Talking to Ice again [Archived from CPS LJ]

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Dr. Bannister hesitated outside of Iceman's room. She needed to tell him what they'd found out about Darkman.... and that the Nexus hadn't been as safe as they'd thought it was.

She hated news like this. Things like this turned her job into hell at times. And breaking the news to Iceman probably wouldn't help with his trust issues. They'd told him the Nexus was safe... and now one of his siblings had probably died there...

Softly she knocked on the door...

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*sighs* *doesn't really want to talk to anyone right now* *is still trying to come to terms with his newfound free will* What do you want?

[nexus-cps.livejournal.com]

"Iceman..? I... have some upsetting news about one of your brothers..."

(She hasn't heard about Quint yet, nor does the CPS know of events on Patchwork Earth at the moment. And of course she doesn't know that Iceman already knows about Darkman...)

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I doubt that. In order to be upset about any news about my brothers, I'd have to care about them, first. =P

((He doesn't know about Quint yet, and he doesn't go to Patchwork Earth, because I don't go to Patchwork Earth. Sages of Chaos is MORE than enough for me to have to keep up with.))

[nexus-cps.livejournal.com]

She made no attempt to open the door, speaking quietly from the other side of it.

"It's about.. Darkman," she said, and hesitated. She didn't know much about Darkman. Even the records she'd been able to find in Zero's time hadn't included a picture or much information. "We don't know how yet, but... he was injured while in the Sages Nexus. Dal... Mr. Nimbus... is trying to find out just what happened and why the anti-violence field the place is supposed to have didn't prevent this..."

Even if Iceman wasn't upset, Judy Bannister was. A child had been injured, quite possibly killed, in a place where such an event should have been impossible. She didn't even know enough about that one to identify him, and yet... Why was reality so unfair sometimes? He should have been safe there!

Why couldn't there be just one place in reality where no one could ever hurt a child...

(she also doesn't know it was Darkman she talked to and not Blues... yet. And while Iceman wouldn't know about Quint in the Nexus, odds are he might have known about Quint's reputation... and that Wily was slowly disassembling him for scrap. But I doubt that'll come up in this conversation...)