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dr-spencer-reids-queen · 1 year ago

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Soul Mates: Part Two

Pairing: Spencer Reid x Female!Reader

Word Count: ~1.9k

Summary: A man is accused of rape and kidnapping in another state, so he moved across the country to get away from those allegations. Now, the same thing is happening but this time, it might very well be true.

Warnings: canon violence, canon language, canon talk of death, methods of kill

Author’s Note: I do not own anything from Criminal Minds. All credit goes to their respective owners. If there are any warnings that exceed the normal death/kills from the show, I will list them. If you’ve seen the show, then it’s the same level of angst unless otherwise stated

On the way back to the station, you informed your team there of the news that there is a partner. Spencer immediately goes to work on trying to decode the messages on Will's computer. He's using two different colored markers to determine who said what, but to everyone else, it looks like gibberish.

"Spencer, tell me you found something on his partner," you ask when you walk back into the station.

"It's all so cryptic. They wrote a cluster of others right after the first victim, Kim Groves, was killed."

"We need to figure out how they met. There's gotta be something in all this about their courtship," Derek says.

"It all seemed so hopeless, but I finally learned to rise above it," Spencer reads. "It sounds like William confessed he was feeling incomplete."

"He was. He didn't start killing until he met his soulmate."

"Faith should never be broken." That's another line from the journals. "The longer they got away with it, the stronger their relationship got. Sounds like these two aren't just obsessed with rape and murder. They're addicted to one another."

Jeff and Hotch return back from the crime scene you were at. You were eager to get things moving along which is why you got here before they did.

"We could have saved her," Jeff sighs.

"There were no signs of his having a partner until now."

"I guess that's why he's so cocky."

"Well, his arrogance is typical of a dominant personality. He's found a submissive who's willing to kill for him. We found bite marks on Missy. Will didn't do it, the partner did, and he's white."

"They never did that before," Derek says.

"Well, with William out of the picture, he's changed his behavior. Maybe the partner went back to something that's comfortable, something he's done before. I've got Garcia checking dental records against other cases."

Rossi and Derek walk back to the interrogation room, and you quickly follow them to observe their talk with Will.

"The D. A. was ready to charge him when Missy was still alive. How the hell are we supposed to keep him now?"

"I'm surprised you're writing all this stuff to a fella," Rossi says when they walk inside the room. "It sounds like you have a real special thing going on."

"I mean, I'm thinking if the two of you had just got it on, maybe these women would still be alive," Derek shrugs. "So, where'd you meet him? Chat room? Porn sites? Gay bar? Whoever this guy is, he's looking out for you and cleaning up for you. Missy Dewald is dead."

"Has he called yet? Lee Jarvis, the D.A., I mean. I saw his name on the warrant. He's got the best conviction rate in Florida. Do you know why?"

"I wanna know why your pen pal killed her when he could have let her rot," Rossi glares.

"Jarvis doesn't like to lose. He's not gonna ruin his record over this."

Will refuses to talk about his potential partner thinking the D.A. is going to get him out of this one. However, your team is going to do everything they can to lock this bitch up.

"Wow, this friend of yours wants to please you badly, doesn't he? He's protecting you, doing whatever he's gotta do to make sure that you're innocent. He killed Missy so you could be together again. It's only been a few hours, but he misses you."

"And you've gotten what exactly from all this?" Will asks in a bored tone.

"Proof that someone out there is just as sick as you."

Penelope works her magic and gets results from the bite marks left on Missy. The dental records don't match Will but they do match a reported rape in Manatee County earlier this year. The teeth marks belong to the same person, but they've never been arrested so she can't cross-reference. Connie Mayers is the victim of that rape, so if you're going to have any hope in figuring out who this is, then you have to talk to her.

Emily and Hotch went over to her job as soon as they got that information, but she wasn't too happy about it. No one else knew about what happened to her, but your coworkers did their best to keep it discreet. She works at a flower shop, so Emily bought some flowers as she asks her questions.

Connie's attacker knew what he wanted like he was confident in what he was doing. Connie thought he was a control freak. He wore a mask but she could tell he was shite, proving what you saw using Missy's energy. The partner choked her which took a long time for the bruises to go away. It's not as bad as the bite marks which are just scars now.

"Connie described an anger-excitation rapist just like William," Emily says when she and Hotch return. "We're looking at two dominant personalities."

"It makes sense. They have a similar discourse. They're equally well-written," Spencer says. "It's rare in criminal partnerships. If their personalities are the same, their lives probably mirror one another's as well."

"Harris goes to church, he's on the board of the PTA, he coaches his daughter's soccer team, and he rarely drinks."

"He sounds like a saint," Jordan says.

"With a dark side," Hotch adds. "That's what he connected to in his partner. Prentiss and I will go talk to the family and see if they know who it might be."

Emily and Hotch leave but you stay behind to help Spencer.

"Two alpha males won't be easy to break," Derek says. "The partner is definitely following the investigation."

"Let's do the talking for them," Rossi suggests, holding up a newspaper.

"I think a chatroom might be better. It sounds like they do most of their talking on the computer, but I like where your head's at," you say. "Plus, it's quicker."

"Why would he read it? He knows William won't be writing," Jeff says.

"These men are addicted to each other. Right now, he needs a fix, and the words they've shared are all he has to cling to. His partner wrote 'Faith should never be broken'. A betrayal could devastate him."

"All we have to say is that William's cooperating and then hopes he takes the bait."

Derek and Rossi give you and Spencer some time to come up with something you hope will catch the partner's attention. It's not easy, but you have the journal entries they've already sent to each other. All you have to do is work with the words and language they've already used.

"What have we got so far?" Derek asks after an hour of working.

"We were surprised that you injected yourself into the investigation. You risked a lot in order to help William," you read what you have. "Killing Missy tells us how close you really are. It must be devastating to learn that William is here with us."

Spencer doesn't like what you've come up with in fear the partner will retaliate.

"He's not gonna like that. It sounds like William's cooperating."

"That's exactly what we want him to believe so he'll doubt their alliance."

Derek and Rossi use this information on Will, and you follow them so you can pay close attention to Will. You can talk to Derek and Rossi through the comms just in case you notice something off about Will. After they tell him what they've done, Will just smirks in thought.

"What's that smirk for?

"Sharon is posting bail. I'm thinking about where to go for dinner. Maybe we'll go to Salvatore's."

"Rossi, play it off as if the partner is the alpha male. It might set him off," you say.

"You know, maybe we got it wrong. Maybe they're not both alpha males. The partner made the first move. He's the one with the balls."

"Yeah, and it was pretty risky, too. Think about it. What if you did turn in here? Or at least your partner thought you turned in here, hmm? Then he'd have no choice but to turn himself in. Your lives would be ruined," Derek adds. "That's the reason it works. You both have everything to lose."

"He's only cleaning up because he can't afford to get caught either. Am I right?" William doesn't answer. "How is gonna react to the entry we wrote? He knows we're reading your little love letters, so we decided to send one ourselves and let him know you're in here helping us out."

"He's probably feeling pretty betrayed right about now. If he is, what do you think he's doing about it?"

"William, you wrote, 'Thanks for the perfect place to play'. What were you talking about?"

"Golfing."

"Right. What was it like?"

"Perfect," he smirks.

Will is so confident he isn't going to get caught that he's radiating energy that you can feel from outside the room. The energy is allowing you to see images of Will and his partner with a girl they've kidnapped. The girl is one of the girls who was reported missing and found dead. One of the girls was dead before you even arrived in Florida.

"Rossi, I see him and his partner with one of the three girls who were found dead. Keep him talking. The more he thinks he's getting away with it, the more I can use his energy to see more."

Derek sets out pictures of the three dead women since he heard everything you've said to Rossi. All of the women are happy and smiling as if nothing bad could ever happen to them.

"You probably don't recognize them like this, do you, William? Happy and smiling. All these gifts. All these girls."

"This is someone's child. You know, Missy Dewald was supposed to meet her parents for dinner. She was eighteen years old, an only child, and you just took her away."

"I feel sorry for those parents. I really do," Will says without emotion.

"Do you hear yourself? Not an ounce of sincerity. You just proved you were incapable of empathy just like your partner. William, you never would have done any of this without him, but you just weren't complete, right?"

Spencer walks into the room and hands you some papers. The pages are about the love between William and his partner.

"Rossi, we have something."

Rossi leaves the room while Derek stays inside, and you hand him the papers Spencer gave you.

"It's been so long, my heart aches. I need to see that face again soon," Rossi reads the papers when he walks back inside. "I mean, it's pretty obvious there's an emotional connection between you two, huh? You can't deny that, but this doesn't really sound like two buddies to me. Sounds more like two men in love with each other."

"You have no idea what you're talking about."

This strikes a nerve in Will, and this is what you need to get more information from him.

"You're right. I have absolutely no idea what it's like to be in love with another man."

"You know, everyone who goes into law enforcement has this air of moral superiority. For you, it seeps out of every single pore. Black cop in the FBI. You got a big chip on your shoulder with a lot to prove."

"Now who's the one who has no idea what he's talking about?"

"Derek, don't let him rile you up. This is just what he wants," you warn your friend.

"We're not so different, you and I. We choose the games we play because they make us feel powerful. So, what do you have, special agent Morgan? Prove beyond a reasonable doubt that I have broken the law, but don't you sit there with that smug look on your face and judge me, boy."

This pisses Derek off.

"First of all, I am not your boy, and this look on my face is a look of contempt because you disgust me. You and I are nothing alike. When we do find this friend of yours, there isn't a jury out there who won't find you guilty."

Derek leaves the room, allowing Rossi to be alone with him.

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peacesmovingcabaret · 2 years ago

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That’s not the issue. It’s not that amber was a woman and jd was a man. It’s the fact that he was disgustingly older than her, he dated a minor as a 25 year old full grown adult which is absolutely about power only, his ex said he got angry and violent quick, he admitted in court he called Vanessa paradis many horrible names bc there was physical photographic proof he couldnt deny, there was photos of the damage he did, his own team members admitted they lied bc he intimidated and paid them to lie in ambers person, these same people actually stood up for ambers side eventually, the jokes about raping her dead body was way before they got married which matters, amber does have injuries that were proven to be real if you looked them up or watched the court videos in full, he told Paul bettany that he “pounded and displayed ugly colors on amber”, he said things in recordings where he promised amber he’d get better and “try not to hurt her again” and to “leave him notes in the morning as a reminder to be nice to you”, (abusers always keep you in a cycle where you have hope they’ll change), and in texts to her mom she even said she loves him and wants him to change too, amber never abused her ex bc her ex came forward and said it was a misunderstanding (they’re not dating anymore so if amber was an abuser her ex wouldnt have to defend her), amber was the one that made excuses for jd bc she loved him despite the abuse he admitted in audio to doing to her, JDs emails to ambers therapist and psychiatrist talk about trying to keep her under control in his own words and he swore at them and showed unhinged behavior in the emails about wanting amber under his control, victims record arguments in relationships not abusers: check who did the 18 or whatever hours of recordings… amber was the one trying to call the police and her friends, Mr Murphy was a witness to ambers closet being destroyed, audios of amber saying he beat her up and he responded with “I made a mistake I won’t do it again”, in the audios amber is clearly arguing things we victims of abuse usually argue to our emotionally abusers: that’s about reminding n them to communicate issues, set boundaries VERBALIZE IT with each other on both ends (abusers don’t usually do it on their ends bc a common abuser trait is expecting ppl to read your mind and just know what you want), she argues he’s projecting again, amber also is honest about fighting back and the bad things she says sometimes but reminds him it starts with him, amber didn’t want cameras in court, depp did. Depp enjoyed and said before going to court that hed enjoy bringing her there, and victims don’t feel or think like that at all bc it’s traumatic for us. After countless arrests, convictions for rape and child rape, depp still defended rapist Roman Polanski in a 2010 interview. Jd is known to be friends with multiple men who have been called out on rape and domestic violence, had restraining orders set against them, their children accused them of abuse, and theyve admitted in text s to doing things of that nature, these men include: Brian Warner (accused by 6 ppl), nicolas cage, marlon Brando, josh homme. Ambers close friends I couldn’t find anything, but she came from an abusive home and usually you repeat what you’ve been through. Depp admitted in audio to being “irrational, crazy, jealous” in response to amber filming scenes. https://twitter.com/glossyinferno/status/1517232728755916800?s=20 that’s one of many fucking links. Just watch the full court hearing through and through without fucking skipping you fucking morons. And listen to the full audio recordings amber has which is like 18 or whatever amount of hours, but you have to listen to EVERY FUCKING SECOND you fucking MORONIC FUCK FACES.

