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Hayley Stark ([personal profile] everylittlegirl) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu2014-08-27 10:33 pm

fourteen : taken away to the dark side [video]

[The room is dark and Hayley's face is only vaguely visible, lit only by the glow of the console's screen. She sounds tired, posting in the middle of the night. Someone paying really, really close attention might notice the Flash pajama bottoms she's wearing or the Superman cape, courtesy of Jor-El, strung about her shoulders like a blanket.]

I don't know if someone else already said this, but in case they didn't? Bart Allen and Kon-El are both gone. Back home, not missing.

[A beat.] Will someone bring me some food? I haven't really eaten for awhile.


[ooc: Assume Hayley's been angsting avoiding everyone for a few weeks. Feel free to assume check-ins or other interactions. I was hiatused a lot and am still slow, sorry!]
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[personal profile] skeletonenigma 2014-09-16 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ah.

[There are also, occasionally, times when Skulduggery knows he should be tactful and doesn't quite know how to go about being so. It's not very often he has to comfort someone who's been depressed. Usually, the mental illnesses he deals with are much more destructive. Eventually, he just sits down and gestures toward the coffee.]

I have no idea how it tastes, but I have it on fairly good authority that it's good. What do you think?
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[personal profile] skeletonenigma 2014-09-16 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[A chuckle.] You do, do you?

[It helps in a not-quite-unexpected way. It's the exact sort of conversational turn-around Valkyrie would have used. That, Skulduggery suspects, is why he's a little more amiable about the topic than usual.]

What do you want to know?
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[personal profile] skeletonenigma 2014-09-16 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Skulduggery nods. He doesn't point out that Hayley's genuinely smiling, or that Skulduggery himself could also be considered a 'creepy sorcerer guy,' or that he would hardly have used the word 'like'. He doesn't point out any of it because, as much as he might wish otherwise, none of it is relevant.]

We used to work together over three hundred years ago, yes. A man who could erase memories interfered. Wreath joined the Temple, which I'm sure you've heard all about by now, and the next time I saw him, he was preventing me from taking revenge on the man who murdered my family. Not for my own good, of course. More for his own amusement.
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[personal profile] skeletonenigma 2014-09-16 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
[It takes him a very, very long time to answer that.]

Because victims of circumstance tend to make terrible decisions. It doesn't mean they aren't capable of doing good, if someone shows them a better way.

[He's not referring to himself, of course. Skulduggery has very little patience for digging men out of their own dug graves, and he'll be the first to admit it. Wreath has been a bit of an exception in recent weeks.]
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[personal profile] skeletonenigma 2014-09-17 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
He hasn't told you about the Temple's ultimate goal, has he?

[Skulduggery shakes his head. Once upon a time, he might have leaped on the chance to tarnish Wreath's reputation in the eyes of someone who didn't know any better, but this time he couldn't quite justify it. After all, it wasn't as if the Temple would be able to affect anything here.]

You'll need to ask him. Hopefully, you can convince him he's wrong.
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[personal profile] skeletonenigma 2014-09-18 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wreath almost definitely wasn't planning to tell Hayley anything. Skulduggery might even have said that, if it wasn't for what Hayley said next making him stiffen. He leans forward as well, skull tilted, immediately intent.]

What are you getting into?
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[personal profile] skeletonenigma 2014-09-19 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Hayley might be used to lying, but Skulduggery has over four hundred years' worth of experience catching liars. He can pick out immediately where she isn't being entirely truthful, partly because of the small cues in Hayley's behaviour and partly because he knows Wreath better than he generally wants to.]

Necromancy is addictive. It's easy power, and that makes it dangerous. The Temple is waiting for someone powerful enough to initiate their version of the Rapture, which involves murdering half of the world's population, and there is something very strange about Wreath being capable of teaching it to you in this dimension. Come to think of it, there's something very strange about his being willing. How much have you learned?
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[personal profile] skeletonenigma 2014-09-20 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
[He's amused despite himself.] Well, to answer your first question first, the power is addictive. There are very few people who would willingly take up magic which feeds off death if it wasn't. It works in much the same way as a drug, complete with all the fun aftereffects of withdrawal.

[Not that many necromancers ever experience withdrawal. Sorcerers aren't exactly known for being able to let go of power even under the best of circumstances.]

Wreath is powerful, but no. [Skulduggery lies through his teeth.] He's not the next Rapture guy. If I'm right, in fact, he's rethinking that particular philosophy altogether.
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[personal profile] skeletonenigma 2014-09-21 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
[That part, at least, was not a lie.] Yes. Believe me, it's surprising to me as well. If I were being brutally honest, I'd say he never really put his faith behind the Passage to begin with, but that it took being dragged here to make him realise it. [Head tilt.] So it's probably a good thing I'm not being brutally honest.
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[personal profile] skeletonenigma 2014-09-21 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
The Passage. The necromancers' version of the Rapture.

[Skulduggery would have thought that was obvious. But then, people always seemed to get stuck on the more obvious points.]

I don't know. This is all conjecture on my part. If you want the specifics of his belief, you'll need to talk to him, not me.
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[personal profile] skeletonenigma 2014-09-21 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
[For better or for worse, Skulduggery's still amused.] What police? The ones who fly in on broomsticks with flashing lights on their tails? I am the police, Hayley. I'm the closest thing to law enforcement sorcerers have. When cold-blooded murder occurs, I'm the one they send in.

[It wasn't true, strictly-speaking, but it was true enough. Skulduggery was the only one who could have done anything about Nefarian Serpine - especially since, by the end of the war, he was the only one who cared.]

My employers granted him immunity once they signed their peace treaty. I appealed to them many times to change that decision, but they had this very strange notion that I might be ever-so-slightly biased. I can't imagine why.
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[personal profile] skeletonenigma 2014-09-22 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
[There are many excuses Skulduggery's used over the years - and there are even more he could use with Hayley. She's never had loved ones murdered in front of her, as far as Skulduggery knows - she has very little right to be making judgements.

But she isn't making judgements. She's asking a question.]


In my defence, I tried to arrest him. But he tried to kill an associate of mine, and I was forced to kill him to save her. There are people who are completely irredeemable, Hayley, and that man was one of them.

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