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[ Sun had been the first one she'd really... told about this in full. Or tried to. She wasn't exactly sure what she'd been expecting when she said it, but she hadn't expected to get shut out completely. She'd planned on trying to talk to everyone individually. It probably would've been better, but after the person she depended on to have her back even when things got tough here decided to turn his back on her, she wasn't exactly sure she could handle that from everyone she knew one after the other. But she needed to let them know. ]

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I made deals with Torchwick and Mercury. They're under the protection of Nova City law. Don't go after either of them, even if you see them walking around the streets with a big smile on their face. Don't antagonize them. The last thing I want is one of them calling my phone to ask for my help in stopping one of you from assaulting a "law-abiding citizen."

Just try to keep in mind that my job is to protect people now and in the future, not focus on the past. What we've been doing hasn't worked, so I'm trying something new. If I can prevent people from dying for even a little longer because of it, I'm willing to try it. If you have a problem with this, I understand. Sun's already not talking to me, so my expectations aren't high. I'll answer questions, but don't bother arguing against it. It's already done.

I'm probably going to stay late at work tonight, so if you want to talk to me in person, you've got an hour.

VIDEO; filtered to city guardians and deputies
I'd like to discuss clemency for two criminals. I've already granted it in Nova City, I would like to discuss the potential sealing of criminal records and clearance of bounties in your archways, with the stipulation that I would highly recommend still keeping an eye on the two in question.

ACTION; ota, later that night at nova city guardian's office;
[ Weiss had elected to stay late at the City Guardian's office that night. She had no doubt that what she did would make the papers soon enough and that'd take care of the rest of the population knowing not to go after Mercury or Roman. She wanted to make sure that the people who would be most effected by this found out from her though. It didn't mean she wanted to stick around all night to get yelled at or told how wrong she was though. It wasn't so much running as much as just.. honestly she would rather be at work, Frost cuddled at her feet. She may have made arrangements with Ozpin for an alternate place to stay but she wasn't quite ready to consider herself not welcome in her own home yet.

And so she was just planning on falling asleep at work that night, her chair shoved out from her desk and her sleeping bag set up on the floor next to it. She was still fully dressed, filling out paperwork on a tablet with her back pressed against the desk, Frost (her dog) keeping her feet warm. Char (Charizard) was out and in the corner having a riveting conversation with Sleet (Glaceon) about god knows what. Atmo (Castform) and Snowjob (Froslass) seem to be content playing on top of the desk and Joan (Arcanine) is asleep on the other side of it with Hail (Smoochum). Aura (Amaura) cuddled up against Weiss's side, but was also sleeping. Eis (Lapras) had to stay in his ball because he's too big for indoors.

Even if she was staying late, past the time that she thought either of her Deputies would be there (but she could be wrong) the front door still said open in case anyone needed help. ]

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I'll have to see how Fai feels about it, first, but who do you have in mind?

I'm listening.

I'm well aware it's not the most popular idea around, but Mercury Black and Roman Torchwick. Potentially one of Torchwick's associates as well, but I have to finish negotiating hers. I've already guaranteed them safety and sealed records in Nova City as long as they adhere to their contracts. I promised I would ask about other archways as I can't guarantee them. They've both committed murder in Genessia the last time they were here, amongst a number of other crimes.

This is a chance to give them the opportunity to move forward and prevent loss of life, as well as gain information on more dangerous criminals than them. I will mentioned that I neither trust nor like them at all, and I think that at the very least one of them will go back on their deal. But I think it'll at least buy us time to prepare for that.

Roman Torchwick and Mercury Black have criminal records from in Genessia and for murder. I've sealed them in Nova City in exchange for a deal that stands for Mercury as long as he doesn't break the law from here on out and for Torchwick as long as he doesn't kill, seriously injure, kidnap, torture, or any other major crimes and provides information on Cinder including evidence of her actual crimes she's committed here in Genessia. He's essentially agreed to act as a criminal informant as long as I pull the manhunt for him off. I'm more likely to get their cooperation if they've got more space to roam than a single city, though I understand if you'd be hesitant.