Anon, please seek help.

#seriously this is not healthy

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justcallmelenny · 2 years ago

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It’s the fact that he was disgustingly older than her, he dated a minor as a 25 year old full grown adult which is absolutely about power only, his ex said he got angry and violent quick, he admitted in court he called Vanessa paradis many horrible names bc there was physical photographic proof he couldnt deny, there was photos of the damage he did, his own team members admitted they lied bc he intimidated and paid them to lie in ambers person, these same people actually stood up for ambers side eventually, the jokes about raping her dead body was way before they got married which matters, amber does have injuries that were proven to be real if you looked them up or watched the court videos in full, he told Paul bettany that he “pounded and displayed ugly colors on amber”, he said things in recordings where he promised amber he’d get better and “try not to hurt her again” and to “leave him notes in the morning as a reminder to be nice to you”, (abusers always keep you in a cycle where you have hope they’ll change), and in texts to her mom she even said she loves him and wants him to change too, amber never abused her ex bc her ex came forward and said it was a misunderstanding (they’re not dating anymore so if amber was an abuser her ex wouldnt have to defend her), amber was the one that made excuses for jd bc she loved him despite the abuse he admitted in audio to doing to her, JDs emails to ambers therapist and psychiatrist talk about trying to keep her under control in his own words and he swore at them and showed unhinged behavior in the emails about wanting amber under his control, victims record arguments in relationships not abusers: check who did the 18 or whatever hours of recordings… amber was the one trying to call the police and her friends, Mr Murphy was a witness to ambers closet being destroyed, audios of amber saying he beat her up and he responded with “I made a mistake I won’t do it again”, in the audios amber is clearly arguing things we victims of abuse usually argue to our emotionally abusers: that’s about reminding n them to communicate issues, set boundaries VERBALIZE IT with each other on both ends (abusers don’t usually do it on their ends bc a common abuser trait is expecting ppl to read your mind and just know what you want), she argues he’s projecting again, amber also is honest about fighting back and the bad things she says sometimes but reminds him it starts with him, amber didn’t want cameras in court, depp did. Depp enjoyed and said before going to court that hed enjoy bringing her there, and victims don’t feel or think like that at all bc it’s traumatic for us. After countless arrests, convictions for rape and child rape, depp still defended rapist Roman Polanski in a 2010 interview. Jd is known to be friends with multiple men who have been called out on rape and domestic violence, had restraining orders set against them, their children accused them of abuse, and theyve admitted in text s to doing things of that nature, these men include: Brian Warner (accused by 6 ppl), nicolas cage, marlon Brando, josh homme. Ambers close friends I couldn’t find anything, but she came from an abusive home and usually you repeat what you’ve been through. Depp admitted in audio to being “irrational, crazy, jealous” in response to amber filming scenes. https://twitter.com/glossyinferno/status/1517232728755916800?s=20 that’s one of many fucking links. Just watch the full court hearing through and through without fucking skipping. And listen to the full audio recordings amber has which is like 18 or whatever amount of hours, but you have to listen to EVERY FUCKING SECOND.

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Judgment-FINAL.pdf

https://href.li/?https://64.media.tumblr.com/269e7de14fb10d628484389ed2f570ff/0261f688e62ded3b-02/s1280x1920/64692e390a5d19208382dcfee6d9d05a329df8e5.jpg

https://twitter.com/k4mil1aa/status/1541465480489185281?s=20&t=ZTGENROShUzd1ISGJ6A0bg

https://href.li/?https://old.reddit.com/r/Deuxmoi/comments/ul82xt/i_will_fck_her_burnt_corpse_johnny_depp_fans_are/

https://href.li/?https://www.reuters.com/world/us/johnny-depp-face-cross-examination-defamation-case-against-ex-wife-2022-04-21/

https://href.li/?https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSAXJgDWUAA2Mo3?format=jpg&name=large

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmUV0DQ9Jco

https://people.com/celebrity/johnny-depps-kicked-amber-heard-business-managers/

https://href.li/?https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Judgment-FINAL.pdf

https://okmagazine.com/p/johnny-depp-trial-amber-heard-arrested-violence-tasya-van-ree/

Mr Murphy agreed that he went to the apartment and cleared up the mess which could be seen in the photographs. (p. 82, paragraph 383)

If you’re too lazy to watch the trial full thing through without skipping a second here’s my gift to you: https://twitter.com/i/status/1541483048046194688

https://twitter.com/k4mil1aa/status/1541491246023094272?s=20&t=cjWofJeIegMgTOI-XzcZaA

Dr. Bonnie Jacobs, AH’s doctor (hearsay because the doctor didn’t actually witness the abuse in person as it happened and she told her doctor)

The color-correcting palette in question was used as a prop to give the jury an idea of what Amber would have used to cover up her bruising. Amber's team had removed the label to avoid brand association and have never alleged to her using that specific product or brand. Amber's makeup artist testified to using Clé de Peau to cover her bruises, a Japanese luxury beauty brand.

Color corrector palette came out 2016 not 2017 like rumors said, but it was never stated she used these products.https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/gallery/how-to-colour-correct-best-correcting-kits

https://twitter.com/k4mil1aa/status/1541465506380521473?s=20&t=cjWofJeIegMgTOI-XzcZaA

https://twitter.com/k4mil1aa/status/1541470950721572866?s=20&t=cjWofJeIegMgTOI-XzcZaA

https://twitter.com/k4mil1aa/status/1541487538832961536?s=20&t=cjWofJeIegMgTOI-XzcZaA

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/johnny-depp-amber-heard-recordings-shouting-b2064973.html

https://twitter.com/IvanaE/status/1341517643178717190?s=20&t=5yJAv7jWlbb-Jynf08DPzQ

https://twitter.com/IvanaE/status/1341517645322067968?s=20&t=5yJAv7jWlbb-Jynf08DPzQ

Defended roan. Polanski who was convicted on multiple rape charges already by 2010 when the interview took place:

https://href.li/?https://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a200464/johnny-depp-defends-roman-polanski/

Depp was arrested in 1989 for assaulting a security guard after the police were called to end a loud party at his hotel room.

He was also arrested in New York City in 1994 after damaging a hotel room he was staying in with Kate Moss.

Depp brawling with the paparazzi.

In 2018, Depp assaulted a crew member on the set of City of Lies.

In 2018, two of Depp’s former bodyguards sued him for unpaid fees and unsafe working conditions. The suit was settled in 2019.

Depp was constantly late and drunk on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean.

Depp will also supposedly receive his full salary for the third Fantastic Beasts movie, despite filming only one scene for it and being asked to leave the project.

Heard sought a restraining order from Depp in 2016. She also sought an order requiring Depp to attend 52 weeks of anger management courses. (page 19, Judiciary Judgements) AND HERE ARE THE LINKS BELOW:

https://href.li/?https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/03/09/Teen-heart-throb-Johnny-Depp-who-plays-an-undercover-policeman/8389605422800/

https://href.li/?https://web.archive.org/web/20170510082221/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/14/style/chronicle-236659.html

https://href.li/?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/269156.stm

https://href.li/?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44778997

https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eonline.com%2Fnews%2F1003064%2Fjohnny-depp-quietly-settles-lawsuit-with-former-bodyguards&t=Y2Y5NjJhY2VlYmM3ZDBhMDFhM2FhY2VkYTM2YjQ0NzRmMzVkYzI3MiwyMzRhYzdlZGY5NDVjZWRhYzhiYWMwZTc4YzFkOGQ0MDQ5MmIyZWRk&ts=1652190874

https://href.li/?https://www.businessinsider.com/johnny-depp-pirates-movie-set-crisis-2017-5?r=US&IR=T

https://href.li/?https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/12/johnny-depp-fantastic-beasts-salary#:~:text=executives.,from%20the%20project%20last%20month.

I’m not linking it but you can easily find the full uncut audios of ambers recordings online like YouTube for example; they are of these time lengths (minutes/hours/whatever): 36:53 (3/?/2015), 4:25:11 Toronto (9/12/2015), 4:21:21 accountability, 53:58, 5:30:24 mockery, 2:05:25 issacs 9/?/2015, 31:25 phone call 2016, 24:42 divorce TRO 2016, 2:02:09 deposition 2016

Yeah but he's captain jack sparrow

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generalchelseamayhem · 3 years ago

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So if I'm reading this right

Alice Sebold is an author whose initial claim to fame that allowed her to develop her career was a memoir entitled Lucky, that primarily detailed her experience of being raped in 1981 at the hands of a stranger later identified as Anthony Broadwater.

Notably, Sebold claimed to recognise him later as her attacker, but failed to pick him out of a line-up, and he was put on trial anyway, the police having apparently determined that the man she saw/allegedly recognised must have been Broadwater for reasons I personally cannot fathom. Incidentally, her rationale for picking the man she did out of the line-up was allegedly due to being frightened of the expression in his eyes, not out of any sense of recognition.

Broadwater served 16 years in prison from 1982 until, I would presume, 1998, which would be shortly before the memoir was published. He has been on the sex offender registry and has fought to have his conviction overturned ever since.

Meanwhile, Lucky is so successful that someone (suggested to be Netflix, but apparently it isn't, per The Guardian) approaches Sebold about adapting it. The Executive Producer, Timothy Mucciante, notices alarming discrepancies in the part of the book that talks about Broadwater's trial. He ends up leaving the project and actually hires a private investigator to review the case, so convinced is he of Broadwater's lack of guilt. By now, of course, Broadwater has his own defence lawyer working on the same case, having fought for more than 20 years at this point to prove his innocence, so they join forces.

About eight days ago, the conviction was indeed overturned, after almost 40 years. The production company decides to drop their planned adaptation of Lucky, and the publishing company for the original memoir decides to stop publishing it altogether.

I'm sure everyone reading this recognises this initial rape conviction as a horrific miscarriage of justice, and I would hope that at least most of you will appreciate the obvious falsehood of the cry that false rape accusations never happen and don't affect anyone, from this example if nothing else. This is a textbook To Kill a Mockingbird scenario, and one that we MRAs have always, always said will happen and already has happened throughout history, when the word of the alleged victim is all that is required for proof.

But something extra-infuriating that I want to draw out of this story is the reaction of the author, Alice Sebold. After being given over a week to think about the overturning of Broadwater's conviction, she has this to say [archive]:

"40 years ago, as a traumatized 18-year-old rape victim, I chose to put my faith in the American legal system. My goal in 1982 was justice — not to perpetuate injustice."

"I am grateful that Mr. Broadwater has finally been vindicated, but the fact remains that 40 years ago, he became another young Black man brutalized by our flawed legal system."

Today, American society is starting to acknowledge and address ... that justice for some comes at the expense of others. Unfortunately, this was not a debate, or a conversation, or even a whisper when I reported my rape in 1981."

"I will continue to struggle with the role that I unwittingly played within a system that sent an innocent man to jail." [emphasis mine]

To all of which I say, "What a load of crock".

I am going to be supremely, saintishly charitable to Alice Sebold here, and assume that, despite the way that the case has progressed, the rape by a black man she describes in 1981 actually did happen the way she describes in her memoir. But the sham conviction of Anthony Broadwater was a long, multi-step process, a ride which she could have exited at any point and let an innocent man go free for her trouble. She chose not to.

She picked the wrong man out of a line-up. The police, for whatever reason, were keen to prosecute Anthony Broadwater in particular, and told her that she had picked a totally different guy to the one they were expecting her to. She told the police she thought they looked practically identical. Furthermore, she picked that man solely on the basis of him having a scary-looking face.

They prosecuted Anthony Broadwater in court. Despite having picked the wrong man out of the line up, despite having no connection to him other than seeing his face on the street one day, she testified in court that he raped her.

And then. Despite never truly acknowledging the gaping holes in her own case, maybe even sincerely believing that the whole trial was airtight despite the fact that it was based on her word and some painful now-debunked pseudoforensics, she publishes a memoir about the experience not one year after his release that invigorates her career as an author - she would go on to publish The Lovely Bones in 2002, which coincidentally, is about a girl who is raped and murdered at a young age. Worth noting that, in 1981, the police who responded to her report told her she was lucky to be alive. It is not a stretch to imagine that her entire career is built on the back of a rape allegation that, at least in the case of the convicted man, turned out to be false.

