Post by ellen on May 8, 2011 14:46:01 GMT -5
Cbox Name: Meekseh
Nicknames: Meeks, Meek, whateverzz.
Main Account: Anya
Who else do you play?: Anya Jenkins, Cordelia Chase, and Glory. Is it sort of odd that I play a demon, a higher being, and a hell goddess, and yet Ellie here is the darkest, furthest thing away from comic relief of the lot - and she's a regular ol' human? A bit ironic xD...
How did you find us?: Blahh. RPGC, I think?
Category: Damages.
Name: Ellen Parsons
Alias: N/A; close friends and family call her Ellie.
Age: 29.
Ranking: Neutral / Civilian. Neutral Civilian? xD Wherever you wanna put her.
Physical Appearance:
Ellen has a slender, semi-tall build, standing at about 5'6 sans-heels. She has a very different kind of beauty about her; it's neither the sultry appeal of a California bikini model, nor the dolled-up beauty of a Hollywood star -- it's more of a natural kind of beauty she possesses. She has long chestnut brown hair, sleek and dark and wavy...though, more often than not it's pulled back out of her face. Ellen has a smooth, lightly tanned complexion with a light rose-tinted flush about her cheeks, full lips, and a firm jaw. Her eyes are probably her most striking feature. Deep brown in color, they are almond-shaped and extremely expressive...when she actually has something to express, that is.
She keeps an unusually straight, disciplined posture and moves with a certain sense of grace, more because of ten years of piano lessons and rehearsals than an attempt at any top-dog lawyer savvy. Ellen has a somewhat elegant sense of style; she dresses somewhat professionally - especially when on the job - and tends to chose darker colors to wear. Yup, a lot of black in her wardrobe...in fact, over the past few years her 'look' has darkened significantly, where make up is concerned as well.
Personality:
Fresh out of law school, Ellen started out into the world a completely different person than she is today. She was bright, friendly, optimistic and overall determined to make a difference in the world. She wanted to be a lawyer, yes, but only to help bring justice to those who needed it.
How naive she was.
As Ellen would soon discover, such an innocent mind in the world of attorneys couldn't possibly remain uncorrupted. About a year and a half has passed since she took her job at Hewes & Associates, and over all the woman you'd meet to day is borderline unrecognizable from the bright-eyed little intern she was all those months ago.
First of all, let it be said that if you're not an immediate threat to her - that is if you're not a criminal, a lawyer, or generally anyone looking to get in her way - Ellen comes off as fairly cordial, maybe even friendly. She takes a very calculating approach to meeting new people; and until she can judge whether or not they'll be of any use to her...she figures it's best to play it nice. Seriously though, she's really not the most loyal person on the planet. She makes decisions based on her own agenda, not based on how they might affect anyone else - and she really has no qualms about using someone for whatever she needs to be accomplished, and then tossing them to the side. It's a tactic she's learned well by this point, having been the victim of it numerous times herself.
Ellen's morals are a bit...questionable these days. She's vindictive, a little bit brooding, and honestly? Just kinda bitchy. She's learned to look out for herself first and foremost, and she's also all but completely lost faith in the values of law and justice she was once so eager to uphold - the law is corrupt, as far as she's concerned, so why not just practice corruption right along with it? If that's what it takes to win a case...
Perhaps the darkest aspect of her personality is this: she just might be capable of contemplating - and even going through with - murder, as she's come dangerously close to doing on more than one occasion. When it comes down to the gritty stuff, Ellen has the ability to just detach herself to the point where she really doesn't seem to care about the people she hurts.
...On some level she does, though. Or more accurately, she cares about what kind of person she's becoming. Sometimes Ellen really does frighten herself; the person she is today isn't ideally who she wanted to be. She's not wasting time wallowing in regret or anything, but deep down she does question herself at times. Her entire life, Ellen always wanted to do the right thing, but these days she finds that this happens very rarely.
Powers/Abilities:
Equipment:
Psychological Flaws:
Physical Flaws:
Other Flaws: LOLIDK. She...sunburns easily?
