Emma Frost (thewhitequeen) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-09-02 20:01:00

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The changing of the guard had gone better than Emma had expected. It all had, the sordid business of playing an inelegant game of thrones. Shaw was disposed and deposed, Kine was dead (some sick side of Emma half wanted to purchase the very hogs who had consumed him, but she thought better of it) and things would settle into a new routine of power as the dissidents were crushed by the wheels of revolution. This was how it worked. She'd been party to it before.

It still was too soon to let too much of her affiliation and collaboration in the process show so she said only the sparest of words to Julian before heading home for the evening. Shaw was gone. Kine was dead. Perhaps now she could work on cleaning up the other issues in her life--namely the relationships with her daughters. As she walked into her penthouse, the girls were on her mind, but she wasn't fully distracted.

Something felt...off.

<i>Was Shaw and Thorn really so stupid as to try something tonight?</i>

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	thewhitequeen 2010-09-03 03:06 am UTC (link)
	Taken a bit by surprise, Emma is knocked to the ground and she can taste a bit of blood in her mouth from the force of his strike. "Because violence is going to make me do as you say? I'm not your wife, Bruce. Doesn't work that way." And I will destroy you if you try this again. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

nextgen_baddie
2010-09-03 03:18 am UTC (link)

No, Emma. The violence is simply retribution for what you allowed Sebastian Shaw to do to me. What happens after that is repayment for stealing my child. Bruce thinks to Emma.

And then, Emma's telepathy simply vanishes. She will also find that her diamond form does not respond to her mental command.

"You heard me scream the night you left me, Emma. Ah want to hear you scream now." Bruce says, pulling Emma up by her hair.

And then the pain begins.

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thewhitequeen
2010-09-03 03:40 am UTC (link)

Emma doesn't scream, not right away. She's too shocked to scream as her mind suddenly grows silent and her body doesn't transform at command. As Bruce slam her against a wall not once but twice and her head hits it with rattling force it sinks into her that the last time she had a silent world, she was a child.

Before she was aware she was a mutant.

She kicks and claws at him, her Louboutin's a weapon until the are wrenched from her feet in the struggle. She spits and curses as he punches her. It is only when she falls to the floor of the bathroom, the cold marble under her cheek, and he begins kicking her violently does she scream but it's not from the pain.

It's from the horror of being helpless again.

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nextgen_baddie
2010-09-03 03:55 am UTC (link)

When Bruce Gotham has had his fill, he wipes Emma's blood on his hands onto his suit and kneels down next to Emma.

"Ah never stopped lovin' you, Emma. But Ah think Ah hate you far too much to repair what is broken between us. For years, Ah didn't know where my baby girl was, what she was doin', how she lived. You tore my life apart, piece by piece, until all Ah had left were memories that Ah hated to think upon. You took everything that made me who Ah was, and forced me to rebuild myself into the man Ah am today." Bruce Gotham drawls, touching the palm of his hand to Emma's head.

"Allow me to demonstrate what that was like." Bruce Gotham says, reaching into Emma's mind and feeling the memories bite at his fingertips like digging into the soft mud after a Spring rain.

One by one, Bruce tears out those memories.

Kassia's growing up? Gone.

Her meeting and relationship with Namor? Gone.

When he comes to the memories of Christina, Bruce has a much better idea.

He removes every single thought, image and memory of Christina from Emma Frost's mind.

"You let Sebastian Shaw beat me within an inch of my life and left me for dead, with little more than the memory of your perfume to and the image of your retreating backside. Consider us even." Bruce says.

Just then, another figure appears at the door. "Master, they are coming."

Bruce looks at the person, nods, and stands.

A gust of wind, and he is gone, leaving Emma alone.

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thewhitequeen
2010-09-03 04:02 am UTC (link)

She screams as he wrenches her memories from her mind, the holes in her consciousness gaping just enough that everything else inside jumbles, much out order. By the time he vanishes, Emma's confused. The physical injuries don't help and she lays there on the floor, sobbing.

All she can smell beyond her own blood is Bruce's spicy clean scent, as heavy with memories of their affair as with the pain of the moment.

"Bruce..." she cries out, utterly uncertain if she's calling for her lover or her enemy. The only things that's certain is an ache. An emptiness. Something missing.

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Moments Later...

ng_atlantis
2010-09-03 04:14 am UTC (link)

The Atlanteans come storming into the penthouse when their contact alerts them to screaming on Emma's floor. The door is wide open, and the apartment is in a state of disarray.

Commander Taewin walks into the bathroom at the sound of Emma's crying.

"Neptune's Beard!" he exclaims as he sees the beating the dirtwalker has taken. King Namor will not be pleased.

But he cannot return empty-handed.

"Atlanteans, secure the prisoner. We return with her to Atlantis immediately." he says.

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	Re: Moments Later... thewhitequeen 2010-09-03 04:22 am UTC (link)
	"Bruce..." Emma sobs on the floor, pulling herself into a ball. She sees the...blue men but doesn't have it in her to struggle. There is too much pain and in short order, Emma passes out. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Moments Later... thewhitequeen 2010-09-03 04:26 am UTC (link)
	(-fin-) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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