Suzie Costello (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
superiorspectre) wrote2008-10-27 06:38 pm
superiorspectre) wrote2008-10-27 06:38 pm
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{rp} Will you defeat them, your demons and all the nonbelievers, the plans that they have made?
Suzie hasn't been to see Tosh. She hasn't even tried. If Tosh needs anyone around her right now, it's people she can trust. And Suzie's got no illusions there.
Instead, she's working at being useful, working out her story. She's got something no one else has when it comes to infiltration and deception -- her cover story, if she plays it right, is the absolute truth.
In her own timeline, she'd have betrayed Torchwood. It was only a matter of time. And, sickening as that thought is, it's her armour here and now. He can't spot a lie when there isn't one.
Gwen might've said she wanted to save that for when there were no other options, but right now, the best efforts of geniuses and aliens haven't brought her Captain back. Maybe a manipulative, backstabbing little bitch might have a chance.
After all, she thinks, she was good enough to fool Jack Harkness, in the future everyone else remembers. Maybe, just maybe, she's good enough to play Thane as well.
She knows a few things about what she's walking into; the kind of man she's dealing with, the way he likes having power over others... And her facade has cracks in it, places the old scars still show. She'd be stupid if she didn't think he'd exploit them. And again, she's better-suited than anyone else to go in -- she's been there before, after all.
And maybe, just maybe, this will count as penance, somehow, for the things she did that led to the things she didn't.
She's doing this. She won't be argued with. However, she does have a concept of chain of command, informal as that's always been around Torchwood. Ideally, she needs to speak to Gwen Cooper, but she's not keen on going right over Sam's head. And given what she's about to do...
Well. It might help if there's someone she can't lie to, to reassure (Tosh) everyone of her intentions.
So this is the plan: find Sam, then talk to Gwen, then... Do what else she needs to do. She's going to want a word with the Vesmier, but first, to talk things through with her commanders.
Instead, she's working at being useful, working out her story. She's got something no one else has when it comes to infiltration and deception -- her cover story, if she plays it right, is the absolute truth.
In her own timeline, she'd have betrayed Torchwood. It was only a matter of time. And, sickening as that thought is, it's her armour here and now. He can't spot a lie when there isn't one.
Gwen might've said she wanted to save that for when there were no other options, but right now, the best efforts of geniuses and aliens haven't brought her Captain back. Maybe a manipulative, backstabbing little bitch might have a chance.
After all, she thinks, she was good enough to fool Jack Harkness, in the future everyone else remembers. Maybe, just maybe, she's good enough to play Thane as well.
She knows a few things about what she's walking into; the kind of man she's dealing with, the way he likes having power over others... And her facade has cracks in it, places the old scars still show. She'd be stupid if she didn't think he'd exploit them. And again, she's better-suited than anyone else to go in -- she's been there before, after all.
And maybe, just maybe, this will count as penance, somehow, for the things she did that led to the things she didn't.
She's doing this. She won't be argued with. However, she does have a concept of chain of command, informal as that's always been around Torchwood. Ideally, she needs to speak to Gwen Cooper, but she's not keen on going right over Sam's head. And given what she's about to do...
Well. It might help if there's someone she can't lie to, to reassure (Tosh) everyone of her intentions.
So this is the plan: find Sam, then talk to Gwen, then... Do what else she needs to do. She's going to want a word with the Vesmier, but first, to talk things through with her commanders.
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She tries to ignore the voice in the back of her mind reminding her that most Torchwood missions are in some way.
"Alright," she says finally, as if the word pains her to say. Oh God, they just got them out and here she is sending someone else in to be tortured, and how did this become one of their best options? "You can go. Talk to the Vesmier before you go, see if there's anything he can tell you about Thane's mental state... and if there's any way for him to keep in contact with you. If he can, if I tell you to get out, if I tell you anything, you are going to unless doing so is likely to get you killed. Understood?"
She can't be saying this. A part of her doesn't believe it even as the words are coming out of her mouth. She can't be letting someone walk right in there, alone, and allowing him to do absolutely anything he wants with her. This is not her life.
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Good enough for her.
"One more thing. If you could just please tell Tosh I..." ...she can't finish that sentence. "I'm sorry?" "I love her?" There's nothing that can be said that won't make this worse somehow. And I've hurt her enough already, haven't I?
If we bring him back, Suzie's shadow murmurs, would she forgive us? Would any of you?