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 Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 9:57 pm
 From behind Draven came the flick of a lighter.
Miles was there, indulging in his favorite bad habit before he had even reached the outdoors. He was glad to have found the new guy on his way to a smoke break. Of course, his personnel, Francis, had let Miles know when the Draven had arrived in the building. Kyrin and Jaydn always kept him informed beforehand on anybody coming or going with meetings anyways. And now with Jaydn's leaving, it was especially important to keep up with all his familiars.
Miles didn't say anything immediately at first, but rather looked him over slightly. In very juvenile fashion, Miles wondered the same thing about every new man he met: if he could take him in a fight. Probably not. Not by strength at least. He looked like a very serious guy. A bit stand-out-ish, but definitely made a statement. Interesting.
Miles smiled good-naturedly. " You must be Draven. Kyrin had said you were coming. "He had to get to know this person; to know his usefulness; his place within the group. Extending his hand,Miles introduced himself to the stranger. "I'm Miles Morozov."
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 12:23 pm
Her eyes followed Miles as he stood by the window and then Kyrin nodded to his reassurance as he left the room. We can enjoy it for a little while. Nothing we can't handle, right? His words stuck in her mind and when the door shut, a smile crossed her lips. "Yeah, we will enjoy it." She said, to no one in particular.
Shuffling the papers around on her desk, Kyrin drew out her phone and dialed Jun's number. At that time of the morning she was sure that he would be back from his runs and was quite sure that he would be asleep, but the matter wasn't one she wanted to wait on. She glanced over the faces of the Flynn brother's that were present on the papers in front of her and waited for Jun to answer.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 1:58 pm
Draven knew the man was coming, his foot falls rang off the solid ground as if he was stomping; to Draven at least. When Miles looked over him, he raised a questioning brow, and tapped the toe of his boots on the ground, first left then right; to make sure the guns were clear in their holsters.
Draven looked at the hand with a bit of disdain and almost decided not to shake it, but thought otherwise, “Miles”, he said as his dark cold eyes met the mans, while his hand reached out and took the offered with a steel vice grip.
“Is Kyrin busy at the moment?” he questioned, “I was supposed to speak with her before Jaydn had left…”
“I’ve chosen not to do so for now..”
As Draven released the man’s hand he ran it through his thick dark hair, god I hate people.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 9:57 pm
The alarm clock blared to life at nine a.m. and Xavier's hand snaked out from beneath his blankets, extinguishing the noise. Blinking the sleep out of his cloudy gray eyes, Xavier groaned. Since his brother's were gone, he was much more like Maddox had been to Jaydn for Ky. He continued his own work, but spent more and more of his free time standing by his cousin. Part of him wished he had gone with them to Japan; it was quite lonely without them around. He just hoped that the problems would be cleared up quickly so that they would be back.
Xavier had become almost a completely different person in the presence of most of the people in the building, taking on a more commanding presence, even though his position hadn't changed at all. He'd stopped playing pranks when things had started to grow worse and although he knew that it was helping he hadn't felt like himself. Don't leave me with these people too long Jaydn. He thought as he pulled himself out of the warmth of his covers.
It took him a little longer then usual to get ready as he dragged through his morning routine. Once dressed Xavier headed for the kitchen, hoping that Nori was up with breakfast. He was hungry.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:28 pm
It seemed quite clear that Draven couldn't give less of a damn about Miles, but Miles on the other hand was very interested in Draven.
He spoke of Kyrin as if he knew her well; was he an old comrade of hers? Why had she brought him to Jaydn in the first place? Miles absorbed his question, but again, with ten different thoughts whirling around at once, he did not answer immediately. He did not take Draven's coldness personally, as he had met many personalities like it before; But as someone with an enormous ego, Miles didn't like being brushed off too soon. Soaking in the smoke, he replied cooly. " Kyrin is going to be busy for quite a while, considering her position." Miles could have called her and asked, but why would he ever be kind enough to do that? He much preferred the role of Cheshire Cat, using his power to string people along. " If it's business on your mind, then I'm the one to talk to. Otherwise, she's at her desk; interrupt her at your own risk." He gave a strange sort of smirk. Of course, Kyrin would make time for Draven, but Miles had still noticed the way she and Jaydn were similar to each other.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:45 pm
 At the sound of the kitchen door opening, Nori turned his head to see the only remaining Matsui brother.
"Oh, Good Morning Xavier." he said with a warm smile. Nori had been sitting on the counter, eating an omelet, but jumped down to get started on cooking again. With everyone working so much, the kitchen was a bit empty in the mornings now. It almost seemed a relief to have Jaydn away, but still, a bit of him worried for the two Matsui's, as well as those who had the extra load with them gone. Nori had half a heart to just start bringing everyone room service if they tried to skip out the most important meal of the day.