Brief History:
Ellen was born and raised in New York City, and proud of it! She grew up having your average all-American life with a nice little family: a mom, a dad, and an older sister. Nothing much to see here when if you're looking for any childhood traumas or anything exciting like that, nope.
She always knew she wanted to be a lawyer, though. Went straight to college out of high school, then to law school, where she did pretty impressively well...which earned her a bit of attention when she finally ventured out into the real world. Not too far into her job hunt, Ellen was approached by Hewes and Associates - a prestigious plaintiff law firm run by Patricia Hewes, an [in]famously brutal and relentless, yet undeniably incredible attorney. With the high salary offered and what an overall rare opportunity she was being presented with, Ellen felt she couldn't really refuse - even after being given a subtle warning from another attorney about working for Miss Hewes.
Initially, Ellen seemed to fit in rather well at the firm. She impressed several with her 'potential', and even befriended a couple of her coworkers - particularly Tom Shayes, Patty's second in command. However, the real reason she'd been hired didn't have much to do with any sort of potential. In reality, it was because of her connection to Katie Connor, sister of Ellen's fiance David and her soon-to-be sister in-law. Katie was an ideal witness for the case the firm was currently working on - one that involved a billionaire of a man called Arthur Frobisher, who was being accused of robbing his employees of millions of dollars by abruptly dropping his company's stocks. Katie seemed reluctant to become involved, however, and in a successful effort to get her to talk, Patty actually killed her pet dog - and painted the incident as an effort by Frobisher to keep her quiet.
Katie was burned as a witness when she purposefully fed false information from the other side, however, and was disproven in court. Which...left the Hewes & Associates firm forced to find other options. And as Ellen became more and more involved in the case, she began to realize that justice wasn't always just. The more corruption and unethical behavior she witnessed at Hewes & Associates, the more she began to wonder what, exactly, she'd gotten herself into. It would turn out she wasn't going to get out of there in anywhere near enough time...
Frobisher's people did an excellent job of keeping anyone who had substantial evidence against them quiet, as proven through the murder of Gregory Mallina, who'd been in on the stock scandal but had nearly agreed to testify against them. Gregory had also been the romantic interest of Frobisher's lawyer, Ray Fiske. Fiske, thoroughly shaken by Gregory's death, was further pushed over the edge when Patty blackmailed him with various photographs and a video that Gregory had filmed to be shown in the event of his death, depicting him deliberately incriminating Frobisher and those associated with him. The combinations of events were enough to drive Fiske to commit suicide...right in Patty's home. At the time, Ellen happened to be traveling to Patty's to retrieve Fiske's video tape in order to hide it some place where the opposition wouldn't be able to get to it before the trial, and when she walked in on Fiske's bloodied form slumped against the wall, she'd inadvertently put herself in the position of being the only other person to understand that it had been Patty's blackmailing that had ultimately led Fiske to take his own life.
At first, Patty trusted Ellen to keep her secret - or at least seemed to. But when Ellen began to express her own regret over the matter, Patty became suspicious. And she was determined that her secret not be leaked...whatever she had to do to prevent it.
The following night was one that would change Ellen's life entirely for several reasons. The first: she revealed the Mallina tape to David, who immediately moved that she use it against Frobisher as quickly as possible. When Ellen refused, stating that she couldn't do so without Patty's approval, David became angry. He told her (and she would always remember him as being the only one brave enough to tell her) that working for Patty had changed her into someone unrecognizable...that she needed to do the right thing here, that she would have to choose between him and her job.
Well...Ellen never did like ultimatums. Which is a nice way of telling you that she ended her relationship with David and stormed out of their apartment - but not before flinging his engagement ring at him first. Distraught, she headed straight to the only person she [thought] she had left to trust: Patty. Patty, it turned out, was conveniently planning on heading out to her beach house for the weekend. However, she stated that Ellen was more than welcome to stay at her apartment while she was gone.
Yeah, well...Ellen never saw the attempt to 'silence' her coming, foolishly enough. For when she awoke the next morning in Patty's apartment, it was to the sound of Patty's dog barking madly...from...outside? As well as the unmistakable sounds of someone in the house with her. She headed out into the kitchen to investigate, and the next thing she knew she was being attacked violently by a man wielding a butcher knife. There was a brief struggle - and lots of screaming - and ultimately, the desperate fight for her life Ellen put up knocked them both to the ground where her would-be murderer would fall on his own knife. Stunned, terrified, and covered in the man's blood, Ellen scrambled to her feet and stumbled out into the streets of New York.
