Austin Caine/Vengeance (from_hell) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-09-02 10:13:00

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One Hell of a night (Nick)
This post takes place after the events of "Spirits of Vengeance".

The pain of the transformation still hasn't worn off by the time Austin Caine regains consciousness. He sits up and looks at his surroundings as the sunlight streams through the window across the room.

First thing he notices is that this is a motel room, so he at least had the good sense to not crash out on the road somewhere. The next thing he notices is that the coffee table a few feet away has a bottle of vodka and a bottle of tequila on it. Both are about half full. Just a few inches from that is his handgun. Again, he'd had the good sense to at least keep the shotgun under the bed.

"That explains why I want to puke so badly..." Austin says to no one in particular, trying to pull himself off the floor. As it does, it hits him all at once.

The screams, the hellfire, the burning...fighting the man with the black coat and staff...nearly killing him...the sons of bitches that murdered Sarah...

It all combines to send Austin scrambling for the bathroom, where he gets sick for a time.

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	vicious_cycle 2011-09-05 01:17 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah. It won't work on anyone without a soul. Some types of deep-rooted insanity can also be protection from it, as can doing all your crimes under the influence of some drugs - essentially, there needs to be a soul and a conscience, however perverted." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	from_hell 2011-09-05 06:03 am UTC (link)
	"Roger that. I'll have to keep an eye out for that sort of thing when I'm on the hunt." Austin says. "In a way, I see that Vengeance is looking to protect people, but...did your demon ever want to go completely crazy on everything it ever came across, like it does?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

vicious_cycle
2011-09-05 06:31 am UTC (link)

"Not really... but in the past, yes. Zarathos has had previous hosts, and done this dance before. By now, he's a veteran at all of this. But during his first rodeo, back with Johnny Blaze, he was not happy about his servitude or being stuck with a mortal. Far as he's concerned, being up here and bound to me, he's got it as bad as I do.

On the other hand, Z doesn't care about protecting people, unless its practical to do so. When he's in charge, he's walked us right past people to be saved and all that. Its a job... he's the devil's bounty hunter. I can sometimes steer a bit, but that's ultimately what it comes down to - punish the guilty. If they're still around after the job is done, then maybe we'll see how the innocent are doing."

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