Pangolin A3 [Monday Afternoon]

[bridge_carson]

After moving his stuff over from 227, and hanging out with his cabinmates in the common room, Bridge is currently sprawled on his bed, the curtain pulled back, and is writing in a notebook. Every once and a while, he absently tosses a ball down the cabin hallway for RIC.

[ooc: open, but responses may be slowish for a while]

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[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Arrested?" Bridge frowns. "But..." he flails a little.

[multiplez]

"SPD pulled me and Jack in for stealing. We were trying to help people," she added quickly. "And, Commander Cruger said was this or those card thingies, so I chose this."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"And Jack... didn't?" Bridge says, still frowning a little.

[multiplez]

"No, because Jack is kind of a moron sometimes."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Okay. So this is... weird. I mean, I don't mean any offense, but SPD doesn't exactly make a habit of recruiting criminals..." Bridge is trying to make sense of all this.

[multiplez]

"Yeah, I didn't think they did. Them being the police and all. But Commander Cruger said that because of our...you know, special powers, they were going to give us a chance. Well. Give me a chance."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"So. He *recruited* you because of your abilities..." Bridge says, trailing off and getting at thoughtful expression on his face.

[multiplez]

"Well, yeah. He said something about how they needed people with, y'know, powers for some reason."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"And then he assigns you to C-Squad. Where everyone else *also* has powers," Bridge points out.

[multiplez]

"Yeah. Do the other squads not have powers, then?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"No," Bridge shakes his head. "Well, I mean, no *humans* with powers, anyway."

[multiplez]

"So it's just us? Huh. That seems kind of weird. I mean, not as weird as Cruger being like, 'You stole stuff? We'll give you a badge,' but still.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Well, I mean, it makes a *certain* kind of sense... stick all the kids with weird powers together and it causes much less trouble for everyone," Bridge muses.

[multiplez]

"But if they really are actively recruiting kids with weird powers...I don't know. I guess shoving all the freaks together does make sense," she said bitterly.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Well, we can pretty much rule out coincidence putting us all on the same team," Bridge points out.

[multiplez]

"Yeah, that would be a little bit too random."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Which, of course, begs the question... why us?" Bridge asks. "I mean, how'd we all end up at SPD? I know *I* wasn't recruited, and I'm pretty sure Syd and Sky weren't."

[multiplez]

"So, what, you all just up and decided to join SPD? And Syd--don't pop stars make way better money than cops?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Well," Bridge shrugs. "I've wanted to join SPD since I was little. And Sky's dad was a Ranger, he was always kind of expected to join. And as for Syd... she's, kind of... Syd?"

[multiplez]

"I see." Actually, she didn't, but she was still sure Syd was a very nice person. "What made you want to join SPD, then?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"I just... I wanted to help people, you know? And it seemed like a good way to do that."

[multiplez]

"Yeah," Z said softly. "Helping people."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge tilts his head at Z. "What's wrong?"

[multiplez]

"Jack was always going on about helping people--even though we were so broke it wasn't even funny. And then we get a chance to actually make a difference and he'd rather cool his heels in a little bitty card. I just don't get him."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I gotta say I don't understand that decision." Bridge shakes his head.