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Date Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 11:25:58am
Author: Nestra
Subject: "Original Sins" -- Sins challenge response (adult language and themes)
In reply to: JayBee and Nell 's message, "Friday Challenge: October 7, 2005" on Friday, October 07, 11:03:49am

Envy

It's everything he can do to survive each mission they send him on. He's always been a borderline candidate; they told him that the day he woke up in the White Room. But he wants to live, nothing more than to live, so he fights for each extra second of his life. He spends hours on the gun range, trying to improve his accuracy. He studies mission profiles, hoping that this time, it will click, and he will see the patterns so obvious to everyone else.

And he watches Michael, everyone's star pupil, and hates him for his easy competence.

Wrath

The trouble started as soon as they got back to Section. Sanders purposely bumped Hernandez on her way out of the van, Hernandez shoved back, and the argument escalated with each step they took.

"You fucking incompetent --"

"Fuck you! You can't even hit your damn mark!"

"You got Park killed!"

Hernandez lunged at Sanders and got in a punch to her jaw before they were dragged apart. He opened his mouth to yell at her again, until dual gunshots silenced them both.

"Anyone else want to try and shift the blame?" the team leader asked.

No one did.

Lust

Being Section's most successful Valentine op is a dubious distinction. She knows what the other operatives say behind her back. She's caught them whispering the word "slut" more than once. As far as she's concerned, they can all go to hell. Or they can try running a mission profile from their backs and see how well they do.

How they would laugh if they knew. When she's with her lover, they kiss each other clumsily, bumping noses. He makes her too breathless to practice her art; instead, she abandons everything she knows, and does her best to just hold on.

Gluttony

Section's cafeteria has the best food I've ever tasted. I had some good meals on the outside, but nothing like this. It's one of the perks -- face death on a daily basis, then have some coq au vin.

The thing is, no one's ever seen the chef. A few times a month, someone passes along another rumor.

"I heard Operations went to his favorite restaurant and kidnapped the chef, and he's holding his family hostage."

It's as plausible as some of the others I've heard. I'm not going to ask. I'm not stupid.

And the food is damn good.

Greed

He'll wait until no one is watching. It's not hard -- the operatives have to go back for debriefing, and the typical Housekeeping team is three people. Depending on the number of bodies.

Then, when the coast is clear, he'll rifle the body, quickly but thoroughly. Take the cash from the wallet. Pull rings off the fingers.

He's pretty sure his boss knows. She's made a few barbed comments, but if she really cared, she'd have stopped him. So he supplements his income a little, and no one gets hurt.

It's not like the incinerator's going to know the difference.

Pride

Wilcox thinks he's hot shit. Acts like a rock star, even has some idiot groupies from Comm that follow him around and listen to his stories. The time he got left behind in Kandahar and fought his way to a safe house. The shot he took that killed two guys with one bullet.

I don't have any stories like that. I pay attention, though. I watch. The best operatives? They spend their time doing, not talking. That's what keeps them alive.

So that's what I do. And I'm going to be around long after Wilcox is rotting in the ground.

Sloth

When they recruited you, six years ago, you fought as hard as anyone else to survive. You didn't care who you had to step on, and anyone that expected Section to baby them was too stupid to live anyway. You would be one of the elite, beating the odds.

The bullet that kills you isn't anything special. It's not fired from the gun of a madman who's got a vendetta against you. You don't throw yourself in front of a child in a heroic attempt to save a young life.

You just don't bother to move out of the way.

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