bodyguard au

[reanbeanmachine]

[Modern fantasy Erebonia that isn't quite as wholesome as normal Erebonia because then how could we have potential gross. Anyway. There's a certain organization out there very interested in the supernatural, and not so interested in their ethics when pursuing it. Which is how they've come to purchase a human girl from a mercenary group. No Zephyr, that group has disbanded from the death of their boss, but a girl from Zephyr, which makes he a capable fighter and a desirable person to buy slash hire as a bodyguard for a certain unethical experiment.

The thing is, that organization is still not sure what to do with their very powerful but inconveniently nice and even more inconveniently unstable half-demon, so for now Fie has simple been assigned the task of bodyguard. Which means she is shipped to the facility her charge lives in, where she'll share a living space with and training facilities with "Rean". Living conditions aren't too bad honestly, and while their are stuff around for various things the part of the facility she's dumped in is left mostly alone.

Part of the problem, she may have heard on the way, is the subject is not someone with much self-control over his demonic changes, and while most of the time it's safe to interact with, part of Fie's job might include suppressing the experiment subject, especially on missions.

Missions, however, won't be for a while. They need to get to know each other.

So welcome to your new home, it's a complex of several rooms of various types with many normal facilities including an entertainment room and training areas, and of course rooms for herself and her new mission.

Said mission is not in the first room she looks, she'll have to explore to find him in the kitchen.]

Comments

[reanbeanmachine]

Years, I guess. Well, not here here. I've moved around some.

[But he's belonged to this organization for a while.]

Ah--they're done.

[He's plating the omelettes, handing one over to Fie.]

[homeandgarden]

Were all of the facilities as nice as this? Because as shady organizations go, these are pretty sweet digs.

[Accepts food!]

Thanks.

[reanbeanmachine]

No problem. I figured you'd be hungry.

[He's taking his food over to sit at the table. all civilized.]

Honestly I wouldn't know if this is normal. But these rooms are probably the nicest so far.

[homeandgarden]

[she's already taken a few bites by the time she joins him at the table, but she does actually take that measure of politeness. eventually.]

It's definitely not normal. This whole situation is honestly really weird. But not the sort of weird to complain about, given I took the job and all.

This is good, thanks.

[reanbeanmachine]

Glad you like it.

[He sighs, taking a bite himself.]

Well, I know the situation is weird, at least, but it's also sort of normal, to me. Sorry, I didn't want to give a bad impression, but I honestly don't really have much experience with talking to normal people outside of video game simulations.

[homeandgarden]

The impression you're giving is fine. I see what they meant when they called you oddly normal. Most people wouldn't call their jaeger bodyguard "normal", either.

[reanbeanmachine]

Well you don't seem strange to me. A little younger than I was expecting, but you probably get that a lot.

Honestly when it comes to jaegers I only have the sorts of things you read in stories to go on, you're the first I've met.

[homeandgarden]

What sorts of things are those?

[Not that she doesn't know, really. She's been a Jaeger long enough to see the typical scale of treatment towards them, but she's curious where exactly this absurdly soft boy will go with it.]

[reanbeanmachine]

Nothing terribly flattering.

[He's honest!]

[homeandgarden]

That's pretty much as expected, then.

[reanbeanmachine]

You must be pretty used to people getting a bad impression just from the word "jaeger" huh?

[homeandgarden]

[she shrugs evenly]

It's part of the whole thing, really.

[reanbeanmachine]

I guess so. I can't imagine it, really.

[homeandgarden]

I never really got the brunt of it, since most people who'd take it like that never really saw me as a jaeger until I proved my skills. My corps got more trouble for having me along than I did for being a jaeger.

[reanbeanmachine]

Huh. I guess that would be hard in it's own way, too, not being taken seriously. It sounds tough.

[homeandgarden]

[she shrugs yet again]

It's not like there aren't advantages to being underestimated too.

[reanbeanmachine]

[He closes his eyes briefly as he thinks about that. Yeah, that sucks, thinking about that.]

I guess you have to take the advantages you can.

[homeandgarden]

It'd be beyond stupid not to.

[reanbeanmachine]

I can't even imagine what it's like having to live on your own strength that way. I guess I've been lucky.

[homeandgarden]

I wouldn't call your situation lucky.

[reanbeanmachine]

Well...

[He kind of looks to the side, uncertainly.]

I'm not treated badly, and I haven't had to use any means to survive.

[homeandgarden]

[an even little hum, noncommittal]

If those are your standards, I won't argue.

[picks up her empty plate and stands.]

What should I do with this?

[reanbeanmachine]

I'll wash them. You were tired, right?

[homeandgarden]

'Kay. I'll take a nap, then.

[BEELINE TO COUCH]

[reanbeanmachine]

[He didn't notice where she stops until he's done washing up and then he stands there looking down at her a little lost for words.]

Fie? Are you already asleep?