We're back.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

Rather anticlimactic, all things considered. Kurt's with us and not too badly hurt - obviously, since we brought him back on the cargo plane - although he's going to be a while in recovering. He's down in the infirmary, with Amelia giving him a thorough going-over.

Sadly, we didn't bring back any explanations as to precisely what the hell was going on. Magneto was there - we spotted him at the end of a hallway, but picking a fight in the middle of a hospital, even a shady private clinic that was holding Kurt against his will, was not really an option.

I'm almost sure he meant for us to see him.

If anyone wants my opinion, this was some sort of a test, to see how we'd react. I can think of at least three incidents while I was at Mistra where we were lured into demonstrating how we'd respond to a particular situation; it can tell an enemy a lot, so long as they're not throwing away anything too valuable. Given that Kurt was obliging enough to traipse happily into their hands, the bait came at no cost to them, even. And after the ambush they pulled with the Blackbird, it's fair to say that they were probably wondering how that might change the nature of our response to something like this.

Note for the security-minded: how whoever it was knew to pass that package with the evidence for where Kurt was to Suzanne has some nasty implications, given that she's not been out in the field with us yet.

I'm going to call Amanda and tell her Kurt's back and able to have visitors.

Comments

[x-storm.livejournal.com]

My comment still stands. Though I suppose it is better he arrange things like this than try and take over another laser...

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

Well, if he got something really important out of all of this, that's even more worrisome, because we have no idea what it is.

My brain is so not cut out for this sort of business.

[x-dominion.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it's tied in with the earlier kidnapping, asking over and over for things that they couldn't possibly know and using kid gloves in terms of physical violence? According to the files, most of the Brotherhood are experienced in one form of terrorism or another and they like hurting people a lot, so maybe they're breaking profile by trying subtle for once? Put us on the defensive, get so caught up in securing people and the mansion that we open up a big opportunity somewhere else?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Kid gloves? I note it wasn't you beaten and dismembered at the hands of that lunatic.

[x-dominion.livejournal.com]

Forge, you were in the hands of a bunch of trained sadists for days. I'm not dismissing what you went through, but the Brotherhood's profiles should have had them breaking bones and cutting off digits inside of 90 minutes, so there has to be a reason why they didn't, just like what Magneto wanted with Kurt, because it obviously can't be to make us one man down when he had the chance.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is a different case. Nightcrawler's a moron.

[x-dominion.livejournal.com]

Huh. Alright then...

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Check the files. This isn't the first time he's voluntarily handed himself over to the Brotherhood.