Post by Jordanna on Dec 15, 2005 21:11:27 GMT -5
I haven't kept a diary since I was fifteen. In fact, the last entry I ever wrote was the day my grandfather died... just before his funeral, where I learned beyond any doubt that I was a mutant.
I promised myself then that I would use my ability for a good cause. Over the years, I felt I'd done pretty well at living up to that--but now I'm up against something new, and I'm afraid it will mean facing what I am in ways I never have before. Whatever happens, I think this journal may help me to reason out the decisions I've got to make.
A woman was murdered last week, and through her eyes, I saw her killer: Nicholas Tiernan, the mutant-rights advocate and philanthropist.
There's no evidence I can point to that would link Tiernan to the crime; I'm the only one who can tell it was murder at all. And without proof, of course, the police can't simply take the word of a mutant psychic. Tiernan's pro-mutant stance has won him a lot of enemies, but I doubt any of them would care to go up against his brigade of expensive lawyers over one woman's accusation, even if I could explain how I know what he did. All it could accomplish would be to expose myself as a mutant, make my position in the coroner's office untenable, and probably invite a lawsuit from Tiernan--if not something much worse.
For now, the best I can do is try to learn more about Tiernan. I have an appointment to meet with Regina Dawson, a private detective who happens to be a mutant herself, and lay out my case before her. I don't know if she'll believe me--and even if she does, whether she'll be willing to investigate New York's biggest benefactor of mutants for the sake of a murdered prostitute. But I've got to try and find someone to turn to besides Henry. He knows it all, and he wants to help, but I don't want him to get involved in this.
If she doesn't take the case, I've already decided I'll try to look into Tiernan's activities myself. If it comes to that, maybe Dawson could at least give me some advice.
I've had a part in catching ordinary murderers who killed mutants; quite a few of them. But I've never faced the reverse before. To the law there's no difference, but for me, on some level, there can't help but be. If Tiernan is brought to justice, and a man of such wealth and position is exposed as not only a mutant, but a murderer... how will ordinary people react? What I hope to do could make things even harder on my kind. Yet if I look the other way, and don't seek justice for that murdered woman, I would be just as prejudiced as those who would hold Tiernan's crime against the rest of us. Mutant or human, he's taken a life--that's all that matters.
Miriam
I promised myself then that I would use my ability for a good cause. Over the years, I felt I'd done pretty well at living up to that--but now I'm up against something new, and I'm afraid it will mean facing what I am in ways I never have before. Whatever happens, I think this journal may help me to reason out the decisions I've got to make.
A woman was murdered last week, and through her eyes, I saw her killer: Nicholas Tiernan, the mutant-rights advocate and philanthropist.
There's no evidence I can point to that would link Tiernan to the crime; I'm the only one who can tell it was murder at all. And without proof, of course, the police can't simply take the word of a mutant psychic. Tiernan's pro-mutant stance has won him a lot of enemies, but I doubt any of them would care to go up against his brigade of expensive lawyers over one woman's accusation, even if I could explain how I know what he did. All it could accomplish would be to expose myself as a mutant, make my position in the coroner's office untenable, and probably invite a lawsuit from Tiernan--if not something much worse.
For now, the best I can do is try to learn more about Tiernan. I have an appointment to meet with Regina Dawson, a private detective who happens to be a mutant herself, and lay out my case before her. I don't know if she'll believe me--and even if she does, whether she'll be willing to investigate New York's biggest benefactor of mutants for the sake of a murdered prostitute. But I've got to try and find someone to turn to besides Henry. He knows it all, and he wants to help, but I don't want him to get involved in this.
If she doesn't take the case, I've already decided I'll try to look into Tiernan's activities myself. If it comes to that, maybe Dawson could at least give me some advice.
I've had a part in catching ordinary murderers who killed mutants; quite a few of them. But I've never faced the reverse before. To the law there's no difference, but for me, on some level, there can't help but be. If Tiernan is brought to justice, and a man of such wealth and position is exposed as not only a mutant, but a murderer... how will ordinary people react? What I hope to do could make things even harder on my kind. Yet if I look the other way, and don't seek justice for that murdered woman, I would be just as prejudiced as those who would hold Tiernan's crime against the rest of us. Mutant or human, he's taken a life--that's all that matters.
Miriam