" You're a bit late to breakfast today." And it was then that he noticed the tired look on Xavier's face. " Working hard?" He asked, still smiling, although sympathetically.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:47 pm
"Oh, I can't tell you how glad I am that's you're in here." Xavier said with a smile. He had been up until three the previous morning working with a team to make sure there were absolutely no holes in their security. Kyrin had more or less requested a more in depth inspection of the system and much to his dismay, Xavier found that some of his men weren't working quite hard enough. After a long night of raised voices and running around, Xavier had found ways to fix the kinks. It would take all of the day and maybe some of the next to fix them, however, and Xavier had to be up to get them started.
Xavier leaned against the counter near where Nori was cooking and rubbed his temples before he said, "Too hard." And then he laughed. It was good natured, but tired. He watched Nori toss ingredients into the omelet he was making and then tilted his head to the side. "Hey, you're good at math right?" He remembered that Kyrin had said something about how good Nori was at some point and after last night Xay was quite peeved at his current "mathematician". Maybe Nori could replace him until he realizes that we all need to step it up a notch right now. "Are you busy later?"
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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 12:03 am
Nori turned slightly pink at Xavier's compliment and could only reply by giving his usual sheepish smile. "Hey, you're good at math right?" Nori didn't know where that was going, but he liked the sound of it. " Not busy at all!" he said, turning his head around so fast that it almost hurt. He would jump at the chance to help if he could." If it's math-related count on me! Let me know whenever." He didn't care if he sounded desperate; He wanted his mind exercised on something other than his pages of theorem work.
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Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 12:51 pm
Draven breathed a sigh, his face scrunching in thought, “I’ll take my chances”, he said in his regular gruff voice. He pushed himself past Miles and started down the hall. His thoughts swirling about a plan of what to say to her.
Yeah, I told Jaydn to go pleasure himself, while I do whatever the hell I want.
No. Draven could picture Kyrin red faced as she screamed about how much of an idiot he was, that wouldn’t do at all.
When it came to Kyrin, Draven was always without a proper plan, without proper thoughts. He could only relish in her sent, in her simple presence. All the training in dealing with people, in disarming situations flew out the door.
For heaven’s sake, he mentally cursed as he checked that his guns were free of their holsters. He didn’t trust Miles, the man was to smooth, somewhere between a weasel and a snake.
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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 2:10 am
Xavier watched with patience as his stomach grumbled to the smell of the omelet simmering in the pan. Once it was done he nearly gulfed it down; leaving his plate spotless, he asked for another. Nori and Xavier talked about small matters, things other then work to take Xavier's mind off of it for a while. Xavier welcomed the change in pace, he wasn't quite accustom to acting so grown up, but of course he knew how because of his up bringing. He was, afterall, his mother's son and Jaydn's younger brother. And, if there was anyone to teach him to be proper and respectable, it was them.
Once done with the second omelet a mere fifteen minutes later, Xavier placed his plate in the dish washer and turned to Nori once again, "So, are you free now? Or should I call you later?"
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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 10:16 pm
Miles didn't bother to let his gaze follow Draven as the large man made his way out of conversation. Based on what little subtleties that were given away in that exchange of words alone, Miles had a very distinct feeling that they would be butting heads in the future. He would have to ask Kyrin about him the next time they saw each other.
As soon as Miles was completely alone, he decided to make his way back to his office. He would have to meet up with Xavier later, but the kid probably wasn't even up yet. It was almost embarrassing having to work with someone who was under-qualified in their department, but at least Xavier had put aside some of his childish antics for a while. He wasn't nearly up to speed with the way Maddox worked, but if he continued on his current strain of work he might be able to pull his weight better. Maybe. It was hard enough admitting that Maddox was up to par; There was no way Miles could embrace any skills Xavier had at the moment.
Despite all the power he was now free to fling around, Miles felt he couldn't properly appreciate it. Maybe it was still the uneasiness about Jaydn being gone, or maybe the slight disappointed in how easy it was. It would be a while until he could revel in it, so for now he put any rank-struggles out of his mind. He would simply just do his job to make Kyrin's easier.
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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 10:30 pm
At Xavier's question, Nori turned his head to him and gave his usual bright smile.
" Of course, I'm free if you'd like me to be. So, shall we go?""
Technically, Nori was always free, as Jaydn had refused to give him any sort of job whatsoever. Nori didn't mind too much, as he was still determined to prove himself to Jaydn one day. With Ky in charge however... It was like a collective sigh of peace on the upper floors; At least where Miles hadn't yet spread his reign of terror. She had seemed more stressed out lately, but of course, how could she not be?
