"murder" sounds a bit fancy.

[goodsoldier]

Who: Kate and Jason
What: a talk about morals, or possibly the lack thereof
Where: the Apache
When: late afternoon
Notes: this happens after Jason went to visit Steph and met Hermione, and also after he talked to Tim.
Warnings: vigilante philosophizing, moral ramifications, merciless rationalization

He doesn't think about it now, but he might later: Jason's actually really happy. Not the way you're supposed to be happy, maybe, but he's never put any stock in that. The thing is, he's busy and he has a purpose. His talk with Barbara went better than he could have imagined. Even Stephanie and Tim didn't go terribly. But it would be completely remiss to forget Stephanie's friend. He remembers the way she looked the night they killed Henry Jennings. In a lot of ways, he has no patience for that, no sympathy — the Militia are as bad as anybody he's ever killed before, and in certain aspects, worse.

However, he'd also seen how good she was. There's no lone rangering this shit, and she would be an asset, if he can convince her the cause is worthy. Maybe a part of him is still annoyed he never brought Mia around. Though he doubts this Kate is anything like Mia apart from their embrace of archery, it seems apt, in a slightly grim way, that he should be on his way to meet her at the Apache to make his case. This time, there will be 100% less kidnapping and blowing up of stuff. The context is completely different, and anyway, Stephanie would do her damnedest to kill him. If he can't convince her, he'll try his best to leave her in a better frame of mind. Refusing to kill is not necessarily problematic, in his mind. As long as she isn't going to pull a Batman on them, it's not a big deal.

Though Kate hadn't seen his face that night, he's wearing the same jacket, he moves roughly the same way. He glances around the bar for her as he heads towards a booth, where their conversation will likely go uninterrupted.

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[joiedeviolet]

She's been in so many fights, both major and minor, but none of them have affected Kate in this way. The video, the hints of what really happened once the CiD stopped recording, should have been a warning she didn't ignore. She knew what happened to that woman, even before Jennings had the truth wrung out of him. Pushing it to the back of her mind only served to have it rush forth when the night was over. Sleep hasn't been easy, not with the nightmares she used to have coming back to her, the ghost of the smell of a long-haired man she never saw coming for her invading her nostrils. How things ended honestly didn't help. Being outvoted surely did not help her feel like she crossed her morals for justice. Justice never meant shedding blood until there was a permanent end.

Entering the bar after holding the door open for a drunken businessman to stumble out, she pauses there to glance around the room, not quite sure who she should be looking for. It's not like she texted Steph soon after she received Jason's message to ask what this guy looked like, if Steph even knew to begin with. Kate, herself, looks a little different than that night. Her hair is much shorter now, grazing her jawline, a change she hoped would throw her off the Militia's track just in case. Dressed in jeans, ankle boots, and a hunter green pea coat, she looks like any young woman coming in for an early drink. No vigilante who patrols the street at night, no person who disagreed with how to deal with a man who couldn't care less about her or people like her, no person who is silently slipping back into her old thinking patterns that she thought had she forgotten. Kate, for all intents and purposes, is just a librarian right now.

It's a good image to portray.