ALL I WANNA DO IS BANG BANG BANG

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WHO: Lassiter and Shawn; OPEN, too, if you'd like to join in go ahead and make a new thread~
WHERE: Police gun range
WHEN: Friday evening
WARNINGS: Gratuitous gun handling
SUMMARY: FOR THE COMING TIMES LASSITER WANTS SHAWN TO LEARN HOW TO USE A GUN, SURPRISES ENSUE
FORMAT: Parastartthenwhatever


Lassiter was an overly cautious and paranoid man, but he at least took pride that he wasn't absolutely militant and was rushing out to buy every firearm he could just in case this whole HIVE thing blew out of control in a drop of a pin. But he wasn't going to be unprepared, either, and he especially wasn't going to have Shawn be unprepared, either. He knew he had at least one power that was good and destructive, but Lassiter would feel a great sense of relief know that Shawn could handle a piece if he ever needed to, and that if Lassiter taught him how he would have learned from the best.

They stood in the police gun range, a fresh target already at the end of the way waiting to be murdered and a gun waiting on the counter. He held out a nice pair of goggles and earplugs as he started up on his lecture, "Now, the first thing to guns is showing them respect, Spencer, you understand? They're harbingers of peace, but of death as well, and you don't go fooling around with them."

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[out_of_time]

Jack leaned in a bit and spoke quietly, because this was serious talk and Shawn was banned from serious talk forever. "Not yet," he said, no stranger to assuming the worst, "But we may be running out of time. You know what I posted about, about finding whatever was taken from the Porter?"

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He leaned in in response, as if sensing the "too serious for Shawn" feeling in the air. "Yes, did something finally come of that?" He felt a little dread, something so important to the Porter that had led to such bullshit couldn't be anything good.

[out_of_time]

Jack shook his head. "Not yet, I'm still working on it. Seras is helping me, she's a good kid." Vampire or not, Jack could appreciate that kind of earnestness, although of course he didn't trust her yet. But then, he didn't really trust anyone in the City yet. "But if we do find the item, I want to talk about what we're going to do with it. I wasn't able to bring it up before; the AI might be able to hack anything we say on the communicators."

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"I have no doubt that she could, or that many others could, which is why I prefer speaking in person about sensitive subjects." He rubbed the back of his neck as he tried to think over what he said, "I'm not sure what we'll do with whatever this item is. It all depends. If it's a weapon, perhaps dismantle it. If it's a kitten, give it to a small child." He shrugged, "All depends. No theories at all on what it could be?"

[out_of_time]

"She mentioned a backup. Could be it's a copy of the AI's programming, maybe a copy of herself. There's no way to be sure right now, but what's important is that the HIVE was willing to kill hundreds of people for it, and the AI was willing to ask us for help in order to get it back." And now Jack was speaking very quietly indeed, and very intensely. "Inspector, this could be our chance. If we get this thing, we could use it as leverage against the AI."

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He thought about it carefully, crossing his arms, finger tapping on his bicep. Finally, he answered just as seriously, "Yes, we could. So could other people if they got their hands on it. Less savory people. Try to get it back, Bauer, try as hard as you can."

[out_of_time]

Jack nodded, his face as earnest as his voice. "I'll do everything in my power, I give you my word. But if I do, and I make this play against the Porter, not everybody's going to be happy with how risky it would be." Jack was fully expecting opposition to the idea of trying to blackmail a near-omnipotent machine. "I need to know I have someone higher-ranking who'll back me up. Carlton, if this works, we might have a shot at putting an end to this. We could all go home."