knightsoflegend | party ♔ ding-dong the dick's dead

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party ♔ ding-dong the dick's dead

WHO || Everyone. Everyone come if you're not on a mission.
WHAT || A party to celebrate Dimitris Sarandis sleeping with the fishes.
WHERE || Knights HQ. The fancy ballroom.
WHEN || Mid-March 2016.
HOW || Prose or actionspam welcome.

Cordelia and Steve have gotten together to plan a rather fun party to celebrate Sarandis being taken down. Abbie even managed to grab them a rather awesome band to entertain the guests and everything else was hand picked and decided on by Cordy and Steve. It's not as fancy as a squiring after party, but it's just as fun. The ballroom has been "dressed down" a little to match the relaxed atmosphere. Enjoy yourselves!

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[ Steve (disguise 20) has never hosted a party in his life. Which is probably why he looks like a very stylish grandpa right now. He is trying to talk to people though and be lively. He knows Cordelia is handling a lot of the mingling. She was made for this stuff. He's not just glued to the wall. Steve is just trying to keep it simple. ]

[Felicity (disguise 21) isn't so much celebrating Sarandis' death as she is the end of everything that he stood for and the threat he posed to their knightly family. They took him down, and they're allowed to celebrate that. Eventually, she makes her way over to Steve's side, glass in each hand, and holds one up to him.]

Toast?

[ He turns to look at her. Spotting the glass he takes it from her and holds it up to clink his glass against hers. He nods with a half smile. Though honestly he doesn't know what he feels. ]

What do you say to something like this?

[Felicity tips her head to the side, considering for a moment before raising her glass.]

To a job ... mostly well done.

[ He exhales roughly and nods his head. Not entirely sure if that's the truth. He smiles though because it's not Felicity's fault that Archer is an unleashed psycho. ]

Agreed. [ He takes a sip. ]

[No, it's not Felicity's fault that Archer is an unleashed psycho. But she's not really quite so sure he's a psycho either. She pauses for a moment, before slipping her arm through his gently, and taking a step towards the doors that lead outside.]

Want to get some air?

[A party isn't really the place to talk about this, but they should talk about this.]

[ Steve does keep expecting to wake up in the middle of the night to find his room on fire. That's how little he actually thinks of Archer. Which is probably wrong of him, but he's willing to be wrong and not right. Hopefully.

He doesn't fight Felicity. He lets her lead him outside because he probably needs this. Once they're clear of the guests he takes a deep breath. ]

I know we did a good thing with Sarandis, but I just keep thinking about the cost.

[She pauses for a moment as she lets him speak, before nodding slowly.]

I've found that there are very few missions where there isn't a cost involved. And I'll admit, Archer's actions were wrong in a lot of ways, but as much as I hate to admit it - there was one area where he had a point.

This was the Slovechnian police force. Wynn said it himself, Valentin and Sarandis were friends. We didn't know who there Sarandis might have had on his side. I'm not saying what Archer did was right, but I can't say that it didn't come from a reasonable place.

[ Steve understands that Sarandis needed to be stopped. He hurt too many people. Most of them who were on that mission. He tried to stab Alainn and wound up getting Rose instead. He needed to be put down, but he worries about what happened before too much. It was all just speculation. Too many unknown things. ]

There's nothing reasonable about lighting someone on fire when you don't know what side they're even on.

[She tips her head to the side.]

Says the guy who was throwing a metal shield at some of them with head shots. While you may not have gone to the same lengths as he did, you can't say that you didn't do damage either.

[Just ... putting that out there.]

Yeah. The difference being I tapered back so I didn't kill those people because I understand the difference between lethal force and nonlethal. He doesn't.

[ Because knocking someone unconscious and lighting them on fire is totally different, Felicity. ]

[Yeah, Felicity's not convinced.]

Head injuries are still super serious. Brain damage doesn't fix itself, and your non-lethal damage could have had way more lasting consequences. But that isn't my point. My point is that sometimes people do things they can't take back because they think it's what they have to do to protect their team. Placing the blame solely on Archer isn't going to solve any problems because he isn't the only one at fault.

And at the same time, they also have to live with that. It's not as easy as it sounds, or ... how they can make it out to be.

[ He doesn't respond to the first bit because there's still a massive difference. Steve feels bad about having to stop those men. Archer didn't feel remorse. Felicity wasn't there to witness him screaming "fuck the police" and looking like he was having the time of his life. That's what worries Steve. ]

I've done plenty and made plenty of calls. But you did not see how excited he was to be wielding fire at those cops. I just don't buy that he felt bad about any of it.

[She purses her lips for a moment, because she knows some people are pretty good at lying, even to themselves.]

And he's not required to show you that he does.

[She sighs.]

Look, maybe he doesn't see it as a bad call now. Maybe he will later. But trying to force him to feel remorse about it isn't going to fix the problem. Besides, the person he was accountable to in that room was Wynn, not you, and Wynn responded accordingly. If you had waited five minutes before storming out, you would have seen that.

If we're team then I have to feel like I can trust him. I don't feel like I can.

[ He heard about the fire table incident. The part that really makes Steve angry is that he blew up like that with actual babies in the meeting. ]

Couldn't be in the same room as him. I'm not going to apologize for that. [ Though technically he already did apologize to Wynn about leaving so abruptly. ]

[She nods.]

Okay. I get that. He's not part of the team anymore. But that doesn't mean other members of the team aren't going to make mistakes.

Mistakes are different from blatantly not caring who you hurt.

[ At least that's how Steve gets it. ]

What about caring about who does get hurt?

I'm standing right here because I care.

[ He's never going to get on board with what happened out there. Steve's old and stubborn. ]

[She shakes her head.]

I don't mean them out there. I mean us, your team. Because while I agree, I don't think innocent people should be hurt, but I also don't want our team members to get shot to death by cops either.

This whole damn thing started because Archer couldn't control his reactions. What happened with that first cop--didn't have to end like that. I'm not saying don't protect your people, but that--wasn't the same and you know it.

Also, the whole damn thing probably started because Kat and Des knocked out two innocent paramedics so we could steal their ambulance.

[Otherwise, the cops wouldn't have even known to look for them.]

Yeah and they probably regret that decision because it brought the cops down on them. Archer was yelling at the cops like it was a game.

[ Steve rubs the back of his head. ]

[She takes a deep breath.]

Yeah. I get it, I get it.

[There's a pause as she glances around to make sure no one was looking to join them, before shrugging.]

But I've also been that person who's made extreme choices on a mission. So I get where he was coming from.

[She didn't do it quite as gleefully, but she's been that person with blood on her hands.]

[ Steve's lost teammates. He's lost civilians. He's had to make not great calls. He had the government breathing down his throat about a lot of things. You do the right thing because it's the right thing. Not because you get thanked or a medal. ]

You're not like Archer, Felicity.

steve rogers | ota

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