Her first thought: David. She needed to get to David. She ran the blocks to her own apartment, much to the bewilderment of many of New York's citizens, and came home to find her place completely trashed. Patty hadn't gotten to David. Frobisher's people had. They'd known that David knew of the video tape and intended to expose them, and they'd very effectively done something about it. No sooner had Ellen stumbled upon the body of her dead fiance in the bathroom than the police arrived, and in a cruel twist of fate, she was arrested for his murder.
She was found at the scene of the crime, holding the murder weapon (a metal bookend she'd found on the ground before finding David's body), and covered in blood. It didn't look good. Fortunately, she had one of the best attorneys in the city ready to defend her. That's right, Patty Hewes.
It seemed Patty's guilt had been eating away at her after she'd ordered the hit on Ellen. She returned to New York later that week, and after feeding Ellen some sort of bullshit about the man who'd broken into her apartment being after Patty herself - which Ellen slyly pretended to believe - Patty posted Ellen's bale and after a bit of negotiating with the district attorney, had David's case opened up for investigation again and all charges against Ellen dropped.
The next case the firm took was one involving a gigantic energy corporation suspected of killing thousands of people with a toxic byproduct they were dumping into their area's water - and while Patty soon began pursuing this case just as vehemently as the last, Ellen's interest was mostly feigned. Outwardly, she didn't seem to have changed much, but inwardly she'd been left all but void of any emotions save anger, disgust, and above all vindictiveness. When she found herself unable to obtain vengeance against Frobisher for David's death, she instead turned her fury on Patty, whom she very well knew had attempted to have her killed. But revenge against Patty would be a long process; to achieve it, Ellen agreed to serve as an informant for the FBI- who by this point had caught on to Patty's corruption, and were very interested in throwing her in jail and permanently ending her law career.
For several long months Ellen fed the FBI information on Patty, and gradually they formed a plan to try and catch her in the act of bribing a judge to win the case. Everything got turned upside down, however, when Patty eventually caught on to them and got to one of Ellen's FBI handlers - a corrupt officer who was connected to the energy corporation they were trying to bust, and, in exchange for Patty ceasing her prosecution of the case, agreed to halt the investigation of her and let Ellen take the fall for bribing the judge.
And even from that point, things found a way of getting even more screwed up. Ellen, unaware that she'd been betrayed, went through with the feds' plan to get Patty to order the bribe, and set up an FBI camera in her home before inviting Patty over to talk. Instead of talking about the bribe, however, Ellen abruptly confronted Patty over the incident of six months prior, involving the hit on her life. In an attempt to frighten Patty into confessing, Ellen even threatened her with a gun...and, when she had the other attorney practically reduced to tears, fired three shots...into the FBI camera. Effectively spooked and distraught, Patty finally confessed that she'd tried to have Ellen killed. The confession brought a strange sense of peace to the brunette, and though she contemplated killing Patty for a moment longer, she ultimately decided that it'd be more satisfying to force her employer to live with everything she'd done.
Due to some more manipulation courtesy of Patty, the officer who'd betrayed Ellen was arrested, and the investigation at last ceased. Ellen left Hewes & Associates the following month, taking a job under New York's district attorney...and eventually taking the position for herself. That's not to say that she's dropped all contact with Hewes & Associates - inevitably their resources are very valuable, and she's had some underhanded contact with them since then.
Reason for being on AM:
Because I feel like AM needs a bitchy prosecuting attorney poking her nose where she shouldn't. xD
Well she's always lived in New York. And what with all the trouble being caused on a pretty regular basis, she's kinda got her work cut out for her.
Sample RP:
Theme Songs:
When I Am Through With You (Damages Theme)
Nicknames: Meeks, Meek, whateverzz.
Main Account: Anya
Who else do you play?: Anya Jenkins, Cordelia Chase, and Glory. Is it sort of odd that I play a demon, a higher being, and a hell goddess, and yet Ellie here is the darkest, furthest thing away from comic relief of the lot - and she's a regular ol' human? A bit ironic xD...
