Interrogation

[brother2dragons]

Who| Dan and Eva ; Eddie and Eva
What| Eva has earned herself an interrogation after the post she made.
Where| Undisclosed location in the Capitol
When| Right after the assassination attempt
Warnings/Notes| Dan's thread is pretty tame, but then Eddie comes in. That thread has just begun, but there is likely going to be some pretty violent stuff in that one. Will add more warnings as needed.

Eva had been escorted into a vehicle shortly after the events at the Tower had settled down. There had been no windows to help her know where she was going. When the doors were opened for her she was in an underground complex with still not discernible landmark to help her.

The uniformed men took her to the interrogation room. It was a metal room with shiny walls that had hooks attached which could easily be used to lock someone into a standing position. The space was wide open but dark around the edges. There were marks on the ground from where heavy machinery had been dragged in and out.

For now, the room only had two chairs and a table, but it was clear that could easily be changed. To someone who was observant, this room was the ghost of a torture chamber. The marks on the floors and the hooks on the walls hadn't been removed on purpose, all to hint towards something more sinister that could easily be brought out to aid with an uncooperative target.

The idea made Dan a little uncomfortable, but he didn't seem like it at all when he came into the room with a small recording device.

"Hello Eva," he said as he moved to sit in one of the chairs. Like all Capitol citizens, he didn't seem to think it odd at all to call this woman by her first name. She was a Victor after all, and Victors belonged to the Capitol.

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[vissernone]

"Officer Dreiberg, is it?" She hasn't met most of the Peacekeepers, thankfully, but she knows who they are. She lets herself be seated in the chair. "Love what you've done with the place."

She's scared, but not horribly so, not unless something indicates to her that her little ruse of the network didn't go over as swimmingly as she hoped. She mulls a lock of her hair between her fingers nervously and sucks the tip of her tongue.

"You know, you probably have dinner to get home to. I'm ready to tell you everything, so we can skip past the punching and the pear of anguish."

[brother2dragons]

Dan nodded a bit at his name and turned on the recording device in a way that clearly showed that he was doing that. He wasn't trying to trick her, even given their situation.

"The punching?" Dan asked. He opened his hands a bit. "Do I look like I'm gearing up to hit you?"

[vissernone]

"At the moment, no, but I'll be surprised if I walk out of here without bruises. The reputation for the security forces here aren't generous in that way."

She barely takes notice of the recording device. She generally assumes she's being recorded unless shown otherwise.

"Well?"

[brother2dragons]

"Why don't you start?" he suggested. He sat back a bit in his chair as he watched her face for any clue of her emotional state. "I've seen the holo broadcast you sent out over the network, but I'd like for you to tell me the story again."

[vissernone]

"There isn't much else. I met Ariadne a little bit after her Crowning, at the Noir Restaurant. I found out she had anti-Capitol tendencies. I didn't want to turn her in if it was just talk because she, she reminded me of my son." She pauses for a moment and places her fingertips to her lips. "I'm sorry, am I allowed water?"

[brother2dragons]

Dan nods and stands to go to the door. He keeps an eye on her as he knocks on it. It slides open and he passes on the request for water. Still, he keeps his body angled so that he never fully looks away from her.

When the water is handed over he brings it back to her and sits down. He gives her a moment to drink and then continues.

"I can't say that I understand," he admits. Peacekeepers couldn't have families so he wouldn't know what it was like to want to protect your child. "But you said in your post that you supplied her parts to make the bomb. Are you saying you would have done that for your son?"

[vissernone]

"No, you wouldn't have been a Peacekeeper back when that all happened, would you? My son never committed any acts of violence. It was all talk. That's what I thought might be the case with Ariadne, and so I kept finding reasons not to turn her in, or to put off giving her the parts, without having her cut me out entirely. I held on hope for so long..."

She takes a drink of water and winces.

"I held on to the hope that she might know where he is, or the hope that she would chicken out on her own and I wouldn't have to report her. That's why I waited until it was so close to the attack. I wanted to give her every opportunity to repent."

[brother2dragons]

"Radicals don't repent, Eva," Dan said with with some sympathy in his voice. "These new Tributes come from worlds that are very different. None of them are your son, and it's highly unlikely that any of them know where he is. Like you said, I wasn't a Peacekeeper when it happened, and none of them were even in this world."