And she wants us to believe that she was an unwitting participant in this system? Everything she did about this matter - and again, we're assuming that it happened at all - was a deliberate choice on her part. You don't get to say "Damn, when I pointed out some random black guy on the street and said he looked kinda like the guy who raped me, I didn't imagine he'd be wrongfully imprisoned!" In that scenario, you effectively are the justice system, because you are all the apparatus of the 1980s justice system needs to convict an innocent black man.

At some point, feminism will have to come to grips with the fact that its rhetoric of fearmongering about men, especially in terms of sexual assault and rape, is not only antithetical to the notion of due process, but it is predicated on race far more often than they'd like to admit. If Sebold was truly ignorant of racial dynamics in the justice system in 1981, then she either needs to get her ears checked, or perhaps she isn't as progressively-minded as she presents herself. Perhaps her ignorance is wilful.

The infuriating thing is, maybe all black men do look the same to Alice Sebold! Maybe seeing Anthony Broadwater did remind her in some way of a traumatic night when she was raped! Maybe the look in the black man's eyes in the police line-up was terrifying to her! But somehow, after eight whole days of thinking about the implications of Broadwater's overturned conviction, Sebold still has no idea how racist that mindset makes her.

And if she doesn't see it now I'm not sure she ever will.

#MRA #MRM #false rape accusations #racism #law #rant

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ladyonfire28 · 5 years ago

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Not portrait related but related to Adele. I saw some news about Adele supporting guy named Adama Treore who is allegedly a rapist? I am not French so I don’t know anything so I was wondering if you know what it’s about?

The story is a bit too long to explain, I guess this article sums up the whole Adama Traoré case pretty well.

It’s true that one of Traoré’s cell mate accused him of rape where they were together in jail and filed a complain against him couple of month before his death. He said Traoré forced him to give him blowjobs. Very recently the French Crime Victims Compensation Board said the sexual assault was established and the guy was financially compensated. But this has nothing to do with the criminal justice, I don’t think there were any investigation for this. Don’t know how the compensation board works but it’s not linked to the criminal justice so technically Traoré isn’t convicted, and never will be since he died.

I don’t believe Adama was a great guy. I personally don’t think his cell mate lied (that’s just my feeling). So maybe he did assaulted him, which makes him a real asshole. But Adèle and a very big part of French people (including me) aren’t supporting him like that, they’re protesting against police brutality. If Adama really did rape him, then he should have gone to jail for that. He should have gone to the court and sentenced by judges. But he shouldn’t have died after running away from the police for an identity check. He did nothing that would have justified his death.

And I can’t stand people who say « well he was a rapist so whatever if he’s dead ». Nobody deserves to die for anything. And even more without a fair trial. Police don’t get to decide who live or die, nobody get to decide that. Police didn’t let him suphocate under their weights because of that accusation anyway, they pretty much killed him because he was black and they probably knew he was a delinquent.

Assa Traoré, Adama’s sister, is a big figure now in the fight against police brutality and racism in the police in France. She’s been fighting to get justice for his brother for 4 years now.

But you can do your own searches too, there a lot of articles in English about him.

#ask #anon #justice pour adama

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rotationalsymmetry · 4 years ago

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Long post about how justice needs to be about the people harmed, not the people causing the harm. From justice for individuals to social justice. Some non-graphic discussion of rape. Behind a cut, partly because of the rape stuff but mostly because it’s really long. Somewhat rambly.

I’ve got one more in me. At least. Hang on.

My brain will fan out in one of a thousand arbitrary directions and then not want to go back. I can do this.

Ah, right, “as usual this isn’t about being a bad person.” The US and I’m assuming the Western world in general, has a really skewed idea of justice. We think it’s about the person causing harm.

Let’s say someone rapes me. Let’s say it’s one of those mythical rapes that almost never happens: a stranger in a dark alley relying on physical force. OK. That’s bad. That’s not a stealing baby formula kind of crime, it’s not something that just shouldn’t be illegal in the first place or something that wouldn’t be an issue under a more fair economic system, that’s really bad.

(A massive percentage of the prison population is there for nonviolent drug crimes, and in general illegal is not the same thing as wrong.)

Is putting the rapist in jail going to help me or other people? I mean, maybe I’ll feel a little bit safer, maybe?

Except that’s not how most rapes happen. The guy who actually raped me wasn’t a stranger who physically overpowered me. He was my boyfriend. And he didn’t need to overpower me because I trusted him and thought that since I’d said that I wanted to do some things and not other things he’d respect that and, well, turns out I was wrong.

There is no way in hell I would have gotten a conviction, if I’d even contacted the police, if I’d even seen it as rape at the time. I’d have to prove, in a court of law, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it wasn’t consensual, and how do you do that? And most rape victims can’t. Because most rapes are committed by someone the victim knows — a boyfriend, a spouse, a friend, an acquaintance — and they’re not committed using physical force. (Alcohol/drugs are really common, although not in my case.)

How do you prove it was rape? You don’t.

That’s the bad news. The good news is, you don’t have to punish the rapists to create a world with less rape in it, or to support people who have been raped. You can tell the truth about rape and dispel the myths. You can make therapy widely available, and medical care including abortion widely available and cheap or better yet free. (In spite of what a certain Republican politician has claimed on the record, there’s no special magic that keeps people with a uterus from getting pregnant if they didn’t want the sex.)

Oh, and including generous support for parents who don’t have a lot of resources, for victims unlucky enough to get pregnant who choose to not go the abortion route.

You can promote consent culture (talking about what getting consent looks like) and fight slut shaming (slut shaming is always also rape victim shaming) and promote bystander intervention and make certain kinds of “locker room talk” socially unacceptable and spend an inordinate amount of time talking about “It’s Cold Outside”.

You can address the myth that false accusations of rape are common. You can impose social and economic consequences on accused rapists without waiting for or requiring legal confirmation. You can bring “missing stairs” out into the open. You can decide this isn’t a good time to talk about the Rule of Three when a rape victim asks for a curse in your online pagan group. You can believe victims and support victims and not ask a bunch of weird “ok, but you must have done something to make him think you wanted it” type questions.)

(Um, I’m mostly using male perpetrator/female victim language here, but rape absolutely happens in queer contexts and women can sexually assault men or boys, and believing male or nonbinary victims and people who have been victimized by women or other not-men is important too.)

Hmm. I don’t think this is exactly what I wanted to talk about here. But I guess I’ll roll with it?

Anyways: if my rapist was in prison that wouldn’t do a danged thing to help me. What helps me? Project Unbreakable. Yes Means Yes. Other people who have been raped talking about their experiences. A lot of people being very emphatic that it’s not a “misunderstanding” thing and it’s not the victim’s fault. People talking about what the emotional fall-out of being raped can look like, and how there’s no “wrong” way to react to being raped. People who make it possible to talk about this stuff without getting a lot of weird ass reactions.

And, you know, health care and stuff.

And this is what justice should look like: what helps people who have been harmed, what mitigates the damage, what promotes healing. Which pretty much always starts with speaking truth and dispelling the myths.

It’s really, really, really not about the perpetrators.

And it’s the same thing with all oppression related stuff. Racism isn’t about white people. This anti-immigrant xenophobic stuff going on in the US, isn’t about white US citizens who are overly fond of weird candy metaphors, it’s about immigrants and their families and what they need.

Fighting the patriarchy fundamentally isn’t about punishing men or doing anything with men at all, and taking the focus away from men is a really important step in fighting patriarchy.

Fighting ableism isn’t about temporarily abled people at all, and I have to say as a formerly temporarily abled person (or at least formerly able bodied person) that term resonates with me hard. It really is a fundamentally unreliable state of being.

Anyways: it’s about disabled people. It’s about being clear on the differences between what our conditions do to us and what a human-made world does to us. It’s about taking our voices out of the margins and putting them in the center. It’s about resources and support and challenging the idea that worth is connected to productivity or independence. It’s about being real and upfront about how while work often needs to be done, work isn’t worth. It’s about acknowledging that sometimes what happens to us isn’t caused by us. It’s making space for seeing people who are sick or injured who aren’t getting better, ever. It’s about representation in media, it’s about accommodations, it’s about addressing stigmas. It’s not about abled people at all.

So: I’m disabled, ableism is (partially) about me. (Definitely partially though — there’s some forms of ableism I don’t experience, and other forms I rarely experience compared to others.) When we’re talking about a type of ableism I experience (like...doctors assuming you’re not really that sick because you look healthy) my voice is important; when we’re talking about another type of ableism (like...people with developmental disabilities being treated as less than human) I need to get into ally mode and support.

I’m white: that means my opinion is intrinsically less important when the conversation turns to racism, because it’s not about me. My role is to support, to not get in the way, to use my privilege to amplify people of color’s voices. Mostly to step back. To listen. To not make it all about me.

Idk, I don’t want to act like different forms of oppression are interchangeable, and I think sometimes I do fall into that way of thinking. They’re not, there’s significantly different issues and concerns. But there’s also some extent to which ideas about one form of oppression can be transferred to other forms, some extent to which generalizations can be made. It’s easier for me to “get” racism if I think about the ways I’m marginalized. It’s not a substitute for listening though.

Anyways. I think people mess up on this a lot. Like, so much of oppression talk would be easier if there weren’t so many people whose immediate reaction to hearing oppression words like “classism” or “racist” or “patriarchy” or “transphobia” was to think “you’re telling me I’m a bad person” or even “you’re saying all men are bad” or whatever. That’s not what it’s about.

You can be really clear that that’s not what you’re saying, and people will hear it anyways because that’s what they’re primed to hear. That’s how they’re primed to think about justice. Which is one heck of a barrier to actually getting justice.

#justice #restorative justice #social justice #oppression #rape cw #political #bolding for readability #long post

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chenoehi · 5 years ago

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I'm confused. Not shocked. Just confused.

I know MMA jikook is cute and all and JK's love for "Only Then" was adorable, and yes he did a cover of it, and yes I realize his cover was used in the now seemingly popular soft kookmin video, but I got a big problem you guys.

Has everyone just forgotten that the original singer, the guy JK looked up to and really liked, is actually a fucking scumbag who shared photos of women being assaulted and raped while vulnerable, not to mention footage of women who didn't know they were being filmed which is no different from sexual assault because it's a fucking violation and none of that shit is OK? And that what he did was unforgivable? And that he was a part of a system that sexually exploited women for their own enjoyment? And that promoting his work in any capacity is promoting him? That's not fucking OK. I won't even mention what effect it all had on his father, a respected professor who apologized to his class and announced that he would have canceled his classes because of the shit his son did if it wasn't for his retirement next year.

And people really have the nerve to gush about the song. Make it make sense, y'all.

I get Roy Kim's been out of the media lately and his part in all that shit just kind of went away even after he admitted to sharing photos, which makes literally no sense to me, it's like outlets just stopped reporting about it and focused on everything else. I get that the public memory is really short. I get it's a good cover. I get it's a good song. But you're going to tell me JK hasn't done other covers? There aren't a ton of other sappy love songs out there? That song in particular had to be used although we know the artist shared photos of women being assaulted because he fucking admitted it? And I see people today still mentioning that song and how sweet the performance was and I just want to fucking scream, "Do you really not know what you're saying? Did you really not hear or read anything about what happened this spring? Are you really living in a bubble? Or do you know but still choose to support him?"

I'm just... Sometimes I just don't know. I loved that song too guys and I can't even listen to it anymore after what Roy Kim did. But you know what, I guess that's the difference between me and everyone who thinks there's nothing wrong with listening to his music and promoting or supporting a man who's no better than a rapist. And before anyone comes for me saying "It's not the original song, it's JK's cover, get over it," don't even try catching me with that bullshit because that's what it is. Jungkook did that cover because he liked the song and he liked Roy Kim and promoting his cover is no different than promoting the original song itself and promoting the artist behind it.

I'm seeing a lot of blogs I follow and some mutuals sharing that video and it's really upsetting that I don't see anyone talking about the problem with supporting the music of a man who helped perpetuate the sexual assault, rape, and violation of women. That's very troubling to me.

And I do not care if this sentiment makes me unpopular.

EDIT: Roy Kim was declared innocent by authorities this year, many months after police initially said he was guilty.

