<div style="text-align: center">《 Hale 》<br/>
<i>Location: Abendblume conference room<br/>
Addressing: Sou</i>​</div><br/>Mr. Frazier did at least turn around. She was cooperating, for the most part, and he could appreciate that she hadn't tried to make his job anymore difficult than it was. It did take her a moment, but she finally managed.<br/><br/>The room was quiet enough that Hale could hear when the stream finally hit the plastic and he gave two soft claps of mocking encouragement. He had no doubt that Mr. Frazier would do what was asked of him. He was a respectable family man with a comfortable life within the community. He understood his worth, at least until an actual doctor was found.<br/><br/>Mr. Frazier set the cup down on the small table, unwrapping the pregnancy test to hold it in the urine for fifteen seconds. He pulled it out, letting the excess drop off before moving out from behind the screen to hand off the test. It wasn't his business.<br/><br/>"Is that all you needed?" Mr. Frazier asked and Hale nodded. He was quick to get back to his clinic, where someone might actually need him.<br/><br/>"You know what quality can redeem any woman, no matter how tarnished?" Hale started, holding the test, waiting for a positive or negative mark to populate. It was undoubtedly a tense three minutes for Sou. She should have altered her story and made room for error. This was an all in sort of thing, but if she'd come to him, explaining that she was ready to start a family. That she wanted to try to do better, Hale might have been more sympathetic. At the very least that situation might have given Rebel more reason to be loyal.<br/><br/>"Well, my dear, seems you miscalculated." He passed her the negative test. Had even waited an extra minute.<br/><br/>"Why don't we mark her for what she is?" Hale pondered, looking to one of his men for feedback. "Don't we have that felon covered in all those prison tattoos he did with bic ink and a rusty old shiv?" He didn't know if that was the protocol, but his words were mostly for effect anyway. Interestingly enough, that guy hadn't made the list. He'd proven himself useful to Hale, and would prove himself again now in punishing a woman for trying to be manipulative.<br/><br/>"Yeah, lets get him in here," Hale directed with a nod, gesturing towards Sou.<br/><br/>"How about we have him do 'lying whore' right above her cunt?"