[ Showcase #3 - Backdated to 7/16 ]

[green_lantern]

[He'd made a supreme effort not to open his yap to the town. Lois hadn't been so lucky in that regard- it almost seemed as though she made a game of it, asking him questions he inexplicably couldn't refuse to answer. After he had reached the point of admitting, in detail, to how many one night stands he'd had (...let's just say it's a high number), Hal went through the house, pulled the phones out of the walls and summarily threw them into the cellar. The jangle and crash as they hit the cement served to palliate his anxiety only briefly; the gnawing urge to give Mayfield the proverbial finger was still there.

Unluckily for him, as he ran into town on an errand, he found himself drawn to the super hero's best friend: a phone booth.]


[Phone | Stage 2, segueing to 3]

I'm not going to sit around and twiddle my thumbs waiting for everyone who's outed themselves as a Commie to be picked up by the police or worse. My family had friends who were affected by McCarthyism in the 50's, and this knee-jerk bullshit from the town has to stop.

I don't give a damn if people are Communists, and I sure as Hell didn't join the military or the Corps so I could watch this country revert to Crucible-style witch hunts. Fuck that.

Comments

[deaths-heritor.livejournal.com]

How heroic.

[This is spoken in the same tone of voice as one would say 'how daft'.]

But a bit overzealous, don't you think? None of us care a whit about imaginary communists, and if the town cares to do something about it, your blather, while inspiring to some degree, will have absolutely no effect on the outcome.

[viridian-knight.livejournal.com]

So the other option is to hang back and wait to be taken away? Really?

[deaths-heritor.livejournal.com]

No.

The other option is to keep your wits about you. We don't need any more heroes in this town; we have far too many already. What we could use is some sense.

[viridian-knight.livejournal.com]

Sense would dictate the need to protect people. Without guns blazing. Safehouses or some means to keep those forcibly outed out of harm's way.

[deaths-heritor.livejournal.com]

Good start.

Unfortunately, not quite as useful as you'd hope. Unless you can identify everyone in town by voice alone, and you've listened to every phone call, you're in for a difficult task.