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Post by Black King on Dec 27, 2016 19:33:05 GMT
The Hellfire Club had been inactive. Sebastian Shaw had worked with Roberto DeCosta and Courtney Ross internationally, but their mutant trafficking had been caught. Since then, Shaw had been keeping himself busy with his multi-billion dollar steel conglomerate. Sebastian Shaw sat behind an ornate table in his office, four hours ahead of San Francisco. Of course, he wasn't entirely sure where his former consort was, but Shaw had been given a piece of information. He had his psychics on payroll, his spies, double agents at SHIELD, satellite surveillance... They all pinpointed the moment that Selene was taken into custody by the X-Men.
Sebastian Shaw pushed a button built into his desk and a screen came down from the ceiling in front of him. With the touch of another button, he reached out to the X-Men. "Get me Emma Frost." he demanded. The X-Men and Hellfire Club had communicated before in the War Room under the Xavier Mansion long ago. Sebastian Shaw had tech experts far more advanced than that of the world government. It was easy to patch his own image into the X-Men's communications. "We have business to discuss."
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Post by Emma Frost on Jan 10, 2017 0:11:07 GMT
OOC: So everyone knows, I will be posting Ms. Frost in multiple threads simultaneously, so this will cross with a thread in the kitchen in San Francisco.
IC:
In San Francisco, the phone in the kitchen rang as Emma and Claire chatted. "We really need to work on getting an assistant to handle the phones," she said to her daughter as she picked up the receiver.
What Emma didn't say was that this was a private line that few outside the X-Men knew about.
"This is Emma Frost," she said in a decidedly cool tone. "But I am guessing you knew that. Oh."
Emma looked at Claire and made a very unpleasant face as she finally used the name of the caller.
"Sebastian, to what do I owe...what do you want?"
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Post by Black King on Jan 24, 2017 19:46:39 GMT
Sebastian Shaw grinned as he heard Emma's voice. He was not surprised by her rude reaction. He was thrilled by it actually. "Don't play coy with me, Emma. You know exactly why I am calling. You have Selene in custody." That wasn't common knowledge. Sebastian Shaw should not know that by all accounts, but Emma would not likely be surprised either knowing the technology the Hellfire Club possessed. Her own electronics empire, Frost Enterprises, was one of the reasons. "The X-Men cannot keep her. She is a threat to all your students, Emma..." That would hit a nerve with Emma. She had lost many students over the years, including her first class of Hellions. Sebastian Shaw had learned the truth about the attack... Shaw was under attack himself at the hands of his own son, thirsty for the throne of Black King and to win the game he and the Upstarts were playing. "I will take her off your hands." Shaw needed Selene. He wanted revenge, but he was prepared to work out an arrangement with Emma should she refuse.
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Post by Emma Frost on Jan 30, 2017 23:50:29 GMT
"You will what now?" Emma asked as she paced around the kitchen that was, thankfully, very far away from Shaw at the moment. "Take Selene off our hands? Seriously?"
Emma took a deep breath before continuing with the call. She knew Shaw was hitting all her "hot buttons" during his chat to this point. If he thought she had not considered the problems with housing Selene in their base--anywhere in their base--he was sadly mistaken. She knew all too well that having Selene anywhere near the students or her fellow X-Men was a deadly crap shoot.
"And, pray tell, where will you house your dear Black Queen, Sebastian? And why should I be silly enough to think you aren't, in some fashion, party to whatever her latest plan is? That fop Emil Desmarais can't be the brains and money for her little war, and those coven members of hers that were taken in with her are not exactly of your caliber either."
Emma had half a mind to haul Shaw onto the astral plane, but she thought better of it.
"I take it you would like a face-to-face meeting, Sebastian? Time and place, please."
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Post by Black King on Feb 28, 2017 17:23:00 GMT
Sebastian held back a chuckle at Emma's attitude. She had actually surprised him somewhat. "You know exactly how involved I was in Selene's affairs." He wasn't. "As for what I will do with the witch... I'll be in the area soon. I'll see you at the Los Angeles Hellfire Club. I have some news to share. Then you can arrange transport." Sebastian hung up. It was another one of Emma's buttons he was sure to hit. He wanted Emma enraged when he saw her.
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Post by Emma Frost on Mar 20, 2017 23:12:27 GMT
Emma seethed as she hung up the phone on her end. "Checkmate, Sebastian," she said as she turned to Claire. "Fancy a trip to Los Angeles with me? We can do some shopping in Beverly Hills after I take care of my old friend the Black King. He is not going to get Selene. If he wants a Black queen, he will have to recruit one. "
TBC in a new thread in Los Angeles (will make a greater California forum in a bit) and in the kitchen thread to close that down as well
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