9/2/2013 7:49:47 PM by
Ironwolfe
(Edited: 9/4/2013 4:42:46 PM)
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...or maybe not so much In Peace
I don't always control the tale, the tale sometimes controls itself. So, a long time past his due, Officer Javier Guerra of the Traynor Island PD has paid for his many sins.
I won't go into pre-Nightwalker world sins beyond saying they include blackmail, selling drug evidence, beating and torturing confessions out of suspects (guilty or not), bribery, rape and murder; all behind the protective badge of the TIPD.
The sins of the Nightwalker world:
Among Thieves:
The Death of Officer Denny Gordon: Gordon made the mistake of falling for Sakita "Cyclone" Shigota and trying to rescue her from the fate Captain Ed Baker had planned for her. He arrested her, with the intention of spiriting her off Traynor Island and to Tokyo. Enter Javier Guerra, who'd seen Gordon bring Cyclone into the station and was well aware and a part of Baker's plans for her. Guerra sent Gordon to another cell to enjoy himself with a Chinese woman, Hap-Wah Chiang, who had not yet been booked and, therefore, did not “exist”. He hung back and, when Gordon was gone, Guerra assured Cyclone he'd be back to help her after locking up the 'unbalanced' Gordon. Guerra let Gordon finish fucking Ms Chiang, then shoved a trench knife into his heart, then into his throat. (He made a last minute decision not to decapitate him.)
The Rape of Hap-Wah Chiang: Ms Chiang had been brought to the police station after her boyfriend got into a fight with two men who had been insulting Hap-Wah. Rather than seeing her boyfriend booked and interrogated by the TIPD, she had offered to go with the officers, to 'do anything she needed to do' to have them leave her boyfriend alone. After he murdered Denny Gordon, Guerra was so embarrassed by the erection he'd got while doing it that he raped Chiang. It wasn't out of lust or hatred for her; she was just available.
The Betrayal and Degradation of Sakita "Cyclone" Shigota:
After murdering Gordon, Guerra went back to Cyclone and removed the shackle from her, and took her up to interrogation because, he assured her, a friend was waiting for her there. The 'friend' was Officer Jennette Davis, her hair rinsed to look a bit like Volt's. Davis stunned Cyclone with a Kruppe Goblin. (Give Davis some credit: she didn't know what Baker had planned for Cyclone.) Guerra sent Davis away to get the rinse out of her hair, pulling seniority on her, and took the time to strip Cyclone and take a few photos of her, figuring to sell them after she was 'slabbed'.
Davis returned while Guerra was taking his pictures, and punched him, knocking him to the floor. It was an argument that should have ended with a handshake and the understanding that, yes, maybe Guerra had crossed a line.
But...
The Betrayal of Officer Jennette Davis: 1:
The handshake happened and Guerra let Davis help him up, and admitted to the sleaziness of the photos. And he told Davis that he suspected Baker had much worse plans for Cyclone. Guerra and Davis had been Hardcore Unit for years. They'd backed each other up many times. Guerra dropped his voice and leaned into her and forced her to lean into him to hear, and attacked her. Davis is a big, muscular woman, but Guerra is bigger and he'd surprised her, and he beat her unconscious and had her taken down to and hung up in an interrogation cell.
The Further Degradation of Sakita "Cyclone" Shigota:
With Davis out of the way Guerra got an assist from Officer Jim Dayton in heating up the photos of Cyclone. He got numerous shots of staged sex between he and Cyclone (careful, however, not to penetrate her; Baker had made clear he knew she was a virgin and that she'd better still be a virgin when she was delivered). Guerra never made money off the photos but they're still on his PC.
The Final Betrayal of Officer Jennette Davis:
Guerra was well aware of Jen Davis' weakness for liquor. He had Dayton buy several bottles and force-fed it to her initially, then simply let her drink until she was blackout drunk. Then he, Dayton and Sergeant Franz Austerlitz essentially raped her. Their using of her wasn't violent or 'against her will' but was certainly non-consensual. Davis was so drunk she wouldn't remember it. Officer Annie Masters joined in the party as well, slapping and beating Davis with the full knowledge that Jen was too far gone to defend herself. She finally sodomized her with her nightstick after Davis passed out.
