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Post by alexandra on Aug 17, 2009 10:24:00 GMT -6
I got sort of an inspiration, so I decided to start this thread! XD )
L.A. glanced at the arm full of papers worridly. This elevator ride was like her own personal ticket to HELL. Looking at Reno's smug face had been bad enough, when Tseng told her to deliver her report to the very President HIMSELF! Why couldn't he do it?! Or better yet, a Turk capable of not hurling when nervous! Tseng was a boss man, sure, but Rufus SHINRA was president of the whole damn corporation! He could fire her if he didn't like her face! Sure, everything she heard about Rufus was embellished, stories passed down from every employee. Some of the stories seemed unreal, like for instance, Rufus Shinra never being seen crying or bleeding. That had to be fake. Right? RIGHT?! Aw maaaaan......She gripped the papers even tighter, sweat from her fingers building up and causing the sides of the paper to become dampened. Oh God, why?! Why would Tseng do this to her? Wasn't it bad enough, sending her out on dangerous missions in which she risked her LIFE for, now only to ride the very top and get possibly shot in the face from the big man himself? What would she say to him? How would she address him? Sir? Mister President Shinra Sir? Mister Greatest Man Ever Shinra Sir? She gnawed on her bottom lip, tearing at the skin with her teeth. What if she did something embarrassing? I mean, sure she did embarrassing stuff all the time, but in front of Reno and Rude it was nothing, funny if anything. She couldn't pull the same stuff in front of them in front of the oh so serious President! Numbly, she looked up at the elevator panel, the top floor being close in sight. She let out a heaving, choked sigh, swallowing thickly.
DING.
It might as well have been a gunshot to her BRAINS. The elevator doors slid open to reveal the top floor, in all it's glory. Giant panel windows alluminated the lobby area, a personal secretary typing loudly nearby. She mustered all of the courage she had in her little Turk body and boldly stepped forward. She walked over to the large counter where the secretary typed and coughed loudly. The secretary looked up, in all her perfectness with her straight bun and her crisp clean secretary.....clothes....and her red lipstick and said oh so perfectly, "Can I help you?"
L.A. scowled, self conciously touching her own limp matted hair, which she hadn't bothered brushing since her last mission a few hours ago.
"Uhh...yeah. I have stuff." Stuff. Right. Very elaborate. "Uh, a report. For the President. For him."She pointed to the large doors, to emphasize "him." "He needs these." Cough.
The secretary raised a perfect eyebrow and nodded. "I'll tell him you're here." She raised a perfectly manicured finger and pushed the intercom button. "Sir?" She said into the speaker. "Your report is here." She let go of the button and smiled thinly at L.A. "It'll be just a few minutes."
L.A. nodded dumbly, crinkeling the papers again. The secretary looked warily at her, probably noticing her messy, atrocious uniform.
"Ahh...blue uniform. You must be in the Turks."
L.A. coughed loudly, another nervous habit and narrowed her eyes. "Yeah. I am."
"Must be a hard job. Getting all sweaty and dirty whilst many women stay here in the comfort of air conditioning, filing." She smiled condesendingly.
L.A. merely smirked back, catching the insult. "Yeah well you know, gets the aggression out. You get to shoot people. That's always fun." Her smirk widened as the secretary tipped back in her seat with wide eyes.
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Post by Ryugexu on Aug 29, 2009 12:13:34 GMT -6
"Send her in."
Today, Rufus was truly dreading the occupation his father oh so kindly dropped on him. He hated being in the room his father died in, and usually was able to hide away in his old office to do most of his work. He had his fill of stress for today, with several failed mission reports spread across his desk. Most of these missions involved being intercepted by Avalanche, which made the president even more angry with the group led by an ex-soldier.
Rufus let out a frustrated sigh, hoping the Turk would have good news for him. He neatly stacked the reports and set them aside, as though trying to wipe away the stress from his mind. Rufus was still recovering from the battle against Cloud and the rest of Avalanche which took place shortly after his father's untimely demise, but he would never let anyone at Shinra know he had even been scratched in that brawl. The only people who knew he was injured were Tseng, Dr. Hojo, and Dr. Lionheart. Thanks to Rufus's choice of clothing, his long white suit, it was hard to see if he had any injurries or not.
