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Pharah ([personal profile] justice_from_above) wrote in [community profile] thelegion2017-02-23 04:35 pm

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[The video feed opens on a tattooed face with a serious expression. Fareeha is here for business; it hadn't taken her long to agree to the Legionnaire's Oath, given the dire situation and her own desire to help where she could.]

Fareeha Amari reporting in. I would appreciate an internal summary from the front lines, if anyone is willing and able. As well if anyone has any questions about my training or previous experience, please do not hesitate to ask.


Action - later

After hearing from America that Reinhardt was here and in the medical wing, she makes it a priority to go check in on him and announce her own arrival. Sadly, when she arrives, she'll not find him there - or likely to be anywhere.

Feel free to catch her anywhere between the living quarters and medical.
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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-03-03 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Her voice (familiar, sort of like her mother's) jars him from his thoughts, and it takes him a moment to register her as Fareeha. She looks so much like Ana that it jars him too, to the point where he forgets for a moment that he's wearing his mask and visor.

He breathes deep, acutely aware of the exhale against the inside of his muzzle.

"We might be."

They are, he knows that already. Jack has no reason to hide his identity, not when everyone else knows, and better for her to hear it from him than someone else. The hard part is ripping off the band-aid.

"If you're asking after Reinhardt Wilhelm, then we are."
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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-03-03 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm an old friend."

Which is both an understatement, and perhaps unexpected. His voice is a little less rough when he says it, as if he hopes that she'll find something familiar in it and save him from having to fully confess. If she guesses, he saves himself the difficulty.

"It's been a while, Fareeha."
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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-03-03 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Granted, Jack isn't entirely sure what kind of reaction he expected, though there is a part of him that hopes it's anger. Anger is what he deserves, after all, and no one here has really been able to give him that. Of course they're glad he's alive, and they're quick to chastise him for the disappearing act, but forgiveness comes so easily to his people it shouldn't be a surprise.

Taking off the mask is still difficult, and it's clear he's fumbling just as much. But she knows--he can tell that, at least.

"Sorry about Grand Mesa."

He'd tangled with Helix there, even if Fareeha isn't stationed in the states.

"Not sure if those were your people."
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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-03-04 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
He lets the mask drop to his side, but he doesn't make any efforts to get near her--if she wants to close the distance, she will. For now, he won't be so forward.

"Wanted my gun back."

Granted, it's not his--not the one he was famous for, but it's an upgraded model of what he used to use. Of course, the heavy pulse rifles were designed for SEP graduates, too heavy for normal humans to wield, so it begged to question just what they were doing building a new prototype. Jack can't be sure it doesn't mean anything, so that had brought him to Grand Mesa just as much as the promise of having a weapon tailor-made to him back in his hands.

"They weren't doing anything with it."
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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-03-07 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"I didn't tell anyone."

Obviously--even Ana figured it out for herself, not that Jack knew he should have been looking for her. Fareeha can take this personally if she wants to, but the simple fact of the matter is that it's not at all the case.

"I'm after the people who brought Overwatch down. It's safer for me to be dead."

It puts him in the perfect position to dig, if nothing else.
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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-03-08 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"It was an inside job."

And Jack knows full well that this particular line of discussion will make him sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist, but he's dug up enough to be reasonably sure that he and Reyes were thoroughly screwed by some third party.

He seems to pick up on the concern in her voice, like she's thinking of all the ways she could have prevented it. Jack shakes his head.

"Nothing you could've done. Don't think there was anything that could've been done. We were set up to fail from the start."
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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-03-08 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"I have reason to believe that what happened to your mother was part of the larger conspiracy to take Overwatch down."

Not something that's easy to hear, but to have Ana's final mission happen so close to the explosion at HQ, well. They weren't going to get to Jack without taking Ana out, first. He sounds fairly confident in his assertion.

"Someone wanted us gone. Reyes gave them the excuse to pull the trigger."
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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-03-10 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
This is arguably the hard part, and Jack takes a moment to prepare himself for this discussion, sighing a little and dragging his hand across his face, scrubbing at his chin.

“Reyes is alive.”

Sort of. From what Jack understands, he is functionally dead, but was somehow reanimated into his current state. He doesn’t expect to ever get a straight answer about it, and he can already see Fareeha getting angry. It’s a simple explanation to accept—that Reyes was directly responsible for the fall of Overwatch, but it all goes much deeper than that.

“But I don’t think he intended to blow himself up, too.”
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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-03-14 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Jack's expression softens--it's all too easy for him to get wrapped up in his conspiracy and go off about what may or may not have happened to Overwatch, ignoring the very human consequences of his actions standing right in front of them. He's been looking at the bigger picture for so long that he's perhaps lost sight of what's most important.

He's always valued his people. He needs to remember that.

"I'm sorry to put you through this, Fareeha."
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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-03-15 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Would have if I could."

He can't be sure how much of this is just him chasing ghosts, but if there's even the possibility of anyone using his people to get to him, then he's staying dead and doesn't regret his decision. It puts him in the unfortunate but perfect position to dig up the truth about what happened, and he owes it to all of them to clear Overwatch's name in the history books.

"Too dangerous."
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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-03-16 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
"That ain't the kind of dangerous I'm talking about."

It goes deeper than any of them realize, and he won't throw any of his people in the line of fire. Even if Fareeha had never been a member of Overwatch, she's close enough to the organization that he doesn't want to risk it.

"We're talking global conspiracy. I'm keeping you and the rest of them out of it."
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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-03-17 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
He laughs a little--it's exasperated, but there's a fondness in it, almost wistful. Jack knows about the letter by now, so hopefully it's not too much of a shock, but--

"Your mom."

Jack imagines Fareeha might be hurt by that, but he isn't going to keep lying to her.

"Before all this, anyway."
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[personal profile] mylawn 2017-03-19 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Sorry."

He knows that this isn't what she wants to hear, and the hurt is evident in the way she answers him. Unfortunately, Jack can't really offer her much in this department--especially when Ana isn't here. It's all moot.

"We had work to do."

The kind they simply couldn't let the others in on--and that's just an objective fact, as far as he's concerned.

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