How did you find us?: Blahh. RPGC, I think?
Category: Damages.
Name: Ellen Parsons
Alias: N/A; close friends and family call her Ellie.
Age: 29.
Ranking: Neutral / Civilian. Neutral Civilian? xD Wherever you wanna put her.
Physical Appearance:
Ellen has a slender, semi-tall build, standing at about 5'6 sans-heels. She has a very different kind of beauty about her; it's neither the sultry appeal of a California bikini model, nor the dolled-up beauty of a Hollywood star -- it's more of a natural kind of beauty she possesses. She has long chestnut brown hair, sleek and dark and wavy...though, more often than not it's pulled back out of her face. Ellen has a smooth, lightly tanned complexion with a light rose-tinted flush about her cheeks, full lips, and a firm jaw. Her eyes are probably her most striking feature. Deep brown in color, they are almond-shaped and extremely expressive...when she actually has something to express, that is.
She keeps an unusually straight, disciplined posture and moves with a certain sense of grace, more because of ten years of piano lessons and rehearsals than an attempt at any top-dog lawyer savvy. Ellen has a somewhat elegant sense of style; she dresses somewhat professionally - especially when on the job - and tends to chose darker colors to wear. Yup, a lot of black in her wardrobe...in fact, over the past few years her 'look' has darkened significantly, where make up is concerned as well.
Personality:
Fresh out of law school, Ellen started out into the world a completely different person than she is today. She was bright, friendly, optimistic and overall determined to make a difference in the world. She wanted to be a lawyer, yes, but only to help bring justice to those who needed it.
How naive she was.
As Ellen would soon discover, such an innocent mind in the world of attorneys couldn't possibly remain uncorrupted. About a year and a half has passed since she took her job at Hewes & Associates, and over all the woman you'd meet to day is borderline unrecognizable from the bright-eyed little intern she was all those months ago.
First of all, let it be said that if you're not an immediate threat to her - that is if you're not a criminal, a lawyer, or generally anyone looking to get in her way - Ellen comes off as fairly cordial, maybe even friendly. She takes a very calculating approach to meeting new people; and until she can judge whether or not they'll be of any use to her...she figures it's best to play it nice. Seriously though, she's really not the most loyal person on the planet. She makes decisions based on her own agenda, not based on how they might affect anyone else - and she really has no qualms about using someone for whatever she needs to be accomplished, and then tossing them to the side. It's a tactic she's learned well by this point, having been the victim of it numerous times herself.
Ellen's morals are a bit...questionable these days. She's vindictive, a little bit brooding, and honestly? Just kinda bitchy. She's learned to look out for herself first and foremost, and she's also all but completely lost faith in the values of law and justice she was once so eager to uphold - the law is corrupt, as far as she's concerned, so why not just practice corruption right along with it? If that's what it takes to win a case...
Perhaps the darkest aspect of her personality is this: she just might be capable of contemplating - and even going through with - murder, as she's come dangerously close to doing on more than one occasion. When it comes down to the gritty stuff, Ellen has the ability to just detach herself to the point where she really doesn't seem to care about the people she hurts.
...On some level she does, though. Or more accurately, she cares about what kind of person she's becoming. Sometimes Ellen really does frighten herself; the person she is today isn't ideally who she wanted to be. She's not wasting time wallowing in regret or anything, but deep down she does question herself at times. Her entire life, Ellen always wanted to do the right thing, but these days she finds that this happens very rarely.
Powers/Abilities:
- She's a regular ol' human, so no abilities of the supernatural/magical kind.
- Intuitive - Ellen bases a lot of her decisions on what her intuition tells her, which might be a risky gamble if her intuition weren't so damned good. The 'feelings' she gets about certain people or places are usually fairly accurate, and she can almost always spot a lie or bullshit a mile away.
- Manipulative - While Ellen is a very difficult person to lie to, she is in fact an extremely good liar herself. She is very skilled at putting on the 'innocent' act and painting herself as harmless, when she is actually anything but.
