21st Hour // Voice // Backdated to Sunday night

[out_of_time]

[Jack's voice is strained, angry, hurting.]

This is Bauer. I need a healer. Now.

[And just so no one gets the wrong idea about Skrulls or anything:]

I ran into Lust, she took me down. Don't bother going after her. She's long gone.

Damn it!

[POLICE FILTER]

I need forensics in here. She was using this warehouse... [Jack breathes for a moment, heavy and ragged.] There could be evidence here.



[ooc: Jack had a skirmish with Lust that ended badly, and is now bleeding quite a bit.]

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[Voice; Police Filter]

[a_relative_hero]

Sir! Where are you? I can be there in a blink with a healer.

[He's a little torn about not going after Lust but injured boss takes priority.]

[symmachy]

Where are you?

[Voice; Police Filter]

[out_of_time]

Inside a warehouse in Manhattan. Near [street address].

Encrypted

[out_of_time]

Scatty. I'm... in a warehouse. Manhattan. I tracked her here and she ambushed me.

encrypted.

[symmachy]

I can track your scent. I'll find you.

encrypted.

[out_of_time]

[Weak chuckle]

It'll probably be easy right now. Just follow the smell of blood.

[coolstorybrogan]

[Yeah, somebody sounds interested.]

Who is this Lust?

encrypted.

[symmachy]

I'll be there soon.

[ooc; action/handwave/whatever?]

Action

[out_of_time]

All right.

[Jack is sagging against a wall in the warehouse, bleeding from multiple stabs and cuts. The spent cartridges and gunsmoke around him says there was a fight, and his injuries say he lost pretty badly.]

[out_of_time]

...She's a wanted murderer. Not human.

Voice, police filter

[newbvampire]

[Since Joel has the healer covered that leaves Seras with having to deal with the messy investigation details, but someone needs to take charge.]

I'm sending the team sir, but I'll have them wait outside until you're okay to move. Just hang in there, sir.

[Private]

Why didn't you call me for backup if you knew you were going after her?

permaction.

[symmachy]

[She's already out the door, nostrils flared, searching. She knows his scent very well, and it isn't hard to pick up once she's at the police station. Scathach doesn't look very human the moment she finally runs into the warehouse. The planes of her face are too sharp, her pupils too small. But that vanishes when she sees him, and she feels like crying; it's been so long since she's felt such an intense emotion, it almost catches her by surprise. But she goes to him, kneeling, not breathing. She doesn't want to smell his blood anymore.]

Jack, Jack talk to me. Please say anything.

[She's tearing at her tanktop to create makeshift tourniquets for any immediate limb damage. She can't move him before he's fixed up a bit.]

Re: permaction.

[out_of_time]

[Jack's head stirs. His eyes look up at her, half-closed. His wounds aren't mortal, but they're nasty, and his emotions emanate frustration and failure]

Scathach.

Voice, police filter

[out_of_time]

Thanks, Seras. They'll have to process me, too. Her fingers went into me, there's probably... [Pause, shuddering breath] DNA in my wounds.

[Private]

I did. I called for Import backup as soon as I spotted her. Didn't you get the call?

[Guess who's radio wasn't working right?]

Voice, police filter

[newbvampire]

I think your testimony will be enough sir, but I'll let them know.

[Private]

I didn't otherwise I would have been there right away.

[And she would have blasted that damn bitch's head clean off.]

Voice, private

[out_of_time]

Damn. That's what I was afraid of. I was following her for at least fifteen minutes before she confronted me.

[Tired sigh] I should have just put out a call on the Network.

Voice, private

[newbvampire]

We should have forensics check out your radio then. Maybe someone tampered with it.

Also sir, I'm sorry. I should have been there.

voice

[scarabsuited]

What can I do to help?

no comment

[fingerbang]

[OLLIES OUTTIE]

[coolstorybrogan]

Then nobody will mind if I kill her?

[Voice; Police Filter]

[a_relative_hero]

Right! I'll get a healer and be there ASAP, sir. Hang in there.

voice;

[goryteller]

Captain Bauer.

voice;

[out_of_time]

...Katurian.

no comment

[out_of_time]

[THIS ISN'T OVER]

voice

[out_of_time]

[Weak chuckle]

Does your suit have anything that would put my blood back into me?