Leaders grasp nettles. - Nudge to Pyro

[captaine_sykes]

Now that the camp was reasonably settled Ethan could address the Hendley situation. It had seemed best to keep the guy locked away for as long as possible just to make the point that his behaviour was uncalled for and despite what Allerdyce or Hendley had said Ethan still felt punishment was required and Emma had even agreed, which was a novelty.

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[codenamepyro]

It wasn't like Pyro did a lot with himself. In fact, recently, Pyro did very little with himself. He read, he slept, he ate, he got stitches checked, he repeated. When the stitches came out he just skipped a step. Occasionally he'd bug Mac, occasionally he'd set fire to something for the sake of it. It wasn't really like there was a hell of a lot to do around this place.

However, having nothing to do didn't mean St John was all that thrilled to be summoned by Sykes via a calling card marine boy wannabe or whatever. Still, it wasn't like he had the room to refuse. So St John was escorted promptly to Sykes' office.

The soldier cadet whatever pissed off once they reached the office and Pyro -since he was in a pissy mood at being called to heel like a mutt, didn't bother knocking at all before opening Ethan's door and standing there, half glaring, half frowning.

"You summoned me, Yenta?"

[captaine_sykes]

Ignoring the yenta comment Ethan gestures to the comfortable seating and stands, waving the now sour faced cadet away and already anticipating the complaints he is going to hear about Allerdyce from the young soldier.

"Have a seat Allerdyce, how are you?" Ethan settles into his normal chair and watches Allerdyce, knowing that there is little point in beating around the bush with these kind of matters. "I released Hendley today, about twenty minutes ago. He'll no longer be held in the brig but there are to be other punishments enforced to hopefully keep him in line. I know you explained to me that the incident was an accident, however your welfare is a concern to me and I therefore trying to do what I can."

[codenamepyro]

Rather than argue or be difficult and cause himself more pain in the stomach, Pryo took the seat when offered and shrugged slightly at the question regarding his well-being. He was fine, he was bored, he was healing from another bullet wound

[captaine_sykes]

There was no easy way to break the news to Pyro, giving him warning ahead could have only caused more issues and setting a deadline for Hendleys incarceration would have lead to further tensions

[codenamepyro]

Pyro hates the way his hand automatically rests over the slowly healing wound in his side, hates that he's just a little relieved that Sykes did tell him about Jack because now he can avoid the bastard for a while.

So far, Jack's track record didn't really bode well. Pyro knew of four mutants Jack had killed on the team, it might be more, it might not. But there were just too many faces that didn't come back from Russia, where Pyro last saw them. And then of course there was the fact that three of Jack's bullets had been meant for Pyro.

"Off the record?" And St John knows that Sykes is just pushing, that he's needling and trying to get St John to 'open up' about what happened on that mission, because Sykes was probably too far out of it to even realise what the hell was being said the entire time. "He's a mutant hunter, we are mutants, of course he wants to kill us. What part of that is hard for anyone to figure out?"

[captaine_sykes]

Maybe Pyro is right. Perhaps Ethan is a little too detatched from the real world to be able to understand what is being said. He's so used to dealing with the black and white of the matter that shades of grey tend to pass right on by before he has a chance to acknowledge and deal with them.

He clears his throat, a little surprised at Allerdyce's forwardness and put on the spot by the fact that what Pyro has said isn't at all wrong. Ethan dislikes having Hendley on the team just as much as the others but he isn't allowed to kick him off and if anything needs to keep him close so that he can't pull any stunts on them. He leans back in his seat.

"Fair point, however I am at an impasse. I cannot have Hendley removed from the team without justification. I am well aware of his history but the military agreed to him moving with the team with that in mind. Mostly because there have never been any formal complains about him."

[codenamepyro]

St John wasn't the beat around the bush type, but more often than not, his opinions were only really shared with Mac. It wasn't that Pyro didn't like or trust Sykes, it was just that Sykes was all about authority and control and Pyro pretty much was not. The guy had come down a peg or two since the abduction and hostage holding and then the rescue, but Pyro really couldn't say if it had been the effects of the hostage taking or not, because Pyro had spent most of that unconscious.

"Well, looks like you'll need to wait for him to kill someone else." Pyro didn't run to the grown ups when things went wrong; he wasn't about to sob to Sykes or Frost that Hendley had threatened him, he wasn't about to 'fess up the it hadn't been an accident at all, because Jack had waited for that shot before taking it.

Pyro would deal with it all himself, and if that meant keeping his mouth shut about what happened, then fine. Even if Haylie or the others told Ethan what happened, Pyro wasn't about to say anything either way.

[captaine_sykes]

It's infuriating that Allerdyce won't play ball in some respects but then again Ethan is proud of the young man for sticking to his principles and refusing to budge. He obviously doesn't want to be seen to tell tales and he's obviously got a grudge against Hendley which he is keeping to himself.

Accepting that there is no further point in trying to force or encourage Allerdyce in revealing anything more Ethan knows he should let him return to his room.

"I know you don't see me as anything more than a, now what was your choice of wording... ah yes a jumped up, anally retentive, stick-up-the-ass, army boy asshole. Irrespective of what you think of me Allerdyce I do give a damn about your welfare. We may not have seen eye to eye from the start but Richards is able to tolerate you and you were in this camp before Hendley. If I could have him removed I would, but it's not my call sadly." Standing up Ethan crosses to his desk, leafing through the paperwork and clearly signaling the conversation is over. "You can head back to your room

[codenamepyro]

St John does have his principles, he's got his own standing of morales and all that comes with it. He grew up with gamblers rules, then street kid rules, survival is always paramount and being seen to be weak isn't part of those rules. Gamblers never show their hand, don't appear to have it good, or bad, don't favour the same methods, don't get caught counting. Street kids don't show weakness, don't cave, don't fold, don't run. Survive