Rufus sat with as straight a posture as possible, hoping the report would bring good news to an otherwise miserable day. Of coarse, he figured, he could always just shoot the Turk if it was information that he didn't like. It's not like this Turk was high ranked or anything.
((OOC- Whatever rank your character is, he's thinking that last part as though if comparing your character to Tseng's abilities/usefulness. I mean no offense to you, but Rufus does. You know what I mean, right? ^^; ))
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Post by alexandra on Aug 31, 2009 11:21:41 GMT -6
( OOC: Gotcha! I know what you mean. XD L.A.'s a newbie.)
L.A. swallowed as the secretary's thin smile triumphed over her rude and obnoxious joke. "You may go in now."
L.A. nodded, sending her one final glare and tucked the folder underneath her sweaty arm. She was sweating bullets. Actually more like, BUCKETS. It was hot in here. Why's the fucking A.C. not working you need it?! She was panicking now, thinking up every swear word in the book after each step she made towards the large doors. Oh God, Oh God, Oh sweet Gaia, let me live through this...!!
A tentative and soft knock was placed on the door, before she felt ready to puke her guts out onto the neatly polished floor tiles. She finally pushed the door open slightly, peeking her head slowly around the corner.
"S-ssssirrr?" She murhmered out, her locks damp against her perspiring neck. "I have your......report."
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Post by Ryugexu on Aug 31, 2009 11:39:29 GMT -6
Great. A wimp.
It couldn't JUST be a failed mission, it HAD to be a wimp.
Without missing a beat or even looking up from his computer he said, "back straight, stop swallowing so much, and for Gaia's sake you're not some kind of imbecile. Speak up."
Today was not the day Rufus wanted to play babysitter.
...At least she's mildly attractive. The extremely bored side of his mind thought.
"So, what is it you want to tell me?" He said, hoping she'd take his previously stated advice.
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Post by alexandra on Aug 31, 2009 12:09:33 GMT -6
Oh God- it was even worse than she thought-
HER BOSS WAS PRETTY.
AND SCARY.
Put those together and you had a pretty scary man sitting in front of her. His perfect blonde hair combed back. His perfect blue eyes, even colder and darker than anyone described them. His perfect white suit. Oh yea, she was screwed. His demeanor was that of a no nonsense man, 'fail me and you die.' He was scarier than Tseng on mission days. Her worst nightmare was now personafied into one being, and that entity was Rufus Shinra.
" Back straight, stop swallowing so much, and for Gaia's sake you're not some kind of imbecile. Speak up."
Oh God! Not even in all the way and he was already pissed with her?! She swallowed again, despite his warning but quickly cracked her back as straight as possible, teetering in, unstabally. She wasn't used to good posture but now was a good hell of a time to start caring! "Y-yes SIR!" She shouted, with a bit too much moxy. She wasn't used to any kind of seriousness and hoped maybe he wouldn;t think tooooo poorly of her character. "I have your reports sir." And as quickly as her moxy came, it left, leaving her a shell of a man....er....woman......er.....person....Turk. Gah! THINK, USE YOUR WORDS!! She mentally slapped herself, taking the crunched up folder out of her arm, fanning it lightly to get rid of the unwanted body fluids. Lord, I sweat too much.... She opened the folder, extracting the crinkled papers and wrinkled her nose in distaste. "Sir, the papers are wet, and for a good reason, that being that honestly, I was scared out of my mind on my way here, so therefore I've been sweating. I apologize, on behalf of my body. It knows not what it has done." She bowed her head, as if in some religious prayer and hoped that she had addressed him correctly? Now her back was starting to hurt. GREAT.
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Post by Ryugexu on Aug 31, 2009 16:47:13 GMT -6
He was glad at her vague attempt at following orders- it seemed to suffice currently, not that he needed to know she didn't use enough deodorant today.
T.M.I.
"Whatever. So- how did the mission go, or can I surmise it was failed by your nervousness?" he asked, folding his arms lightly across his chest.
He knew that he often came off as frightening to the newbies, so he did TRY to give them a chance every now and then. Still, though, he had an appointment with Dr. Lionheart in an hour, and his secretary might remind him of it while this Turk was still in the room. That could jeopardize his standings as a powerful leader, he believed.
