The Union RPG

"It hurts a little, no thanks to you," she replied, backing away from him.

"not that you wil trust me but here are some Tylenol and a glass of water. I thought it might help." he said setting two little pills on the table along with the water

"Why?" She asked. "Why do you care?"

"I'm not an animal like Xander thinks." he replied leaning against the wall

"You work for the union. And they're monsters." Audrey was sure of that, after what she'd seen.

he nodded, "some of them are,,,not al of us."

"As an organization," Audrey replied. "It's corrupt. Any organization that kills children to get to their parents is morally bankrupt."

"I'm sorry that...its sad children get caught in the fight of grownups." he sighed

"It's your organization that does this! How could you stay on their side?" She also didnt understand why he was speaking with her, why wasn't she simply being sent off to a union approved site? Where she would be integrated or something?

he paused for a moment thinking about his answer, " I believe in peaceful world. I know I have no place int that world once the work to crate it is over because of the things i have done, I am not delusional about that." he took a deep breath, "I don't agree with some of the things the Union has done or even some of the things that I have done but there is always a price on peace isn't there?"

"If the price of peace is death, then it's not real peace," Audrey argued.

"Maybe not for our generation but think of the others who will be raised in this world where there is no strife....a utopia." his eyes looked hopeful, "isn't that what you want for future generations?"

"Not the kind of peace you are talking about. Not a peace achieved through dictators and regulations." She replied, folding her arms over her chest. "And there is no such thing as utopia."

"Aren't you a pessimist." he said half joking, "what kind of peace would you have? would you want to go back to where a woman could be raped and killed on her way home from work? or where a child would be sold into slavery to the demented men who would make that child do unspeakable things? The Union has done away with all of that."

"No, instead we have a government which has the power to kill without consequence or discrimination, and sees fit to decide how the population is to live its life. This isn't peace. This is just... just fear."

he nodded listening intently moving to the table in the center of the room and half leaning half sitting on its edge, " so what would you have us do?"

"The union will never accomplish its goal. There is no way to have utopia. There is no way to make utopia happen," Audrey shook her head. "That's the point of utopia. At least before the unification, there was freedom, there was a way to keep things in check. There were laws and punishments for those who broke those laws. There is value in that. You have to admit that."

"We do have that in place now. here in Boston its a little more complicated then say in the former United kingdoms." he replied honestly

"But I am sure the Union still sees fit to stick its head into the homes of the citizens and tell them how to live," Audrey replied, leaning against the wall, as far from him as she could get.

His eyebrows pulled together as he tried to think of a way to reason with this woman. he was losing this fight and he didn't like it, "is monitoring so bad?"

"Not if it's a child. But when it's on a fully grown adult, yes," she replied.

he nodded, "so the three men who bombed Ciro before the war killing nearly 4 thousand people are free to do so?" he shook his head, " let me rephrase. If there had been the monitoring that is in place in what was formally known as Egypt then...none of those people would have died. Those children and mothers and father and brother would have lived. and yet you think that monitoring is wrong?"

"There will always be bad people," she shook her head. "No matter the amount of "monitoring"."

"So you would rather live in fear of these bad people who might bomb a building full of children instead of living in peace with a little less freedom?" he asked

"A little less freedom?" she asked, "And a government that goes into classrooms and kills children to get their parents to stop fighting?"

"There have been things done that..." He sighed looking at his hands for a moment, before looking at her," that were not sanctioned by the Union bit officials overstepped, tragically overstepped but they were punished."

"I don't believe you," she replied, shaking her head.

He shrugged, "you can choose what you believe."

"And I have," she replied. "Though I doubt you truly care."

"im truly sorry that you feel the way you do." He said sadly

"Of course you are," she nodded. "That's your job, isn't it? To persuade me to join the union? To follow along with their plan?"

" im not trying to convince you....just trying to share the real information," he truly was sad she felt that way

"And I believe what I've seen," Audrey replied.

'So then you are god?" he asked

"No. But neither is anyone working for this organization." Audrey answered. "Since you can't make me agree, what does that mean? What happens?"

he shrugged, "I really don't know. I would hope that you could put your dislike aside and live as a law abiding citizen."

"It would be that easy? We have a debate, I put aside all of my morals, and then you just let me go?" she scoffed. She couldn't actually believe that.

She wouldn't move, he didn't like that, "in storry you see so...bitter about us."

Audrey didn't reply, just shrugged. She couldn't betray her morals like that, just forget what she'd seen. She couldn't trust them.

Ooc do we want to skip to the next day?

Ooc: I don't see a problem with that

He stood from the edge of the table. He glanced over his shoulder at her again...such a waist. He left her to her thoughts