Town Meeting

[john-adams-1776.livejournal.com]

John awoke at his usual early hour on the morning of the town meeting. He dressed with slightly more than usual care in his suit of clothes from home, broke his fast with a light meal, and headed to the Golden Horseshoe to ensure that things were the way he wanted.

The chairs and small tables were already perfectly arranged, but John dragged a podium he found backstage out to the front of the curtain. Then he bustled about in the kitchen area setting out drinks and whatever small snacks he could find back there.

Before long, interested citizens began filing in and he went up to the podium. There was no microphone because he'd never heard of such a thing, but John Adams never had difficulty making himself heard.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome. If you would please pick up any refreshments you'd care for and take your seats, we'll begin in just a few minutes."

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[under-arrest-d.livejournal.com]

"And exactly how injured can someone get here before the park steps in?" Leon asked. "If someone gets an arm or a leg lopped off, they're not going to heal. Assuming that we can't get brutally maimed, there are some injuries that people just can't completely heal from." It wasn't very obvious, but when he said that he shifted his weight onto his right leg.

[thebadboyfriend.livejournal.com]

"We could test it," said Logan brightly. "Who volunteers to be smacked around?"

[thebadboyfriend.livejournal.com]

Logan laughed and said, relatively quietly, "I've never met someone who needed more therapy than I do..."

[rose-ravager.livejournal.com]

Rose glanced at Logan and snorted. "Unless you took your eye for your father, you don't really need therapy that bad..."

[thebadboyfriend.livejournal.com]

"...let's not get started on our daddy issues, sugarplum. Not the time or place."

[rose-ravager.livejournal.com]

Rose snickered. "Oh, but for me it is... but if you insist. I wonder if he realizes just how many heroes/metas he's got here."

[thebadboyfriend.livejournal.com]

"I seriously doubt it," Logan said in a low voice. "I seriously doubt he realizes shit about what's going on around here. But what can you expect?"

He turns to smile at Rose, and this smile's a little more intense and intimate than he's given her before. "If you wanna share war stories, we could meet up later."

[hawaii-kid.livejournal.com]

Kon snorted softly, "Yet another clueless cop? Yeah, nothing new." Then he tipped his head to the side a little. "Those going to be the kind of war stories that make me insanely glad I don't have parents?"

[rose-ravager.livejournal.com]

"Ugh, I've seen wars more organized." She shrugged, and then returned Logan's smile with an edgy, toothy one of her own. "Maybe we should."

She looked at Kon, and then patted his shoulder. "Probably."

[veronica-pi.livejournal.com]

A blonde in the back might be heard to murmur, "Oh, yes he does."

[rose-ravager.livejournal.com]

Rose twisted around to look for the source of that voice, curious.

[veronica-pi.livejournal.com]

Veronica appeared to be paying close attention to the proceedings.

[under-arrest-d.livejournal.com]

"You know," said Leon, raising his voice a little. "When I brought it up, this wasn't what I had in mind." He knew well enough to know that they were probably joking around, but he wasn't really in the mood for it.

[under-arrest-d.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I'm sorry," said Leon half sarcastically, but snapped his mouth shut in time to not say I didn't realize you had a problem with annoying people. Now was not the time or the place to start insulting people. He took a breath, snubbed out his current smoke, and lit another one. "I'd rather stop it from happening before finding out. As far as I know, we don't have any real, qualified doctors here who could keep the damage minimal if something serious did happen."

[under-arrest-d.livejournal.com]

"I worked on the LAPD, I've seen more than enough cops kicking the crap out of people who talk back to them," Leon said. At this moment, he was kind of wishing that he was that kind of cop. "We've got other people on the force here who would stop it if a police officer was acting in an illegal way, and..." he frowned. Maybe he wasn't the best person to teach cops not to get in over their head, seeing as he tried to take on an entire gang once by himself while his partner was getting back-up and ended up getting shot practically to death. "Carrot will instruct cops more or less on how to not get over their head. It does happen, but police go through a lot of training to stop it from happening a lot."

[rose-ravager.livejournal.com]

Rose glanced at Kon and Tim and muttered, "If a fight escalates to the point where I'm in over my head, I'll cut my hair." A little louder she spoke in Kira's direction. "Being an ass doesn't help either."

[rose-ravager.livejournal.com]

"Pull the other one. It's got bells on." She snorted, and leaned back in her chair. "Hardly. He's at least trying to be logical in his argument, not pushing buttons."

[under-arrest-d.livejournal.com]

Leon couldn't help it. He beamed at her. At least something was going right in all of this.

[rose-ravager.livejournal.com]

"The hell you're not pushing buttons." She knows there are kids there, one was staring at her just a bit ago, but it's not like she's using any of the stronger words she's more comfortable with.

"You're demanding to know how they plan to deal with issues that come up. Nobody knows how to deal with any situation - I'll bet my best weapon that you don't. They're at least trying to plan ahead... when's the last time you did something that useful?"