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THURSDAY
Can't believe it's been nearly a week and we haven't moved in on this guy. Haven't done much of anything, it seems, apart from wait. Wait yet again for him to make the first move. Wait for some indication of what his game plan is – like that isn't obvious from what Shalimar learned while she was with him. Wait for Adam to decide the time is right. And in the meantime Ashlocke is in total control of Genomex's facilities and everything that entails. The resources, the technicians, all the New Mutants we didn't manage to save from the GSA. Who knows how many more like him Eckhart had locked up in there? Even though Adam seems pretty convinced he's the only one, he's been wrong before and I'm not sure that we'll ever be ready to take on a whole army of Ashlockes no matter how hard we practice...
Not that I'd ever let the others hear me say that. They've already given up trying to make me feel better about how hard I'm finding it to be as comfortable with my changing powers as they obviously are with theirs, and I'm not about to give them any more reason to accuse me of not thinking positively enough. But I really wish we'd taken him down when we had the chance, instead of leaving him to get stronger, pull more unsuspecting Children of Genomex into his web.
I have a feeling, though, that Adam's need to make amends for his past actions is getting in the way of his objectivity where Gabriel Ashlocke is concerned. That however much of a psychopath the guy is, however great his hatred of the man who made him what he's become, whatever he does to try and get back at him, there's going to be a part of Adam that will understand, sympathise, even. I just hope it isn't going to end up being something we'll all have reason to regret.
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THURSDAY
Can't believe it's been nearly a week and we haven't moved in on this guy. Haven't done much of anything, it seems, apart from wait. Wait yet again for him to make the first move. Wait for some indication of what his game plan is – like that isn't obvious from what Shalimar learned while she was with him. Wait for Adam to decide the time is right. And in the meantime Ashlocke is in total control of Genomex's facilities and everything that entails. The resources, the technicians, all the New Mutants we didn't manage to save from the GSA. Who knows how many more like him Eckhart had locked up in there? Even though Adam seems pretty convinced he's the only one, he's been wrong before and I'm not sure that we'll ever be ready to take on a whole army of Ashlockes no matter how hard we practice...
Not that I'd ever let the others hear me say that. They've already given up trying to make me feel better about how hard I'm finding it to be as comfortable with my changing powers as they obviously are with theirs, and I'm not about to give them any more reason to accuse me of not thinking positively enough. But I really wish we'd taken him down when we had the chance, instead of leaving him to get stronger, pull more unsuspecting Children of Genomex into his web.
I have a feeling, though, that Adam's need to make amends for his past actions is getting in the way of his objectivity where Gabriel Ashlocke is concerned. That however much of a psychopath the guy is, however great his hatred of the man who made him what he's become, whatever he does to try and get back at him, there's going to be a part of Adam that will understand, sympathise, even. I just hope it isn't going to end up being something we'll all have reason to regret.
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