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missingthekeep) wrote2011-03-27 12:00 pm
missingthekeep) wrote2011-03-27 12:00 pm
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Homeplot: Endgame
The rest of the ride to Minsk seems to go by absurdly quick, but Sean knows that that's got to do with nothing but the fact that he still isn't sure what the hell he's going to do once they get there. It isn't exactly a situation he ever thought he'd get to be in again, not in a long damn time, anyway. Not since he was a whole different person.
Or was he?
Faced with the looming, unsettling prospect of finding out just how far he hasn't come, Sean does the only thing he can think of in the meantime: he stalls. Between the wait for Mystique after her insistence that she stay behind with the remaining soldiers to solidify their cover (surprise, surprise: she never shows back up) and the detour into the city proper for Igor, the interrogator, to get them access to a safe phone line so Wolverine can secure their eventual extraction, he winds up with plenty of time to convince Team X to let him hang back with the truck while they do the initial storming of the castle, so to speak. Given how fortified the safehouse no doubt will be, it just makes sense to keep an ace in the hole for when the bullets start flying (technically, that's supposed to be if, but they all know better than that) instead of throwing everything they have at the place all at once.
So here he is, standing outside the truck with Meredith just before noon, Igor still sitting in the driver's seat (he'd grown much more cooperative after finally agreeing to defect instead of letting himself be inevitably executed as a traitor to mother Russia) as the others sneak off to ambush the Black Widow. This is the endgame. Do or die, and all those cliches. He'd better not screw it up.
Or was he?
Faced with the looming, unsettling prospect of finding out just how far he hasn't come, Sean does the only thing he can think of in the meantime: he stalls. Between the wait for Mystique after her insistence that she stay behind with the remaining soldiers to solidify their cover (surprise, surprise: she never shows back up) and the detour into the city proper for Igor, the interrogator, to get them access to a safe phone line so Wolverine can secure their eventual extraction, he winds up with plenty of time to convince Team X to let him hang back with the truck while they do the initial storming of the castle, so to speak. Given how fortified the safehouse no doubt will be, it just makes sense to keep an ace in the hole for when the bullets start flying (technically, that's supposed to be if, but they all know better than that) instead of throwing everything they have at the place all at once.
So here he is, standing outside the truck with Meredith just before noon, Igor still sitting in the driver's seat (he'd grown much more cooperative after finally agreeing to defect instead of letting himself be inevitably executed as a traitor to mother Russia) as the others sneak off to ambush the Black Widow. This is the endgame. Do or die, and all those cliches. He'd better not screw it up.