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POSTED ON Feb 16, 2019 1:39:49 GMT
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The choice to take his offer had been an easy one. The choice of what to do with it was narrowed down as she shifted through ideas before settling on an encore instead of a new performance.

Either his bar he was so fond of, or his place. Whichever he was more comfortable with. Just she and him and maybe a couple of drinks. And she did insist he choose one or the other partly out of courtesy to him and partly out of curiosity. She wanted to see what he chose after their last encounter on more personal terms. The rest was simple, she just wanted to spend time with him and chat. Get to know more, find more pieces of the puzzle to play with and put into place.

Whichever he chose she would be there the moment her work was done, and unsurprisingly there was a certain sort of excitement brimming in her over it. Odd as the entire thing was to her, she was looking forward to talking to him more. He intrigued her and that was all the reason she needed to show up for him again, cheery as can be.

"Good Evening Fernando."



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POSTED ON Feb 17, 2019 4:23:12 GMT
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the prompt had been simple - happy valentines; i appreciate you and everything you've done for me. fernando had cleared his schedule and offered hi accompaniment to any request. the awkwardness of the previous night is forgotten, if not haunting him in the deepest recesses of his mind. he makes no mention of it when he extends the offer to her. , @perry , and isra makes up his league affiliated staff. they're treated to the same courtesy but not all at once. he knows people talk and to offer it to one and not the other only created unnecessary drama.

how typical of isra to reverse it on him. an offer to do whatever ended up with him picking the setting. here's to another surprise, fernando picked the bar but not the same one he had invited her out to. he's shown her to two places, one elaborate and high-end, the other more quaint and humbled, an every-man's bar. he opts for the latter but chooses one down the street from it, the same one that had failed to follow him into.

no surprise that the place is packed on a weekend. the crowd proves boisterous, multiple conversations overlapping and carrying the sound to higher levels. fernando is situated at a small table, by himself, with a bottle of rum. this time, he waits, two glasses set in front of him. the ice inside is already starting to melt, the glass sweating.

his smirk radiates with a cockiness that's founded on the basis of their last outing.

"well don't you look happy."

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POSTED ON Feb 18, 2019 20:31:02 GMT
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She wasn't surprised to find herself in the bar and him already waiting for her. The place was packed and the energy was high for the night already. All it did was feed her grin. She thrived in settings like this, the clamor of voices and conversation giving her so many things to listening to and focus on. The only thing that really pulled her out of it was bright blue that she was looking for and of course he'd be smirking at her once she made it to the table.

"What, you got a problem with that too now?" she slid into her seat, crossing her legs under the table. She rarely wore anything but dresses as Fernando was used to seeing, tonight she couldn't stand to be in one and the professional capri length pants might have even looked foreign on her. A plain navi blue long sleeve shirt under her coat kept things casual but decidedly sleek. As always she appeared to be a lady, just one of the working kind rather than the her usual look.

She gestured at the glasses. "Thank you for waiting for me. How many bars do you frequent in the area?" she couldn't help asking if only because it seemed like every time she met him somewhere it was somewhere new. Not that she minded, it kept things fresh if nothing else.



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POSTED ON Feb 19, 2019 2:04:01 GMT
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"just an observation."

he doesn't shy away from appraising her appearance. not after last night. he's seen her laid bear and now she dabbles in a different attire. too many one offs to be mere coincidence. is this her version of dolling herself up? or, perhaps, she feels relax enough to slip into something more casual. he reads too much into it and drops the idea altogether.

"all of them. making a face shows that i am a man of the people. you get to learn the regular's names and faces." fernando wastes no time in breaking the seal to the bottle. he pours the glass closer towards her first.

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POSTED ON Feb 19, 2019 2:59:44 GMT
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"Of course, and how many of them are actually fun to frequent?" it's both a tease and an honest question. Partly because she herself spends a fair amount of time in the bars when the timing allows. It's her way of being with people when no one else is awake, being surrounded by the liveliness of the night life without the same over the edge feeling the clubs generally had. Not to mention she wasn't interested in the advances she normally got there as much as the conversation she had an easier time finding at the bars.

"Which one's your favorite?" she watches him, and waits for him to pour his own before she touches her glass.



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POSTED ON Feb 19, 2019 3:11:03 GMT
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"fun?"

he laughs again. isra has managed to break down his first barrier, the impenetrable wall that's hidden by his own needs to shield himself. in exchange for a pass at her body she now gets to the second layer. what's hidden behind the outer layer is a wild concoction of a smug, teasing, patronizing bully. if he can't wall someone off then he'll pick at them until they wither away into nothingness. a bad habit but one that shows closeness, another hurdle for her to dive into or find herself driven away from.

"the one that serves alcohol."

unlike her, fernando does not find any interest in the every day circumstances of others. there's too much to do, too many people to manage to explore the task as a hobby as well.

their glasses touch and the clink sounds off the cue to drink. cheers.

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POSTED ON Feb 19, 2019 3:23:03 GMT
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"Killjoy." she teases back as their glasses clink. She enjoys the burn well enough and places the glass back down gently.

"Do you really not do anything but work with your life? Work and drink." it baffles her that it seems to be all she see, even when he's drinking he finds some way to bring his work back into it. It's not surprising in the least but to not have anything else in your life seemed like a waste of the world they were surrounded by to her. There's was much more to it than work.

But then again he was a classic workaholic. As far as she had seen.



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POSTED ON Feb 19, 2019 3:51:25 GMT
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another laugh. he ends it with a smirk that belies any sort of real answer.

