Donovan Burke/The Punisher (punishing_one) wrote,
@ 2010-12-02 23:01:00

The Meeting
Donovan Burke rarely questions Frank Castle's motives or good sense; the man has lived through more scrapes in the last twenty years than most combat battalions do in their whole existence. But this meeting with Nick Fury sets off all the wrong bells and whistles in Burke's head. Frank respects this man, which should be enough for Donovan, but it's not. Not completely.

Burke remembers his dad telling him about meeting Nick Fury back in '79 during a SHIELD-US Marshals joint operation. Dad even thought highly of Nick Fury, but right now, Burke wasn't certain if Fury wouldn't just show up and try to shut him down. He didn't want a fight with any SHIELD agents, but he'd been down this road before...and he couldn't be certain that Girardson wasn't lurking in the shadows somewhere, even though he'd checked the surrounding two blocks twice before sundown.

Now, at 8pm Thursday evening, Burke parks his van three blocks away from the warehouse Fury agreed to meet in and hoofs it the rest of the way. Slipping in the back door, he checks the perimeter one more time to make sure that his escape routes are ready if he had to evacuate in a hurry. When he's satisfied that things are as ready as they can get, he pulls up two rolling desk chairs and sets them in a circle beneath an overhead light on the otherwise-vacant warehouse floor.

He takes a couple of deep breaths and makes comforts himself with the knowledge that he still has his guns.

And he waits.

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shield_topdog
2010-12-03 06:05 am UTC (link)

Nick of course had arrived a little early and had watched Burke arrive and do his checks. Then he watched the man pull up the chairs and desk.

Fury didn't like loose canons like Castle and Burke, but they did have uses and served a purpose. Sometimes they just needed to be turned in the right direction to do some real good.

The flare of a match highlighted Nick's face as he lit the cigar in his mouth. Once it was lit he approached the spot where Burke was sitting.

"Care t' tell me 'bout that lil' mess down in Texas?"

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punishing_one
2010-12-03 06:08 am UTC (link)

"Not really, since I'm sure you already know. But, for the sake of saying that I'm playing along with this...

I got a call about a couple of groups of bad people meeting to make a deal. I killed one group of bad people while the other group ran for their lives. I let the second group know that if I ever saw them again, I'd send them where I sent the first group." Burke says, looking into Fury's eye.

"The end."

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	shield_topdog 2010-12-03 06:10 am UTC (link)
	"Who was the call from?" he asked. He had suspicions, but no proof. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

punishing_one
2010-12-03 06:17 am UTC (link)

"I don't divulge my sources, Fury, same as you wouldn't divulge yours. Besides, it doesn't matter. I just saved the American government a lot of taxpayer money by dealing with the organized crime problem it has." Burke says, rolling his neck.

"The real issue is that the Mafia's becoming a bigger issue these days. There's been a shake up in the Underworld and I'm hearing rumblings that there's a new Kingpin of crime. The Sicilians are scrambling to hold whatever territory they can in Jersey and you've got the I.R.A. funneling weapons to homegrown terrorists on American soil." Burke tells him.

"Rather than rake me over the coals about what I'm doing, maybe you could give me some information to do it better. I'm the best deniable asset you've got, Fury. I can get my hands dirty where you can't risk your agents. If they screw up, it puts SHIELD in the hot seat. If I screw-up, I'm dead. At the worst, it keeps their attention on me and lets the costumes focus on beating each other senseless and causing millions in property damage." Burke finishes.

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	shield_topdog 2010-12-03 06:20 am UTC (link)
	"Yer a wild card, Burke. Just like Castle was. An' both of ya don't take orders well. I tell ya t' jump an' you'll wanna crawl. See the problem here?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

punishing_one
2010-12-03 06:24 am UTC (link)

"Don't you have enough people that you can yell 'jump' at and get a response? Your soldiers, and you, have to operate inside a set of rules the Government gave you. You can bend them a long way, but you can /break/ them or they'll shut you down, Fury." Donovan says simply.

"There's only two rules I need to operate by and that makes it a lot easier to do my job. I work for you, I've got to adopt your rules and codes and I can't. The law has failed me and a lot of other people enough times that it's just not going to work." he says.

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	shield_topdog 2010-12-03 06:35 am UTC (link)
	"The law is there for a reason, Burke. Castle never understood that either." Nick shook his head. He pulled a small flash drive out of a pocket and tossed it on the table. Agree with his methods or not, Burke did prove to be useful on occasion. Like the little issue in Bogota Nick had recently become aware of. "That's somethin' up yer alley." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

punishing_one
2010-12-03 06:45 am UTC (link)

Burke looks at the flash drive for a moment, debating the wisdom of getting involved with someone like Nick Fury. Fury had the information he needed, but all it would take was one too many trips to the well before SHIELD thought they owned him.

"What Frank and I understand is that the law isn't worth anything when it protects the people who break it more than the people they hurt." Burke says, reaching out to pick up the flash drive.

"I'd like to say I can trust you, Fury. You come highly praised, but this is a new day and age. The rules you and all the costumes operate by are being tossed aside by the opposition. Frank was right about a couple of things, you know. None of you were ever willing to put people like Jigsaw, Kingpin and Bullseye out of commission for good, so they started banking on that.

Now, they're not afraid when you show up. They know that all you'll do is read them their rights, stick 'em in a cell for a few months and then let them out on good behavior. How does that make anyone safer than they were before?" Burke asks, holding up the flash drive.

"You know how this is going to end if I get involved. What do you want out of it?" he asks.

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	shield_topdog 2010-12-03 07:38 am UTC (link)
	SHIELD did own him, he just didn't know it yet. Nick didn't address anything Burke said. "I want you t' get the job done," Nick said. "That's what I want." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	punishing_one 2010-12-03 02:26 pm UTC (link)
	Burke warned him. It was fair enough. "It'll get done." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_topdog 2010-12-04 03:34 am UTC (link)
	Nick knew full well what he was getting into with Burke. He had dealt with Castle enough in the past. "Good." With that Nick left. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

punishing_one
2010-12-04 06:08 am UTC (link)

Burke figured that the relationship between him and Nick Fury was going to be one of "Don't call me, I'll call you", but he had to admit to himself a grudging respect for Nick Fury. The man was bad ass personified, and those words came from Frank Castle, himself.

Burke leaves the building through the back exit and takes a longer route back to his van, just in case anyone is watching. Once he's inside, he crawls in the back and breaks out his laptop, going over the information on the flash drive.

It was just the information he'd been wanting. He'd have to book passage to Bogota ASAP in order to get down there and get to work. In the meantime, he had another hive of scum and villainy to clean out.

Starting the engine, the Punisher heads toward the warehouse district of New York to go looking for mutant-haters.

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