Bela Talbot (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
enjoythe_ride) wrote2007-10-31 06:07 pm
enjoythe_ride) wrote2007-10-31 06:07 pm
[ROTM] Ulterior motives and hidden agendas
Everyone had an angle.
It was one of the first things you learned in working this business, especially when you got into the supernatural side of it—there was always an angle, and everyone had one. They may not always tell you their true one, and just stick with the one you knew you wanted to hear—but there was always one that was just looking out for themselves.
Bela wasn’t the kind of person who liked beating around the bush.
Her motives were her motives. She wasn’t going to apologize for them, or pretend to have them be anything other than what they were. She came first, regardless of what was going on around her, and that wasn’t going to change anytime soon. Not even a pending apocalypse.
What could she really do for that anyway? The world wasn’t going to be saved by well wishes and banishing a few demons. The human races was at war, and there was no way they could win this one. All the big name hunters were saying that this was the end of it all. The light at the end of the tunnel. And she had a feeling that there were going to be very few people who were taking the path of the high and mighty, not in the world they were living in.
They were all going to hell—what’s the point of pretending to play nice?
She used to keep her motives hidden. It served her well in her prior work, but now that she knew where everything stood—it just wasn’t convenient to be doing it all the time. If someone asked her flat out why she did the things she did, she wasn’t going to give them some bullshit reason, just to make out like she was only misunderstood, doing bad things for good reasons. What was the point? She owned up to the reason why she was doing the things she did. At least she was honest about them.
She was a thief, albeit a great thief—but not a liar. That just wasn’t her style.
350 words
It was one of the first things you learned in working this business, especially when you got into the supernatural side of it—there was always an angle, and everyone had one. They may not always tell you their true one, and just stick with the one you knew you wanted to hear—but there was always one that was just looking out for themselves.
Bela wasn’t the kind of person who liked beating around the bush.
Her motives were her motives. She wasn’t going to apologize for them, or pretend to have them be anything other than what they were. She came first, regardless of what was going on around her, and that wasn’t going to change anytime soon. Not even a pending apocalypse.
What could she really do for that anyway? The world wasn’t going to be saved by well wishes and banishing a few demons. The human races was at war, and there was no way they could win this one. All the big name hunters were saying that this was the end of it all. The light at the end of the tunnel. And she had a feeling that there were going to be very few people who were taking the path of the high and mighty, not in the world they were living in.
They were all going to hell—what’s the point of pretending to play nice?
She used to keep her motives hidden. It served her well in her prior work, but now that she knew where everything stood—it just wasn’t convenient to be doing it all the time. If someone asked her flat out why she did the things she did, she wasn’t going to give them some bullshit reason, just to make out like she was only misunderstood, doing bad things for good reasons. What was the point? She owned up to the reason why she was doing the things she did. At least she was honest about them.
She was a thief, albeit a great thief—but not a liar. That just wasn’t her style.
350 words