truefaceofthelaw: (there's something about him)
Judge Rico Dredd ([personal profile] truefaceofthelaw) wrote in [community profile] legionmissions 2017-10-04 11:51 pm (UTC)

You're right.

The words light up Rico's expression with a grin that looks like it shouldn't belong on a face like his. But the rest of it soon follows, and his face turns thunderous. He shoves the finger out of the way and rocks up on his heels towards Garrus, already so close together, fists clenched and the barely restrained desire of violence evident in every angle of his body.

"First of all, don't you say a single word about Judge Beeny." Rico starts, voice cold. "She's had nine more years on the streets than me. In terms of numbers, she's killed, tortured, beaten, and sentenced nine times more people than me. You think she's better because she hides it behind a professional attitude? You think you're any better?" He jabs Garrus back, twice as hard. "At least I know what I am. You're still denying it."

"And," he continues, voice starting to raise. "You think that the high-" he starts, furious, then cuts himself off. "Of course! Of course I've put a bullet in someone because of nothing other than the Justice Department telling me! That's all you need!" He gesticulates with his free hand. "I'm only doing what I'm supposed to be doing. For what I was created to do. I'm just enforcing their laws, no matter how cruel or nonsensical you think it is. Take it up with them. I have the weight of the law behind me, and you have nothing!"

He wants to say it. He wants to say that he doesn't have the high ground, no affections that the law is right, that Garrus was right to say drokk it to C-Sec and go his own damn way. Garrus found power over others there at the end of a barrel, Rico knows it. But how can he think that he's any better than Rico? He just wants him to understand that he's down here on his level, in the dirt with him. But he's already said too much.

He tilts his chin upwards instead, bitterness in his voice. "The law is the only thing that ever matters in this world. That, and the force to lay it down. You're no hero. Just another vigilante who got his squad killed, and you're still so drokking proud of it, Archangel. Your father should have disowned you."

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