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Clark Kent ([personal profile] stands_for_hope) wrote2015-06-01 10:49 pm
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Clark and Karen | Continuation Thread

The problem with organized crime was that when a leader fell, all it did was create a power vacuum. Criminals were people as much as anyone else, and amongst them were people who wanted to climb to the top and others that desperately wanted someone to tell them what to do and how to succeed.

With the damage done by the Battle of New York and the 'war' that had been waged between the Devil of Hell's Kitchen and the now-unmasked Wilton Fisk, the field had been left ripe for the picking in more than one way and the cream of the crop of the organized crime syndicates had noticed.

Bruno Mannheim didn't even try to play the philanthropist. No, he was there for one reason and one reason only: easy pickings. And that was why it was getting increasingly dangerous out there for the uniformed crime fighters... and their non-uniformed vigilante assistants. Criminals with guns that reminded them more of the kind of weapons the Chitauri had brought with them. Criminals with allies in other towns, alibis in other places. Nasty on all levels.

Which was why Clark came home that night and headed for his laptop instead of his favorite book. It seemed this journalist was going to have some work cut out for him after all here in New York.

[personal profile] investigador 2015-06-17 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Cutting up some of the ingredients, and slipped and cut her finger without even noticing that she had done so. Moving to grab a bowl, she went to swipe the contents into the bowl, and that was when she noticed she was bleeding. "Oh," she said in surprise.

[personal profile] investigador 2015-06-17 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
She grabbed for a paper towel, and wrapped it around her finger. Holding it tightly to stop the bleeding. "Yeah, I guess...it would help," she said absently. "Sorry, I didn't even realize it," she said quietly.

[personal profile] investigador 2015-06-17 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"I do, I am all over the place," she said in a tone of voice that sounded somewhat broken.

She looked up to him with sad eyes, and tried to shake it off. "I'm a mess," she reiterated.

[personal profile] investigador 2015-06-17 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
He looked her in the eyes, and something in her broke, and the words came tumbling out. "I killed someone, they kidnapped me, but I killed them," she said quickly, turning her eyes away from him because she could no longer look him in the eyes. She wanted to curl in a ball, and cry.

[personal profile] investigador 2015-06-17 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
He tilted her head up, and she could barely look him in the eye, when he tells her it is going to be okay, Karen can only shake her head; trying to not burst out in tears.

"No, no...no, it won't, it can't," she manages to say though she can feel the sobs beginning.

[personal profile] investigador 2015-06-17 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It was hard to even come to terms with, and even if he told her it was going to be okay, and held her, she still couldn't get past this body tied around her neck the way it was.

She is holding to him tightly, keeping him close to herself out of greed, and need. "I don't know," she said softly, "I don't know."

[personal profile] investigador 2015-06-18 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
"I can't heal, and you should be more angry with me, what I did was unforgivable," she said through her tears. Unable to look at him even if she tried. "I really messed up, and now not only am I in trouble, but if I tell you anything else, so will you, or the people we care about," she said limply.

[personal profile] investigador 2015-06-18 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
She pressed her face against him, and tried to not think on things too hard. She didn't fully agree with him, because she felt so terrible for what she had done. Wesley had put her in a such a bad position that evening. Now, she was a train wreck.

[personal profile] investigador 2015-06-18 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
After a long time, she pulled back, but didn't look up toward him. "I should finish this up," she said absently, where she really wanted to crawl up in bed, and cry for a few days. Get a drink, and with that thought in mind, she went to find her scotch.

[personal profile] investigador 2015-06-19 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Goddamn it, Clarke! I just want a drink right now, okay?" Because what may not be an answer to him, might be the best solution for her. Finding the scotch, she poured herself two fingers worth before putting the cap back on, and putting it away in the cabinet.

[personal profile] investigador 2015-06-23 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
She knew as much, and she hated that they got this way so suddenly, but some pain was just too much to bear alone, without the aide of something suppressing it. She found the bottle, poured the shot, and drank it. Then stood there for a few minutes, just seething at herself, and everything around her. Grabbing the glass, she threw it at the floor, and turned as far away from him as she could put herself.

[personal profile] investigador 2015-06-23 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
She just needed a few minutes alone, and was happy to see that they weren't going to argue anymore. Crawling into bed, she hid her face in the pillow, and just laid there. Trying not to think, or feel, or worry, or hurt.

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