If I remember the news correctly, they stated he was not in the same group chat but in another one that was not involved in the scandal (for which the creator has already been sentenced to prison/jail for several years or so I heard, not sure if he’s serving them or not because I haven’t kept up with the events recently). Obviously the police had no business saying he was guilty if they didn’t have evidence. Whatever they had that they thought proved he was involved ultimately did not hold and they made a terrible mistake, and it’s cost him his reputation. I feel sorry that he’s gone through that and will have to rebuild public trust when he has done nothing. His only crime was being friends or involved at all with the chat creator, but sometimes you just don’t know people. If he knew what was going on and did nothing, then that will be on him, but as of yet he’s not admitted to anything and no one is accusing him so it’s done. I would delete this post, but I made this at a time when he was stated to be guilty. I saw many people supporting him and speaking about him as though nothing was wrong. That was really the intent of the post, to discuss how it was wrong to ignore what had happened when what he was accused of was so public and involved the sexual violation of women. As a woman, I can’t abide by that. I know so many artists and celebrities are involved in things and have been accused or convicted of even worse but still they are supported. I may have artists myself in Spotify playlists that have done things I wouldn’t support. Do I know about all of them? No. Would I still support them regardless if I do learn about something they’ve done involving sexual assault? No, I don’t. Everyone is different, and I personally don’t care about most drug offenses or disputes although some may not support anyone technically involved in anything criminal. What I’m referring to is sexual assault and abuse, those along with discrimination and bigotry are very serious issues that mean something to me personally. If I don’t know, I don’t know, but if I find out I have to deal with that. What happened with those group chats and the whole burning sun scandal, which was a whole separate thing but happened simultaneously, this was all very public. People who aren’t Korean who listen to K-artists most likely heard about it, and people all over social media were discussing all of it. So the excuse that people didn’t know, personally, I don’t buy that because the people I know on social are deep into Kpop and K music, listen to a lot of artists, and knew what was going on. I can’t support people involved in that and I don’t know why anyone would. I don’t want to follow or interact with people who would disregard it all for the sake of a song they like. Of course, I thought RK was guilty because we were told so. You should never say someone did something until you have proof, but that’s what happened here, and I hope the authorities who did this are being dealt with. I honestly don’t know. So, I could delete this post because we know better about RK now, but my criticisms still stand and apply no matter what.

#rant #personal post #personal #removed previous fandom tags but ill leave it on my blog for the note at the end

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a-method-in-it · 5 years ago

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No, she wasn't. Hillary defends rapists, makes jokes about children being raped, and violently attacks countries just to make more money. She's not perfect, she's a genocidal monster.

Oh boy. You are allowed to hold whatever opinions you want about political figures, but you are not allowed to spread misinformation. So to take these things in order:

First, Hillary Clinton, so far as I can tell, has represented one rapist as a criminal defense attorney. She was assigned to the case by the judge after the defendant, who had been accused of raping a 12 year old, requested a female defense attorney. This was in 1975. Clinton (who was at the time Hillary Rodham) was 27 years old and working as the director of a criminal law clinic at the University of Arkansas. She apparently requested that the judge reconsider appointing her. Honestly, if I was going to criticize her for anything about this whole episode, it would actually be that. People accused of crimes deserve a defense attorney, no matter the person and no matter the crime. If they have that right, then the government can essentially throw people in prison without giving them a fair chance to defend themselves from an accusation. And we already don’t do a great job about making sure court appointed attorneys have real resources, which helps fuel our mass incarceration crisis in this country. As a criminal defense attorney, trying to back out of a case is a big deal. But also, defense attorneys are human, and I’m not going to fault her for not wanting the case. The judge refused to reconsider, and she eventually negotiated a plea agreement that involved one year of prison time and several years probation, which either speaks to her skill as an attorney or the prosecutors’ lack of interest in providing justice to rape victims in Arkansas in the 1970s. Probably a little of both honestly. Second, Clinton never joked about the crime in question. In an interview in the 1980s, she did describe the case and did so using a few…I guess you’d call them jokes. She talked in a humorous way about trying to force prosecutors to turn over evidence to the defense (which they are legally required to do, but often try to get out of because prosecutors are often willing to play fast and loose with ethics if it means improving their conviction rate), about her client passing the polygraph test, and about bluffing a prosecutor about an expert she was still trying to get. Talking about such a serious case in a lighthearted manner was possibly not in good taste, but it was also not “joking about rape.” You can decide it’s a reason to hate her 30+ years later if you want, but you don’t get to mischaracterize what she said. Third, I legitimately have no idea where you got the idea Hillary Clinton has profited personally from any foreign military actions, and I can find no evidence for this claim. Fourth, Clinton is not responsible for genocide – hell, the Obama administration isn’t even responsible for genocide. Genocide has an actual definition and is not a synonym for “mass death” or “war crimes.” Words mean things. But more to the point, Hillary Clinton has, at no point in her career, ever had the ability to authorize specific military action. She did vote for the Iraq war, which was bad and I don’t like that about her, but senators have no role in military strategy. The Secretary of State is similarly not part of the military chain of command. She weighed in on possible military actions by the Obama administration, including advocating for the regime change in Libya and endorsing the raid that killed bin Laden, but she herself never had the ability to authorize any of that. At most – at most – you could maybe say that she was one of several parties culpable for war crimes because of her role in the Obama administration. She is categorically not guilty of genocide.

And look, I could criticize Hillary Clinton a lot. I have done so in fact. There are things about her and her record that are plain bad. There are even more things that are some flavor of not ideal. There are any number of real things that you can say about her if you want to critique her. You don’t have to resort to things that aren’t true.

#you don't have to like her #but my god #if you're going to hate her #at least hate her for things that are real #there are plenty of options #why people feel the need to spread misinformation #i do not know #truth matters people #marinarascova #method speaks

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sierratheory · 5 years ago

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Hey Sierratheory, If the allegations are true about Mitchy, why don't the victims tell the police? Why don't they press charges? Personally, I think that a predator like him (if it is true) shouldn't be loose in society and near Luke. From, Anon

A very low percentage of sexual assaults are ever reported. Let alone have charges filed. Let’s dive into this shall we?

1. The victims were likely underage when it occurred. So to go to the police, would likely mean telling their parents. Which is a really scary step. Espeically as a teenager. What if they don’t believe you? What if they punish you?

2. Rape exams are intrusive, uncomfortable and often revictimize those who get them done. Idk if you ever had a smear test/PAP smear/PAP test (whatever they are called where you are) but they are very unpleasant. Now imagine doing that after your body has been violated by someone. They also last longer and are done by whatever doctor is on call, so you could end up with a male doctor.

3. They may not realize they’ve been abused until well after the time it happened. The thing with Mitchy is he uses his position of power as a connection to 5sos to get people to consent. Which here in Canada, negates consent. So victims could really think they consented and everything is fine, when truly they’ve been manipulated (under age or not) into consenting.

If this occurs any evidence of any sort of sexual activity is likely gone at this point. Making it even more of a he said/she said. Because even if it went to court he could claim he thought they were of age, and in his mind it was consensual. Rapists are rarely convicted even if charges are laid.

4. They are likely scared. There’s so many things for them to be scared of. Let me tell you as a victim of rape, who did not press charges. It’s scary. What if the police don’t believe you. What if they do? If you go to trial have to relive the entire thing just to be torn apart and attacked on the witness stand by the defence. And then to have gone through all of that just to see that person walk free, is so damaging. I knew mentally, I could not go down that road.

I did file an anonymous report at the hospital that was given to police, giving them all the information I had. It was anonymous so I wouldn’t have to go through this process, but that the police had information so if anyone had come forward before or after me about this person they would have some statements backing that person up. Making them more believable, if they had the strength to do what I couldn’t.

Another level of fear is stans and even 5sos. I think there’s a fear of being told “you’re just doing this for attention”, or trying to tear Mitchy down cause he’s friends with 5sos etc. We’ve seen it time and time again with allegations against band members, fans don’t want to believe it. And these young girls look up to the 5sos guys’, imagine how much it would hurt for them to defend yourself abusers, or call you a lair etc. Not saying that is what they would do, but there’s definitely a layer of fear to that.

5. Public issues. At the time of my assault it had only been a little while since the acquittal of Jian Ghomeshi. A radio host who was accused by multiple women of sexual assault. These women were torn to pieces by the defence team, and ultimately he walked away from it. Yes, he lost his job and his social standing, but he was publicly declared not guilty. Things like this can affect a person’s decision to come forward or not, I know it effected mine.

Ok so I tried to include rape crisis and general violence against women help links for as many places as I could. Some are just linked to a directory (the first link below) cause I was unable to find anything. I threw this together kind of quickly so if I missed where you’re from I’m so sorry. If you or someone you know is in crisis, please consider reaching out.

Rape Crisis Centers by Country and State

This directory was created by the founders and contributed to by members of the Pandora's Aquarium support group

International Rape Crisis Hotline Directories

World wide / International abuse and crisis help lines. Are you in crisis right now? You can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline, operated by RAINN, 24 hours a day at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) in the USA. You can also search for your local rape crisis center. If you are in danger now call 911. If you are reporting a rape you should ask the local crisis center for a victim's advocate who will walk you through the process. For information on Reporting a rape click here.

USA Crisis Centers

http://www.ibiblio.org/rcip//rapecrisiscenters.html

International hotlines from RAINN

http://www.rainn.org/

International listing of crisis center websites from Rape Crisis Network Europe

International women's directory

If you are a student free counseling is probably available through your University.

Crisis Sites by region

Women's Aid Federation of England

"About Women's Aid - Women's Aid Federation of England (Women's Aid) is the national charity working to end domestic violence against women and children."

SANE - Britain's longest standing mental health helpline

SANELINE 0845 767 8000 is SANE's national telephone helpline offering support and information to callers throughout the UK.

Victim Support

Support for victim's of crime in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland

"We provide free and confidential support to help you deal with your experience, whether or not you report the crime."

Australia

Australian crisis hotlines ( 6247 2525)

Online crisis help for Australia

http://www.nswrapecrisis.com.au/

Ireland

Rape Crisis Network Ireland

Click on the words "find help" at the top left of the screen.

"The Rape Crisis Network (RCNI) is a multi-member political and campaigning organisation committed to the elimination of all forms of sexual violence through effecting political, cultural and social change." 1 800-778888

Scotland

Rape Crisis Scotland

Click on "local centres" to find rape crisis centers.

Middle East

Rape Crisis Centers by Country and State

Asia

Rape Crisis Centers by Country and State

France

Collectif Féministe Contre le Viol

+33 800 05 95 95 helpline, Email: [email protected]

Spain

ASOCIACIÓN DE ASISTENCIA A MUJERES VIOLADAS

91 574 01 10

Africa

Rape Crisis--Cape Town

Speak Out

Canada

Pan Canadian group of sexual assault centres

"We are a Pan Canadian group of sexual assault centres who have come together to implement the legal, social and attitudinal changes necessary to prevent, and ultimately eradicate, rape and sexual assault.

Canadian women's health resource

Shelternet connects abused women to shelters

#red replies #ask #anon

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hunterinabrowncoat · 6 years ago

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Okay, so twice now I’ve seen that long-ass post on my dashboard about how Johnny Depp is the real victim of abuse, and turns out Amber Heard is actually the abusive one who lied the whole time to further her career. And I’m gonna say it now:

The whole thing just... stinks.

This whole thing stinks like ‘Jussie Smollett faked a hate crime for attention’ stinks. It stinks like “I know she said he raped her but she’s a bit of a slut, so....” stinks. It stinks like “Turns out Kesha lied about being raped to try and get out of her contract!” stinks.

Not least because so many of the comments are things like “wow can’t believe we were all so quick to believe that bitch!” and “see this is why cancel culture is terrible we all owe johnny depp a huge apology!!” and the kind that literally make my skin crawl “I knew there was something fishy about it the whole time! I can’t believe I never doubted my Johnny!”

Firstly, even if this is all true and Heard was abusive to Depp, the fact that many people - particularly women and abuse survivors - believed her, is not a bad thing. Believing people who make accusations of domestic abuse is still the right thing to do. Even though, rarely, women lie about abuse, the vast majority of the time when a woman says that she was abused, she was. And our culture doesn’t make a habit of believing women. In fact mainstream media dedicated itself to picking apart every word that came out of Heard’s mouth following her accusation. By and large, Heard was not believed. She was defamed, slandered, and called all sorts of names under the sun for daring to be a bi woman and to speak ill of such a beloved Hollywood star.