[vissernone]

"She told me there were others. You have to understand, when you spend twenty-five years knowing that it never gets easier, knowing that days passing by don't erode the loss at all...you'll cling to anything."

She bites the corner of her tongue now and takes a drink of water again. It doesn't keep her voice from cracking.

"It was only in our last meeting that I understood definitively that she was alone, that that was why she volunteered herself."

[brother2dragons]

"Which means that you discussed with her what she was going to do? Did you help with with the plotting of the assassination attempt?"

[vissernone]

"Yes. I had to make myself out to be a worthy ally, didn't I? In hopes she'd connect me with this fictitious network?" She takes a deep breath. "I told her I knew how to disable the cameras near the parking lot. I gave her a believable time and place. And I found the pieces she'd need to assemble an explosive. Obviously the first part was a lie that I hoped she'd never get far enough to discover."

[brother2dragons]

"But the bomb worked, didn't it? Why would you give her components that would be that dangerous?" Dan manages not to sound as intimidating as he could, though there is a part of him that doesn't really see the logic behind what Eva is saying. He chalks it up to a woman being illogical when it comes to her children, but he doesn't let himself express that. His job is to be suspicious of her.

[vissernone]

"Because Ariadne was - is- a genius, and she knows how to identify a bomb from a dud. Did she ever tell you what she did before she came here? She was a professional criminal. She would have known the instant I handed it to her." Eva shakes her head. "Besides, I wouldn't have known how to sabotage the pieces. I was using her instructions."

[no_spelled_y_e_s]

Eddie'd been waiting for this, really. That's why he was called back to the Capitol, after all. The new Tributes were bound to stir things up, and the hold the government had on the past Victors was going to be vulnerable for a while.

He lets the woman wait a good long while after Dan leaves before heading into the interrogation room himself. Rather than the usual white uniform, he's dressed in black, mostly leather. Simple, efficient, and brutal.

He takes a seat across from her with a wide smile. "Eva, isn't it? Can I call you Eva?"

[vissernone]

Eva's been expecting to be left to wait, to stew on the potential violence that is coming her way. She isn't afraid - there's nothing they can do to her that she isn't prepared for, and Daniel didn't seem to know anything that would hurt her.

Death? She's been ready for death for a long time.

"I don't think I'm in a position to be called 'Your Highness', so you may." She raises an eyebrow. "Interesting uniform. Hides the blood stains?"

[no_spelled_y_e_s]

"That's one of the perks, yeah," Eddie says lightly, leaning back in his chair and pulling a cigar out of his pocket and lighting it. He takes a long, slow drag and blows the smoke in her direction.

He'll get to questions eventually.

Maybe.

Honestly, he's not here to gather info.

[vissernone]

"Fancy."

Eva blinks a bit, bats her eyelashes and winces as the smoke stings her eyes, but sits back in her chair. If they want to make her wait, they can. She suspects he's trying to get her to crack by silence, or slip something in an attempt at making conversation.

[no_spelled_y_e_s]

"You think so, huh?"

If they are looking for her to slip up, that is not Eddie's department. He's the muscle, not the brain. She came out and admitted to a Peacekeeper that she had anti-Capitol sentiments. He's not stupid enough not to realize that pretty much everyone in most of the Districts feels that way, but most of them are smart enough not to say it outright.

His job right now is to show her what her confession brings.

[vissernone]

"No, not really." She twirls a lock of her hair between her fingers - twirls instead of tugs, instead of rips it out like she has been from the stress of all his. "I was just trying to be polite."

[no_spelled_y_e_s]

"It's a little late for polite, sweetheart," Eddie drawls, taking another slow drag on his cigar.

[vissernone]

"Are you going to ask me questions, or are you going to blow smoke in my face?" She shrugs. "Or is this the part where I have the tar beaten out of me for answering questions?"

[no_spelled_y_e_s]

"You in a rush to get out of here?"

No questions, but it's always better if they're a little anxious before the fists start flying.

[vissernone]

Eva props her head on her hand. "Well, I haven't been allowed to use the restroom yet."

[no_spelled_y_e_s]

"If you wanna piss in your pants, I'm okay with that," he drawls, tapping some ash from the end of his cigar onto the table.

[vissernone]

"If it's all the same to you, I'd rather we just get on with it."