- Cunning - Ellen is a very intelligent individual, to a sometimes dangerous level. She knows a lot more than she lets on, but is smart enough to let people go on believing she's simply clueless.
- Resourceful - She's an extremely creative individual who knows how to use the things around her to her advantage. She's excellent at thinking on her feet, and people who know her usually turn to her to help them deal with a sticky situation.
- Physical Endurance - Ellen is a trained runner; she's done several marathons and she runs almost every morning. She's very quick, and she can keep up a good speed for quite awhile due to endurance training.
- Decent Shot - So, one day a man breaks into the apartment she's sleeping in and tries to kill her. That kind of thing leaves you a bit...paranoid. So Ellen learned how to use a gun. And after some practice, she's a pretty good shot too. Lawyer with a gun? Things could get ugly.
- "I know people...who know people" - Yeah, Ellen's got some friends in high places. The FBI kinda owes her a favor, for one thing. And she works for one of the most prestigious private law firms in New York - with their resources, she can get dirt on pretty much anyone. So, got's a dirty little secret you dun want being made public knowledge? Don't cross her. Or you could just try to kill her to shut her up, but most people have failed at that before..xD.
Equipment:
- M1911A1 - Her now licensed(thank-you-very-much) handgun...you know. Purely for "self defense".. -shifty eyes-
Weaknesses
Psychological Flaws:
- Impatient - Ellen likes to get things done, and she likes to do them quickly. She's really not a big fan of long drawn out plans or having to wait, and sometimes she'll charge recklessly into things because of her impatience. Not a good idea; she definitely operates better when she takes the time to think things through.
- Vindictive - Though you wouldn't immediately suspect it from her doe-eyed girl-next-door look she has going on, Ellen has something of a fierce temper...and when someone crosses her, she absolutely can not let it go. She has a tendency to become rather fixated on revenge, ignoring other more important things and at times even becoming consumed by her rage.
- Isolated - Ellen's been betrayed by a hell of a lot of people throughout the past couple years - it comes with the job, really. But the one thing above all she has learned from Patty Hewes? Trust no one. And while it's a fairly decent survival tactic when you're swimming with the sharks, in the real world it isn't always the best strategy. Ellen tends to distance herself from people; she doesn't have many close friends or alliances and she doesn't really have anyone she can trust enough to really talk to about her life. Thus, she tends to bottle things up.
- Emotional - While Ellen tries to play the stone-cold bitch card, the truth is she gets way too emotionally invested in things. It can be ridiculously easy to provoke her, or to find leverage if you threaten one of her loved ones.
- Certain 'Triggers' - Weird random stuff like glass doors, elevators, certain settings reminiscent of the time and place she was almost murdered...they kinda set her off.
Physical Flaws:
- Human - Erm. Self-explanatory. She's just human, so she's not gonna magically survive a bullet being shot at her or anything =P.
Other Flaws: LOLIDK. She...sunburns easily?
Brief History:
Ellen was born and raised in New York City, and proud of it! She grew up having your average all-American life with a nice little family: a mom, a dad, and an older sister. Nothing much to see here when if you're looking for any childhood traumas or anything exciting like that, nope.
She always knew she wanted to be a lawyer, though. Went straight to college out of high school, then to law school, where she did pretty impressively well...which earned her a bit of attention when she finally ventured out into the real world. Not too far into her job hunt, Ellen was approached by Hewes and Associates - a prestigious plaintiff law firm run by Patricia Hewes, an [in]famously brutal and relentless, yet undeniably incredible attorney. With the high salary offered and what an overall rare opportunity she was being presented with, Ellen felt she couldn't really refuse - even after being given a subtle warning from another attorney about working for Miss Hewes.
Initially, Ellen seemed to fit in rather well at the firm. She impressed several with her 'potential', and even befriended a couple of her coworkers - particularly Tom Shayes, Patty's second in command. However, the real reason she'd been hired didn't have much to do with any sort of potential. In reality, it was because of her connection to Katie Connor, sister of Ellen's fiance David and her soon-to-be sister in-law. Katie was an ideal witness for the case the firm was currently working on - one that involved a billionaire of a man called Arthur Frobisher, who was being accused of robbing his employees of millions of dollars by abruptly dropping his company's stocks. Katie seemed reluctant to become involved, however, and in a successful effort to get her to talk, Patty actually killed her pet dog - and painted the incident as an effort by Frobisher to keep her quiet.
