week 9 - trial

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week nine trial



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Setting
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[vytis]

[Lithuania is sitting in one of the chairs with Ruta. He sets the puppy down, where she sits at his feet lazily, and looks at Marlow.]

Yes?

[obsideo]

We know the truth now.

[She gestures to the letter in her hands.]

A long time ago, you met a man named M. Mordswell, right? Dr. Mordswell, I guess. He was supposed to help in the war, but something went wrong. He wound up killing a lot of people with a plague, including yours. He warned us...it's you. You wanted to get revenge on him, so you brought all of us in on it. You made us play this game, and you forced Dr. Mordswell's daughter to play, too. And when you were done, you killed her. Fortunately...while she was dying, she made sure we'd find out the truth. I think maybe you've been hurting people for a long time, to get revenge for what happened to you. But it's time for this to end now.

[She holds out the medal.]

I think this belongs to you.

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[vytis]

[Lithuania takes the medal and looks at it for a moment.]

[vytis]

[Then he smiles--a display of perfectly practiced geniality, of course.]

May I see the letter as well, Miss Marlow?

[obsideo]

I can't see why not.

[She's nervous now. Did something go wrong? But no, it has to be him. She hands over the letter.]

[inthebones]

[Susan quietly takes a small step forward at this point, saying nothing, but simply affirming that Marlow was not the only one who knew. No funny business. Not at the end.]

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[vytis]

[Lithuania reads the letter, sitting calmly. Much calmer, actually, than he's seemed in over a week. He folds the letter neatly and places the letter on top of it on his lap.]

[vytis]

[Then he smiles again. It's too wide and everything behind his eyes seems to have turned to dead iron.]

Shall I congratulate you? I suppose it would only be fair.

[obsideo]

Nothing about this was fair.

[godwhisperer]

[Once he's revealed his face, he's immediately coming at him practically snarling in hatred. Actually, someone might want to stop him before he tries to strangle Lithuania, because he looks like he might.]

Fair?

Villain, you dare speak of such?

[inthebones]

...So the final facade is lifted.

[Susan's voice, too, is like steel as she addresses the man she thought she had known.]

What did any of this bring you? To cause misery, pain? The pain that you felt?

[hollowheart]

You allowed Poland to be killed. [not that she believes that, but she needs to know.]

[throe]

I knew it! The moment last week's trial happened, I knew there was nobody else it could be. That's why Sonia killed Poland, wasn't it?

[humanic]

[Stiles hasn't read the letter yet and Marlow's explanation is making like zero sense to him, so he's just looking confused here.]

Wait, seriously? You're actually claiming to be some kind of plague ghost of Lithuania?

[inthebones]

...His people are all dead. Dead of plague.

This shell is all that remains of Lithuania - if the letter is to be believed.

[humanic]

Wow. That uh...definitely didn't happen where I come from. I mean, I know my history's not the greatest but I think they would have taught us about a genocide that wiped out an entire country.

But more importantly, so is he a ghost or not?

[inthebones]

He's a country without people. You can decide that for yourself.

I expect he's about to be very soon, though.

[humanic]

Great. We've been stuck in a hellhole for two months that could have just be solved with a single call to the Ghostbusters.

Can we just vote for him and get this over with? I don't really want to stick around for the evil villain act or the smug 'all you humans are insects to me and my life is worth so much more' nation act.

[pasodoble]

( Excuse me pardon me there is something about all of this that is really fucking bothering Spain right now. It was something Marlow said earlier. Spain's tone is careful but sharp, like he's trying to keep his emotions under control. )

Plague?

[vytis]

Yes. [Lithuania tilts his head again.] Disease is a terrible way to die, you know.

[humanic]

Was it a zombie plague? [HE HAS TO KNOW OKAY it would be pretty much fitting with the rest of this story]

[pasodoble]

Be quiet, Stiles.

[vytis]

Of course not.

[pasodoble]

( Spain doesn't speak right away. Of course, he understands that part completely. It's something he's known this entire time. )

... Give me the letter.

[vytis]

[Lithuania hands it to Spain.]