The Roof, Sunday Morning

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda, orphan with a mysterious past, looked out over the town that had been her haven for the past several months. The motorcycle gang that had been hunting her had yet to find her here.

She didn't know what they wanted, but she suspected it had something to do with the birthmark on her left shoulder. And maybe, there was a clue there to her true parentage.

[For the purposes of SOW, Leda is not currently an elf. Post is very open.]

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[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jacques needed a place to survey this land which surely would be his, and the top of the dorm seemed to be the most suitable place to survey. And cackle ominously.

That was important, too.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda turned at the sound of someone emerging onto the roof.

"Jaques."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Hello, dear," he said with a smile. "It's a magnificent view, isn't it?" He looked over the edge. His stupid brother Jack didn't deserve any of this.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

She leaned against the wall, facing him. "It is." she agreed. "Makes it a pleasant place to come and brood think."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Oh, it's much more than that," he said, turning around to lean against the wall as well. "This whole place is magnificent. The view, the people..."

The view would be his, and the people would be his workforce as he put his fiendish actions into place.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

She had to agree about the people. One in particular. "The isolation." she added.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jacques smiled a special evil-half-twin-brother smile. "The isolation?" he asked.

This place was fairly isolated, this roof.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"It's a good place to get away from the world."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

He moved a bit closer. "And why would you want to get away from the world?"

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

She'd never been completely honest with her life off island. And she didn't see much reason to start now.

"It has very little to offer me."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Sounds like you want to get away from this place," he said, looking over the edge at the ground far below.

Well, that's one way.


[I have work now. Boo! Hiss!]

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Oh I like it here."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Well, I'm sure we can arrange it for you to stay here always," he said, trying to stifle his evil laugh.

Faking being good was hard.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda hadn't grown up on the streets of the most dangerous city in the world, hiding from her enemies for nothing. Ominous statements like that never escaped her notice.

She thrust her hands casually into her pockets, where one rested comfortably on her knife. A knife Kessler and his eye knew well.

It was a misunderstanding.

"That's the plan so far."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"I'm glad you like that plan," he said, approaching. The edge wasn't so far away.


[It would be a shame for fake!John to be tossed over the edge, no?]

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

She smiled flirtatiously and faced him more fully. "And what are your plans?"

[It would. *evil grin*]

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

It would be so easy. And there was no one around. But her contract was for several more episodes and the writers were sick of using ghost-guest-spots, so he wouldn't.

"The usual. Become the ruler of all I survey. And play with kittens." He was lying about the last part.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"I like kittens." she nodded. "Sounds like a lot of responsibility, being the ruler of all you survey."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Oh, it is, but I'm up for the challenge," he stated confidently.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

God knew she wouldn't want those headaches. "And what sort of things are you going to do once you're in charge?"

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Consolidate all of the Burton International holdings, and move to take over the shipping lanes worldwide."

It was always his dream, once he was recognized as the legitimate heir.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Oooh, global domination?"

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Well, what else is there?" he asked.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Fun."

Hey as long as he left her, and hers alone, she didn't care about any international intrigue.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Ooh. She had a point. "That is true," Jack's evil-half-brother-twin admitted. "Fun is the best thing."

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

And when you were an orphan runaway with very little future that you could see, fun was almost all there was.

"Are you taking the time for fun?"

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes, I've had a bit of fun already," he said, with a big evil grin.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"And what do you do for fun?"

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Besides running the world's largest shipping conglomerate?" he asked, as if that was the most fun thing in the world.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

That...was fun? It didn't even sound like an exciting business. "Yes. Besides that."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"You'll have to stick around to find out," he said, and turned to flounce walk away.

Cue dramatic music