Katie was burned as a witness when she purposefully fed false information from the other side, however, and was disproven in court. Which...left the Hewes & Associates firm forced to find other options. And as Ellen became more and more involved in the case, she began to realize that justice wasn't always just. The more corruption and unethical behavior she witnessed at Hewes & Associates, the more she began to wonder what, exactly, she'd gotten herself into. It would turn out she wasn't going to get out of there in anywhere near enough time...
Frobisher's people did an excellent job of keeping anyone who had substantial evidence against them quiet, as proven through the murder of Gregory Mallina, who'd been in on the stock scandal but had nearly agreed to testify against them. Gregory had also been the romantic interest of Frobisher's lawyer, Ray Fiske. Fiske, thoroughly shaken by Gregory's death, was further pushed over the edge when Patty blackmailed him with various photographs and a video that Gregory had filmed to be shown in the event of his death, depicting him deliberately incriminating Frobisher and those associated with him. The combinations of events were enough to drive Fiske to commit suicide...right in Patty's home. At the time, Ellen happened to be traveling to Patty's to retrieve Fiske's video tape in order to hide it some place where the opposition wouldn't be able to get to it before the trial, and when she walked in on Fiske's bloodied form slumped against the wall, she'd inadvertently put herself in the position of being the only other person to understand that it had been Patty's blackmailing that had ultimately led Fiske to take his own life.
At first, Patty trusted Ellen to keep her secret - or at least seemed to. But when Ellen began to express her own regret over the matter, Patty became suspicious. And she was determined that her secret not be leaked...whatever she had to do to prevent it.
The following night was one that would change Ellen's life entirely for several reasons. The first: she revealed the Mallina tape to David, who immediately moved that she use it against Frobisher as quickly as possible. When Ellen refused, stating that she couldn't do so without Patty's approval, David became angry. He told her (and she would always remember him as being the only one brave enough to tell her) that working for Patty had changed her into someone unrecognizable...that she needed to do the right thing here, that she would have to choose between him and her job.
Well...Ellen never did like ultimatums. Which is a nice way of telling you that she ended her relationship with David and stormed out of their apartment - but not before flinging his engagement ring at him first. Distraught, she headed straight to the only person she [thought] she had left to trust: Patty. Patty, it turned out, was conveniently planning on heading out to her beach house for the weekend. However, she stated that Ellen was more than welcome to stay at her apartment while she was gone.
Yeah, well...Ellen never saw the attempt to 'silence' her coming, foolishly enough. For when she awoke the next morning in Patty's apartment, it was to the sound of Patty's dog barking madly...from...outside? As well as the unmistakable sounds of someone in the house with her. She headed out into the kitchen to investigate, and the next thing she knew she was being attacked violently by a man wielding a butcher knife. There was a brief struggle - and lots of screaming - and ultimately, the desperate fight for her life Ellen put up knocked them both to the ground where her would-be murderer would fall on his own knife. Stunned, terrified, and covered in the man's blood, Ellen scrambled to her feet and stumbled out into the streets of New York.
Her first thought: David. She needed to get to David. She ran the blocks to her own apartment, much to the bewilderment of many of New York's citizens, and came home to find her place completely trashed. Patty hadn't gotten to David. Frobisher's people had. They'd known that David knew of the video tape and intended to expose them, and they'd very effectively done something about it. No sooner had Ellen stumbled upon the body of her dead fiance in the bathroom than the police arrived, and in a cruel twist of fate, she was arrested for his murder.
She was found at the scene of the crime, holding the murder weapon (a metal bookend she'd found on the ground before finding David's body), and covered in blood. It didn't look good. Fortunately, she had one of the best attorneys in the city ready to defend her. That's right, Patty Hewes.
It seemed Patty's guilt had been eating away at her after she'd ordered the hit on Ellen. She returned to New York later that week, and after feeding Ellen some sort of bullshit about the man who'd broken into her apartment being after Patty herself - which Ellen slyly pretended to believe - Patty posted Ellen's bale and after a bit of negotiating with the district attorney, had David's case opened up for investigation again and all charges against Ellen dropped.
