010 - What's with the Admiral and Moustaches?

[thinkb4ublink]

[Muttered out of shot.] A pirate. Bleedin' hell, Admiral, trading was bad enough. Bloody Dell Boy haunting me and I'm the one who's supposed to be dead!

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[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

Hostis humanis generis, hm?

Do anything you regret whilst you were him?

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

[Pause as he realises he'd turned the thing on. But by the time he's responded, it's like he's totally meant that to happen.] Nothing so much specific, really. He didn't get up to much while on the station.

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

Well, at least there's that. Better than having a bunch of murdering left on your conscience.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

'e didn't seem too bothered. [Said distractedly. His alter ego didn't go out of his way to kill the crew, but sometimes he destroyed those ships.]

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

Pirates don't tend to be, I think. It's part of that... hijacking ships and stealing their contents thing.

Criminals to a man. But I don't think you're actually like that, so I wouldn't worry about it much.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

You don't?

…I did tell ya about the smuggling diamonds and sending criminals down for extra time?

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

No. You didn't tell me anything about why you were here, and I'd hate to make presumptions.

But now I'm learning.

Extra time? Why? [this, somehow, bothers him more than the diamonds.]

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

You catch a bloke at something. I don't know, nicking stuff of a van or drugs or something. Then you get similar crimes and then leave it to the lawyers to sort out. Makes the bosses look good, gets 'em off the street or turns 'em into informers.

[kingfor-aday.livejournal.com]

...You're sticking crimes onto people who might not have done them, just because they've done one?

You do realise that undermines the fundamental principles of rule of law, don't you?

[lotoftrouble.livejournal.com]

That certainly sounds more exciting than me. I spent most of the port trying to wander back to the Barge after accidentally going on 'the subway system'.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

Spent most of the time in the pub.

[lotoftrouble.livejournal.com]

That's certainly better than what I did.

By the by, have you made your friends yet?

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, everybody in that port wanted to be 'is friend. [Snark, he knows what Loki's asking. Still doesn't believe it'll do him much good.]

[lotoftrouble.livejournal.com]

I meant you, not him.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Friends, I don't know what they are.

[lotoftrouble.livejournal.com]

Then I'll teach you.

[counturfingers.livejournal.com]

I knew a real pirate or two once upon a time. Do you really think they're all that bad?

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

What do I bloody know? Point is, it's not my chosen career.

[counturfingers.livejournal.com]

Not mine either, come to think of it. Didn't choose rebel terrorist either. Life didn't consult me.

What was your chosen career?

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

That why you're here?

Police officer.

[counturfingers.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was stereotyped. It's not like I killed anyone.

Cop, huh? So why are you here? Most of those are on the other side of the coin.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

Me neither.

Yeah, it's all up there in the conversation with Howie there. Diamond smugglin' and I don't know, you could call it overzealousness.

[a short pause while he catches up]

[counturfingers.livejournal.com]

Hmm...

They'd've loved you where I'm from. Corruption was standard operating procedure.

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

Yeah? You from the past or future?

[counturfingers.livejournal.com]

I guess you'd say the future. My world, as people say here, looked a lot like that space station. Fast space ships, ray guns, and all that.