If you want to keep them in your city, that's fine. But their crimes still stand here. [It doesn't help that Mercury murdered the BFF of one of his closest friends. Nor does it help that he had to watch her cry and cradle he'd friend's dead body.]

[ She knows. Armin's her assistant and frankly one of the people she depends on most. She doesn't think she's undeserving of all the flack she's getting her way. It's obvious in how she doesn't even bother to make much in the way of a case to get him to agree once he says no. ]

If other archways agree, is there a travel clause we could work out considering there's no way to actually get to the other archways without passing through Genessia City?

[He's not going to judge her for her decision. She's not the first person he knows that have worked with criminals in some way. Here or back in his world. But he's hardly going to make life easy for people that couldn't give a damn about the lives they've taken or people that they've hurt.

He continues to speak to her as calmly as he ever did.]

If they set foot in Genessia City, they will be arrested. As far as I'm concerned, they are banned. Trepassing will just be another crime that they are wanted for.

If they want to turn themselves in, they can do some time for the crimes that they committed.

When it comes to sealing of records it would depend on what exactly the crimes were? Even here there are limits on what can and cannot be sealed.

So. Tell me. How is it a good idea to let known criminals from our world get a free pass to plan to fuck us all over? Because if they aren't going to plan on trying to kill us or maim us, I'd eat Ember Celica.

Are you wanting Nova City to turn into another Beacon? Grimm aside, having two of the people who helped turn Beacon into the Grimm-infested ruin it is now roam free does not fill me with any sense of hope that things will settle down.

Okay. There must be some reason why you thought this was a good idea, and I want to hear it, unless you're just planning to tell all of us you're protecting them without giving any of us insight as to why.

Did you even discuss this with any of us before making the deal? I get it Weiss, you're city guardian, even if I don't understand your reasons. But this affects all of us. Even if your mind was made up, you should have talked to us about it first.

[It's a while before Armin responds, though he saw the video immediately. When he turns on the camera, his voice is expressionless, and he just looks at Weiss for a moment before speaking.]

...What deal?

Edited 2016-04-08 18:40 (UTC)

I'll be sure to let them know.

[ It definitely doesn't sound like she's against it. It's obvious that she doesn't like having done this, but it still feels like the right thing to her. ]

Roman Torchwick for murder, kidnapping, and torture. The last two of which were committed against me. The murder victim is present but doesn't remember it. Mercury Black for the murder of Armin Arlert. All other crimes were committed in our world or there is no evidence linking them to the crime.

[it wasn't like he knew about the deal that had been made with the others, and even if he did know he would be indifferent to it. if he were being honest, he would think her plan was just amusing, since she was willing to negotiate with criminals. as for what 'battler' believed... well, he was supremely righteous, but he would stay by weiss' side most likely.

either way- he had decided to pay weiss a visit that night at her office. he had been enjoying their time together quite a bit, and he wanted to keep up with that sort of progress. battler found his way through the building until he eventually settled on her office. he peeked his head in, now grinning at her.]

Hey. [once he made his presence known he walked in a little further. battler didn't say much else, he just raised up a bag to show her.]

Care for a little late-night snack? ....Of course when I say snack, I mean I brought dinner for both of us. [as he said this he took a look around at her pokemon as well, now staring at the curious animals.]

Torchwick is going to give me what I need to actually put Cinder away here and cooperate as a criminal informant while following the rules I gave him and Mercury isn't allowed to break any laws at all, so yes, I think it's a good idea. Even if they're both just playing with me, it's going to give us time to figure out how to deal with them. Unless you can tell me right now exactly how you're going to beat them.

And so we're clear, I'm working on one for Neo too. Torchwick wouldn't sign unless I gave her protections as well, but I'm not signing off on anything until I'm convinced she's willing to cooperate.

I have no evidence against Cinder, Jaune. When I came up with that plan, the most I had was property destruction. This gets me what we need to support locking her up in David's prison.

[ Which she isn't going to mention is actually.. fairly nice. But it'll keep her away from them. It'll keep everyone safe. ]

It'll stop Torchwick and Mercury from hurting anyone else, and even if they don't hold up to their end of the bargain in the long-term it'll give us time to prepare to actually handle them if they play along even for a little while. It's easier for me to keep an eye on them if they're operating in Nova City and in public, anyway.

