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Angel's not very good at public relations. He hates dealing with public relations. This is why Cordelia always handled people, and why he had a department to handle that when he was running Wolfram & Hart. Something, however, needs to be said before things get out of line. And if he doesn't say it, who will?

Here goes nothing.

"If we wanted to eat you, we would've already," is probably not the best way to start this, but it's certainly one way to get everyone's attention. "Most of the vampires here in Taxon have been here for a long time, some of us pushing a year, others two. The only evidence you'll find against us can be placed during times when we were glitched. None of us can control that. If anyone's at fault for the things we've done while glitched, it's the hamsters. If we're to be held accountable for those actions, then by that logic, you should be, too, for the things you've done when glitched out of your mind and acting on impulses that you've otherwise got under control.

"I'm not saying that your fear isn't justified or that you don't have reason to be cautious. You do. We're predators, specifically designed to hunt you down. The point is that we don't. Letting paranoia and fear control you is only going to make things worse. We want to survive as much as you do; getting rid of our means of survival is not paying us the same respect we're paying you.

"Many of us have been around a long time. We haven't lived this long by being so stupid as to do what you expect of us. Most worlds have vampires that have gone unnoticed, because we don't get involved or cause trouble... with a few exceptions here and there." Like him, back in the day before that gypsy curse. "Leave us alone and we'll leave you alone. There's no reason to ruin how well we've been cohabitating in Taxon, just because we're all stuck in the same building. If anything, we should be working together to find a way out."

( ooc | i'm heading out the door to a concert, but wanted to get this up before i left. will hit tags when i get home later tonight. ♥ )

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"Yes," he commented with a snort, eyes narrowing in distaste as he considered. "Saw their effectiveness. Requested to shut monster in a mausoleum until claimed to be human again after it had already attacked once. Suppose choice was ironic. Very comforting." The last was accompanied by no little amount of sarcasm; how those claiming to be protectors of civilians could just let something like that pass was beyond him. It was too soft, a man might have died, and yet all they had done in the end was pen the perpetrator in a box, effectively a time-out until the danger had supposedly passed. It was absurd.

Angel knew exactly who he was talking about, and his eyes narrow.

"That monster was an innocent girl, glitched into a vampire against her will. She was put into that tomb in order to protect you and herself. There's no sense in killing someone when they're not pulling their own strings. Glitches don't last forever; you wait them out."

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Rorschach tries to find the logic in the statement, but he can't; she tried to kill someone, and only failed in the attempt because the victim managed to escape. The fact that she seems normal and innocent now is irrelevant; he can't separate the two aspects no matter how hard he tries, there is only black and white, nothing in-between. No 'conditional' evil, even for evil that comes in the guise of a child. He had stopped seeing her as innocent the moment she had decided to attack someone, no matter that the action allegedly wasn't her own. He makes a "hurm" of disagreement and shakes his head.

"And if it happens again? If she's more successful next time? I'm sure your congratulations on preserving innocence will be very comforting to the public then."

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