The next case the firm took was one involving a gigantic energy corporation suspected of killing thousands of people with a toxic byproduct they were dumping into their area's water - and while Patty soon began pursuing this case just as vehemently as the last, Ellen's interest was mostly feigned. Outwardly, she didn't seem to have changed much, but inwardly she'd been left all but void of any emotions save anger, disgust, and above all vindictiveness. When she found herself unable to obtain vengeance against Frobisher for David's death, she instead turned her fury on Patty, whom she very well knew had attempted to have her killed. But revenge against Patty would be a long process; to achieve it, Ellen agreed to serve as an informant for the FBI- who by this point had caught on to Patty's corruption, and were very interested in throwing her in jail and permanently ending her law career.
For several long months Ellen fed the FBI information on Patty, and gradually they formed a plan to try and catch her in the act of bribing a judge to win the case. Everything got turned upside down, however, when Patty eventually caught on to them and got to one of Ellen's FBI handlers - a corrupt officer who was connected to the energy corporation they were trying to bust, and, in exchange for Patty ceasing her prosecution of the case, agreed to halt the investigation of her and let Ellen take the fall for bribing the judge.
And even from that point, things found a way of getting even more screwed up. Ellen, unaware that she'd been betrayed, went through with the feds' plan to get Patty to order the bribe, and set up an FBI camera in her home before inviting Patty over to talk. Instead of talking about the bribe, however, Ellen abruptly confronted Patty over the incident of six months prior, involving the hit on her life. In an attempt to frighten Patty into confessing, Ellen even threatened her with a gun...and, when she had the other attorney practically reduced to tears, fired three shots...into the FBI camera. Effectively spooked and distraught, Patty finally confessed that she'd tried to have Ellen killed. The confession brought a strange sense of peace to the brunette, and though she contemplated killing Patty for a moment longer, she ultimately decided that it'd be more satisfying to force her employer to live with everything she'd done.
Due to some more manipulation courtesy of Patty, the officer who'd betrayed Ellen was arrested, and the investigation at last ceased. Ellen left Hewes & Associates the following month, taking a job under New York's district attorney...and eventually taking the position for herself. That's not to say that she's dropped all contact with Hewes & Associates - inevitably their resources are very valuable, and she's had some underhanded contact with them since then.
Reason for being on AM:
Well she's always lived in New York. And what with all the trouble being caused on a pretty regular basis, she's kinda got her work cut out for her.
Sample RP:
"What's the matter? You shouldn't be scared."
The words fell from her lips as smoothly and confidently as if she'd been rehearsing them for months - which, in a way, she sort of had. She'd at least pictured this moment in her mind a thousand times before; running it through her head again and again...playing out each and every second of the vengeance she'd so carefully plotted. And now? Now that moment was finally her's. And so far it'd been...quite enjoyable. Perhaps it was the wine that was making her just a bit braver than usual, or maybe she was just drunk of the unadulterated fear in the eyes of the woman staring back at her. Either way, Ellen was power trippin'. You know. just a teeny bit.
She couldn't help the slight grin that crossed her features as she slunk slowly forward, inching closer to her dear beloved employer, and softly humming the familiar melody of the music that continued to play in the background as she sat down across from her. "Actually, I take that back," Ellen mused with amusement that bordered on malicious, "You should be scared. You should be terrified." She was beginning to understand exactly why Patty was so damned intimidating all the time...having this amount of power, well, it wasn't half bad. And yet...this wasn't what she'd come for.
The young attorney knew she needed to focus. She could have her fun, sure, but if she didn't get what she was after it all pretty much a moot point. A flicker of frustration perpetuated her dark gaze for just a fraction of a moment, and her grip on the wine glass tightened a little as she drew a sigh. "It'd just be so much easier...if you said the words." Hah. Yeah fucking right. A genuine admission of guilt, the actual truth amidst all of this manipulation and lies? It seemed so unlikely that a part of Ellen just wanted to lunge forward, composure be damned, and freakin' throttle the truth right out of her adversary... But at the same time, the tension filling the room was simply too delicious to ignore, too good an opportunity to pass up, and her voice was edged with a dark sort of giggle as she absently averted her gaze from her 'friend' for a moment.