There so. many. men. in Hollywood who are openly abusive to the women in their lives, who have been convicted in court of violent assaults and rapes etc. whose careers continue to be unaffected. Whose lives carry on as if nothing happened. We see it all the time. The fact that many members of the public believed her is not a bad thing, and I will not apologise for believing Amber Heard, and I will continue to believe victims of abuse when they talk about their experiences.

Secondly, if the reason you feel bad about believing Heard is because you feel like you, as a Johnny Depp fan, abandoned your fav, that’s gross as fuck and you need to reevaluate your priorities. Nobody should be exempt from criticism because they’re your favourite celebrity. Being a fan of somebody shouldn’t involve being wilfully ignorant to their faults, and it’s not some kind of demonstration of disloyalty to your fav or whatever, if it appears they did something horrific, and you don’t want to support them anymore. That’s a pretty reasoned response. Stop painting this like you all abandoned some poor lost puppy because you didn’t want to support an alleged abuser.

Johnny Depp is also not your pure or unproblematic fav. He’s been violent and abusive to other people; he’s been verbally abusive and punched people while on set. He’s not a nice person. He’s just like every other abusive rich white guy out there who shouts too loud and thinks they’re entitled to everything. It doesn’t mean it’s not possible he could have been abused by Heard, but let’s please stop acting like he’s some kind saint who’s good name has been irrevocably tarnished by a totally unbelievable and unfounded accusation.

And if Heard did fabricate the whole thing.... what’s the gain? To further her career?? She was hounded by the press, she lost out on roles, she was disbelieved and ridiculed and accused of being a liar from the first day - just like every other woman who comes forward with an accusation of abuse. For money?? You mean the $7 million that she got in the divorce settlement and transferred every penny to a domestic abuse charity???

They’re currently going through another lawsuit about defamation. That’s why this is in the press again. That’s why Depp’s lawyers are accusing her of making the whole thing up.

There’s also something painfully ironic about a bunch of people saying “I can’t believe I thought he abused her - don’t believe everything you read on the internet kids! Cos now, having read some new stuff on the internet, I know that she abused him!”

#domestic abuse #abuse tw #amber heard #johnny depp ///#long post for ts

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daesungindistress · 6 years ago

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I'm going to laugh at you so much after this whole scandal is over and Seungri is finally proven innocent. Get ready to be trolled 😻.

Laugh all you like, whenever you like... whatever makes you feel better. I shouldn’t waste my time with asks like this, but I’m still taking it all pretty seriously (except for that trolling attempt on me this morning, that was fun) so yeah, I’ll bite… I’ll give you an earnest reply.

We’ve all seen it. Over the last few weeks the fandom has migrated away from Seungri in droves, which itself is unprecedented. Never before have I seen such an abandoning. But I think you might be misunderstanding why so many fans have turned away, including many of his own. That or you’re missing the point.

Let me get this out of the way first: yes, in the beginning I was fighting hard for the presumption of innocence. While I was always tentatively open to the idea that some of the accusations could be true (because no matter how much we think we know these guys, we don’t know them), I wanted people to wait until we had more to go by. The investigation was just getting started at the time. Seungri hadn’t been booked for anything yet, and the chats hadn’t been confirmed as real.

Well, now we have more. So much more. We have more than any of us ever expected. And it’s not getting better… it’s getting worse.

That said… “proven innocent”. If only it was that simple. Courts don’t prove innocence; what they will do is find him guilty or not guilty. “Not guilty” doesn’t mean innocent; strictly speaking, it means there isn’t enough evidence to convict him. If that happens, it then comes down to the trust we have in him and how well we think we know him. The sad truth is that while there was once a time when I might have believed in his innocence, that time has passed. Given recent reports of destruction of evidence (changing phones, everyone except JJY exiting the chats in a coordinated manner, leaving the data there to disappear), there will always be doubt. Always. And I’m not confident that this doubt can be overcome. Seungri himself has addressed this already: “the issues that I caused a societal disturbance with are too major.”

Too major. His words, not mine.

Do you understand the gravity of this situation? Do you really? The men in these chats – Seungri’s circle of friends – have likened the women they slept with, some of whom they drugged and raped, to comfort women (yes, new reports have revealed that this goes beyond simply filming and distributing without consent, as if that wasn’t bad enough). Do you know what a charged topic that is in Korea? They might as well have called them sex slaves. We don’t know yet if Seungri was in that chat, but the fact remains that these are people he fostered bonds of friendship with for years, keeping in close contact with them until as recently as last month. His name is irreparably tied to them. I'm not normally one of those "guilty by association" types, but I can't turn a blind eye any longer. I have to question why he stayed. For him, I’m afraid complete innocence has gone out the window, across the rooftops, run away… to quote Duran Duran.

Here’s the deal. Throughout the course of this investigation, we as a fandom have seen enough. No, not everything… but enough. While Seungri might not be guilty of every allegation against him, his involvement brands him as far from innocent. And as such, we no longer need a court verdict to tell us that, if nothing else, his time in Big Bang has come to an end. I don’t give a damn about what he does with his life in the aftermath, as an individual. If he’s guilty, I hope he faces the consequences and comes out a better person. If he’s not guilty, I hope he can pick up whatever is left of his life and carry on in peace without further harassment from the public.

But we VIPs… this isn't our fight anymore. This isn't a decision we need to make for him. Because Seungri already made it for us.

Remember? He retired. And in doing so, I believe he told us all we needed to know. This controversy has grown too great to overcome. On the financial front, it’s become an international affair – Korean police have called on authorities from China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong to aid in the investigation. On the sexual side, it hits right at the heart of some of the most heated issues we as women face today: misogyny, sex crimes, and women’s rights. As far as Seungri’s entertainment career is concerned, with a fanbase that's overwhelmingly women... realistically, I just don’t think there’s any coming back from this. And I think Seungri was aware of this. He knows things we don't; things we likely never will. So he acted accordingly and removed himself from the equation before any more damage could be done to Big Bang’s reputation.

And to that I say, good on him. I’ve always said he’s smarter than we give him credit for. Seungri saw his downfall in the near distance, coming for him fast and furious, and he accepted it. Oh, sure, he’s still fighting for his freedom, but his time as a singer… that’s history. At least for the foreseeable future.

When this controversy has finally come to an end... whatever the outcome, I won't be laughing, because nothing about this is funny. A “not guilty” verdict will save Seungri from prison, but it won’t redeem him or his place in Big Bang. The sooner you can accept it like he did, the sooner you can begin the healing process and start learning to move on.

#ask #godokgo #seungri #burning sun #support him as an individual all you want #but it's time to stop calling for his return to bigbang

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a-room-of-my-own · 6 years ago

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This is grim stuff, so apologies in advance. Although I don’t know why I’m apologizing.

Aimee Challenor, former spokesperson for the UK Green Party and current Diversity Officer for the Coventry Liberal Democrats is about to marry a gentleman from Michigan who writes pornographic fiction about children and “mind control.”

How do we know this? Because someone posted the accusation on Mumsnet and the budding author, Nathaniel Knight, cheerfully owned up to it on Twitter.

“Yes, I have written smut,” Knight said. “I have written smut featuring minors. I have written smut featuring incest. I have written smut featuring things that are not ethically sound or morally right in the real world. I also write smut featuring adults.”

Stirring stuff! Even by the Internet’s cavalier application of the laws of space and time, the thread stayed online for too long. Knight deleted the thread, but it was too late. The tweets had been screen-shotted and reposted.

Note his choice of word, by the way: “Smut.” Not “pornography” or “porn” or even “erotica.” Those words wouldn’t have quite as casual an air. “Smut” has the just-minding-my-own-business-guv quality you need when you’re choosing something to loiter next to the word “minors.” Essentially, he’s trying to diminish it and normalize what it is he actually writes and fantasizes about. “I have no reason to hide the fact,” he continues, “that I am sexually awakened adult who has fantasies that might be unethical to explore in real life.”

Well, you do, mate, as a matter of fact. Because your “unethical” fantasies are the kind that get you housed away from the general prison population, should you be so “unethical” as to indulge them in real life. (Again, note another artfully chosen word.)

It was an astonishing thread. The guy’s brain is obviously so pickled in porn that he genuinely doesn’t realize that the thing he is oversharing is something that no human being should ever feel safe saying out loud to anyone, except maybe a therapist.

But Knight isn’t really the point. You see, at the time of writing, Aimee Challenor is still — still — on the trans advisory board at Stonewall, an influential charity which advises many organizations with responsibilities for children, including the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). Yes, that NSPCC. (And now, this NSPCC.)

Despite the fact that Challenor’s father was charged for an unspeakably dreadful and depraved crime, Aimee continued to use him as an election agent. David Challenor is currently serving a 20+ year sentence for raping and torturing a 10-year-old girl in the attic of the family home.

The Greens produced a report that meant Aimee scarpered rather than hang about to be disciplined, pausing only to shout “transphobia” on the way out the door. Then it was straight into the arms of the Liberal Democrats and a new man, who apparently shares the same taste for children — at least in his imagination — as David Challenor.

A Labour peer recently got fired from her position as the shadow Brexit secretary because she complained about a bunker mentality at the top of the party, but this is a problem that extends all the way across the UK Left. Anyone pointing out legitimate concerns with, for instance, the obvious ramifications of legally allowing individuals to self-identify as the opposite sex, is portrayed as a bigot and a bully, with a kind of message consistency that would be the envy of Fox News.

Feminists who question modern gender ideology are insulted by trans activists in suspiciously coordinated language. The same phrases come up again and again: “no debate,” “transwomen are women,” “trans rights are human rights” (whatever that means… Trans people have the same rights as the rest of us…) There are some — the majority — who repeat this messaging because they think it makes them appear more inclusive, more evolved, and because they haven’t thought beyond its superficially “kind” appearance.

But there are others — and I think David Challenor was one of them — who have a vested interest in lowering the standards of safeguarding in the UK and silencing those who raise the alarm about it. As social workers often point out, it only takes a few people to groom an organization — or, in this case, a whole movement — and people like David Challenor see the destruction of safeguarding norms as a way to normalize sexual practices and exploitation of children that would ordinarily attract a criminal sanction. Almost in the same way another person with paedophilic tendencies would replace the words “pornography” and “evil” with “smut” and “unethical.”

These women who must be silenced include Helen Watts, who was expelled from the Girl Guides for questioning Stonewall’s safeguarding policies. Stonewall (along with Gendered Intelligence) advised Girlguiding on its trans inclusion guidelines — guidelines that require males who identify as girls to use the same sleeping, washing, and changing facilities as females, without the prior knowledge or consent of parents. If girls object, the only remedy is to ask for a private space away from the others, or not take part.

“Girls are being groomed to ignore their own boundaries, to put the needs of males above their own, to never express a preference for single sex spaces for fear of being labelled a bigot.” Watts told me. “It’s revealing that while the Guides trans policy emphasizes that trans children must be protected from harassment and victimization, no such protection is offered specifically for girls who must have single sex spaces.”

As Helen also pointed out, “In all seriousness now, if Yaniv was in the UK and so inclined, [Yaniv] could be a girl guide leader. Girlguiding policy is that being a woman is a matter of self ID. Anyone who says they’re a woman can be a leader. Assuming [Yaniv] passed a DBS check (no convictions) then [Yaniv] is in.”

Women like Watts are now tagged for violence as “TERFs” by both gleeful misogynists and unthinking children who insist they are protecting the most vulnerable. Aimee Challenor is very likely a damaged young person for whom we should have sympathy, but sympathy should not extend to enabling such people to take influential lobbying roles with young people’s organizations.

And must it again be pointed out that both organizations have a duty of care — not only to the vulnerable LGB people who are affected by their guidelines and policies, but to Aimee Challenor?

One thing is certain, there is no way this person should be giving Stonewall any kind of advice. And while they are, no-one should be taking advice from Stonewall.

Graham Linehan is the comedy writer and director behind Father Ted, The IT Crowd, and Black Books.

#Gender critical #Transgender #Transactivism #UK #Aimee Challenor #Stonewall UK

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thestoriesthatweweave · 6 years ago

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Bathing Scene in Capri Chapter 3 meta

I’ve noticed recently that my interpretation on the bath scene in chapter 3 of Captive Prince, which is pretty different from what seems to be the general consensus in the fandom. Specifically, my interpretation of the motive behind Laurent’s actions.

The general consensus I’ve always seen on the bath scene is that Laurent was acting deliberately, intending in advance to punish Damen whatever he did, so he created the conditions to ensure that Damen would give him the excuse he needed.

