From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 20:08:33

*has been pacing the halls while he waits for Maglor to be transferred* *wonders what's taking so long*

*hears some commotion and trots down to the trauma center*

*is greeted by the sight of you covered in a ghastly amount of blood and waving a gun unsteadily at the ER personnel*

*...*

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 20:12:54

*advances on one of the nurses and shoves the muzzle of the gun right between her eyes*

*frantic* "As soon as possible"?? What does that mean, "AS SOON AS POSSIBLE"?! That's my- That's-. *voicelessly* That's my brother.

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 20:18:51

*quickly assesses the situation and nods to a frightened staffer* OR three, please. Page Thompson.

*lifts his hands and takes a step toward you* *calmingly, he hopes* It's all right. It's being taken care of, see? Why don't you put the gun down?

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 20:54:29

*turns it on you instead*

*takes a few seconds to just think and try to calm himself and leave the freaking out to Moryo*

*a little more steadily* You're a doctor? *waits for your nod of confirmation* Fix him.

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 20:58:43

*turns one of his raised hands slightly to point down the long corridor* He'll be in the OR by now. And Thompson is very capable. Don't worry.

*hesitantly* What happened?

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 21:03:51

*ignores this last*

*lowers his gun and stalks to the doorway of the adjacent waiting area, his mind working furiously* *scans the ceiling and takes out the security camera with a neat shot*

*is used to ignoring the screams by now, too*

*turning back to you* Secure this building.

	From: ivrinsun	Date: 08/09/2007 21:10:03

*has been sitting in the waiting room for ages, ready to take word about Maglor to Nerdanel as soon as word arrives*

*jerks her head up at the sound of the gunshot*

*takes a moment to properly recognize you* Celegorm??

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 21:19:27

*exasperatedly* This is a hospital. You can't just—

*hears Finduilas speak up and looks back at you in mute horror* Oh. Oh, I see.

*does the math suddenly but can't quite find his voice, his heart in his throat*

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 21:30:25

*snaps* So let people in. But nobody leaves the hospital. And nobody in here leaves this room.

*waves his gun toward the receptionist* You. Call security and tell them you know that camera's out. Tell them maintenance is already on it.

As for the rest- *cuts off abruptly, at a loss* *looks to you with an unspoken demand for an answer written on his face*

	From: ivrinsun	Date: 08/09/2007 21:33:32

*stands and moves toward you slowly, like a sleepwalker*

What's happened? *has also basically put together what you've done or at least attempted to do, of course* *starting to panic a little* Where's Maglor??

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 21:38:22

*hesitates to see whether you're going to answer Finduilas because he needs to know, too, please, please answer Finduilas*

*realizes you're very deliberately and steadfastly ignoring her* *looks at the handful of bystanders cowering on the floor or obviously considering making a break for the door and almost despairs*

*softly* Code pink.

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 21:43:54

*does respond to her finally, though* What does Cáno have to do with anything?!

*catches a movement out of the corner of his eye* *trains the gun on the man inching toward the door* Don't even think about it.

*resists the hundredth urge to look at his watch or run outside to watch for police* *looking here and there, trying to focus his attention on ten different things*

please let him live, please, please, if I ever did anything right

What's a code pink?

	From: ivrinsun	Date: 08/09/2007 21:49:55

*blinks* I'd heard he was sick and being transferred...? *says this at the exact moment she hears Elrond say "Maglor was the plan. Maglor here."

*stares at him for a moment, dumbstruck*

*takes another step toward you, thinking maybe the best way to get any real answers out of you is to appeal to you* Are you hurt? *places a hand on your arm gently*

and oh, god, the blood

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 21:59:06

*answers Finduilas with an equally confounded look*

*feels his stomach knot when he glances back at you and sees an unmistakably serene, I'm-going-to-start-shooting expression on your face*

*hurriedly* Code pink is for babies. *realizes he's not making much sense* When someone steals a baby from the nursery. The whole hospital shuts down.