"I can never remember the name of this song..." the brunette bit her lip slightly, feigning concentration despite the fact that her musings were completely irrelevant to the situation at hand - really, she was just biding her time - stalling to draw this out and make it all the more deliciously excruciating. Because really, the look on Patty Hewes' face upon realizing that her little lamb of a protegee, sweet little Ellen, had been playing her for the past half a year? Priceless. Absolutely a Kodak moment.
"All I want you to do is tell the truth. But I know that can be hard for you, so...I brought something I thought might help.."
A glint of silver caught the dim lighting as she reached into her purse and pulled out the gun Tom had secured for her, gripping the handle lightly, not pointing it at anything in particular...yet. She focused her gaze on the weapon she held, idly turning back and forth in her hand before chancing a quick look over at Patty. The other attorney was staring at her in sheer, unadulterated shock - even fear. Funny, how this was the most emotion Patty had yet shown in her presence. Gee, if Ellen would've known threatening her life would get the bitch to open up a little bit, maybe they could've tried this ages ago...
"And who knows?" she continued conversationally, "Maybe the truth will set you free."
"Ellen...don't.."
Her dark gaze snapped to meet her 'guest's'. Really, by this point she hadn't been expecting Patty to speak to her at all...and yet here she was. And she actually had the nerve to try some bull reasoning tactics instead of acknowledging anything Ellen had just said. The brunette's expression darkened bitterly as her employer continued,
"It's not who you are."
The words echoed in her ears almost tauntingly. This was rich, Patty making claims to know who she really was. Ellen'd had this manipulative witch of a woman playing right into her hands for the past six months, and Patty here hadn't suspected a thing - and yet she was still here, claiming to know Ellen better than she knew herself?
Gritting her teeth, she felt her grip loosen on the gun, felt herself lowering the weapon even as she responded. How she wanted to take those words and throw them back in the other woman's face...but she knew she needed to keep her temper in check. As long as there was a chance she could still get what she wanted...
"You're right. You know me too well." There was a soft clink of metal on glass as she set the gun back down on the table, her eyes lowering momentarily to the floor. "It's not even loaded."
But her confidence didn't seem to waver, and Patty - well, Patty's silent distraught demeanor wasn't much phased either, saved from the slight easing of the tension in her shoulders when Ellen made her confession. A moment of long, uneasy silence passed between the two of them, and Ellen lightly bit the inside of her lip as she contemplated it. "So it's just the two of us. Face to face." she commented eventually, because honestly the situation was remarkable. Alien, almost? A genuine face-to-face talk with Patty felt sort of alien, and that feeling of oddness only escalated as she watched a single, subtle tear roll down her adversary's cheek. It elicited a grim sort of shock from her, watching Patty cry. But also...also a sort of vindictive pleasure.
She really had gone and made a real lawyer out of herself.
"Just the two of us." Patty whispered, echoing her words, and Ellen smirked again. Maybe this really was the way all of this would end...
Wordlessly, she reached for the second item on the table - the blood-red file that Stefania had given her, the one with her name on it. She watched Patty's expression carefully as she offered her the file, carefully keeping her emotions in check this time - her dark eyes revealed nothing. Tentatively, the other attorney reached out and took it, proceeding to open it and survey its concepts at a tantalizingly slow pace that grated on Ellen's patience. She repressed a frustrated short, but did not switch her intently focused gaze from what was happening before her. When Patty at last looked up at her again, no words were offered. Neither of them moved. And yet...an understanding had been reached. And with it, Ellen drew back, her expression grim.
"Looks like you're not gonna tell me the truth after all." The brunette shook her head slightly, as if this were just a shame. And with that, she downed the remains of her wine in one swift gulp, and set the glass down. "Well, that's okay," - traded the glass for the gun, swung her arm up, and pointed it directly at Patty's bewildered face -
"I lied too."
Bang. Bang. Bang.
Theme Songs:
When I Am Through With You (Damages Theme)