But Laurent’s actions in the bath scene and afterwards are not typical of his character when thinking coldly. He is capable of cruelty, sure, but, when planning ahead, he managed to hurt Damen in ways that ensured Laurent would not bear any repercussions from it. And the repercussions of the whipping are severe: he loses all of his lands (save Acquitart) and much of his hard-earned reputation in front of the court.

Ever since I read it for the first time I’ve always thought the bath scene was a sort of test Laurent devised to gauge the truth of Damen’s character - he creates a situation in which he can observe, at no danger to himself, he Damen acts in a situation in which he his inhibition are lowered and he has the impression of being in a position of power over Laurent (on account of them being alone in the room).

A test Damen fails.

This impression has only grown stronger upon rereading, with the benefit of hindsight and the firmer grasp of Laurent’s character and his backstory that affords.

My reasoning (featuring canonical tw for discussion of sexual assault and discussion of Laurent’s and Nicaise’s abuse at the Regent’s hands) is under the cut:

(Direct quotes from the books are in italics.)

Laurent starts of the first book not only hating Damen for what Damen did to him in killing Auguste, but also firmly believing that Damen is some sort of monster - possibly because Auguste’s death is so tangled up, in Laurent’s mind, with the abuse that he suffered afterwards, that he believes Damen to be somehow complicit in what his uncle did to him.

Laurent seems to start doubting his conviction that Damen’s an awful human being after he witnesses Damen’s reaction to being offered Nicaise as a “reward” for his performance in the ring. Damen is, rightfully, infuriated and disgusted at the very notion. He says: “Do whatever you want to me. I’m not going to rape a child.”

Laurent’s expression “flickers” and his more extended reaction is this: Laurent was looking from Damen to the boy and back again. Frowning as if something didn’t make sense.

From what we see of the court of Arles under the Regent’s lead, this is, quite possibly, the first explicit condemnation Laurent has ever heard of his uncle’s actions. And it’s from the mouth of the man he considers responsible for his uncle being left in charge.

After this exchange, Laurent does what he always does, throughout all three books, when he’s taken aback by something: he isolates himself. (“Have my horse brought to the north courtyard, I’m going for a ride”).

He and Damen don’t see each other again until the baths.

Once Damen is brought to the baths, Laurent’s first words are a reference to the encounter with Nicaise, proving that the incident has been on his mind. In this occasion he also says that he waited six days so he and Damen could be alone, which is in support of the idea that his actions are premeditated. I’ve always seen this statement as meaning that he wanted to be able to conduct his interaction with Damen however he sees fit, without outside inference. What he adds immediately afterwards (“Are you going to complain again that you’re not allowed to hit back? Don’t worry, I won’t hit you unless I have a good reason”) seems to indicate he hasn’t made up his mind yet on what to do with Damen.

And if he plans to punish Damen anyway, why wait for Damen to provide him with an excuse, since he’s arranged for them to be alone and could just make an excuse up, since it’s going to be his word against Damen’s anyway?

The reader’s impression of their interaction in the baths is colored by Damen’s POV, but examining it by just looking at their dialogue, this is what happens:

Laurent says: “Don’t get presumptuous” (while Damen is fondling him, meaning: take your hands off me)

To which Damen replies: “Too late, sweetheart” (which, to be fair, is kind of a shitty response to give to someone who just demanded to be unhanded).

Laurent, after he tries to slap Damen and is physically restrained instead (and after Damen takes the opportunity to ogle him, while still holding his wrist), reacts with: “But my voice has broken. That was the only prerequisite, wasn’t it?” - which is a call-back to earlier in the scene when talking about Nicaise, when Damen said: “before I rape anyone, I first check if their voice has broken”.

So Laurent is clearly accusing Damen of attempting to sexually assault him. And considering Laurent’s opinion of Damen in book 1 and the fact that it’s only the two of them in the room and so Laurent would have no incentive to lie, there’s no reason to believe that the accusation is anything but genuine.

Now, Damen would never. Damen is, in fact, horrified at the very notion (Damen released his grip, as though burned). This is immediately clear to the reader.

But Laurent, whose major impression of Damen is him cutting down his beloved brother after Auguste had allowed him to pick up his sword, and so is inclined to think the worst of him, does not know this. All he sees is that the moment he showed himself to have any vulnerability (illusory as it was), Damen tried to take advantage of it.

If he’s been wavering over whether or not Damen is a horrible human being before, he’s not wavering now, because Damen just gave him the excuse he needed to continue to hold the (much more comfortable) belief that the man who killed his brother is a monster from a story, rather than a person with virtues as well as flaws.

So Lauerent gets angry - at Damen for his presumption and deception and at himself for being taken in with his pretense at goodness, even for a moment. He does what he always does when he gets angry: he becomes vicious, and cruel, and creates damage much in excess of what is necessary, by ordering Damen to be flogged until he is almost killed.

Anger has always been Laurent’s character flaw, and he harms everyone when it is unleashed, including himself.

Damen even says it in Prince’s Gambit, after Laurent’s verbal attack to Aimeric: “I remember the last time you were like this. You blundered so badly you gave your uncle the excuse he needed to have you stripped of your lands”.

#Captive Prince #captive prince meta #laurent #damen

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inyournightmares97 · 7 years ago

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The Innocent Criminal (Pt.3/3)

Part 1 Part 2

Im Jaebum, the infamous leader of GotSeven has committed murder, stolen money, tortured people and broken all sorts of laws. But most importantly, he destroyed your heart. You once decided never to become a criminal lawyer if it meant defending men like him.

But years later, when it appears that Jaebum is going to be locked away for the one crime he didn’t actually commit, you’re forced to make a decision. Where does one draw the line between innocent and guilty?

Warnings: Strong language, mafia!au, MAJOR violence and trauma mentions.

Word Count: 6.8k+

The Mafia (Masterlist)

Your phone rang at 5 am.

You jumped at the sound after awakening from a fitful sleep. It was only once you’d reached your dark and silent apartment the previous night that you regretted turning down Jaebum’s offer to send you protection. You couldn’t sleep because of the constant feeling that somebody from BTS might be in your home, lying in wait to kill you. You had actually screamed when your cat knocked over a glass.

So when the phone rang loudly, you nearly had a heart attack. You calmed your rapid heartbeat down, switched on the light and then answered the unknown number hesitantly.

“Hello?”

“You’re the lawyer defending Im Jaebum in court tomorrow, aren’t you?” a female voice asked you without any greeting. You froze, silent. Was this to do with BTS? You felt the urge to put the phone down and call Jinyoung for help but the female voice continued to speak despite your silence. “Relax. I’m a police officer. I can’t tell you my name at this point, but I’m a detective and I’m also part of a task force that hunts down organized crime and human trafficking in the city.”

You felt your shoulders relax. “Oh. You’re the rogue cop GotSeven has on the inside?”

The woman sounded annoyed. “What? I am no such thing. I might have tipped them off about Im Jaebum’s arrest because he wasn’t allowed to call for a lawyer according to proper procedure, but you should be careful about throwing words like rogue cop around. Some of us have made a lot of sacrifices to maintain our integrity and serve this country.”

You felt like a small child being scolded. “Uh, okay. Sorry. I understand.”

“I need your help. This is highly confidential police information and I shouldn’t be sharing this with you but there’s no other way. Listen to me very carefully. Im Jaebum cannot go to jail for the human trafficking ring. I need you to make sure that doesn’t happen. We both know he’s not really the one behind it. BTS is selling those girls into slavery, and my task force is inches away from finding solid evidence to prove it. If Jaebum is convicted for this crime then the investigation is closed, my task force gets shut down immediately and I won’t be able to prove who really did this. I don’t give a fuck about what happens to him, personally, but I do care that the right people get put behind bars for this.”

You bit your lip. “I don’t understand. I thought the police were the ones trying to accuse Jaebum.”

The woman sighed. “I’m not working for GotSeven. But there are cops working for BTS around here. They figured out we were getting close, that’s why they planned to frame Jaebum and GotSeven for the whole thing and have our investigation shut down. Who better to frame than someone who also has a lot to hide? The witnesses who came forward to identify Jaebum were all planted there by BTS. Those poor girls are too terrified to come up to the police and identify the real victim, but they were coached to point at Jaebum so that’s all they do.”

“I can’t believe they make that work,” you whispered.

“BTS have done this before. That gang didn’t become powerful because they’re smart or efficient. They’re actually surprisingly sloppy. But whenever they get close to being caught, they simply frame someone else for the crime. It’s a strategy that works well for them. I have an entire list of crimes that I know for a fact were committed by BTS, but somebody else has already been convicted of them.”

Her words sent a chill down your spine. You suddenly remembered your own father. In the wrong place at the wrong time, convicted for a murder he hadn’t committed because the evidence against him was too strong. You had no way of knowing if BTS had been responsible for your father’s arrest but they might as well have been. And now it’s happening to Jaebum too. Are you going to sit by and let it happen? Are you going to let another man in your life get put behind bars for something he didn’t do while you sit on your ass?

“I don’t know how to stop this,” you admitted to her desperately. Your voice was shaking. “I know Jaebum isn’t responsible for the human trafficking. But he’s done a lot of other bad things that he deserves to go to prison for. If any of those come out then it’s going to be difficult to extricate him from the trafficking. It’ll spiral out of control, all of GotSeven’s dirty laundry will get aired out and it’ll be so much easier to make them responsible for the trafficking once they already have convictions for murder and robbery and smuggling on their plate.”

You heard her sigh. “I know that. That’s why we need to keep Im Jaebum innocent for now. Hopefully he’ll pay for his crimes at some point. But BTS is expanding their trafficking ring every day and more girls are being raped and tortured and sent to foreign countries as sex slaves. This needs to stop immediately. And for that, I need Jaebum to come out innocent during this particular trial. I need to make sure that my task force doesn’t get shut down and the trafficking investigation is allowed to continue. I am the closest anyone has ever gotten to nabbing BTS. Please help me.”

“Okay,” you mumbled, feeling your mouth go dry. “I’ll do my best.”

“Thank you,” the woman replied quietly. “And about the bail hearing today… you should know that BTS doesn’t want Jaebum out on bail. Anybody who’s in the loop knows that Im Jaebum is what keeps GotSeven together and that their group is falling apart every day that he sits in prison. Park Jinyoung is smart but he doesn’t have the leadership or presence to handle them. Jaebum needs to get out if he’s going to protect his gang from BTS.”

You nodded. “You don’t have to worry about the bail hearing. I have everything in place. No rational judge could deny Jaebum bail after the arguments I’m going to make.”

“I hope that’s true. Don’t underestimate the lengths BTS would go to in order to keep Jaebum behind bars,” the women replied firmly. You heard a brief noise in the background and then her voice became quieter. “I have to go now. Remember what I said, and if you see me around or at the trial, pretend you don’t know me.”

“I actually don’t know you-“ you began, but she’d already hung up. You let the phone drop and fell back into bed, closing your eyes.

What am I going to do?

“Is the bail money ready?”

The girl standing beside Jackson nodded and gestured towards a black bag that Jackson was carrying over his shoulder. “I brought everything you asked for and more. Don’t worry. I took it purely from legal sources, it’s all traceable back to Jinyoung’s legal bank account where the profits from their business consultancy firm are deposited.”

You nodded before glancing at the others. All the GotSeven members had insisted on coming to court to attend the bail hearing although you told them that it was a stupid idea, and that you only needed Jinyoung and Jaebum’s sister. The younger girl in question was holding hands with Yugyeom while looking around the courthouse nervously. People were walking up and down the corridor rapidly, and the courthouse was bustling with activity. She’d clearly never been in a place like this before.

You turned to Jinyoung. “You remember everything I told you?” you demanded.

Jinyoung nodded firmly. He’d come well-dressed and you had to admit that he was probably the most reliable of the group, which was why you’d chosen him as Jaebum’s surety. “Of course. He’s my best friend, I’ve known him for years, he has vested business interests in this city so he would never run and he’s an upstanding citizen. You said to throw in some stuff about regular charitable contributions to cat shelters if I could.”

You turned and glanced at Jaebum’s sister. “You remember what you have to say?”

She blinked and nodded. “Yes. You told me to say some sentimental stuff about how my brother raised me and that we grew up together so he would never do anything to put me at risk. And to shed a couple of tears about how I couldn’t live without him because I didn’t have anybody else in my life. Sounds a little melodramatic, don’t you think?”

You frowned at her. “Are you the lawyer?”