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 22:04:11

Are you hurt?

*roughly shakes off Fin's hand* *brokenly, before he can steady himself* No. I don't think I am.

*breathes* *breathes* *nods to you* Do it. Put out a description. *to the receptionist* Call security, I said. Move now or one of these people dies. *breathes*

	From: ivrinsun	Date: 08/09/2007 22:14:43

*processes your words and the anguish in your voice and just knows*

*falls back a step involuntarily* No. No.

Move now or one of these people dies.

*her tears flowing freely as she turns to Elrond* *shrilly* He'll do it. He doesn't care. He'll kill anyone.

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 22:18:15

*bitterly* I believe you.

*loudly enough to be heard by everyone in the room, but still soothingly* Do as he says. Everyone, please just stay calm and be cooperative and we'll be out of here soon.

*waits for the receptionist to call security and then makes the call to bring all non-essential hospital operations to a screeching halt*

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 22:24:18

*visibly relaxes? wilts? a little to finally have one thing under relative control*

*guesses that getting Finduilas under control next ought to be a priority*

*speaks to her almost apologetically* I have a job for you, too. You're going down to the station to throw them off our trail.

	From: ivrinsun	Date: 08/09/2007 22:29:12

*isn't finished yet, not by a long shot*

Where is he? I want to see him. Where is he? *throws herself at you and beats at your chest ineffectually with her fists* Why couldn't it have been you? *collapses against you, sobbing*

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 22:33:27

*holds you apart from him, gripping your arm hard enough to leave a bruise*

*hotly* Listen to me. He's not dead. It wasn't my doing and he's not dead. He's in surgery and he's not dead and I love him more than you could possibly imagine, little girl. So shut the fuck up and get down to the station and lie.

	From: ivrinsun	Date: 08/09/2007 22:35:47

*is strangely comforted by this, somehow*

*sniffles but pulls herself together* *defiantly* They all know me down there. They've seen me visiting Maglor. They'll never believe me if I tell them you've gone somewhere else.

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 22:40:02

*is momentarily shocked by the sight of

his blood

his brother's blood (please, Eru, please, please) all over your shirt*

*doesn't speak again for a long time but just paces the room and listens to the alert sounding*

*finally* So tell them we're here.

	From: ivrinsun	Date: 08/09/2007 22:41:16

*stares* ...What?

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 22:45:18

*oddly patiently* You said it yourself. They'll never believe you. So tell them I've brought him here and they'll think we've gone to Mercy. It'll buy us time.

	From: ivrinsun	Date: 08/09/2007 22:46:14

Not enough time.

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 22:48:17

*smiles, frighteningly enough* Not enough time for what?

	From: ivrinsun	Date: 08/09/2007 22:49:09

*desperately* It won't work.

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 22:50:43

It's all I've got. GO.

	From: ivrinsun	Date: 08/09/2007 22:52:14

*tentatively* I want to see-

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 22:55:52

*interrupting you* If you even say his name to me I will shoot you in your pretty fucking face.

*makes no move to do so*

	From: ivrinsun	Date: 08/09/2007 23:00:25

Fucking asshole.

*stands on tiptoe to kiss you on the cheek* *can't tell if it's your face that's wet or hers or both* I know you wouldn't have let anything happen to him if you could help it.

*leaves*

*(you fucking asshole)*

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 23:03:31

*has kept his distance all this while, not particularly wanting to even breathe the same air as you*

*with that same air of knowing calm* What is it you think you're going to do now? *wryly* If you don't mind me asking.

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 23:07:45

*gives you a look that suggests he thinks you exceptionally stupid* Wait for my brother to come out of surgery. Obviously.

*searches for something to say to you and wonders why he cares* *tonelessly* You really did have a plan.

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 23:10:16

*nods easily enough* And then? You'll never get out the city alive, you know. Thingol's probably sealed off every tunnel already.