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Post by alexandra on Aug 31, 2009 18:32:46 GMT -6
Straight to the point I see......Tseng had reminded her to be swift in her answering, critical and on topic. She had already failed to do any of those things.
"Well I wouldn't say a failure....." She drawled, her back slipping a few notches into it's previous slump. "Ah-sir!" She added hastily. "I mean, my partner and I managed to take out quite a few AVALANCHE members while Reno and Rude took care of disabling the bombing device. In fact it's in the lab right now." She shifted from foot to foot uncomfortably, noting that she had forgotten to change into her dress shoes, appropriate for her work clothes. Instead she had a simple pair of Chuck Taylor Converse, muddy from fighting. She was a mess....
"I mean, I did have to take a few days off because I was injured, thus why this wasn't delivered sooner." She shook the papers, staring blankly at his desk. "But I had planned to bring these to you myself so you could see my face." Wonderful, now he knows what an ugly lunatic you really are. "And anyway, sir, I mean, I think AVALANCHE will catch our drift for a while. We nuked 'em." She rambled on, feeling her mouth dry up. "But sir, here they are, so you might see for yourself." She thrust the papers out at him, refusing to look him directly in the face.
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Post by Ryugexu on Sept 1, 2009 0:11:47 GMT -6
Finally. It took her long enough.
"Very good. I'm glad to hear that your mission was a success." He took the file but set it aside, as though saying he'd trust her word on it until further reading was necessary. To be nice to her, he decided to give her some advice.
"Whether or not you're wearing dress shoes or sneakers you should try to present yourself more assertively. You've been over analyzing your actions since you arrived. If you do that, you'll just keep looking like a sniveling coward instead of someone who is successful. Thus, people will continue to treat you as such. Go... I don't know.. rest or something-" he had made a shooing motion with his arm but seemed to withdraw his arm quickly as though it had caused him a surprising pain.
Damn. I think I just reopened the wound along my right side...
Rufus grit his teeth and his entire body tensed from the feeling. His left hand quickly went to the source of the pain.
His white suit was thick, so it would remain white a short while longer, but soon it would start showing a diagonal slant of blood. He quickly contemplated looking human for once, or telling the Turk to leave immediately. Of coarse, pain always makes quick decisions harder, so the most he could do was try to take a few controlled breaths.
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Post by alexandra on Sept 1, 2009 11:02:23 GMT -6
She parted her chapped lips, gaze cast downward embarrassingly. Jesus, she WOULD be more assertive if she wasn't so damn intimidated by him! She took a deep breath, looking up at him to give a salute so she could get the hell out of there but stopped shortly, seeing him wince? He had grabbed his opposite arm, and even she could tell he was in pain, although trying to assert his control. But I'm a Turk...and I know he's hiding it.... She placed a hand on her hip, leaning forward, trying to discern her next action. He had seemed so frightening and powerful a few seconds ago, and a simple look on his face, although to most people would seem perfectly normal, enabled her to see the pain in his eyes. What was she supposed to do? Call someone? He was her boss technically. She was his bodyguard technically. Was she supposed to say something? Concern? Any human with a heart would have that. But Rufus Shinra didn't have a heart, so would he be angry with her for even mentioning anything?
"Sir....?" She started slowly. "You alright?" Her voice wasn't wavering nearly as much as before. She stepped slightly closer, hoping he wouldn't pull out a gun and shoot her.
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Post by Ryugexu on Sept 2, 2009 2:53:56 GMT -6
"I'm fine." he assertively growled like one imagined an injured wolf might, then took a controlled breath.
"Just..." he tried quickly to think of an order to make this Turk do quickly, "just get... Tseng." he tried not to show any urgency or pain in his voice, though it may have been harder to hide.
Strife, when I get to you I'm going to rip out each spike on that head and I don't know, STAB YOU WITH THEM.
Rufus happen to have (for once) forgotten that Tseng was out of the building today. It seemed, though, that he suddenly remembered. He didn't want to admit he wanted to see a doctor. That was not in his best favor, he thought, as he'd appear weak to this Turk. No thanks.
"Tseng's not in the building.." he muttered, believing this complicated matters.
