Zero

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Who: Barron Sharpe and Prefect.
Where: Zero.
When: Today.
What: Prefect visits his inmate in zero. Barron does not enjoy not having his notes and having huge bits of his memory gone.
Warnings: Nothing in particular. Probably just some existential angst.

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Prefect wasn't sure what to do about Barron, sooner or later it seemed inevitable that he was going to have to take away his inmate's powers, but the idea made him uncomfortable. Despite everything he thought about the inmate's assorted behavior problems, he really did feel some concern for Barron. The man invested so much of himself in his work, that having it taken away would be intimidating at the very least.

Still, hopefully he wouldn't need to that away his inmate's powers. Not soon, at least. Hopefully he'd at least be able to give Barron enough time to adapt a little to the shock of the Barge, before he was forced to take any drastic measures regarding his powers.

This was the problem Prefect was turning over in his mind as he went down into level Zero to visit his inmate.

"Comrade?" He called out, as he approached Barron's cell, "I brought you a book to read, if you're bored?"

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Barron walked over to the bar to get a closer look at who had arrived. Reflecting on the fact that whoever had put him in here had left him with his belt but not his shoes, which was strange. Barron did recognize Prefect though. He'd seen a lot of him. He remembered the drinking. Or more specifically, Prefect being very, very drunk.

"You're my cop." The one assigned to him personally. Although they called it something different here, but the word had escaped Barron. He'd have notes on that, somewhere. Barron paused before continuing.

"Yeah? What book?" He was bored. There was only so many times that you could poke holes in your memory that weren't even going to be filled again.

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"Your Warden, Comrade." Prefect corrected, shooting Barron a smile, before frowning slightly, "Do you need help remembering anything, Comrade?" It actually hadn't occurred to him that being in Zero, enough time would elapse for his inmate's memories to begin slipping away, although in retrospect it seemed obvious that would have to happen. It seemed a little unfair that zero negated the good part of Barron's power, without repairing any of the memory damage in return.

"Here, it's The Three Musketeers." Why yes, that was the same book Sam had given him years ago, when they were first assigned, "I don't know if you've read it before, but I figured..." he gave a little shrug, and extended the book towards Barron, pushing it through the bars, "Maybe you'd like to re-read it, if you had."

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"Why would I need help remembering anything? The blowback isn't that bad." Barron snapped, crossing his arms. If his warden already knew about it, there wasn't a great deal of point in denying it. So, the best course of action would be to try and minimize the damage. As much as that was possible. Hopefully Barron's notes were still in his room. If they weren't, things were going to be very, very difficult.

Barron took the book through the bars, but also took the opportunity to grab Prefect's wrist. He still had the small holes cut in the end of his gloves from... something that he'd done before. Barron couldn't remember. He was ready to put the memory into Prefect's head. Prefect was coming down here to let him out, right?