Friday, July 13, 2007
As Daisuke practiced walking back and forth across the room, Masonry said, "I talked to your brother last night."

Daisuke stopped to focus on him. "What happened? What did you say?"

"I told him he was stupid for joining up with Longbow to go after George. That he might as well put a target on his chest - Daisuke, what's wrong?"

"Longbow? He's *with* Longbow?"

Both of them knew Longbow weren't the perfect group of angels that the press and the Phalanx made them out to be. Mase had almost killed the son of one of them, and Guardian Page grudgingly kept an eye on him throughout most of his tenure with the team. Not to mention how they were compromised and how E almost lost his daughter.

"That's what he said, to try and alleviate my fears."

"But George was arrested for killing Longbow."

"Supposedly he still is." Mase started absently plucking lint from the blanket on the bed to avoid looking at Daisuke.

"Mase, Mase - "

He looked up at Daisuke, whose face carried worry, frustration, and fear all at the same time.

"You have to stop him." He motioned around the room. "I would but I *can't*!"

Mase's eyes bored into Daisuke's. "How do you expect me to do that? Beat him into the ground? He won't listen to words."

"Did you tell him why George was there?"

"Didn't you?"

"No, I didn't get a chance to - he ran out." Daisuke approached Masonry. He bent low so that his face was level with Mase's. He said quietly, almost a whisper, "Mase, find him, tell him. You've got to stop him. Whatever it takes..."

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