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</div><span style="font-size: 18px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:green">NAME: Chris Warner</span></span><br/><b>Alias: </b>Cabal Green<br/><b>Current Persona: </b>Chris -> Sarge<br/><b>Age: </b>35<br/><b>Location: </b>Operation Room -> Training Room<br/><b>Wearing: </b>See Picture<br/><b>Mood Music:</b><a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2Fx9RfXb3JHw8&amp;hash=e3bc5e309734c23f07e8cbad5d89e1f3" href="https://youtu.be/x9RfXb3JHw8" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Jekyll and Hyde</a><br/><b>Tagging: </b>Addy (<a class="username" data-user-id="6055" data-username="Dragongoddess" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/6055/">Dragongoddess</a>)<br/><b>Mentioning:</b>None<br/><hr class="bbc-hr"/>Chris smirked at Addy's retort as she perked up. He hated when she got pouty like that, but at least his usual remedy for his own emotional turmoil worked just as well on her.<br/><br/>"You really think you can beat me without your powers? Or were you planning on cheating and turning it into a real ass whooping for yourself?" Chris teased back before leading the way to the training room.<br/><br/>He thought fondly on all the time the two had spent together in the blastproof room, experimenting with their powers or pouring through obscure medical and botany books to get ideas for what their powers were truly capable of. By now, what their siblings had seen was merely a fraction of the creativity it took to manifest their skills, as the pair had agreed their trump cards were to stay a secret even to each other.<br/><br/>Even in the Cabal's prime, Chris' natural instincts had told him to prepare for a betrayal from one of his siblings. Maybe one of them would grow too powerful, or perhaps turn evil, or even be mind controlled into attacking the other members. And between himself and Addy, he had made sure every one of The Nine could be defeated, even each other.<br/><br/>His mind returned to the present as he touched the handle to the training room, opening it for Addy before following her inside. Once they were just a few steps across the threshold, Chris closed the door and hooked his right arm around Addy's neck from behind, pressing himself tight to her back. Addy would likely feel the slight pricking of tiny needles along her neck, the hemp fibers of Chris' jacket forming small spikes that didn't yet pierce her skin, but spoke the yet unsaid threat that movement wasn't an easy option for her. Against her back, Chris' jacket writhed and shifted, quickly wrapping around his body to create a defensive shell of sturdy vines.<br/><br/>"Don't move, just answer my questions. And using your powers will just kill us both. The thorns against your throat are laced with purified toxins from the lerium oleander plant. It's not fatal to the touch, but if it enters the bloodstream, expect your nervous system will shut down immediately, followed by cardiac arrest." Sarge's cold tone explained, the harsh military persona taking over for the softer side of Addy's eldest brother.<br/><br/>"Tell me the truth Adaleigh... Did you at any point seek to harm Mother? If so, when and why. If you killed her, I want to know why you did it Adaleigh."<br/><br/>Not once since her childhood had Addy's full first name been uttered by the mouth of Christopher Warner, not even when she was in deep trouble with him. The last time Chris, or Sarge for that matter, had used the name "Adaleigh", was the day he came back from his first deployment. Back then, he was full of trauma from what he had seen, what he had experienced first hand, that he had told the young girl what he had gone through before even considering to consult Mother. Addy's attentive ear had probably saved him from going down the dark hole many other veterans went down, but perhaps the scolding he got from Mother about the incident had helped keep him close to the straight and narrow too.<br/><br/>And now here he was, holding one of his precious sisters against him, threatening her life to interrogate her about the long past death of their collective mother figure. And boy could he imagine the scolding he would be getting soon enough for what he was doing... But Chris, and Sarge, had to prove one thing themselves above all else, and that started with making the threat against Addy's life in this very moment a real, genuine suicide pact with her if she tried to fight back.<br/><br/>She would either have the perfect alibi, and her body language and voice would tell him she spoke the truth. Or they would both die in this room, beyond recovery by the time someone else checked on them.