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The Interrogation of Jack Slater aka Black Knight One

Jun 22, 2006 20:48

He didn't resist, doing just as he was told to do. Walk into the large empty room and sit in the single chair in the middle of the room. The room was impossibly dark save for a light beam of light that illuminated the chair. He sat with the slightly nervous look of someone awaiting an unpleasent unknown ( Read more... )

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connor_hawke June 23 2006, 02:04:45 UTC

"Sure you want to go? I'd just as soon beat the tar out of the guy."
"That's why I'm going, Dad, and not you. Not yet."

Word got to him via the superhero pipeline. When things were quieter, he was allowed transport to Watchtower and escorted to the observation deck to watcvh the interrogation, maybe even say a few words.

Seeing his one-time captor, though. Connor finds himself not really angry at the wayward Checkmate agent. More...pitying him? Connor's not sure yet.

blackknightone June 23 2006, 02:31:20 UTC

Conner is just a shape in the darkness, but he knows who he is. He suddenly has the need to adjust his collar.

connor_hawke June 23 2006, 03:21:20 UTC

"You have a lot to answer for," Connor says. "Kidnapping known JLA and JSA members is one thing. It's our line of work, one of the known risks." He scowls. "But a bomb on a little girl's chair? Explain it."

blackknightone June 23 2006, 03:56:30 UTC

Once he made the commitment to turn himself in, he knew he would have to answer this question. It has been the once thing that has knawed upon his conscious for years.

"...there was a time where...I felt that the ends justified the means. I was a spy... ...a soldier in a war... ...on a mission... whatever. ...and I had to secure a means to be able to complete my mission. Then, the girl... all of them... were a means to secure escape if need be. It had to be someone more important to the right people or it didn't have the right leverage. I gambled that the girl... the children in that classroom were more important then I would have been."

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straight_arrow June 27 2006, 10:33:59 UTC

A door opens and Green Arrow steps into the room. His bow is not with him, nor is the otherwise ubiquitous quiver of arrows.

Not that I'm not unimpressed with you planning to hold Lian hostage, but that little escapade didn't start with Lian.

It started with you strolling up to my house and kidnapping my son. Would you care to explain what you thought you would gain by that little bit of showboating?

blackknightone June 27 2006, 22:51:51 UTC

Slater pauses for the best way to answer. He knows Green Arrow doesn't want to hear what he has to say. However, the question was far more complicated to answer than to ask. Green Arrow wanted to know....understand one thing. Slater tried to be blunt and gave Green Arrow an answer that covered as much of the House Operation as possible. He just couldn't be that cold about it. It hurt to acknowledge what he did. It hurt to have Green Arrow just staring at him.The 'House' Operation was ordered by very highly placed men in the US Government for selfish and polictical reasons. I am not trying to shift blame for your son's abduction to anyone else. I was given the order, I planned the operation, I carried it out. I was working under a set operationial template that was suggested for this operation by Checkmate. The template is a framework to build on, you fill in the blanks and then you can work to accomplish several small goals to complete the mission. We've been using them for years. The template's application was not ( ... )

straight_arrow June 28 2006, 00:27:20 UTC

I'd figured out that much, spook juice. No offense to whatever fascist nutbag came up with that 'template', but it wasn't exactly subtle. And you'll notice that the League wasn't in there. Just me, Black Canary and Deadshot.

GA puts his foot on the seat of Slater's chair, right between the former spy's legs.

What gets me is why, with the ties Connor in specific has with you government black-ops types, or better yet Roy, you couldn't --

He shoves with his foot, sending the chair back a bit.

-- have popped your greasy little heads up --

Shove.

-- and ASKED FOR OUR HELP!!!!

blackknightone June 28 2006, 02:55:17 UTC

Slater's shame turns quickly to anger with Green Arrow's pressure, but he's biting his lip. Slater knew this is how it was going to be.

Because Luthor doesn't like his business deals in the open. He had a problem with Senate Minorty Leader Trent Cannon on the Ways and Means Committee. When Luthor found out that the first Checkmate Knight sent to the House was killed, he didn't care. He only cared when he found out that the Knight killed was Nathaniel Cannon, Trent Cannon's brother. Luthor got Trent to cut a deal if the people who killed his brother were brought to justice.

I wasn't just Checkmate's Black Knight. I worked directly for the President.

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