She bristled. “No. Fine. Whatever, if it gets Jaebum-oppa home then I’ll do it.”

You turned to grab your files, glancing at your watch. Jaebum’s bail hearing was due to start in ten minutes, the police were probably bringing him in right now. You had just picked up your files when you heard an audible gasp behind you. It was Bambam that had made the noise and he let out a small expletive. You whirled around to follow his gaze. Two tall, handsome men were walking down the long corridor. They were well-dressed, in suits and one of them nodded briefly at Jackson before they both entered the courtroom. You bit your lip and turned to see everyone’s white faces.

“What’s happening?” you demanded.

Yugyeom turned to you with big eyes. “That was RM and Jin.”

“Should those names mean something to me?”

“Kim Namjoon, commonly known as RM, current leader of BTS. He was the one wearing dark glasses,” Jinyoung explained to you in a hushed tone. You felt a chill run down your spine as you realized who had just passed by you. “He deals with external affairs and runs the human trafficking ring, he’s probably the one who framed Jaebum for all of this. The other one, Kim Seokjin, Jin, is his right hand man. He handles internal BTS affairs, mostly recruitment and keeping order within their group. They’re the highest ranking people in the gang.”

You felt your hands tremble. “Why are they here?”

“I don’t know.”

“Relax. They’re just here to intimidate us,” Jackson reassured you. “I know Namjoon. He’s never around when anything major is about to go down, he just waltzes around to scare people. Don’t let him get to you. And don’t make eye contact with him, he has really gorgeous eyes and you might get distracted.”

Jinyoung gave him a disgusted look. “Wang, seriously-“

“What? It’s the truth-“

You cut off their argument before it could escalate, trying to remain calm. Okay. Two of the leaders of the biggest mafia group were here, a mafia group that had warned you not to defend Im Jaebum in court. And yes, they were powerful and had no morals and would probably kill you at the slightest provocation. Yet there was no fear coursing through your veins, only anger and disgust. Your conversation with the police officer from this morning still echoed in your mind. Whenever they get close to being caught, they frame someone else for the crime. You shook yourself of your spiraling thoughts. No. Forget that. Forget everything. Right now, all you need to concentrate on is getting Im Jaebum out on bail.

“I’m going inside. You guys come in when you’re ready,” you mumbled, walking into the courtroom.

“We picked up the accused near a known hang-out for some shady folk,” the police officer sitting in the witness stand explained. You twirled your pen between your fingers as you listened to him. Jaebum was sitting beside you stiffly, hands still cuffed and his head bowed towards the floor. He hadn’t said anything to you since the hearing started. He looked like he didn’t even want to be there.

You raised an eyebrow at the police officer. “A known hang-out for some shady folk? Can you please explain that, officer? It sounds rather vague to me.”

“We’ve made multiple arrests at that club in the past. Drug dealers, smugglers, stuff like that. A lot of criminals use it as a meeting place.”

“But it is, after all, an ordinary club. Where any person above the age of 21 is legally allowed to enter, grab a few drinks and look for a hook-up? There were at least a hundred other people there that night who were not criminals, am I correct? ” you pressed. The officer frowned at you and nodded reluctantly.

He sighed. “Yes.”

“Thank you, that’s all from me.”

You sat back down as the officer climbed down from the witness stand. So far, the hearing had gone rather well. Jaebum’s sister turned out to be a surprisingly good actress and started crying so hard on the stand that the judge actually handed her some tissues to help her calm herself. Jinyoung did his job well too- he came off as a responsible, well-to-do young man that was vouching for his friend. You showed the judge evidence that Jaebum had been running a business here for four years and that he was unlikely to leave behind his sister and run. He was also willing to pay whatever amount the court set. You were almost positive that the judge would grant him bail, when the prosecution lawyer finally stood up.

“We have one last witness. We’d like to call Im Jaebum’s defense attorney to the stand, please.”

You stiffened. What?

“Are you talking about me?” you demanded, heartbeat thudding.

“Yes. We have evidence that the accused and his lawyer were in a romantic relationship for at least four years, Your Honour,” the prosecution attorney insisted, turning to the judge with a smirk on his face. “They used to be lovers and she’s now his attorney. I think she’s as good a character witness as any. We’d just like to ask her a few questions about Im Jaebum’s past to establish his character.”

You bristled. “He has no criminal record. What more could you want to know about his past?”

“We’ll tell you if you would kindly take the stand.”

You bit your lip and realized that the judge had already nodded his approval and was watching you expectantly. You felt your hands tremble. Fuck. You couldn’t keep refusing without looking like you had something to hide. What could they possibly want to ask you? Was this legal? How could you have overlooked something like this? You turned to look at Jaebum, who was staring at you with wide eyes.

“Can they do that?” he whispered.

“The judge seems to be okay with it. I don’t see how I can refuse without making it look like I have something to hide,” you whispered back. Jaebum reached out and squeezed your hand gently, nodding at you.

“It’s okay. Just go answer their questions. I’ll be fine.”

You slowly climbed up to the witness stand and took the oath that they asked you to. As you looked around the courtroom carefully, you realized that you could see everyone from this point. Jinyoung and Jackson were sitting a few rows behind, Jinyoung biting his fingernails nervously. You could see Yugyeom and Jaebum’s sister holding hands tightly as they watched you. Near one of the back rows, there was a female police officer that was staring at you intently. To the right were RM and Jin, both watching you with smug looks on their faces.

And right in the front was Im Jaebum. Jaebum who looked worried, but forced a reassuring smile in your direction.

“So, I hear you met the accused while you were in law school, am I correct? How long did you date him?”

You gritted your teeth. “Four years.”

“And why did you decide to become his lawyer? It seems rather odd for the accused to go to his ex-girlfriend of all people, when his financial position shows that he could probably afford to pay for a decent lawyer himself.”

You turned and looked at the judge. “Your Honor, I can’t answer a question like that. Anything regarding legal advice I gave Im Jaebum is privileged communication and protected by our attorney-client relationship. You can’t just put me on the stand and expect me to reveal things he might have confided in me as his lawyer.”

The prosecution attorney raised an eyebrow. “All right. Then let’s stick to events before you became his lawyer. When did you break up with Im Jaebum?”

“Three years ago.”

“And why?”

You blinked and bit your lip. “W-what?”

“I’m asking you why you broke up with him. Did the accused maybe do something unpleasant? I hear you were in the hospital for a short while around that time. We’re just asking why you decided to end a relationship of four years.”

You felt your heart sink into your stomach. Yes. Yes, he killed around 30 men because they kidnapped me. Because he couldn’t pay them on time so they wanted to teach him a lesson by beating me up. From the smirk on the prosecutor’s face, you could tell that the man knew. He knew that you couldn’t explain that breakup without admitting that Jaebum was a criminal, he knew that that the moment you spoke, Jaebum was as good as condemned for life. If they find out that he killed an entire Russian gang then he’ll never get bail, he’ll never survive before a jury. He might even get convicted of the crime in a matter of weeks.

Your voice cracked as you spoke. “I don’t know how that’s relevant-“

“We called you here as a character witness. You dated the accused for four years and we’re asking why you broke up. There’s nothing irrelevant or complicated about it, it’s a simple question.”

The female police officer was staring straight at you. You could see her sitting in the last row, her eyes fixed on you. Her words from this morning echoed in your mind. I need to make sure that my task force doesn’t get shut down. Please help me. I am the closest anyone has gotten to nabbing BTS. If you told the truth about Jaebum then her entire investigation would get shut down. The police would have all the evidence they needed to charge Jaebum with a myriad of crimes and BTS would get off free.

BTS. BTS who were sitting to the right and looking at you. You felt disgust bubble up inside of you as you looked at the two gang leaders. They were smiling, the smug smiles of men who knew that they had won. You were Im Jaebum’s weak link, the odd-piece out in his life full of crime. They knew you had principles and that you would never commit perjury or lie on the stand. You were a lawyer. To you, the entire legal system was sacred. The system. The system that you had spent years studying in school, the system that you had been taught was designed to put guilty men in prison and help innocent men go free.

The system that BTS manipulated every day of their lives. Whenever they get close to being caught, they frame someone else for the crime.

The system that had sent your father to prison, and was now going to convict Jaebum in place of the people who had actually committed the crime. If Jaebum is convicted for this crime then the investigation is closed, my task force gets shut down immediately and I won’t be able to prove who really did this.

The system that was a failure.

Fuck this system.

“Im Jaebum and I broke up because I cheated on him,” you lied confidently. You stared the prosecution attorney in the face and he stood a startled step back at the furious expression in your eyes. Then you turned and made eye contact with RM. His smile had dropped. As you stared at him, you felt a sudden realization dawn upon you. He thought he could use my principles to his advantage. I won’t let that happen. I won’t become a pawn in his game. Playing by the rules is a weakness in their world and that’s what they count on. The moment we break away from the system too, they lose their advantage.

The prosecution attorney blinked at you. “You cheated on the accused?” he repeated, confused.

“Yeah. I slept with one of his friends. Right there,” you replied, pointing in the general direction of where Jinyoung, Jackson and Mark were sitting. All three of them were staring at you with wide eyes, but you were too busy glaring at the man asking the questions. “Why? Do you have any evidence that suggests otherwise?”

The prosecution attorney frowned. “No, no I don’t.”

“Then I’ve answered your question satisfactorily, haven’t I?”

The prosecution attorney nodded. “Yes. I don’t… I don’t have any other questions.”

You stepped down from the stand and walked back to your seat, your mind feeling blank. Jaebum was staring at you with his dark eyes fixed on yours but you couldn’t even look at him. You couldn’t look at anyone. You just stared down at your trembling hands while the judge finally declared that Jaebum would be granted bail and read out various conditions that he needed to follow as well as the amount of money that he needed to deposit with the court. The hearing was dismissed and you stood up when the officers came over to remove Jaebum’s handcuffs. The first thing he did was grab your hand.

“Why did you do that?” he hissed.

You jerked your hand away from him, aware of the fact that RM and Jin were still in the courtroom and were watching you with narrowed eyes. You gathered your things and walked outside, ignoring the high-five that Jackson tried to give you and Jinyoung’s attempts to say something. You practically ran past them, jogging out of the courthouse and finding a small garden outside where you finally dropped your bag and files on the grass and fell to your knees.

I’m going to be sick. I’m going to be sick. What have I just done?

You were retching into the bushes, your head spinning when Jaebum and the others finally caught up to you. Your hands were trembling and you felt the reality of what you had just done hit you like a brick. I just lied on oath. I told a blatant, fucking lie on oath. What was I thinking? Jaebum helped you to your feet and handed you a bottle of water. You took it and drank, your hands shaking. Your entire face was white and you could feel your knees growing weaker.

Bambam was standing a little distance behind Jaebum and grinning at you.

“That was awesome. Was it the first time you broke the law? It’s pretty thrilling, isn’t it? Yugyeom and I started with drug dealing to be honest, but I think perjury’s a pretty awesome place to start. You should have seen the look on RMs face, they never imagined she would lie-“

Jaebum snarled. “Shut up, Bambam.”

“He’s right,” you whispered. Your voice cracked as you looked up at Jaebum helplessly and felt your entire life flash before you. Your heartbeat was racing at an inhuman rate. “I committed a crime. Perjury is a criminal offence, Jaebum, it’s two to five years in prison and I could be disbarred and lose my license to practice law. What was I thinking? How could I do that, how could I lie?”

Jaebum cupped your face in his hands. “Hey. Breathe. I need you to take a deep breath.”

You took a deep breath but you didn’t feel much better. Tears began to leak out of your eyes as you continued to panic. “It wasn’t even a good lie. What if they really do have evidence about why we really broke up, what if they bring it at the next hearing? I’ll be discovered, I’ll go to jail and my entire life will fall apart-“

“It won’t. It won’t, I won’t let that happen.”

Jaebum wrapped his arms around you and pressed you to his chest tightly, trying to calm you down. You inhaled his familiar scent and clutched on to him, seeking comfort. Your entire body was still trembling and you closed your eyes as you tried to come back to your senses. The confidence and the anger from back in the courtroom was gone and now you were scared and worried. “This is all your fault,” you mumbled into his chest. “You dragged me into this. You’re the one that went and got arrested and became and a target for BTS and made me lie… and…”

Jaebum gently stroked your hair. “Babe. We both know that I never expected you to lie on that stand for me.”

You felt your heart sink into your stomach. “I know.”

