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Subject: Copycat?

Either I am getting too paranoid, or not paranoid enough, and neither of those is a good thing. Been reading back on the journals.

Touch based mimic teaching hand-to-hand? Taught by special forces types, if she's telling the fucking truth on there, and not just trying to get into Garrison's pants. I remember hearing about someone that would fit that description, and we both know just having fucking small the world around Xavier's is. What I remember hearing does not fill me with with joy and light, or really, the urge to do anything apart from make their life substantially more difficult if the opportunity were to present itself.

Tell me I'm being too paranoid, please. Or if I'm not being paranoid enough, tell me why the fuck I should cut her any slack, as I'm assuming there's a reason you've kept your mouth shut in public.

Pete

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The whole small world thing is a cliche, you realize. Sometimes coincidences happen and the only thing to do is to try and minimize the blood in the halls. As for why I would might cut a person some slack, maybe my empathy's getting the better of me. I showed up here in a similar mess once upon a time.

Also, I found myself considering the small matter of Charles and Jean likely frowning on the prospect of someone making life difficult for one of their patients.

-N

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Yeah, but I'm not sure that not telling Dom about this is a good way of minimising blood in the halls, you know. And I know you haven't, because I haven't had an irate phone call ranting about you or whatshername. She's going to find out at some point.

Would you like me to tell her, and let her get the shouty bits out of the way before you talk to her, or are you planning to relocate your spine at some point?

How're things at Muir? Any clear idea who the pricks were? If you've got anything useful, then I can clear some time and resources here and see if we can find anything.

Well, when I say "clear some time" I mean "make people work late" but they're all young, and shouldn't be allowed free time until they've learned what to do with it.

Pete

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Actually, you know, I had a whole strategy. I'm not sure it's a very good strategy, but, well, this is me we're talking about. If you'd rather not take part in my temporary lie of omission, though, just let me know after you tell her, so I can have David warn me when she gets on a plane. (She's due over in a week or so anyway, prior to a trip we're taking, so I'm not sure how much longer the pre-explosion-and-beatings part of my plan would last anyway.)

As for Muir, we snuck back in here last night, late. That super-expensive security system we installed a few years back did manage to catch the bastards on tape - I can send that over? I'd appreciate anything you can dig up. Moira's twitchy enough that she's leaving Ray home with me until I head off to Kyrgyzstan. I can't say I blame her. You and I both remember what happened not long after the last time someone tried to break in at Muir.

-N

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I think I would lose a number of points, along with some privileges and possibly limbs if she discovers I knew and did not tell her. I can do without that, but if she's due over in a week or so, I can probably hold off on telling her until say, the middle of next week, so she's less likely to jump on a plane *just* to commit violence upon anyone when she can hold off a couple of days and kill two birds with one stone. Metaphorically, anyway.

Send me the footage, and I'll get the digging started.

Pete

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Well, yes, that was what I was getting at. I may be angling to get her to commit that violence on me rather than our newest hand-to-hand instructor, but there's no reason you have to share in the fun. Besides, she always feels so guilty when she kicks your ass. I can do without the sad puppy-eyes on top of everything else.

Kygyzstan's going to be such fun when she's not speaking to me except to tell me what a bastard I am. I'm looking forward to it already.

Footage is attached.

-N

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You know, there's a reason I hired who I did. It's because they're really bloody good.

Doug's got something. Looks like it may be connected with that weird Asgard mess from a few years back - there've been a spate of fairly fucking horrible killings that look like they may be cases of mistaken identity to do with that, so his theory is that they may have been after de la Rocha, and just not realised he'd changed address. Doug's passed what he's got to the leather mob, so you should have the details there.

Pete