Dark and angsty P/J bunny, pre-war AU
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The following scene has been floating around in my mind for over a week now:
”I understand how you feel about this but-”
Jazz interrupted his visitor with short, harsh bark of laughter. Leaning forward as far as the chains allowed he stared the other mech right in the optics.
“Really?” he said, voice barely above a whisper but dripping with sarcasm. “You understand how it feels to be accused, tried and convicted for a crime you didn’t commit? You understand how it feels to be betrayed by a mech you thought you could trust with your life? You understand how it feels to have your whole life and future taken from you, to be thrown into a cage with the worst monsters this planet has ever produced? You understand how it feels to wake up every morning, hoping against hope you won’t be beaten or raped more than five or six times before the day is over?”
He leaned back against the wall with a derisive snort.
“Pardon me for putting it bluntly, sir, but you understand slag.”
So, the basic idea is this: Jazz was in a relationship with someone he thought was just a normal guy but who turned out to be anything but. In my mind he’s either a psychopath with a hang up or a criminal who wants a scapegoat. For whatever reason, he decided to frame Jazz for a crime bad enough to put him away forever - rape, torture, murder or possibly a combination of all three. Times, places, victims and evidence all seemed to fit when the enforcers came looking and a shell-shocked Jazz was convicted and sent to prison. And for a mech of small build with no experience in fighting or the shady side of society, prison is a brutal place.
Some time later Prowl (enforcer/enforcer-to-be/crime writer/whatever) comes across the case and for some reason starts looking into it, even though it’s been officially closed for a long time. And he finds something that makes him dig deeper. He gets to hear Jazz’s version of what happened and finds to his own astonishment that he actually believes him, against all reason. Question is, will he ever be able to prove it?
The following scene has been floating around in my mind for over a week now:
”I understand how you feel about this but-”
Jazz interrupted his visitor with short, harsh bark of laughter. Leaning forward as far as the chains allowed he stared the other mech right in the optics.
“Really?” he said, voice barely above a whisper but dripping with sarcasm. “You understand how it feels to be accused, tried and convicted for a crime you didn’t commit? You understand how it feels to be betrayed by a mech you thought you could trust with your life? You understand how it feels to have your whole life and future taken from you, to be thrown into a cage with the worst monsters this planet has ever produced? You understand how it feels to wake up every morning, hoping against hope you won’t be beaten or raped more than five or six times before the day is over?”
He leaned back against the wall with a derisive snort.
“Pardon me for putting it bluntly, sir, but you understand slag.”
So, the basic idea is this: Jazz was in a relationship with someone he thought was just a normal guy but who turned out to be anything but. In my mind he’s either a psychopath with a hang up or a criminal who wants a scapegoat. For whatever reason, he decided to frame Jazz for a crime bad enough to put him away forever - rape, torture, murder or possibly a combination of all three. Times, places, victims and evidence all seemed to fit when the enforcers came looking and a shell-shocked Jazz was convicted and sent to prison. And for a mech of small build with no experience in fighting or the shady side of society, prison is a brutal place.
Some time later Prowl (enforcer/enforcer-to-be/crime writer/whatever) comes across the case and for some reason starts looking into it, even though it’s been officially closed for a long time. And he finds something that makes him dig deeper. He gets to hear Jazz’s version of what happened and finds to his own astonishment that he actually believes him, against all reason. Question is, will he ever be able to prove it?