immuno: (get what i want.)
lydια #ɪᴀʟᴡᴀʏsғɪɴᴅᴛʜᴇʙᴏᴅɪᴇs мαrтιɴ ([personal profile] immuno) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2015-01-21 03:42 pm

005 ʙᴏʀᴏɴ ⚛ VIDEO (backdated to 1/18)

[ It happens like it always does—she doesn’t realize where she’s going until she’s already there. For all that Lydia had been planning to depart the university and make her way back to the parking garage, her body had other ideas, feet carrying her far from her car and into an unfamiliar part of the city.

She only notices the wrong turn when she looks up from her phone. By now, she knows what it means, and her stomach drops. Call Scott, her instincts bid, but Scott’s not here. The hair on the back of her neck prickles and stands on end, and without Scott to help, she creeps around the corner of the building, phone securely in one hand, wary of what she’ll find.

The burns on Dean Winchester’s corpse are still smoldering. This was recent. But the worst part isn’t the fact that he’s charred beyond all recognition: it’s the half of his head that’s been removed. Lydia drops her phone, and her hands fly to her mouth to muffle a curdled scream.
]

[ Another lonely night that Simon’s wandering Heropa alone. Normally he stays safe, stays toward the inner city, but he really just doesn’t want any company. Not right now. Or so he thinks; screaming and the very pungent odor of burnt flesh somewhere in the distance draw his attention. Curiosity overrides self-preservation, and Simon finds himself approaching with a strange calmness. He processes the sight—a charred body, male, jagged edges at the top of his skull—and decides it’s too different to be Lunatic’s work.

Not that it makes the scene less sickening.
] Oh, fuck.

[Here, he turns to the lady and has a million questions but tries to go for the important ones.] Hey, are you all right? Did you—did you see who did this, or…?

No.

[ Eyes wide, unerringly fixed on the body in front of her, Lydia shakes her head. She wishes she had. If she’d been a little sooner, maybe—

Maybe she just would have been another body. After a transfixed moment of silence, she turns her attention up to the newcomer, tilting her head at him. Something occurs to her and she crouches, grabbing her phone: this is obviously the work of a metahuman, and given that...
] But someone else might recognize it.

All right. [ His mouth’s gone dry, and he swallows to get a lump out of his throat. But he nods as he sees the girl pick up her phone. He, too, whips out his own phone to use the distress signal app that he’d downloaded from Barnaby last month. ]

[ Lydia composes herself and turns the video function on her phone, broadcasting her own face for a moment, body well off-screen. ]

We have a problem. If you’re squeamish, now would be a good time to stop watching.

[ Tapping the screen, she flips the camera, and instead of her face, the video captures an image of Dean’s body. ]

I don’t think I have to be the one to point out that an imPort did this.

[ Which means bad news bears for all of them: imPort crime has a way of lashing back to make all of them look bad. ]

[ Simon’s voice from off-screen adds, ] It doesn’t look like Lunatic’s work, not from what I’ve heard. Things don’t quite match up, and. I think. I think the victim’s head is… empty.
askedtobe: (it grew so big)

voice

[personal profile] askedtobe 2015-01-21 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh. This is bad. Which is quite possibly the understatement of multiple centuries, and Peter has no idea what he's supposed to do. It's possible that he could use this opportunity, this very second, to warn everyone about Sylar but what would he even say? He doesn't know what Sylar can do and sending everyone after a man that could possibly shapeshift is an incredibly bad idea.

But not warning everyone? Means it'll be his fault if someone else falls to the same fate. And it'll still be his fault if they die because he told people to hunt him down.

The fact remains that he knows things and he doesn't know what to do about it, which is exactly why his shock is better left hidden, instead letting his nerves say something else through his tone.
] Where'd you find him?
selfimage: — ɢᴀʀʙᴇᴛᴛ — (Sense of doubt.)

VIDEO.

[personal profile] selfimage 2015-01-21 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this isn't something that he didn't expect. he expected a lot of things with Lydia, and he doesn't look particularly perturbed or surprised or ill for that matter. between Lunatic, Osborn and drug rings, this is the last thing that imPorts needed on their record during times of high tension.

but first—
]

Lydia ...

You don't see anyone around you, do you? Not just someone, but remnants of when someone was last there.

[ let him make sure that whoever did this isn't in the area. ]
selfequipped: (well. that's a thing that happened.)

[personal profile] selfequipped 2015-01-21 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[She hates this she hates this she hates this she hates this.]

Are there any traces left on the scene? [She steadies her voice.] Footprints, or ... anything removed from the body. [The body.

