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[video] An announcement. Backdated to 7th June

[Locked against Brock Rumlow]

I think it's time we coordinated our efforts.

First, if anyone's seen anything in regards to Coraline's murder, please come forward. Send me a private transmission if you'd feel safer doing so. For now, a man named Brock Rumlow is the primary suspect due to him already having murdered someone else within the hotel. [a pause] Me.

He's 6 feet tall. Italian descent. Square chin, broad shoulders, very well built and muscular, has a five o clock shadow and a flattop.

Second, Anyone who's a good fighter, and I do mean good - He is not a man to be underestimated. He's well trained and deadly and could go toe-to-toe with an enhanced supersoldier - sign in here. My team is definitely going to go after him but having more help wouldn't hurt. At 0800 tomorrow, we'll start by sweeping the basement and move up from there until we find him.

As for the rest, stay in your rooms. Lock your doors. Keep in touch with your friends. If you suspect anyone is missing for whatever reason, let me know right away so a team can check on them to make sure they're all right.

Thank you for your time. Stay safe.

((OOC: interact with each other as you see fit or coordinate a team together oocly (public plurk here or ooc post here. The basic idea is Skye is going to inadvertently play bait while people search the hotel. Then others are going to move in on Brock. I'm going to be slow due to packing and moving. There will be a follow up log post for June 8th which I will toss up in a few minutes.))

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you're going to get more people killed if you pit them against rumlow

Not if the teams stick together.

unless you have a couple of steve rogers up your sleeve, from what i can tell he'll break a few of you going down

[she shouldn't even be talking to him. At all. She doesn't want anything to do with Rumlow and she doesn't know why she decided to reply to Coulson.]

I appreciate the concern but I think it's a risk worth taking at this point.

And what are you going to do if you get hold of him? If you kill him he'll come back like you did. And mad. Where would you lock him up? I'm not saying let him run wild, but do you have any idea what to do with him?

[Deleting ALL these text from her device later, just so Ward can't see either, just in case, because she's paranoid.]

Right now our best bet is to incapacitate him and lock him up. At the very least we know where he'll show up if we do kill him.

you actually think you can keep him locked up? where? a room somewhere? he wont take it laying down. if he comes back he'll just be mad.

[And she started a text that said: ...if he actually killed a child... but she back spaced that one and didn't send. She's not happy though.]

A room with a guard on rotation. Something until a more permanent solution can be found. Like you said, we can't just leave him running around.

You better hope you get some people who can handle him on that guard. He's not one to mess around with.

We have Captain America and Sergeant Barnes. I think we're good on that front.

I don't know how useful this is to you, but I saw the man in question on the night the poor girl was killed. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but I recall that he had some kind of white fabric—a large handkerchief, perhaps—in his pocket. I only noticed because it stood out rather in the darkness.

That's good to know actually. It could be the weapon he used. I'll brief my team about it.

Thank you.

He killed a kid? Big man.

[And low, even for Rumlow. If Steve sounds a little more agitated than usual, well, he just woke up in the boiler room. Barely had time to catch his breath before getting wind of this.

That doesn't mean he isn't ready to go, and 0800 sounds too far away.]

I wanna get a head start.

I'm definitely not against the idea.

[he trusts cap to be able to handle himself. Though there is some concern mixed with relief in his tone at hearing Steve is back.]

And there's no confirmation so far but he's a likely suspect.

Lying, killing. We know he's in the business. Seems like a good place to start.

Yeah. Take Sergeant Barnes with you at the very least if you're going.

... and welcome back.

I may have spoken to the man you described.

[Sure sounds a lot like him.]

He said you are trying to frame him and you have no evidence against him. Only your word. Is this true?

I have better things to do than frame people for murder. And I didn't exactly get to film my own murder so yes unfortunately the evidence is anecdotal.

If one of us is a murderer, I want to help capture this person.

But how can I know if he is the murderer or if this is just a way for SHIELD and HYDRA to continue their fight here?

We all have better things to do than murder each other.

Do you want to meet in person somewhere? We can talk. All you'll have is my word but rest assured SHIELD is the good guy here.

If you wish to talk, I'm willing to hear what you have to say.

I'll be in the lobby in five minutes.

[and it's there she'll find him seated in one of the chairs, ready to give her a slight smile and wave her over to the chair across from him.]

[Guess the nice thing about the hotel is it doesn't take long to get anywhere. Just a quick descent down the stairs and Gamora is entering the lobby to meet with Coulson. The first time she met him she didn't see any reason to distrust him. Now with this talk of killing going on between him and the other man she met, she's not sure what to think.

She walks over and sits in the chair, but she doesn't exactly look relaxed or comfortable. The subject matter is to blame, not the furniture.]

I hope you can clear this up for me.

[Coulson looks a little tired. The bruise on his temple is mostly faded but it's still testament to what happened to him]

HYDRA is an organization that formed during the second world war of Ear- Midgard. Originally their purpose was to maintain a master race - basically letting anyone with pale skin, blonde hair and blue eyes live while everyone else dies. But they strayed from that path and became their own entity. They wanted to make the world 'better'. [he lifts his hand to make quotation marks] And they didn't care about any of the innocent lives they had to mow down and step over to achieve world domination.

[She listens, but it's not all pertinent to her.]

This history of your feud is between SHIELD and HYDRA. I am not from Earth. Many people here know nothing about this war between you, but we have been exposed to it.

[It would be better if they kept it amongst themselves, in her opinion.]

You claim Rumlow murdered you, but you can offer no evidence but your own word. If I was to believe one of you, I think it would be you. At least you seem like the more trustworthy.

[There has to be an end to this, though. Somehow.]

If you catch him, what do you think would be proper punishment? If you kill him, he will return. If you jail him, you will have to guard him for... an eternity, maybe. I don't know.

[What is his end game?]

[Coulson breathes a sigh of relief at that, his shoulders slumping slightly]

Honestly, it's good to hear you say that. Thank you. I'll try not to make you regret it.

And, honestly, we were trying to keep it between just us but things got out of hand. [very out of hand.] I'm sorry for that. As for what we do with him... jailing seems to be the best option we have. Once we have him though, we can start looking into ways to get out of here, so it doesn't necessarily have to be forever.

[Gamora hopes she won't regret it, either. She hasn't decided how long she'll help with these matters, but since they're all trapped in the same place, she doesn't see much of a choice.]

This place likes to toy with us. Eventually, he'll escape and you'll have to track him down again.

My suggestion is you determine a sentence for his imprisonment, or better, take his life as revenge for taking your own.

As much as I'd like to go with that option, what would that accomplish? He'd just come back looking for revenge and then the process would never end.

I could try talking to him but HYDRA's goals seems pretty deeply ingrained in him.

[it definitely caused a headache talking to the guy]

If you could come to an agreement that it would be the end of it, then perhaps it would be. Continuing this would accomplish nothing for him, either.

[And they can't just keep going along this way when they have bigger concerns at hand.]

I'm sure he wants to leave this place as much as the rest of us. Working together might make that happen faster.

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