"ceo of silph co., member of the hoenn council, owner of a small army of pokemon. what do you think?"

maybe it's the strange sight of fernando doing something other then working that spurs the question but he welcomes it by brushing it aside. naturally, the answer is no. there's stuff he does outside of 'traditional' work but in the end that is work as well. personal work, project avalon's work, even working on someone, evident by the previous night.

"it takes three secretaries to keep me in rotation and that's not counting the ones at silph co. or is that your way of saying you don't have enough work on your platter?"

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POSTED ON Feb 19, 2019 5:28:51 GMT
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"Yes you make sure no one forgets how well adorned in titles you are Fernando." it's almost patronizing but in a playful sort of way, teasing him for reiterating the fact as much as he seems to. Mostly because it comes from what she's really getting at either being ignored or going over his head, both of which she's just learned to ignore.

She gives him a pointed look. "Well you should probably give me enough I'm at least not double checking everything at the end of the night to take up time and look busy." if he thought she'd been joking she wasn't, mundane paper work went swiftly for her as her talents catered to it. She remembered page to page well making the activities easy. If he ever paid attention to her work on the security cameras he was likely familiar with her brand of multitasking and the efficiency she had at it. "Unless you want more free time to keep you entertained."



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POSTED ON Feb 19, 2019 5:41:15 GMT
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"after the tower excursion you should have plenty on your plate. i have another pet project i'll be pushing and that'll give you something to maintain during after hours."

project avalon, the elite four initiative, and now the balance badge push. so many projects and so little time. isra had been right to comment on his lack of diversity when it comes to activities. however, soon she'll be engrossed as well. he just needs the right permission to go forward.

"oh? are you offering?"

maintaining professionalism is something that comes with working during the day shift, something that isra never really catches outside of the rare circumstances that she visits during daylight hours. despite their newfound history, even fernando foregoes acknowledging any sort of deviancy during his 9 to 5. but here, there's euphemisms aplenty.

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POSTED ON Feb 19, 2019 6:24:43 GMT
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"Perhaps." it comes with a tone and smile he will recognize. Her eyes are inviting. Because Isra isn't one to blatantly say yes but she's sure he's learned if he pushes the issue 'no' is very rarely in her vocabulary. Besides, she's not one to turn down a potential repeat on something so enjoyable, and he's much easier to find than new partners are. "You're entertaining enough."

She turns her glass around on the table, if only to occupy her mind while she searches for the right word. "I'm sure that will produce enough mess for me to be occupied for awhile." that was putting it lightly she was sure. After what they saw someone was bound to be in a tizzy over it. The whole thing had been a mess by the end of it. "If only because I can't tell if anyone else bothers with organization sometimes." then again things like the league were always laden with extra steps and disastrous protocols for things that should really be as simple as calling someone and getting them to say yes or no.

The woman handled the work of assistant well enough but she was certain to never bother for more, not because she couldn't but because she didn't want to waste her life away fighting with paperwork over a person. At least if it was a person she call them stupid and have it actually go somewhere.



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POSTED ON Feb 19, 2019 7:01:26 GMT
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"is that all?"

validation is not a requirement but one he seeks to have verbalized to cement his ego. fernando knows where his skills lay in, enough to garner an encore but hearing it brings about a certain sense of accomplishment, of conquering. it pairs well with how fragile the male ego holds, how brittle it can be torn apart.

"indeed. i'll be taking a vacation from my standard duties and engaging in some more hands on events afterwards. i'll leave the rest to you and rhys."

funny how much has changed in such a short time. he could swear that the resentment he pieces together sounds not too far off from his own. perhaps it's projection but even that is nothing new. round one is gone and fernando pours a new set. liquor should be killed quickly. the sooner they kill it the sooner they feel it.

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POSTED ON Feb 19, 2019 9:47:19 GMT
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"If you want to hear something ask for it." the coyness of her voice should be enough to tell him he'll get what he wants but only once she gets something in return. If things keep on this way the tit for tat may become too familiar and she makes a note in her head to watch it. Not because she's against it but because it gets boring and she hates boring. She has every intention of keeping him on his toes. Perhaps in more ways than one.

She does not deny another drink, silently agreeing that if they're going to have them they shouldn't wait. The night is young to her, she has plenty of time to enjoy it but she's aware enough now to know he should sleep more than he does.

"Going to abandon us to the office while you go out and play they?" there might be a hint of disappointment in her tone as she takes another drink. "How uncouth." the slight indignation is to cover the fact that she might actually be upset about it, if only a little. She's only just begun to take a liking to him. She's not eager to lose hold of it so soon.



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POSTED ON Feb 21, 2019 6:21:33 GMT
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"if only."

fernando throws the glass back and lets out a soft sigh as it burns its way down. the rum itself doesn't taste too shitty but it's still liquor. that's how he gauges how far he's gone. the moment it becomes pleasant is when he knows his taste has been numbed. it only goes downhill from there.

"did you want to come with?"

her act, no matter how exaggerated or purposed, only causes him to answer with a presumptuous grin.

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POSTED ON Feb 24, 2019 8:20:21 GMT
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"It'd be nice to get out of the office for more than a day or two." it's matter of fact, true. She had never been good at playing the game forever, it grows boring and tiresome and though being a graveyard shift makes it a bit easier it does not make it better.

She gestures for another glass, this is supposed to be fun and she needs more than this if she's going to feel it. "How long do you expect it to be?"

A small part of her wondered how they wound up talking about work but doesn't bother to try and change the topic. She has a feeling it would have wound up right back here at some point anyway.



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