A Pleasant chat

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

Who: Major, Elaine
Where 10th Floor.
When: Retconned to immediately after he comes back to life.
Rating: Vile, because it's the Major
Summary: Major comes back to life, Elaine wants to talk.
the Story:   By now, the sensation of returning to life was not an unusual one. As much as it was a sensation and not a realization. He was alive, and now he was awake, and previously mangled bones were intact.

The room was unfamiliar, but he had a feeling he'd been take prisoner. And, he couldn't feel his hands -- that was a new twist, but an interesting one. He really ought to incorporate that if he took on 'guests' again...

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[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

Elaine was sitting on the edge of his bead, a book in hand, and was calming reading away the hours. By her calculations, today was the day he would be waking up, so she's unsurprised as she feels him stir. She puts the book aside, and turns to face him.

He looked normal. Both the Mansion and Seeu had done their jobs well. And, come to think of it, whoever had added the implants to the Major. It was too difficult to spot any artificial additions to his body.

"Hello, Major." She gets up and stretches, having spent the whole day waiting.

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

He sits, offering her an unnerving smile.

"Good morning young lady, or is it night?"

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

"It's afternoon, actually."

She glances at his hands. Then she approaches the desk and pulls out a pistol from one of the drawers. She holds it out to him, handle first. It's not loaded, of course, just in case. She just wants to test if Seeu's operation of disabling his hands had worked, or if the Mansion had fixed that part of him as well.

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"So, either it isn't loaded, or your fairly sure you can't be hurt by it. I'm aware you aren't a fool, my dear. Kindly don't take me for one."

He sounds more amused than angry.

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

"Or your hands don't work." She puts away the pistol. "At least that means you won't be hurting anyone anymore."

She expected him to be as uncooperating as possible, so she's mostly unaffected by his tone and actions.

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

He holds up a hand and looks at it. "A clever bit of work, isn't it? Tell me, do you intend to feed me and wipe my ass, or just watch me die of neglect?"

Yep, he's still smirking.

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

She had thought about the feeding bit. Not the other one. "If it comes to that. They do it for insane people." Which she partly believes he is. Maybe not insane, but certainly sick in a way.

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"You're terribly new at the 'keeping helpless prisoners' thing, aren't you? Quite a bit of work, isn't it?"

He leans back, getting comfortable.

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

"It is."

She watches him for a moment, wondering what on earth could have made him so... odd. That's the nicest way she can put it. There's always a nagging doubt that he might not actually be at fault for what he's become, which would actually make her feel bad for him.

"Let's talk."

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"To say the least." And he laughs.

"It would seem that I have nothing else to do."

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

"...Why did you join the Nazis?" It's the first thing that comes to mind. And being a Nazi seems to be at least part of the foundation for his current way of thinking.

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"Are you under the impression that young men had a choice in the matter in that day and age?" But then he laughs, "But no, I am not a victim. I did it because I love war."

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

"You love war." Elaine sits once more, trying to understand. She's aware of how strange the scene is, with her sitting at his side, with him relaxing. She could be visiting her sick uncle.

"Why? There has to be some sort of end goal..."

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"Why does there? Does art need a reason, does poetry? Can you imagine, half a dozen countries stormed the hallways looking for one old man? Yes, my kind are hated and reviled in every corner of the globe, the world wants to forget that we are human and deny the darkness in their own souls, but I cannot let them. It is not in my nature to die cowering in oblivion."

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

"I have to say, you're a special one. But don't let it get to your head." The strange part is that she actually undestands his point. She knows that there will always be evil in the world, and it's a fact she has to accept.

"Tell me, Major, what happened with your mirror? You had a video before where you saw your mirror self, and... it made you very angry."

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"By special, you mean 'defective', but your delicate morals don't allow you to say 'defective'. I told you, I'm not a fool little girl."

"You haven't offered me anything to drink yet, such a poor host."

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

"No, I meant different. Defective implies there's a perfect version."

She shifts her position on the bed. It seems like she might have struck a nerve at least, which was something. It could lead somewhere. "You didn't answer my question."

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"You're trying to avoid sounding judgmental, but I'm not dumb enough to believe such euphemisms."

"No, I didn't Good job noticing, I would applaud you, but it seems I can't use my hands. I'm thirsty."

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

Elaine gazes at him steadily for a few seconds before standing up and going to the bathroom. She takes a glass that's on the sink and fills it with tap water, then goes back to him. She holds it out for him to drink.

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

He can only drink if she holds the cup for him.

"That's better. How unkind not to think of that earlier."

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

"...You might say inhumane."

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"That I might. I am a human who looks like a monster, is it fair that a monster may look like a human? I can't forgive you for that."

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

Elaine taps a finger against the now empty glass before deciding which of her next questions to ask. "You have an interest in humanity, don't you? And yet... you turned Ritsuka into a vampire. And you killed Hibari, who's human, as far as I know."

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"I have a vested interest in humanity." He smirks, "And what it apart from humanity. We are defined, in part, by what we are not."

"As for the dog-eared boy's lover, I recall he survived."

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

"So, you don't really care for anything or anyone that isn't human? Just because they're not completely human?"

Elaine starts rummaging through the desk again.

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"Some of my followers were not human. For all the power they have, a werewolf, a vampire, is a dog, and they can be tolerated as those who obey."

He watches, still smirking.

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

"And you, Major? You're the master. What do you think you are?"

She pulls out her communicator, and starts looking over the recorded videos.

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"I am human."

He keeps smirking, not sure what she thinks she'll find.

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

She raises her eyebrow, finally having found the right video, but not showing it to him yet. "Are you sure?"

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"I know what I am. I am old girl, my body has failed on several levels, and the machines that have restored me are the fruits of a human mind. My mind and my motives are mine, and therefore I am human."

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

"So you know, then." Seeu was right. She had hoped that she could show him his machine side, hoped that the realization would bring about some sort of change in him. Apparently, it only made him more self-absorbed. "And still you're obsessed with taking that samelife out of other people."

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"It's not something that's easy to miss."

He laughs. "That is the nature of the conflict. Others do not matter, or figure into my assumptions."

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

"..." Elaine knows a lost cause when she sees one. "If it wasn't for this Mansion, Major..." The problem would have been solved, ages ago. Elaine gets up to leave. "If you ever get to hell... say hello to Duma for me."

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"I would be back in my war." He frowns at the delay.

"Duma?"

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

She opens the door, but pauses at the threshold, looking at him. "This Mansion is the closest thing to a clean slate that you'll ever get. Aren't you tired of being hunted all the time? Tired of running all the time? Tired of having your research destroyed every step of the way? There's no need to make a point here, because there's nothing any of us can do to change this place..." She pauses after that, thinking about what her talk with Hotaru. "Certainly you can run experiments on us. But I'll be there every step of the way to make you stop. And I won't be the only one. You might never die here... but neither do we."

She doubts it will make a difference, but she won't let go without having her say. "You're more blind than I am."

[letztesmajor.livejournal.com]

"And then, what else would I do here? Sit like a soft little child and accept fate? I think not. Have fun watching your back, because, unlike you, I only have to win once."