Small collection of red drops showed on his right side in the basic outline of his wound. It was a slice from the buster sword, fortunately though it wasn't very deep. It was still painful as hell and was bleeding just a bit, showing his humility if one could see it.
Entire company > One Turk's knowledge. If I die then there goes the company.
"I'd like to have a chat with Dr Hojo." he tried to sound casual, though he was still controlling his breaths.
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Post by alexandra on Sept 2, 2009 11:01:03 GMT -6
Her eyes widened as she couldn't believe the sight in front of her. Rufus Shinra was injured. And bleeding. The red was gushing through his white jacket, severely contrasting his usually prim and crisp idendity. She could hear the rumors spill out of her mind onto his clean floor. Rufus Shinra was human after all....
The empty space previously occupied by gossip now took on sympathy and concern. He had obviously been hurt in his encounter with Cloud Strife. The man was an ex-SOLDIER after all, of course he had meant business. Without warning, her body lurched forward against her better judgement as she got within personal distance. "You're bleeding sir. I don't think I can just leave you here by yourself!" Dammit, of all things to happen, when SHE was here no less! Reno would have known what to do....
(OOC: The statement about Cloud Strife being an exSOLDIER is simply because she doesn't know that he actually wasn't. XD She's a newbie after all.)
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Post by Ryugexu on Sept 2, 2009 16:17:31 GMT -6
((OOC- fair enough. it makes sense, as no one seemed to get it until Cloud spilled the beans)).
Rufus seemed unwilling to have someone that physically close to him but at the same time, bleeding wasn't very fun and he'd like it stopped.
"Just... apply pressure to the wound. I'll call the medic floor." he was still trying to act as though nothing too odd was happening, though he wasn't doing very good at it.
He dialed the science/health floors. "Yes, send Hojo or Lionheart. It's very important that one of them comes now."
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Post by alexandra on Sept 7, 2009 12:21:00 GMT -6
She bit her lip, wide eyed. She was permitted to...touch Rufus Shinra? Perhaps this was all some sort of psychotic dream. Maybe she had never made it back to the office after all. She was killed in action. Or worst, hallucinating in a hospital ward some place. Oh yes, crazy crazy L.A. She would play along....for NOW. Reaching over, and placing aside her delusional thoughts she poked his wound. As if pleased with the fact that she wasn't tripping out further, (i.e. being pulled through his wound and floating in some dark vortex of terror) she deemed it perfectly safe to press upon it. "Sir, Strife sure packs a wallop don't he?"
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Post by Ryugexu on Sept 8, 2009 23:44:56 GMT -6
The mention of the traitor made Rufus cringe more than the thought of someone he barely knew being so close to his own body. He refused to comment on his enemy's strength.
Shortly later, a blue-haired woman wearing a scientist's labcoat entered the room. "Yes sir?" she whispered as though she was having trouble keeping focus.
"Can't you tell what's wrong, Lionheart?" Rufus almost seemed to be complaining.
Lionheart nodded, "Yes sir. You're bleeding from your side, there, because you managed to rip your stitches again..."
"Well, take care of it." Rufus calmly commanded.
Lionheart approached the two. "Sir, as before, cure can't fix the entire wound at once due to severity. If you continue to reopen the wound, you will never heal. Then, sir, you will get sick or become anemic." She seemed to speak monotonously as though quoting it directly from a book.
Rufus rolled his eyes as though he'd heard it a thousand times already.
((OOC- if you don't want a third character in, I'll change this post at your request))
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Post by alexandra on Sept 9, 2009 11:44:25 GMT -6
( OOC: I don't mind at all. X3)
L.A. tilted her head curiously. "Oh Sir, you have stitches? That's not good sir. Tseng wouldn't want you moving around and doing stuff if you have stitches. You could bleed to death and then what?" Suddenly realizing her abrasive statement, she reddened. "Oh no sir, I wouldn't want you to die. I probably jinxed it though didn't I? I have a habit of saying stuff and then the stuff comes true. Reno says it's because I'm psychic. I'm totally not though. I just got....intuition." She frowned, hoping that it was the correct word, as Guinne had called her once. "I hope you don't die though sir. It'd be a shame if I met the great Rufus Shinra and then you die right after. I'd feel guilty." She looked at the female scientist with a blank stare. "You should fix him."
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