Giovanna M. Bennet (burnwithlight) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2013-05-07 22:30:00

Entry tags:

andrew summers, angelo bennet, giovanna bennet, rikki cargill, sengai senyaka, simon davis

She'd prefer the sword, but the pen's all they'll let her fight with sometimes.
Giovanna Bennet thinks of herself as a soldier. Born to soldiers, named for a soldier, raised to serve her country. The thing was, for more than three years, that service took the form of administrative assistance as much often as security. Making baby steps. Trying to play by every blasted rule.

Immediately after the incident, she called home. Partly to convince Father to stay at home, but also for something else. Genoshan national security had some of the best technopaths. Who had some of the best facial recognition software, and access to some reasonably impressive databases of worldwide information.

When possible for everyone at the embassy, she asks them all into one of the larger rooms.

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	not_adorable 2013-05-08 01:49 am UTC (link)
	Angelo is there immediately. Oddly enough for the time of day, he doesn't appear to have been cooking. Clearly, he has things on his mind that have warranted his full attention. "Another emergency, or just a meeting?" He furrows his brow, looking more tired than stern in the process. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2013-05-08 01:59 am UTC (link)
	"Just a meeting," Gio says, clutching a bunch of printouts. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	assaultnbattery 2013-05-08 05:47 am UTC (link)
	Andrew is there not long after, still locked into his larger form, even after a few hours in the gym. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	exploding_snaps 2013-05-08 06:13 pm UTC (link)
	Simon came to the meeting. He'd been fielding the information coming in from Genosha on the incident. There had certainly been a lot of it, and it was still coming in. He sighed, took a coffee and a seat and waited. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	whoholdsthewhip 2013-05-08 06:40 pm UTC (link)
	Sengai had kept to himself since the incident at the nuclear facility, pointedly avoiding Rikki as he was still in a fairly foul mood. Still, he'd manage to get his anger internalized. He didn't say anything when he walked in, simply sitting down. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anger_issues 2013-05-08 08:44 pm UTC (link)
	Rikki took a seat. If she noticed anything about Sengai, she didn't show it. "This got anything to do with those idiot wannabes?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

burnwithlight
2013-05-08 09:32 pm UTC (link)

"Yes. Yes it was. They did kind of threaten nuclear war -- which makes the second time in the past six months. But while no one is quite stupid enough to blame Captain America because an imposter was involved in trying to blow up the world, a great many people are stupid enough to blame Genosha. Sorry to be anticipatory, Andrew, but once I was done calming Father down --" You're welcome, world. "--I got right on what seemed like a required step coordinating with security and intel staff back home. Thanks again for the help, Simon," she says as she spreads out the printouts. They include photographs of Magneta and some forms.

"Facial recognition software matches this to the criminal record files of Sophie Carmichael, born in Arizona to Eugene and Jacqueline Carmichael.
She is as American as fortune cookies. No Genoshan descent whatsoever." Gio holds up a paper.
"Her father is listed on this, the only birth certificate. There is no record or indication that she is adopted. And as for the inevitable question that Mrs. Carmichael must obviously have been having an affair with Magneto because her daughter has magnetic powers, or because of the silver hair and blue eyes, then they have just as much evidence to accuse the mother of the Queen of Wakanda of that particular adultery... or Mrs. Thomas Moreau. There is no real evidence linking Sophie Carmichael to Andrew's family or our country; just the rantings of a lunatic."

A breath, and then Giovanna looked to her boss/boyfriend with an almost 'hold on, I can explain' expression. "Andrew, I know stopping her and generally opposing what she's doing is much more important than whom she's related to," she concedes. "But I wanted due diligence to illustrate what a lying, slanderous twit she is, for when they keep asking, even if the enemy and most of the public aren't going to care, either."

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assaultnbattery
2013-05-09 04:51 am UTC (link)

"Deflating her rhetoric and disputing her claims in the public arena is part of stopping her. I think it was absolutely the right move - especially if we use our position here to help share the records with international security forces, let them double check and verify the information, and then let them take the credit for discovering her name.

If we leak this, people will assume we're covering ourselves - correctly. But that doesn't mean our hands are tied. So thank you for giving us some ammunition.

Because, yes, due to similarities with past acts, people will believe we had something to do with it. And I'd rather give them the chance to take their stance - and then have a neutral party 'break the case' and prove them wrong. It will never change some people's minds... but people don't like being proven wrong. A few will think a little more about making accusations next time.

Good job."

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	burnwithlight 2013-05-09 04:55 am UTC (link)
	Gio listens and smiles. "Thanks." She looks to everyone. "That and other security measures in light of this is pretty much what I wanted to you together to talk about." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lottelensherre 2013-05-10 04:12 pm UTC (link)
	It took Charlotte an extra minute to come from her apartment but she headed in, a little breathless from her jog. There hadn't been much she could do in the latest crisis - but she could at least be moral support, and help show a united front. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anger_issues 2013-05-11 01:11 am UTC (link)
	Rikki actually gave a little smile. "Knew that witch had to be a liar." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	whoholdsthewhip 2013-05-11 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	Sengai managed not to say what he was thinking regarding Magneto's reputation. Instead he fell back on logic. "What of the others? Do we know who those who were with her are?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2013-05-11 10:55 pm UTC (link)
	"Only other identification I've managed so far is the daughter of Fred Dukes." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	anger_issues 2013-05-11 10:57 pm UTC (link)
	"I'd lay money on the mind-witch being a Wyngarde. Those things multiply like rabbits." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2013-05-11 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	"We can't assume that," Gio warns. Rikki always got ahead of herself, and the point was not assuming associations without evidence. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

not_adorable
2013-05-12 01:53 am UTC (link)

Angelo just beams at the work his sister has done so far. Mother and Father will be so proud.

"At this point, if I may make a suggestion, I think we should try to increase our presence with charitable and community support efforts in Mutant Town." He offers. "Even if she's obviously a lying and deluded harpy of a zealot--" He pauses to let his voice come back down, as the volume had been increasing for a moment. "--if she's already attracted that many followers, there are bound to be others with judgment poor enough to start thinking about her words.

Someone needs to keep showing there is a better way."

And then he'll just try very hard not to glance around the room to get each person's opinions, as he may have just overstepped his boundaries and only realized it afterwards.

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