Gilbert Kinkaid Walker (veryperceptive) wrote,
@ 2012-11-27 13:09:00

AU Meme: Different Ethics
They'd started small -- for a given definition of 'small,' when you've got money and talent and a creepy connection or two -- but it hadn't taken long to grow. When you know the things someone wants to get or to keep, all you have to do is make a few offers and make a few threats -- and the threats always came through when necessary -- and it didn't take all that long before the Triangle was no longer a convergent war-zone of three different criminal syndicates. It was the private criminal turf of a prissy young blueblood with an antique cane ... and the person who made sure that even with his ridiculous countertenor giggling, GK got taken seriously.

GK was at his desk at the moment, rereading one of his mother's history books about the kind of places where organized crime had developed into the most reliable form of local law enforcement, of community organizing. She'd always taught him to do what he could giving back, after all.

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zoe_torres
2012-11-28 06:25 pm UTC (link)

She chewed that over while fingering the barrel of the sidearm she wore for accessorizing her everyday wear.

A word she'd learned from her best friend.

"Two ways to hurt a billionaire," she finally said. "Take away his money or his family. He should be paying the bill for all the improvements down here. It wouldn't have got this bad again if he'd Done His Job. Family is easier."

She wouldn't hurt an innocent person. Didn't mean she wouldn't use other forms of persuasion to get her way.

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	veryperceptive 2012-11-28 06:37 pm UTC (link)
	He smiles just slightly. "Family is easier, though we can always put up a few shells to get in on his usual largesse to the populace, too. There are Mormons with fewer kids. We could run game to alienate them somehow?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2012-11-28 06:40 pm UTC (link)
	She smiled slowly. "Alienate them. Bring them over. Get his money any way we can, and recruit his kids to our way of doing things. Maybe get their hands dirty on purpose. Let him sort it out." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	veryperceptive 2012-11-28 07:00 pm UTC (link)
	"It'd be a long job. Maybe start by having one of the daughters approached about help for St. Maggie's?" St. Margaret's Clinic was the means by which their organization saw to the medical screenings and care for the Triangles working girls. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2012-11-28 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	"We have time for it. Getting them involved is a good start." She made a 'yeah, yeah' face. "Not my style, but maybe you're rubbing off on me." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	veryperceptive 2012-11-28 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	GK smiles. "I'm a terrible influence. But women's health issues is always a great way to snag the right brand of rich girls." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

zoe_torres
2012-11-28 08:29 pm UTC (link)

Zoe nearly rolled her eyes at 'women's health issues', but she knew it was a personality conflict. Girly wasn't something she could be accused of in any sense of the word.

"Do we start our own charity ball circuit or send out requests for donations? You're the one fell out of the money tree. How do rich people go about getting money out of each other if it's not at gun point?"

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	veryperceptive 2012-11-28 10:12 pm UTC (link)
	"Much as I would love to critique outfits at yet another one of those parties, and already having a hot chick to bring, that's not the way to play this one. Something more targeted. I'll send one of the doctors to canvass her directly, for a start." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2012-11-29 06:59 am UTC (link)
	She nodded. He always made sense, even when he was denying her flamingo red lipstick. "If we don't see any real progress, I can always shoot him." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	veryperceptive 2012-11-29 03:56 pm UTC (link)
	"Yes. I appreciate your being into doing it the safer way first, though." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2012-11-29 04:20 pm UTC (link)
	"We work too hard here to blow it off. Don't look so surprised. I can be reasonable." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	veryperceptive 2012-11-29 04:50 pm UTC (link)
	"I know you can. I just know we've all got our, y'know... stuff." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zoe_torres 2012-11-29 07:35 pm UTC (link)
	"Not like he can hide or anything. He's too famous. He'll always be there, and in the meantime, we'll start taking away his kids and his money. That'll do for now." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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