Who is that?]
askedtobe: (way of the night)

voice

[personal profile] askedtobe 2015-01-22 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Aaaand consider that the first place Peter's going to begin looking. ]

I don't know, could be any reason. They could've dumped the body there for anyone to find it.
selfimage: — ᴍᴄᴋᴇʟᴠɪᴇ — (You've got a habit of leaving.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2015-01-22 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ Loki leans toward the camera, and he says quietly: ]

I'm never far away.

[ he can teleport in an instant, really, but he knows there's importance of observing certain aspects of one's abilities. ]

Let everything else fall quiet around you. Is there anything else you can hear? See?
somethinghidden: (i think i have an idea)

VIDEO.

[personal profile] somethinghidden 2015-01-22 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
I—know I'm not Lydia. But I'm on scene as well, and there's a charred body. The top of its head looks cut open instead of a burnt round skull.
somethinghidden: (don't know that i ever really wanted it)

voice

[personal profile] somethinghidden 2015-01-22 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
It looks and smells as if it got burned recently. I don't know that it was long before either of us got here.
askedtobe: (pic#6973683)

voice

[personal profile] askedtobe 2015-01-22 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, there's one ability he knows about. Give him a second to think... ]

Could mean they were trying to remove some other evidence. But the skull- that's gotta mean something.
somethinghidden: (got the feeling something's off)

voice

[personal profile] somethinghidden 2015-01-22 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
—definitely looks though it was cut open. And I think his... brain's. Missing.

[ He'd never imagined himself at the scene of a serial killing... or a killer's dumping site, for that matter. ]
selfimage: — ᴍᴄᴋᴇʟᴠɪᴇ — ("Heroes.")

[personal profile] selfimage 2015-01-22 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ bro you are def not Lydia. ]

I'd pay less attention to the body and more attention to your surroundings, if I were you. Whoever committed said atrocity may be around. Trust me, you'd best not be caught unaware.
somethinghidden: (sold for some-thousand sterling yeah)

[personal profile] somethinghidden 2015-01-22 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ Despite everything, Simon finds himself strangely calm when replying. ]

There are footprints... In the soot and ash. Uh, there's also a. Small fire extinguisher.
askedtobe: (the moment to live)

voice

[personal profile] askedtobe 2015-01-22 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ And to think, they'd just killed Sylar back home. ]

It's just... gone? [ Yes, Peter. Keep lying. It makes you feel so much better. ]
somethinghidden: (that's really what happened isn't it)

[personal profile] somethinghidden 2015-01-22 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ No sir, wouldn't claim to be her. ]

All right.

[ Dark and late. In an empty lot at the outskirts of Heropa. Simon hopes and even sort of prays that the perpetrator has already gone. He's much rather leave the who finding out who it is to, well, people who could handle it. ]
somethinghidden: (i'm even more stressed now)

voice

[personal profile] somethinghidden 2015-01-22 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's gone.

[ He's mostly calm this whole time, but the idea of this killer removing his victims' brains is just disturbing enough to make Simon nervous. ]

Like someone had to have removed it or something.
askedtobe: (we were the kings)

voice

[personal profile] askedtobe 2015-01-22 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Dammit dammit dammit. ]

Not sure I want to think all that hard about why.
selfimage: — ɢᴀʀʙᴇᴛᴛ — (Telling lies paradox remix.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2015-01-22 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Anything odd? You know, completely out of the ordinary?

Our victim—[ he's a little curious. ]—an imPort?
selfimage: — ɢᴀʀʙᴇᴛᴛ — (Sunday.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2015-01-22 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ rolling her eyes is definitely better than petrified. he considers giving himself a pat on the back later. ]

At least there won't be any other violent surprises.

The media will catch on quickly, if the authorities already haven't.

voice;

[personal profile] sonhobbler 2015-01-22 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Now that Stilinski knows why Lydia finds bodies this isn't as shocking, but he still wishes she could turn that ability off. Probably not as badly as she wishes she could.]

Where are you?
somethinghidden: (numbers going up)

[personal profile] somethinghidden 2015-01-22 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
Not really; I don't think this the sort of place that's frequented very often. It's dark and empty, which was what I'd bargained for this evening until I heard Lydia screaming, and smelled... whoever this was, in the distance.

[ The alibi of, "I just wanted to take a lonesome walk into the middle of nowhere," is starting to sound more and more terrible in Simon's head as he glances down at the body again. ]

I can't be completely certain it's an imPort. [ Because he has the least helpful powers in literally almost every situation. ] Not without someone else who could confirm the identity. All I know is he's recognisably tall and male. His head is cut open, and his brain is missing. There's ash and soot about, and the air still smells strongly of char and burnt flesh.

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