[b]Former Team Bondi:[/b]

You’re out. 

On the way home, Bondi has one condition after she takes off her face; “Just make sure that when this gets out, it looks like someone else did it ages before we showed up yesterday.” She looks back at the compound. “Nobody’s ever wanted me back for an encore that bad before. Gwen would be crushed, did you see how she looked at Caliban? And imagine what it would do to Isabella if she found out Ariel was there to hurt her parents.” 

How are you going to do that? And who do you trust to write this story, this time? Pope would definitely be interested that this is what you did with the leak he gave you. 

[b]Brown:[/b]

York holds one nostril, hocks phlegm and spits a chunk of blood on the pavement he’s just picked himself up from. He shakes himself off and notices Brown out of the corner of a blackening eye. 

“Fantastic, here’s Ms Go’s legal counsel, let us in.” 

The open front door to the site just looks like the entrance to a brutalist highschool gym. No boom gates or extra rings of razor wire here, no ceremony or anything that draws attention to this spot more than any other. A kind of makeshift E.R triage of folding chairs and mall-popup store counters is visible through the crack in the door that York just got thrown out of, evidently after picking the locks. His press pass jingles on a lanyard around his neck - he fucking [i]hates[/i] wearing that thing, especially openly. 

The cop that laid York out looks a lot like Don Cheadle did, he’s wearing tracksuit pants and a skintight lycra tanktop, like there really is just a gym in there. York’s done enough MMA  and MDMA that if he took the hit that bad, it was either total surprise or a choice, and Brown can’t tell because she wasn’t here to see more of what happened. Cop Cheadle cocks his head at Brown and opens the door slightly wider, and York immediately presses into her side. 

“Wait here. Stand up when your client’s name is called.” He looks over his shoulder, at nothing in particular. “Hope you brought something to do, because it’s going to be a while.”