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[slipperysoul]

[ Angel’s lingering by the angled late-day sunlight coming in through a dusty window of an abandoned warehouse when he turns on his NV, looking about as calm as can be for what he’s about to say. ]

Should have apologized weeks ago for what I did. Nobody should have been killed, I never wanted that to happen. Not here.

But how do you forgive part of who you are when you’re already condemned to hell. Absolution isn’t something i’m looking for anymore when there’s already nothing I can to do to stop the inevitable.

Saving the world doesn’t do anything when you’ve spent a few hundred years doing much worse. [ a beat, while he glances out towards the fading light. ] So what else is there?

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[slipperysoul]

I'm not big on company names i've never heard before.

[tinyvampiregod]

Oh. My mistake.

I'll be sure to repeat it before devouring your heart.

[slipperysoul]

Tell me again how that makes you any better than me.

[tinyvampiregod]

I don't kill humans.

I kill the filth that preys on them.

[slipperysoul]

Guess what. So do I.

[tinyvampiregod]

Except when you're eating them yourself?

No excuses. No exceptions.

Face me.

[slipperysoul]

What's facing you going to solve? That your fangs are just as pointy?

[tinyvampiregod]

Mine are pointier.

Better to face the inevitable, to meet your own fate before you slip again.

[slipperysoul]

You don't come close to being my fate.

[tinyvampiregod]

For now.

[slipperysoul]

For always.

[tinyvampiregod]

Step toe out of line again and you will find out.

[slipperysoul]

If you actually think you're what i'm scared of, you really need to try harder.

[angel_of_death]

You already know to whom Hellsing answers to. You responded to that transmission, after all.

[slipperysoul]

The things I do when i'm Angelus? Don't always translate over.

[angel_of_death]

The British Crown.

Which, if I am not mistaken, still holds the ultimate sway here. So you're rather out of luck on that account.

[Siren's Pull had always been described to him as part of Canada, even if it was an island off the coast. Living here he'd never heard of any official higher than the office of mayor in regards to the political framework, either... so he assumed that Siren's Pull was indeed under the rule of Canada. And Canada, though having a parliament of it's own, still answered to the British Crown.]

[slipperysoul]

Which means you operate under the same laws.

[angel_of_death]

When it comes to the supernatural? This little island has no sway over us. We're higher up and have the right to operate outside of the legal system of this one tiny city.

To make it simple, we're directly under the King or Queen, depending on who's holding the throne. [Presently, it would be Queen Elizabeth II.]

[slipperysoul]

So you all at Hellsing think you're higher up than the rest of us just because you tell yourself that? I'm not sure that counts in any kind of legalese.

[angel_of_death]

Being that there's an official structure to it, chain of command and all? No. We know we're higher than you.

[slipperysoul]

And egotistical too. Senior Partners would have a field day with you.

[angel_of_death]

At least we have plans in place in the event that one of us goes mad.

It doesn't look like the same can be said for you. And yet you seem to be convinced if you express a little regret for the past you can get a free pass on taking responsibility for the future.

[slipperysoul]

You know what they say about assumptions.

[angel_of_death]

Oh, so you have a plan?

Let's hear it, then.

[slipperysoul]

I wasn't supposed to need a plan because what happened? The impetus can't be blamed on me, no matter where you want to point the finger. Take that part up with Lucifer and ask him why he needed a show.

But no, i'm taking about you seeming to think I get a free pass. I've never given myself a free pass, so don't try and understand the way that I think because guess what? You don't.