The betrayal didn't end there, though. After they were done, Guerra took Davis to the Ran Kuro district and left her, naked, in a sewer frequented by transients known as Undergrounders. It was a place the TIPD used for target practice, literally hunting and killing the Undergrounders for sport. Guerra left Davis there, naked, with the intention of her being found and slabbed by the Undergrounders keeping his own hands somewhat clean.
The Attempt to Kill Sakita "Cyclone" Shigota:
Jen Davis may not have known what Ed Baker had in store for Cyclone, but Javier Guerra did. He delivered her to Baker at Brimstone Prison with the full knowledge that she was to be offered up as a sacrifice to the ghost of Black Jenny Wainscott. He didn't believe it was going to happen, but he delivered her and figured when it went south either he or Baker would be taking Cyclone's virginity and, eventually, her life. It didn't turn out well for him, but the attempt qualifies as a sin nonetheless.
The Rape of Officer Gina Mitchell:
First, Gina Mitchell: Mitchell had filed a complaint against her partner, Officer Jimmy Dayton, when he refused to respond to a call on a rape. She'd broken the rules by responding by herself, discovered the victim brutally murdered and later filed the complaint, and she was vilified by a large percentage of TIPD. The ones who backed her weren't vocal about it, in order to protect themselves.
Second note about Gina Mitchell: she made the mistake of being drawn to Javier Guerra. She fell for the macho look and the muscular body and she somehow convinced herself that he was at heart a softy, as all big, buffed guys are. And he noticed.
Guerra played Mitchell. He played good cop bad cop with her one morning. Guerra played the understanding cop who didn’t like what she was doing to Jim Dayton but understood. And Officer Rick Dengler played the bad cop, threatening to take a baseball bat to her if she didn’t resign from the force. Guerra convinced her to go to the Cobalt, a high priced, high class gym, for a workout. He played up to her, subtly seducing her in one of the hot tub rooms and let her talk him into a motel liaison that ended with her frustrated, humiliated and in tears because she couldn't go down on him. He was simply too big for her.
And he continued to play her. Following the motel debacle, he invited her to a pre-shift party at his place with a few of the Hardcore Unit officers. He'd get her on the road to being part of the crew; get her accepted. Guerra sucked her in, played her, stood up for her with the other invitees (Jimmy Connors, Andy Ford and Derek Winchester); stood up for her when Ford, on cue, suggested she might be wired and forced her to strip to her panties to prove she wasn't. And Guerra just kept playing the good cop and reeling her in.
When she was nearly completely relaxed with him, he beat her unconscious and the four of them took her to his basement and gang raped her. Guerra himself violently sodomized her.
He wasn't done.
He took a baseball bat to her and, with Winchester and Connors holding her up, beat her viciously and left her to die in Desolation Alley (the same alley where she'd answered the call of a rape in progress).
Guerra's Death:
The ideal and satisfactory death would have been what Lily Midnite and Jen Davis wanted: a beating as brutal as Guerra had delivered to Mitchell, followed by watching him choke on his own genitals. It would have been poetic justice, but life is not, alas, filled with poetic justice.
Richard Ramirez escaped execution by succumbing to cancer. He should have been, at the very least electrocuted for his crimes. The couple who terrorized a young woman in San Francisco, who watched as their dogs tore her clothing off and killed her did not get the death penalty. The dogs, brutalized into becoming killing machines, were euthanized. Charles Manson is still alive.
The scales don't always balance.
It would have been satisfying to write Javier Guerra into walking into a trap and being punished for his crimes. But as I stated, the story takes over sometimes and realistically, Guerra was a more savvy, sneakier bastard than that. So instead of meeting the woman who said she was Gina Mitchell's sister in her territory, on her terms, he told her where he'd meet her: in a bar where cops were walking targets, unless they were cops who supplied drugs or women or illegal weapons to the owner and a few of his selected friends. He effectively removed Lily Midnite as a threat because she was known at the bar and a target. And while he never suspected Jen Davis as being in on the attempt to take him down, he removed her also. She knew he would have turned her over as a cop the second she walked in.
Plans fall apart.
And you have to play to your characters. It would have been easy to write "oh, Guerra got stupid and fell for the trap and got killed". But it's not true to the characters.
So Javier Guerra is dead. Not the way Jen Davis and Lily Midnite wanted, but he's dead. And there is some solace for Jen Davis in having dumped him in a waste bin and burned his body.
A bit of solace.
Ironwolfe
1 September 2013