like benevolent uncles upon a child who had passed the test.
Righted the wrongs.
Done the family proud.
"......I feel okay daddy."
Richard Blake swallows, "...How's your chest?"
"...It doesn't hurt anymore.."
Of course is the man in the coat with his red-right hand on Senator Blake's shoulder. It is the smile on Wallace's face, it is the first keel of the death rattle.
They will call it bribery.
Bribery and extortion because when Blake first prevents Geneco and it's miracles to his colleagues on the hill they are-skeptical. They have every right to be-big business proposing something as massive as this? It's not federal? the Federal Government has always been involved in these sorts of machinations.
And it will get out into the paper, "GENECO CEO ATTEMPTS TO BUY VOTES FOR CONTROVERISAL PLAN." And there will be protestors with signs saying, "Rotti Largo doesn't have a heart, he needs to buy them." and there will be shunning and political dinners that he won't get invited to and finally in exasperation there will be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
"Look at yourselves." Richard Blake snarls, "This is what's become of America-a bunch of sniveling worms hiding behind machinery designed to prolong our life. we have spent our existence living in denial-we cannot do so any longer! This is not about our way of life at stake! this is about our EXISTENCE and if we will survive to continue it!
"You can say I betrayed the oath I took as a public servant, but I want to remind you that we all swore to serve the public which means making the choices that no one else can make.
The choice to save a life. The choice to take a life. We can no longer afford the luxury of mercy. Not with these many problems. It is time to ask if we are ready to live-truly live-or to finally give up the ghost and die?"
They will be silent all around the table and finally the leader-his second in command, will raise his head, "...Just what would this entail on our part?"
They will call it bribery and they will be wrong. It is not bribery-it is public service.
God help them all.
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Somewhere in his routes Richard Blake must have preacher.
He's intensely surprised by this. He is suddenly everywhere using the very same words that he used on his colleagues and people take notice. Perhaps they are too tired to care anymore.
What he does not see is how the ads for Apple Products, for Technology, for Film begin to add "GeneCo" Logos to their advertisements. What he does not see is how the lower classes are suddenly fighting amongst themselves. He arrives in San Diego to find the La Jolla looking like down-town, dirty crowded-industrial.
With nothing left to loose they had reverted back to an anything is posisble attitude. Why bother with morality when you would die in five years anyway?
As the five increases to ten, to fifteen, to twenty, that lack of morality stays.
"Senator, does it bother you that you're contributing to the moral decay of America?"
"If you'll forgive me an uncommon colloquialism-out of the ashes we will rise."
Do ashes include corpses? the body count rages.
The death keel grows louder.
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Pictured here: The first unanimous vote made by the United States House of Representatives and Senate thanks to the efforts of Sen Richard. Blake (D. CA). The child is daughter Margaret Ann Blake, confined to a wheel chair thanks to the atrophy in her muscles due to prolonged NOS exposure. Mr. Largo is wearing Chanel for Men while Senator Blake looks absolutely Smashing in Dior's new "Gothic" Line.
In other news, Rumored Heir to the GeneCo empire Nathan Wallace was married today to Senator David Frazer's daughter Marni. The bride was resplendant in Vera Wang while the Groom wore Dior's new "Gotham Tux". Guests included Senator Blake, Senator Frazer and many of Washington's Elite, putting to rest the quite rumors that there had been tension in the executive suite over the blushing bride, "I couldn't be happier for them both." Rotti Largo was quoted as saying, "Marni deserves a man who will take care of her."
Rioting continues in the middle east today over rumors that there is a plague of serial killers operating in major metropolitan areas...
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His name is Ken Hasagawa.
And suddenly phonecalls from Rotti are no longer being returned.
His name is Ken Hasagawa.
He manages to spot Marni and Nathan in Colorado attending Maggie's private school graduation. She looks absolutely stunning. Her GeneCo legs are brilliant-
His name is Ken Hasagawa.
"There's nothing we can do." Wallace's voice is suddenly cold, "You knew what you were getting into."
"You bastard! If I'd known-"
"What did you think we were going to do?" And Nathan shows a glimpse of the monster he will become, "...We have a right to protect. our. investment."
His name is Ken Hasagawa.
"Nathan! How could you say that? What happened is terrible-"
"But it's the law. you could have asked-you could have questioned-
"What was I supposed to do? Let us all die? Let her die?
God she's beautiful.
His name is Ken Hasagawa.
And there's gore all over the place. Hasagawa's pale and shaky but by god he's standing up straight, "I did my job, I did my job." the nazi's did their job too bastard. Pale and shaky and spotted hands with a head with no eyes-the eyes are in the bag-in the sack-going back to the factory.
It's too bad they're not defective. not like the lungs. Recalls will eventually become under the perview of a different department. GeneCo doesn't like to admit it made a fuck-up. Blood is still pumping through the chest cavity twisting-twisting-
Crack.
Death isn't always an end to life.
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[ed note: based on rp instances with dyingking,livingalie, and leftthefather in sixwordstories rated R for violence. My apologies if I'm god-modding or anything. :3]
When I need you, you can do for me. will that be all right?
Half starved for an answer and blinking back anger his answer, his damning answer is a heartbeat slower then he'd like it to be.
