Mar 09, 2011 12:03
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tsubaki,
badd,
anise,
minato,
the doctor,
sam winchester,
firo,
goku (dragonball),
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dexter,
franziska,
claire bennet,
kinomoto sakura,
peter parker,
snow,
lunge,
lana skye,
ruby,
mello,
soren,
brainiac 5,
the flash,
roxas,
albedo,
stefan,
peter petrelli,
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erika,
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canada,
the scarecrow,
sync,
matt,
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spock,
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l,
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bella,
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claire littleton,
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guy,
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"I just got transferred here," he finally answered. "Arrived this morning, and one of th' guards brought me straight here. He didn't say much, and then that lady..."
His gaze wandered towards where the woman giving the orders had been, but it only rested there for a moment before Firo turned his attention back to the man he'd approached. "Could you fill me in a bit?"
Past the man, Firo could see one of the guards giving him a dirty look. He shot a look of his own in the guard's direction and called out, "Yeah; I'm goin', I'm goin'..."
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The story he was telling... sounded pretty far-fetched, actually. Even if the military guards were new around here, he'd never heard anything about Alcatraz being an asylum-to be honest, he had heard rumors of inmates going mad, but he'd never put much stock in that kind of gossip. That kind of talk was just the sensational speculation of people who'd never been there themselves and never would be there ( ... )
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He looked up from the floor when the other guy gave his name-or names, one fake and one real. But it was the real one that had caught his attention: Peter Petrelli. He paused in his scrubbing long enough to ask, "You're Italian?"
As for Peter's story, Firo almost protested that it wasn't that he didn't believe him-only right now? It really was that he didn't believe him. Maybe Peter's words had more weight that those of people on the outside, but the idea that the wardens were trying to convince inmates they were different people was still pretty hard to swallow. Peter seemed lucid enough, but he'd have to hear the same thing from a couple more inmates before he'd be willing to believe it really was ( ... )
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He'd started giving Peter an openly skeptical look as soon as he indicated that prisoners could roam around freely at night, and the skepticism only grew when the man started talking about mutated creatures that guarded the grounds.
Firo gave a laugh when Peter had finished, as if the whole thing had been some grand joke. And maybe it was-he'd told Peter right off that he had just gotten here, so this could have easily been part of some kind of prison hazing for the new guy. "Don't tell me you're going to claim that 'monsters' are why this place is always said to be inescapable ( ... )
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He withdrew his own hand after shaking Peter's, picking up the sponge and dunking it into the bucket again.
"I came here straight outta New York," he answered, sidestepping the question of where he'd been transferred from as best he could. Alcatraz usually wasn't somewhere someone got sent right away, so he'd let Peter draw his own conclusions about what prison he might have been in before-since he hadn't been in one ( ... )
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When Peter finally spoke again, breaking the uncomfortable silence, Firo frowned. "Of course they still keep prisoners here," he protested. Peter was talking like it was some other place entirely, rather than the prison they were both currently in. "We're here, aren't we? And anyway, they only started transferring people here a few months ago..."
That was why all the rumors about the place had been flying around so much lately, Firo guessed. He'd heard the place had been a military prison before, but as far as federal prisons went, Alcatraz was new and flashy. It was being touted as inescapable, and so far the title stood without question.
But there was one other thing wrong with what Peter had said: "Besides, why would anyone want to turn a prison into a museum?"
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But if Firo had been expecting to go to Alcatraz (during a time when it still functioned as a prison), then what crime had he committed? It was hard to imagine someone who looked like he did was a criminal, but Peter knew that looks could be deceiving. He probably didn't look like he had the ability to blow up a whole city, after all ( ... )
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It was true that he didn't have any memory of his arrival on the island-but that was just because he'd been asleep, wasn't it? Alcatraz was where Huey Laforet was and therefore where Firo had been heading, but... Victor had repeatedly said things like "We'll fill you in on the details of what you'll be doing later," but if this was part of the man's plan, Firo should have at least been told of this part. He'd agreed to go to Alcatraz, but not some other place.
Peter could have still been pulling his leg, but Firo had to admit the realization that it (maybe) wasn't that island prison made a lot of sense... a lot more than if it was. He still had his doubts about mutated animals, of course, but the other things Peter had mentioned fell into place-like that up until recently the 'Institute' had been an asylum.
He wasn't completely convinced-he wanted to ask someone else just to be sure-but he felt a momentary rush of relief nevertheless. If ( ... )
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But it sounded like the kid had been having some doubts after all, and this was adding to that. He nodded in response, glad that they could try to skirt around the issue of different times for the moment. Eventually someone was just going to tell Firo flat out that he was in the future, but that was a bombshell that could probably wait a bit longer. There was no point in overloading him.
"No, we're actually out in the country. No one's figured out exactly where yet, but I guess the rumor is that it's somewhere in the northeast part of the country." So not too far from New York, in other words, and yet Peter didn't recognize any of the terrain that he'd seen ( ... )
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Maybe, as Peter suggested, he would have a chance to look around outside to see for himself, with his own eyes. He'd welcome the chance ( ... )
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