ichoosefight | 10 - Shiny New Problem Solving Methods

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[ Steph has brought you here today to show you a little hand-drawn slide-show. She holds the cards up to the camera as she comes to them. ]

Hi! So. First off, John's gonna be pissed at me for doing this, so please kindly ignore him until his blood pressure goes back to normal. Quick catch-up for those of you not in the know:

This - [

] - is Scorpius. Hard to miss, right? Real jerk, too. He's your hell-bent-on-genocidal-revenge flavor of inmate.

This - [

] - is our good friend John. Locked in his brain there may or may not (probably not) be information about wormholes.

For whatever reason, Scorpius has decided that he really wants to commit revenge-genocide using - [

] - said wormholes. Presumably for the convenience of dumping a planet into a black hole or something equally insane and terrible.

So, contrary to Dean's theory - [

] - Scorpius is not in fact the stalker ex-boyfriend. He is just blindly, stupidly determined that somehow suctioning this wormhole information out of John's head is literally the only way to get his vastly disproportionate revenge and apparently the only thing he cares about in the whole wide multiverse.

Now, I don't know about you guys, but I've had about enough of Scorpius' crap, and believe you me the crap is escalating. So I'm asking for your help, so that I can help out a friend.

Things that have been tried include - [

] - threats - [

] - blunt trauma - [

] - physical violence - [

] - and yes, logic. None of which have worked so far.

So. Ideas?

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Right. Two ways you can be useful - no, make that three. One, get talking to 'im. Get 'is mind onto anything that's not John and wormholes. Talk to 'im about Earth, 'e's got no frame of reference. Find out about 'is life.

Two, spy on 'im for us. Watch the bugger when we aren't. Find out who 'e's spending time with, what 'e does when 'e's not with 'is babysitters or in Zero or trolling the network. Mindy might 'elp if you can keep a leash on 'er. The goal's not to beat 'im up, I'm not sure she's quite ready to get that through 'er 'ead yet but I know you are.

Three... I'm sure I 'ad a three. Bugger.

It'll come back to you, I'm sure.

What if I keep just enough leash on Mindy that she only beats him up when he causes trouble? [ Which is to say, no leash at all really. ]

Didn't she get killed once this week already? It's no use if it's not under 'is radar, Steph.

So what, are we just supposed to not do anything if he's causing trouble while we're there to stop him?

If 'e's about to knock some other bugger on the 'ead?

[She wants to keep Steph out of it so badly. She knows how futile that is. In the end she compromises.]

...Only if there's not time to fetch Bruce or Nathan or Babs or Cain or me. Please. But Scorpius is smart. I don't get the feeling that's the sort of trouble 'e'll try for next.

Keep an eye on the inmate filtered stuff? See what 'e says when 'e thinks ...no, Aeryn'd see it too, 'e'd be just as guarded.

He knows I'm John's friend, too. I knocked his head in when we were in London, and he was trying to perform brain surgery.

How about, I do what I can to keep things under control, call you guys, and try really really hard to resist the urge to break bones.

True. But 'e may not know Mindy's yours, and 'e's bound to underestimate you both. Or try and feed back false intel - that's what I'd do. That's useful too. Shows you what 'e's trying to 'ide.

That's a perfect compromise. That'd work. Thank you, love.

I'll see what I can do. It's better than doing nothing.

'Ow well do you know Ellie, at all, Steph?

Not even a little. I mean, I offered to talk with her if she wanted but she pretty much just cried.

Bugger. That's what I were afraid of. Did you see 'ow she was when I unveiled the chickens? She'll push me away if I try, I'm a warden and I'm older. You'd be safer.

...I were thinking of recruiting 'er for Team Scorpiuswatch. Actually. But she's another problem in 'erself right now.

I can't blame her, after that whole mess with Bond. I'll see what I can do, but it might be more of a 'I don't want help' thing than an age thing.

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