*crosses his arms and nods again* Your mother came up with it somehow, I think. It was really quite doable. *pointedly* Hardly any risk involved.

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 23:16:00

He'll let us go if he has reason to believe that everyone in this hospital is in mortal peril if he fails to do so. *sneering* Well, he might not agree of his own volition. But the public outcry would be catastrophic.

*feels an overwhelming need for his mother's comfort such as he hasn't experienced since childhood*

*blinking* If you're trying to distract me, it won't work.

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 23:20:36

I see. And why would he come to believe that, exactly?

*registers your obvious disgust with Thingol's so-called 'methods' and finds it odd, to say the least*

Then you disapprove of mass murder for the sake of a personal vendetta?

If you're trying to distract me

*shakes his head* *almost conversationally* Merely trying to ascertain how all these innocent people will figure into your plans.

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 23:26:23

*coldly* He'll come to believe it because you'll tell him I have a bomb roughly the size of Balar strapped to my chest and will detonate it if my siblings aren't allowed to leave freely.

Then you disapprove of mass murder for the sake of a personal vendetta?

Of course I- Don't analyze me, doctor.

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 23:29:49

*considers this* For that plan to even come close to achieving your aim, I believe it requires your continued presence here, does it not?

*realizes for the first time during this entire conversation that you have no idea who he is*

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 23:35:24

*shrugs* I leave with Curvo (live please live). You witness my supposed presence here—that is, you lie. It's really very simple.

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 23:36:55

*clenches his jaw* I don't give my word lightly.

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 23:38:21

*smiles slowly* Even better.

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 23:42:59

*can't help laughing* *feels some unidentifiable emotion welling up inside him*

I have no intention of putting myself at risk for the likes of you and Curufin.

*oh. anger.*

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 23:45:20

*raises an eyebrow* *with what appears to be amusement* Kill your parents, did we? A brother, perhaps? A lover?

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 23:47:44

*sharply* My grandparents, the former King and Queen of Doriath. Their sons. Most of their court.

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/09/2007 23:54:22

*the smile dying on his face* *without feeling* Ah. Dior and Nimloth, yes? *seems not to be aware he's repeating you* Their sons??.

*simultaneously weighing the odds of Curufin surviving making it out of surgery before the marchwardens come for him*

Cáno was there, too. Were you somehow unaware of that fact?

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/09/2007 23:58:51

*softly* I saw Maglor's pain and regret for his actions. Every day he spent raising me, I saw the regret. He raised me to be a better man and, I pray to Eru, a forgiving one.

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/10/2007 00:10:46

*seething with anger* So because I died that day in Doriath, because I didn't live with the consequences of my actions, you think it impossible that I did so in Mandos? *venomously* You think it impossible that in this world, every day, because my father's notion of necessity—

*looks everywhere else in the room* *as evenly as if he flipped a switch* You'd be perfectly right, of course. But you will help me, if only because I'll kill everyone in this room, one by one, until you agree to do so.

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/10/2007 00:15:44

*hardly knows what to think, much less what to say*

I'll kill everyone in this room

*astonished by the realization* I don't believe you will.

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/10/2007 00:17:53

*blandly* Don't you?

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/10/2007 00:23:17

*has to acknowledge to himself that he can't risk other people's lives in the hope that there's some sort of actual humanity in you to appeal to*

*pauses* I'll see how things are coming along with Curufin. *a bit pointlessly* But really, you can't think of moving him so soon.

*diplomatically does not add any of the many obvious 'if' statements that logically fit at the end of that sentence*

	From: tyelcormo	Date: 08/10/2007 00:28:41

*slipping the words on like a soft pair of gloves* Yes, just think how much more righteous indignation you can store up, knowing you've saved the life of my brother, the sinner.

But really, you can't think of moving him so soon.

*looks at the dried blood on his hands and chest and everywhere and tries to recall being clean*

I don't have a choice.

	From: elrondmd	Date: 08/10/2007 00:29:39

I know.