“You did that on your own. Do you regret it? If you could go back there and tell the truth about why we broke up, then would you do it?” Jaebum demanded. His dark eyes pierced down at you as he stroked your cheek lightly. “You wouldn’t. You know why? Because you know that if the truth about my killing the Russian gang gets out, then BTS will be able to pin just about everything they’ve ever done on me. That’s how the system works. You know that no jury will believe I’m not responsible for the human trafficking after they find out about all the other crimes I’ve committed. To them, there’s no difference. A criminal is a criminal. You’ve seen it happen to your father.”

You looked up at him. “You can’t go to prison for their crimes. That’s not right. But if BTS gets their way, then you will.”

“Exactly,” Jaebum replied. “So why are you feeling guilty about cheating a system that you never had faith in, in the first place?”

You looked at Jaebum, taking a deep breath. His dark eyes were staring down at you calmly, his hands cupping your cheeks. For the first time in your life, you felt like you could understand why Im Jaebum did the things he did. You could understand how he and his gang could steal and rob and kill with complete disregard for the law. Because the only way to deal with groups like BTS is to stoop to their level. You can’t shoot at them from your moral high ground. You have to sink to their level and get eye to eye with them. That’s what I did today. I sank to their level and I won.

“You’re right,” you whispered. You bit your lip. “BTS needs to be taken down. And the law isn’t going to do it for us.”

Jaebum smiled down at you softly. You hadn’t seen that smile in a long time and you suddenly realized that you’d underestimated Im Jaebum. Yes. He was a criminal, he did terrible things and he’d killed three men in front of your eyes. But there was a different sort of strength in him that you lacked. Im Jaebum wasn’t afraid of a world where there was no system. He wasn’t afraid of a life where there were no morals or rules to guide you as to what was right or wrong. He decided the rules he lived by himself.

Jaebum was free, in a way that you could never be.

You followed the others to the parking lot silently. Your head was spinning, and you weren’t sure what to do. You’d never broken so many of your own rules and principles in a single day. You weren’t sure whether you detested yourself or of you were proud of not letting BTS take advantage of you.

“Hey,” Jaebum whispered softly, squeezing your hand. “Want a ride home?”

You clasped his hand tightly. “Jaebum.”

“Yeah?”

You took a deep breath and looked up at him. He seemed shocked by the passion in your eyes and he stopped in his tracks, looking down at you as you spoke firmly. “Let me defend you in court until the police can prove that BTS is the one behind the human trafficking. I want to do it. I can’t make them pay for their crimes, but I can make sure that nobody else goes to jail for them.”

Jaebum looked down at you. “I deserve to go to jail.”

“Not for this,” you replied. “You didn’t do it this time. And even if someday, you get arrested for something that you did do… then you deserve a defense attorney who will fight for you. That’s how the system works, remember? Even the worst criminals deserve a lawyer. And I want to be yours.”

“Are you sure you can handle it?” he asked you softly.

You bit your lip and took a deep breath, before nodding up at him. Jaebum was worried for you. You could see it in his dark eyes, in the way his hand squeezed yours tightly. He had always been worried about you. And there was guilt in his eyes too. Guilt because he knew that your inner turmoil all led back to what he had put you through three years ago. “I can handle it. I trained my entire life to be a criminal lawyer and then the moment I encountered some crime in my own life, I turned to corporate tax like a coward. I think the answer my problems isn’t for me to hate you and the profession. The answer to this is for me to accept that I can defend you, while not being responsible for your crimes. And that’s what I’m going to do.”

He smirked lightly. “So no more perjury?”

“No more perjury.”

“Are you going to confess to having lied on the stand?”

“Someday. Someday, when you go to prison for your crimes then I’ll do my time for mine.”

Jaebum gently stroked your cheek with his thumb and smiled. It had been a long time since you’d seen that smile on his face and his eyes were shining as they stared into yours. Jaebum didn’t move for a long time and you were left looking at him, unable to resist a small smile on your own face.

“Why are you smiling?” you demanded.

Jaebum shook his head. “Nothing. I just remembered how passionate you used to be back when we were dating. You wanted to defend criminals, you wanted to give everyone a voice and you used to say all these things about justice, I just… I just hated that I broke that passion of yours. But I feel like it’s coming back, and I missed it. I missed you.”

You closed your eyes. “I missed you too,” you admitted honestly.

Jaebum’s lips brushed yours lightly and you felt your heart flutter. This man had broken you for a long time and brought you to the lowest point in your life. But he was also responsible for all your highs. You remembered how happy he’d once made you and how he was the only man you’d ever loved. Jaebum’s arms felt warm and comfortable and like home, a feeling you hadn’t felt in years. You wrapped your arms around Jaebum and let him kiss you. You let yourself forget the trial, and crimes and the courthouse and BTS and you just kissed him back because if the entire world disappeared, and it was just you and him, that would be your paradise.

When he pulled away, he gave you a soft smile. “I love you so much,” he whispered against your lips.

You let your hands slide down from his shoulders and stepped back. You could hear loud voices coming from a little distance away and you saw that some of the other GotSeven members were talking loudly near Jackson’s car. Before you could say anything else, Mark came over to you and he looked at Jaebum with a hint of panic in his eyes.

“We have a problem.”

Jaebum released you. “Huh?”

“I just got a phone call. Remember the police officer who was investigating the human trafficking? She finally got one of the witnesses to crack this morning. The girl confessed that it was RM who was running the trafficking ring and that she’d been shown a picture of you and told to identify you in front of the police if she didn’t want to die.”

Your heart leapt. “That’s great! So we finally have a witness-“

Mark cut you off. “No, not great. BTS kidnapped the girls from police custody barely half an hour ago.”

“What?”

“The witnesses are gone. And BTS is probably going to kill them.”

“Do it faster!”

“I’m trying!” Youngjae snapped angrily. He was clearly annoyed with you and he barely looked at you as he typed rapidly into his laptop. You were sitting in the backseat of Youngjae’s car with a gun in one hand and a cellphone in the other as he tried to track BTS’ location. The others had already gotten into their cars and headed out to all the possible locations where they could have taken the witnesses. Youngjae was trying to track down their cellphones and he finally sat up with a grin.

“Got it! They’re at an old warehouse behind the railway tracks. This is where they meet up with some of their buyers. These girls might not be dead yet, it’s possible they’re just going to sell them. Get me Jaebum-hyung on the phone. He and Mark are the closest to that location.”

You dialed Jaebum’s number rapidly and handed Youngjae the phone.

“Hyung? They’re in the warehouse, you and Mark are pretty close to it. I’m tracking you both now, you just need to get on the other side of the railway lines.”

You sat back in your seat as Youngjae directed Jaebum and Mark to the location. You’d wanted to go with them but Jaebum had flatly refused to take you. Not only did you not know how to handle a gun or defend yourself, you could also possibly become a liability to them and slow them down. His blunt words hurt you a little but you had to admit that he was right. You weren’t much use in a rescue operation. You’d agreed to stay with Youngjae as Jaebum insisted. You had been worried that he would get hurt, but Jaebum had only given you a small smile.

“They wouldn’t kill me. They need me, remember? I’m their scapegoat.”

Those words were not as comforting to you as Jaebum had probably intended them to be. You bit your lip and stared down at your hands nervously. No matter how aware you were of the fact that Jaebum was not a good person, you still didn’t want to see him die. He meant a lot to you, and the last thing you wanted was for BTS to hurt him. You clenched your fists in anger. Those bastards. How could they force innocent girls to commit perjury for them, and then kidnap them once they cracked? Your heartbeat was thudding as you wondered how terrified those poor girls must be. The horrible lives they must have led while in the hands of BTS.

“Okay. You guys go in. I’m hanging up now, I’ll call Jinyoung and Jackson and tell them to back you up.” Youngjae replied, before hanging up the call. You sat up and looked at him, eyes wide.

“Jaebum and Mark are going in alone?”

Youngjae glanced at you. “There’s no other option. BTS already has the girls and it will barely take them seconds to kill them, if they haven’t already. We can’t afford to wait for the whole gang to turn up there. I’m calling Jinyoung and Jackson to send them back-up now. All we can do is wait and hope things go all right.”

You glanced at Youngjae with a frown. “Is that what you normally do?”

He nodded. “Yeah.”

“Your job sucks.”

“Tell me about it.”

“The girls are safe but Jaebum got shot in the arm. Meet us at the hospital.”

You paced up and down the corridor nervously. Jackson and Jinyoung looked surprisingly calm. Jackson was playing a game on his phone and Jinyoung was sitting and reading a book as you all waited for Jaebum to get out of surgery. RM had tried to kill the girls the moment he saw that GotSeven had arrived… apparently he’d rather they be dead than survive to possibly testify against him. Jaebum had taken the bullet in the girl’s place. According to Jackson, it wasn’t an accident.

“RM doesn’t miss,” Jackson had told you simply as they wheeled Jaebum into surgery. “If Jaebum-hyung got shot in the arm then it’s because RM wanted him shot in the arm. They both know that killing Jaebum would only cause bigger problems for BTS. They wouldn’t have a scapegoat for the human trafficking anymore and the investigation would close in on them.”

You couldn’t believe it. “Even if he knew RM wouldn’t kill him, it was a reckless thing to do, taking a bullet for someone.”

“I think we both know who he really took that bullet for.”

You couldn’t stand their nonchalant attitude about Jaebum being in such a serious surgery, so you left the two men to their pastimes and paced down a separate corridor. You paused in your tracks when you a saw a pair of familiar figures in the adjacent waiting room. Mark was sitting there, talking quietly with the female detective that you recognized from the bail hearing. The moment they both saw you, they moved a few inches apart. Then Mark stood up and gave you a small smile of greeting before leaving the waiting room. The detective smiled at you weakly.

“Hi,” she greeted.

You blinked at her. “Hi. You’re the one that called me this morning, aren’t you?”

She nodded. “Yeah. Sorry about the early morning wake-up call. I was in a bit of a panic. There are more cops that BTS bought than I realized, and it’s hard to tell who I can trust. Turns out I failed, after all. One of my most trusted colleagues was the one who helped BTS kidnap the girls.”

“I’m sorry. How are they doing now?”

“They’re in witness protection. I sent them out of the country until I can gather enough evidence to prosecute BTS and then I’ll bring them in to testify. Probably in a couple of weeks. Don’t worry, they’re safe. I don’t make the same mistake twice,” she reassured you. You had to admire how strong this woman seemed. There were bags under her eyes and she looked like she had barely slept. But there was a different kind of sadness in her eyes and you had to ask.

“Are you okay?” you mumbled.

She forced a smile at you. “Why do you ask?”

“You don’t look okay.”

“I’m fine. I guess I’m just finding it difficult to accept that after all these years of tracking down BTS, I might finally get them put away for something major. I mean, it’s almost done. The whole reason we constituted the organized crime task force would be in jail in a month or so.”

You blinked. “I see. So they’ll dissolve the task force, then.”

“No. We just come up with a new target.”

Your heart skipped a beat when you realized the reason behind the pain in her eyes. “Oh.”

“Once we get BTS behind bars, our next target is GotSeven.”

It took a while for Jaebum to wake up from the surgery. They got the bullet out and he was stable, but he still looked rather drowsy from the anesthesia when you went in to see him. He gave you a small smile as you sat down beside his bed gingerly, trying not to touch the various IV fluids and antibiotics stuck into his arm. He looked weak but he still smiled at you.

“Hey,” he greeted you softly.

You bit your lip as you looked down at him. It broke your heart to see Jaebum lying so weakly on a hospital bed like this. He was human too, after all. He got hurt and suffered pain just like everyone else did. You let him shakily reach out and take your hand. “How are you doing?” you asked.

Jaebum chuckled. “I’m fine, I’ve been shot before.”

You winced. “Let’s not go there.”

“Okay.”

“I can’t believe you took a bullet for one of those girls,” you mumbled, trying to hold back your tears. Jaebum was still smiling at you, and seeing him look unaffected by the pain was making you feel miserable. You sniffled and quickly blinked your tears back. “Even if you were sure that RM wouldn’t kill you, why would you do something like that?”

Jaebum opened his mouth to speak, but then he shook his head and held back.

“What?” you demanded.

“Nothing.”

“Tell me.”

“I’d rather not,” he told you softly. His eyes avoided yours. “I’m pretty sure that the last time I gave you this answer, it messed you up pretty badly.”

“Huh? Don’t be stupid. Just say it.”

“I did it for you.”

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