The Hawk<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Hawkes barely acknowledged Harden's confirmation about none of the women hiding anything dangerous under their clothes. His gaze was fixed on the Asian. He seemed to have touched a raw nerve with her somewhere, for suddenly she'd found enough guts to question him and threaten him with consequences. It was time he put them all in their place.<br/><br/><strong>"Cuff her and gag her"</strong>, his orders were curt to the two officers as he pointed towards Ophelia. "<strong>One more word out of her dirty little mouth, and your careers suffer as much hurt as her face does."</strong>He turned to face the other girls, not waiting to check the officers' reactions.<strong> "The Geneva Convention, treat civilians humanely, blah blah blah. I wonder how you bring all that righteousness to your voice, as though you understand what prisoners of war go through. Young lady, I'm pretty sure you're not <em>humane</em> towards your driver or gardener even in the comfort of your home. And you expect officers in combat situations to bear with your petty protests and silly demands?" </strong><br/><br/>He ran his eyes over each of their faces, and continued,<strong>"Well, let me make one thing crystal clear. You hate the submarine, you're free to leave. I won't escort you to the yacht though, for it's never safe for a sub to keep flirting with the surface waters too often. You'll just be thrown out of her, and you can make your way upwards. Or, if you decide to stay here till the time it is safe to surface, you need to make yourselves of use. You see, food and rations down here are limited, and five rich girls are five mouths too many. Same goes for living and sleeping space - you're five bodies too many. Once I've dealt with your skipper, I'll give each one of you an employment form, which you need to sign if you wish to stay on the sub for even another minute. After that, you'll each be assigned responsibilities and it'll be expected of you to devote yourselves to them. Down here, we take our jobs very seriously, for any failure in carrying out one's responsibilities leads to severe punishment."</strong><br/><br/>He'd thought of this a while ago. As employees on the sub, they couldn't be as demanding and wouldn't mention civilian rights on the submarine. He also had very specific roles for each one of them in mind. He let them think over it a little, and then, with no warning, slapped Yoko on the cheek. A hard right handed slap that turned her cheek a deep shade of red.<strong>"This is for talking about toilet bowls in prison cells to someone who keeps the waters safe so that vain, useless girls like you can relax on your yachts."</strong>