lonedanger: (I've been unraveling since my birth)
𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚛 𝚂𝚒𝚡 ([personal profile] lonedanger) wrote in [community profile] memestertrucks 2025-05-23 02:52 pm (UTC)

[ Lady Luck must have fucked both of them. That's the trouble with being somebody's middleman, with being the messenger. He was the sap tasked with carting somebody else's weapon across the Mojave and he paid the price for it, in spades. It doesn't escape him that it isn't all that dissimilar from what he carried into the Divide, all those years ago - the only difference is that this time he was the one to end up proverbially six feet under. Benny was too impatient to put a bullet in his skull before he could finish digging.

It all comes down to power.

House wants to control the Strip, the White Glove Society wants to control the Strip, the Omertas want to control the Strip, the Chairmen want to control the Strip. As it turns out, Benny is the only one willing to expend the effort to get his hands dirty to do so, which is something Len would admire if it hadn't come at the cost of his own life. It's an easy thing to become enamored with the scale of regional domination and stop seeing the smaller parts of that sum; the people sacrificed on the altar of progress. At the end of the day, they aren't all that different from the NCR, the Legion.

Benny keeps talking but it's all hot air, the last ditch effort of a man who knows he's in dire straits. Were Len a man of fewer scruples, if he had any kind of latent desire for the influence and reach of his own philosophy, he might be persuaded by such an offer. Wordlessly, he wipes the blade clean on Benny's shoulder, smearing red over the checkered fabric, before sheathing it at his hip.
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If I want it, I'll find you.

[ He then takes the man's jaw in his hand, holding him stiff and tight, the proximity intimate. ]

This is an opportunity to reflect on your past decisions. So I suggest you reflect. I see you peddling your bullshit to anybody else, I'll make you curse the first kiss your momma gave you. Comprende?

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