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[yesterdayskye]

Event: ???
Era: 2017
Characters Permitted: yesterdayskye and desperadojakeFebruary 21, 4:44 PM

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[desperadojake]

*February 21st, around 10 PM -- visitors normally wouldn't be allowed, but Jake has old friends working at the precinct, and they know when he will or won't budge on an issue. This is one of those times when it's best to simply let him through. He's standing in the visitor's room of the detention center now, waiting for the main attraction to show*

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[yesterdayskye]

*for the last few hours, she'd been in one of the interrogation rooms of the detention center, being grilled as to the details of her alleged crime. By her guess, there were still many hours left of it for the night. That is why, when a pair of guards come to lead her from the room, she is rather surprised*

[yesterdayskye]

*moves down the hall, and is led to the entrance of one of the visitation rooms. She follows the guard in front of her quietly inside until she sees who is waiting for her. Then, she comes to an abrupt halt*

I don't have anything to say to you.

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[desperadojake]

.....

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[desperadojake]

...And the music takes a turn.

We've both reached the end of our ropes, Chief Prosecutor. Have yourself a seat.

[yesterdayskye]

*the guard behind her doesn't back away even under her withering gaze, and so she steps into the room and seats herself in the available chair. That doesn't mean she's about to talk, however*

[desperadojake]

That wasn't so hard now, was it?

*flings the front end of his poncho over his left shoulder and sits down on his chair. He studies her hardened features with a judging but worn-out gaze*

Well, now. Look at you. Gotten yourself in a peck of trouble.

[yesterdayskye]

*an expression akin to pain flashes briefly across her features*

[yesterdayskye]

*her voice however, is still ice-cold*

Come to gloat about it, have you?

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[desperadojake]

*smirks* You think that's what this is about? The cards have been dealt, and you ended up with a bad hand... but I ain't doin' much better.

After all, when the clock strikes twelve... the game's over.

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[desperadojake]

You get what I'm sayin'?

[yesterdayskye]

*looks away*

.....Yes. Of course I do.

[desperadojake]

Good.

Now that we're both here and talking like adults, let's get right down to the grit of it.

...I ain't gonna ask what you did tonight. I suspect you wouldn't so much as muster a peep until you've got yourself a lawyer.

[yesterdayskye]

Then what did you come here for? I have nothing to offer on any other matter.

[desperadojake]

I'm here for one thing and one thing only -- the truth behind what happened two years ago.

We've been through this song and dance before. But the curtains are almost closing... and now there's a noose 'round your neck. Hell, maybe the truth don't even matter none to the courts anymore. But it matters to me, and I'm here to hear it straight from you.

It's time you start speaking up.

[yesterdayskye]

........

*her hands white-knuckle the edge of the table in front of her*

Absolutely nothing has changed in what I have to say about that.