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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ng_atlantis
2010-09-03 01:16 am UTC (link)

The Atlantis Sleeper Cell had worked to prepare for this night since King Namor gave the order. Emma Frost was to be found and brought to the king, kicking and screaming if necessary, though she was to remain unspoiled, possible.

Commander Taewin Sharazain watches the woman enter the penthouse building and checks the ring upon his finger. He motions to the other soldiers under his command and they do the same. The mutant is said to be able to possess a man's mind and take over his will, or know what one thinks when she is standing ten miles away. The rings are supposed to protect them.

The team waits for their inside person to give word that Frost has reached her room.

She will not be prepared for what is coming.

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nextgen_baddie
2010-09-03 01:20 am UTC (link)

The first thing that Emma will note as she approaches her door is that it is wide-open. The second thing she'll notice is that her alarm system is not going off.

"Come in, Emma." a Southern accented voice says from inside the apartment. "Ah was wonderin' when you'd finally come home."

A soapy, spicy scent issues from inside the apartment, the scent of cologne that Emma has not taken in in nearly twenty years.

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	thewhitequeen 2010-09-03 01:32 am UTC (link)
	She could take down those miserable fools. Not too mention that she does have security that has nothing to do with alarms. Almost amused with the idea of the stupidity of some people, Emma smiled as she walked into her apartment. And stopped cold as her mind reached back twenty years to particular memories better left buried. "Bruce." Her voice took an icy chill. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

nextgen_baddie
2010-09-03 01:47 am UTC (link)

Bruce Gotham is inspecting the pictures on Emma's mantle as she walks in. His back is to her, and from the way he walks about, one would think she was entering his home instead of the opposite.

"Close the door." he says, continuing to look at the pictures of two young women. He does not recognize one of the girls, but the second one, the older one, is familiar to him.

She has his mother's eyes.

"Am Ah correct to assume that Christina does not know about me? Ah mean, you and Sebastian Shaw did such a wonderful job of erasing my business, my marriage and other areas of my life, that Ah assume Christina has no clue who Ah am." Bruce speculates.

"Are you aware that she's taken up with some Colored boy and that he freeloads off of her? Ah expected you to raise her with at least some kind of pride in herself, Emma.

But then, Ah assumed too much. After all, if a girl's mother is a lyin', bedhoppin', faithless bitch, it stands to reason that the the girl herself will pick up on those habits." Bruce says.

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thewhitequeen
2010-09-03 01:54 am UTC (link)

"You were cheating on your wife. You can't lay the failure of your marriage entirely at my feet, Bruce." Emma closed the door and sat her purse down. It was unsettling to be in the same room with Bruce again, even more so that he was looking at photos of her girls.

"My daughter is her own woman who makes her own choices and from what I understand, Justin Rhodes takes very good care of her.

"What are you doing here?"

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nextgen_baddie
2010-09-03 02:06 am UTC (link)

"You know, Ah read somewhere that sayin' someone is a 'grown woman or man that makes his or her own decisions' is just a way of deflectin' blame for lackin' parenting skills." he says dismissively.

"Ah wouldn't be surprised if you made poor Virginia go crazy. You told her Ah was a mutant, and made her lose her mind." Bruce says accusingly.

"Then you took everything I had and vanished into the night with Shaw, laughin' as you went." Bruce says, finally turning to face her.

"Do you know how often Ah've wished you dead for what you did to me, Emma Frost?" asks.

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thewhitequeen
2010-09-03 02:12 am UTC (link)

"Virginia was already of weak mental constitution and you knew that when you married her, Bruce. Not to mention when you cheated on her repeatedly with me. She suspected, you realize. Gave the poor woman nervous fits. Blaming me really is weak, Bruce and while I didn't exactly laugh about your fall with Shaw I do not regret protecting my child from you."

Emma crossed her arms over her chest.

"Darling if I had a diamond for everyone who has wished me dead I'd be De Beers. I'm used to hatred."

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nextgen_baddie
2010-09-03 02:21 am UTC (link)

"You sound so sure you know what hatred is, Emma." Bruce says.

One moment he is standing across the room from her. The next he is directly in her face, a gust of wind the only clue has crossed the distance between them.

"Ah've been practicing what you taught me, Emma. Ah'd be glad to demonstrate, but first, a question.

Where is my baby girl right now?" Bruce asks.

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	thewhitequeen 2010-09-03 02:25 am UTC (link)
	Well that was unsettling. Bruce had never been quite that fast before. She didn't react, though. Why give him the satisfaction? She glanced past him at a clock. "At this hour? Probably in bed with her boyfriend. I doubt they're sleeping but I still wouldn't bother her." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_baddie 2010-09-03 02:47 am UTC (link)
	"Ah will not have my daughter tarnishing her virtue outside her race. Call her and tell her to come here now." Bruce commands. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thewhitequeen 2010-09-03 02:50 am UTC (link)
	"Why Bruce, I don't remember you being such a bigot. I'm not calling her. Tina is happy. Leave her be." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_baddie 2010-09-03 02:52 am UTC (link)
	"Emma, if you do not call Christina here now, you shall be sorry for it." Bruce says, looking her square in the eyes. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thewhitequeen 2010-09-03 02:54 am UTC (link)
	Emma didn't budge. "There is a reason my daughter has been kept from you for her entire life and while there are other ways that I have failed her there is no way in hell I am going to bring her here for you to tear her down and spew your hatred at her. Get out." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_baddie 2010-09-03 03:03 am UTC (link)
	At that moment, the vibe in the room changes. Faster than Emma can track, Bruce backhands her with great force. "Ah do not recall this being a request." Bruce says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	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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