[ Armin is the number one reason that Weiss feels guilty about giving the deal to Mercury. ]

Mercury said he was going to start killing again. I offered to seal his criminal record provided he kept his nose clean. Any illegal action from here on out voids that deal. At the very least it'll give us time to prepare if he doesn't plan on adhering to it. If he does, then we don't have to worry about him.

Torchwick's is a little more complicated, but I get the feeling Mercury's was the one you wanted to know about.

[ Weiss sits up when she hears Battler's voice, looking up from her tablet. She doesn't really try to smile or anything. It's not Battler's fault though, it's.. everything else. ]

I don't have much of an appetite, but you can come in anyway.

[ Weiss gave a quick nudge to Aura to wake the little dinosaur up so there was room for Battler to sit next to her. Aura just went over to continue sleeping with Joan and Hail. ]

How'd you know I was here so late?

These stupid laws don't protect anyone--! [He stops, narrows his eyes and bottles up his anger again for the time being.]

How closely are they being monitored?

[Weiss said no antagonizing. There's nothing illegal about conveniently being in the same places as them as often as possible.]

Right, because Torchwick and Mercury aren't going to use that same time to plan on dealing with us? How do you even know Torchwick isn't going to just double-cross us at the end and have both him and Cinder start fucking with us?

There's too many variables in this to think this is even remotely a good idea based on just two people saying 'okay' when you say 'don't'. THat's like me telling Ruby to not take cookies from the cookie jar. IT. DOESN'T. WORK.

[Her eyes narrow at the mention of Neo, lilac slowly bleeding to red.]
You. Had. Better. Keep a good Eye on them. Or so help me, One arm or not, I will tear the city down to find them.

I'm not putting them under surveillance but I'm going to be checking in with them regularly. I don't mind if you want to too as long as it doesn't end up bordering on stalking.

[ At least Jaune's not comparing her to her father. That's an improvement! Best news all day to be honest. ]

I won't stalk them but there's nothing that prevents me from taking a sudden interest in flashy hats or whatever it is Mercury drinks probably the blood of [pause. this was a horrible comment.] people less evil than them. I don't trust them to give you an honest answer.

And just so you know, this doesn't give you an excuse to run away and hid in your office. You get one night. You're the one who came up with this plan, you have to be here to carry it out. In the meantime, we need to come up with a...second plan, in case they do end up turning on you.

Edited 2016-04-08 20:51 (UTC)

At least I'm trying something instead of just waiting around hoping they don't murder anyone! Because believe me, having tried hunting them before, it doesn't work. Hoping we find them, looking for them, hunting them down, fighting them- it doesn't work, Yang. All it does is get more people hurt here. Get red-eyed all you want, Yang. I'm not saying to trust them, but all anyone else was going to do was wait until one of them decided to attack first.

You say that as if I trust them. [ Which she definitely doesn't. Not as far as Jaune could throw them on his first day of school. ]

I'm not running away and hiding in my office. I'm giving everyone some space because Sun's not speaking to me after he compared me to my father [ she hasn't figured out that he's literally leaving the house yet. that's going to make things worse. ], it took me less than a minute to get Yang's eyes to turn red, and frankly you're the only person who hasn't treated me like I've joined their side altogether. The murder that Mercury has on his record that's being sealed is my friend and assistant at Schnee Company. Torchwick killed Blake and tortured me in a sewer for eleven days. I hate this. But it's the right move.

[just as battler was pulling out one of the chinese food containers he was forced to pause due to her words. he looked at her, then at the container, before looking back to her again.]

Oh. [well okay. he just shrugged.] More for me, then, and I have a pretty intense appetite. But! If you do get hungry- [battler moved over to her, now sitting next to her.]

There's Chinese food in there, and some other snacks. Chocolate, some juice boxes... just simple stuff in case you didn't want anything else I brought.

[as for her other question-] And I just decided to check in and see if you were here. If not, then I was going to text you and see if you wanted to have a late-night dinner somewhere with me. I just got lucky!

Edited 2016-04-08 21:05 (UTC)

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