"Of course."
Of course, is calling Charlotte and trying to ignore the workmen she has around the house (just what the hell is she doing?) of course is over six hours of waiting and Dr. Wallace promising-always promising-that it'll work. It's Maggie holding his hand and life in her cheeks and falling asleep by her bedside as Wallace and Largo look down like benevolent uncles upon a child who had passed the test.
Righted the wrongs.
Done the family proud.
"......I feel okay daddy."
Richard Blake swallows, "...How's your chest?"
"...It doesn't hurt anymore.."
Of course is the man in the coat with his red-right hand on Senator Blake's shoulder. It is the smile on Wallace's face, it is the first keel of the death rattle.
They will call it bribery.
Bribery and extortion because when Blake first prevents Geneco and it's miracles to his colleagues on the hill they are-skeptical. They have every right to be-big business proposing something as massive as this? It's not federal? the Federal Government has always been involved in these sorts of machinations.
And it will get out into the paper, "GENECO CEO ATTEMPTS TO BUY VOTES FOR CONTROVERISAL PLAN." And there will be protestors with signs saying, "Rotti Largo doesn't have a heart, he needs to buy them." and there will be shunning and political dinners that he won't get invited to and finally in exasperation there will be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
"Look at yourselves." Richard Blake snarls, "This is what's become of America-a bunch of sniveling worms hiding behind machinery designed to prolong our life. we have spent our existence living in denial-we cannot do so any longer! This is not about our way of life at stake! this is about our EXISTENCE and if we will survive to continue it!
"You can say I betrayed the oath I took as a public servant, but I want to remind you that we all swore to serve the public which means making the choices that no one else can make.
The choice to save a life. The choice to take a life. We can no longer afford the luxury of mercy. Not with these many problems. It is time to ask if we are ready to live-truly live-or to finally give up the ghost and die?"
They will be silent all around the table and finally the leader-his second in command, will raise his head, "...Just what would this entail on our part?"
They will call it bribery and they will be wrong. It is not bribery-it is public service.
God help them all.
---------------------
Somewhere in his routes Richard Blake must have preacher.
He's intensely surprised by this. He is suddenly everywhere using the very same words that he used on his colleagues and people take notice. Perhaps they are too tired to care anymore.
What he does not see is how the ads for Apple Products, for Technology, for Film begin to add "GeneCo" Logos to their advertisements. What he does not see is how the lower classes are suddenly fighting amongst themselves. He arrives in San Diego to find the La Jolla looking like down-town, dirty crowded-industrial.
With nothing left to loose they had reverted back to an anything is posisble attitude. Why bother with morality when you would die in five years anyway?
As the five increases to ten, to fifteen, to twenty, that lack of morality stays.
"Senator, does it bother you that you're contributing to the moral decay of America?"
"If you'll forgive me an uncommon colloquialism-out of the ashes we will rise."
Do ashes include corpses? the body count rages.
The death keel grows louder.
--------------
Pictured here: The first unanimous vote made by the United States House of Representatives and Senate thanks to the efforts of Sen Richard. Blake (D. CA). The child is daughter Margaret Ann Blake, confined to a wheel chair thanks to the atrophy in her muscles due to prolonged NOS exposure. Mr. Largo is wearing Chanel for Men while Senator Blake looks absolutely Smashing in Dior's new "Gothic" Line.
In other news, Rumored Heir to the GeneCo empire Nathan Wallace was married today to Senator David Frazer's daughter Marni. The bride was resplendant in Vera Wang while the Groom wore Dior's new "Gotham Tux". Guests included Senator Blake, Senator Frazer and many of Washington's Elite, putting to rest the quite rumors that there had been tension in the executive suite over the blushing bride, "I couldn't be happier for them both." Rotti Largo was quoted as saying, "Marni deserves a man who will take care of her."
Rioting continues in the middle east today over rumors that there is a plague of serial killers operating in major metropolitan areas...
--------------
His name is Ken Hasagawa.
And suddenly phonecalls from Rotti are no longer being returned.
His name is Ken Hasagawa.
He manages to spot Marni and Nathan in Colorado attending Maggie's private school graduation. She looks absolutely stunning. Her GeneCo legs are brilliant-
His name is Ken Hasagawa.
"There's nothing we can do." Wallace's voice is suddenly cold, "You knew what you were getting into."
"You bastard! If I'd known-"
"What did you think we were going to do?" And Nathan shows a glimpse of the monster he will become, "...We have a right to protect. our. investment."
His name is Ken Hasagawa.
"Nathan! How could you say that? What happened is terrible-"
"But it's the law. you could have asked-you could have questioned-
"What was I supposed to do? Let us all die? Let her die?
God she's beautiful.
His name is Ken Hasagawa.
And there's gore all over the place. Hasagawa's pale and shaky but by god he's standing up straight, "I did my job, I did my job." the nazi's did their job too bastard. Pale and shaky and spotted hands with a head with no eyes-the eyes are in the bag-in the sack-going back to the factory.
It's too bad they're not defective. not like the lungs. Recalls will eventually become under the perview of a different department. GeneCo doesn't like to admit it made a fuck-up. Blood is still pumping through the chest cavity twisting-twisting-
Crack.
Death isn't always an end to life.
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