Issue #30

[mistconduct]

[Private to Barbara Gordon]

How do you take this shit, Barb? How the fuck do you keep going?


[Private to Infirmary Staff]

So what's the plan, Docs? I'm getting fucking bedsores. I want out.


[Private to Vesper]
Hey. Can we.

Look, pick up the phone. Just.

Can we talk?


[Later, public]

[He's still getting drugged every night, as much for his mental health as his physical. It's easier to get through the days when you're on a cocktail of anti-depressants.

This, however, has its disadvantages. Mainly that Chris is so exhausted that he sleeps through the night, unaware of his warden item beeping underneath the bed. The teddy bear - yes, his warden item is a slightly charred teddy - is recovered in the morning, still beeping, when Chris wakes up.

It's alarming, how he can go from sleepy and lackadaisical to fucking pissed in a single instant]


Who the FUCK killed Slevin?!

You assholes, I swear to FUCKING god, I will fucking come out of this bed and murder the shit out of you! Where the fuck is my inmate and who the fuck is responsible for this bullshit?! You think just because I'm in the infirmary doesn't mean I won't come there and murder you back, you utter shithead?!

Fuck. Someone get me a fucking wheelchair, or crutches, or whatever. Who saw him last?!

Jesus christ, you're a fucking pack of animals!


[After Slevin's been found]

Call off the search, his body turned up in the inmate showers.

Whoever did this; you're fucking dead. You hear me? You can't fucking run on a ship, dumbass. I'm coming for you.

Fuck everything.

Comments

[moreincommon]

Look, you've got help on the case, okay? If you go charging out right now you're only going to strain yourself and that's probably what the person who did this wants.

I am so sorry, Chris.

[mistconduct]

What, you think whoever-the-fuck did this to get to me?

Oh, it fucking better not be Two-Face, I swear to FUCKING god, if that asshole did this AGAIN..

I am going to feel like such a fucking idiot if Slevin decided he was going to go around sticking forks in electric outlets or something.

[moreincommon]

I'm just saying it's a possibility, and there's no point in hurting yourself over it.

Is... is that something you think he'd do?

[mistconduct]

Slevin? I don't know the reason behind half the shit he does. Maybe he thought it'd get him off the boat, or he wanted to piss me off or something.

...God damn it, if someone hurt him..

[moreincommon]

If someone hurt him, we'll find out who did it and they'll be punished for it. You've got friends working on it, all right? We'll all help you with this however we can.

[mistconduct]

Okay. I'm gonna cycle his picture around. He's like a slightly better looking Guy Pierce with not-as-cool facial hair as me.

...Uh, "Memento" Guy Pierce, not "Iron Man" Guy Pierce.

[moreincommon]

Good idea. I'm having a little trouble picturing that.

[mistconduct]

Well, brown eyes-brown hair isn't really descriptive.