Mr. Thompson

243. If you could be in the Olympics (summer or winter), what event/sport would you want to do most? Why?

I could be predictable and say shooting since it's a skill I use at work, but I've never liked being predictable. It often has unpleasant results, like permanent disabilities -- or death -- and I don't intend to repeat that lovely experience for a long, long time.

However, there are other skills I use at work; things I keep up with to keep myself fit -- and alive. Not to mention a bit of... sport, shall we say? From time to time. There's always judo or taekwondo, but I'd probably fare better in boxing. There's a lot of tradition there, with a number of military-trained boxers entering the Olympics. Of course, I'd be the old man on the team, but I can think of far worse things...

Yes, I'd probably go with boxing. A lot of the other skills I've honed over the years don't fit themselves neatly into an Olympic sport -- and more's the pity, considering some of the fine specimens of human fitness that populate the games. Hmmn. There's always party time at the Olympic village...

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Muse: Mr. Thompson
Fandom: Heroes
Word count: 174 per WordPerfect
Crossposted to theatrical_muse

Show us where you live

I assume there's something psychological you're actually looking for here. I suppose I could even give you a very interesting response that would give you hours of entertainment analyzing me. However, I'm really just not interested in doing that right now.

Ignoring, of course, the fact that by answering in this manner, I've already given you enough material to start a lovely case study. Believe me, I know how it works. I've been on the other side of this fence for years.

So. Show you where I live. It's a state-of-the-art medical facility housed in the headquarters of a company that shall remain nameless.

It's quite nice, as hospitals and medical facilities go; at least for the people who actually work here. The labs are very clean and have the most modern equipment money can buy. The fellow in charge has a... golden touch, you might say.

The guests have private rooms -- well, single-occupancy rooms would be more accurate, because any privacy we have is nothing but an illusion. Even those of us who do not have observation windows are monitored around the clock. That's just the way things go at the Company.

The rooms are clean, impersonal, and the beds are too damned small. Not that I'd be bringing anyone into mine without some way to shut off the monitors. Or at least the ones connected to the recording devices.

To be honest -- and I know there are those of you out there quite capable of reading between the lines -- the place could actually do with some renovations...

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Muse: Mr. Thompson
Fandom: Heroes
Word count: 260 per WordPerfect
Crossposted to theatrical_muse

226. Name three things that you're looking forward to in the near future and why.

First and foremost, I'm looking forward to getting out of here. I'd really like for it to happen with a minimum of muss and fuss, but something tells me that's just not an option any more. I'm pretty sure that my value as a successful experiment outweighs my value as an employee -- I'm also pretty sure that as long as someone like Bob is in charge, my freedom as a whole will be... limited. I'm... displeased, shall we say, with my abrupt change in status, although I suppose lab rat and project is a step up from dead body.

Second, I'm looking forward to Bennet getting out of here. He'll deal with my problem quite handily, which will keep me from having to actually do anything about it myself. I may have to persuade him not to shoot me, too, but that's still preferable to the current situation.

[Locked] And third, I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the younger of the fabulous flying Petrelli brothers. I'd like to... thank him properly for my newfound enlightenment when it comes to the plight of Specials. I'd like to do a whole hell of a lot more than that, too... I have a feeling it might be a highly... satisfying meeting all around. [/Locked]

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Muse: Mr. Thompson
Fandom: Heroes
The Peter mentioned is youngerpetrelli
Word count: 214 per PocketWord
Crossposted to theatrical_muse

219. Headlines

Ah yes, headlines. While I was the head of the Odessa branch of the Company, one of my jobs was to keep the things we did and the things we dealt with from showing up in the headlines. It wasn't always an easy job, although having workers under me like Claude and Bennet, who truly understood discretion, certainly helped.

Imagine the panic that could have been caused if a reputable paper published a story about a girl who could spit acid or a man who could generate radiation. If something like that were discovered by the press -- by real journalists -- they would have started digging and soon the entire country would be in a panic as they discovered Specials were hiding in their midst. And if they had learned about Sylar, a super-powered serial killer? No, the general public was not ready for that kind of thing at all.

Of course, every now and then we steered a story towards the Weekly World News. We'd even let them have the truth, or at least as close to the truth as we were willing to allow them to know. How better to discredit something than to let it be printed there?

I know my death didn't make the headlines, because Linderman was killed the same night. Bob hasn't seen fit to let me see the small article on... hmmn. I think it was somewhere around page 12? Anyway, certainly not a headline. And I'm pretty sure that he's hoping I never make it out of here, either, because 'Man Dead for Four Months Comes Back To Life' would be one hell of a coup for a reporter at the Times...

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Muse: Mr. Thompson
Fandom: Heroes
Word count: 281 per PocketWord
Crossposted to theatrical_muse