With the kitchen put back in it's proper place, Nori was ready to follow-the-leader wherever Xavier decided to go.
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:14 pm
 It had been nearly a week since Katzchen had separated from his family, and thusly he did not think of them very often. His new home, tho at first seemed quite small and bland smelling, had proven to be a very vast and interesting place. Full of increasingly curious and enjoyable sights, smells and companions. Having spent many consecutive days riding the quiet ones shoulder around the food room, Katzchen came to understand that his domain spread far beyond the doorway of the cavern he slept in at night time. With this realization, Katzchen became determined to escape the box he constantly found himself stuck in, to explore the various corridors of his land. Many times he sprinted for the door, knowing he was free, that he had timed his sprint perfectly with the speed of the ever decreasing route of escape. Only to be denied at the last minute as the exit abruptly shut closed, or an unscrupulous foot slid him out of the way. But he was not going to give up.
And this morning, he had been successful. Tho his grand success was not nearly as grand as he had envisioned it. He had woken very earlier than usual to find the doorway to the loud ones room moved and light shinning through. cautiously he had approched the exit, and quietly he had sniffed the stale air of the hall. It was open, and he was out in a bound.
His adventures began with a causal jaunt down the cavernous passageway and he journeyed it for what seemed like a very long nap. Katzchen found himself looking in on another room that smelled suspicously of fire and metal. Very similar to how the food room would smell if the quiet one did not keep so much food in it. It was not a good smell, and Katzchen did not like to imagine what kind of strange predator lived in that hovel.
He began to pacing down the hall again when suddenly the door way to his immediate right, the one immediately after the room of fire, swung open and heavy paw falls sounded from the shadows inside. Katzchen paniced as he could not help but fear the monster that surely lived in here. Katzchen Hissed with a feral howl, but then he heard a very kind voice, a voice that was somehow familiar. The creature, which turned out to be nothing but another one of the large ones, reached a paw out to Katzchen and he, cautiously and curiously, sniffed it. Then he recognized the sound, and the smell at the same time. This was the strange one. The one that lived in the food room and played with Katzchen when he was exploring the plateaus of shinny rock. The strange one crooned something to Katzchen softly. Why was he out here by the fire room, and not in the food room where he usually was. Katzchen wanted to find out. "Meow?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:58 pm
 It had been a night indiscript from any of the other nights of the past few days. Jun had settled in to his new position, and had become acustomed to his men and his supiriors. He knew thier scheduals, work habits and enough about thier personal lives to make polite conversation with any of them. But aside from Jason, Jun had not found a single person who seemed to enjoy his company, and seeing as Jason had left a few days prior, Jun was feeling a might lonely. No one seemed to be able to decern this from his jovial attitude he carried himself with. Jun appeared to be adjusting just fine. And thus it had been a night indiscript from any other. Which meant the phone call he recieved at shortly after 9 am., four hours after he had retired to his room for sleep, would have been ignored if it had been any other caller.
Jun picked up the phone with a very convincingly pleasant and awake tone concidering how he felt. Kyrin had requested he join her in her office(which is more like an order from Ky). Jun had said he would be delighted and hung up to get ready.
Two minutes later, after he had put his pants and undershirt from hours earlier back on, Jun attempted to exit his room. His attempt was interupted by a pathetic hiss from a particularly frightened kitten just outside in the hallway. Its name, or lack there of, was Katzchen. Nori had said it was German for cat, and that it had yet to be named by Kyrin or Herself. Jun had spent a few days playing with Katzchen when there was nothing more he could do to help Nori with dinner. He knew the cat to be both intellegent and curious from past experiance. It was obviously spooked, but Jun hoped it would recognise his smell. And after offering his hand, was rewarded with a soft cowl. "Hello Little one", he said, picking up the kitten. Jun smiled as it purred and attempted to perch on his shoulder. I better return this guy to Nori quick so I can get to Ky's office. Jun walked down the hall past 7 or 8 doors and knocked lightly on Nori's. But after a few moments wait, Jun decided Nori was elsewhere, and thought briefly about looking in the Kitchen. But the Kitchen would be in the opposite direction in which he needed to go, and he did not think Ky had sounded like she was feeling at all patient. Decieding to bring Katzchen with him, Jun made for the elevators, after all it was Ky's Kitten as well as Nori's.
The elevator ride was brief and the walk to Kyrin's office was even shorter. Knocking lightly on the door, Jun entered the room and greeted Kyrin to the new morning kindly, despite his obvious new association with it himself.
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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:57 pm
Kyrin looked up from the papers that she was going through when Jun entered. It had been more then obvious that she had woken him up, but she didn't so much as bat an eye lash at the fact. As he came in with the kitten in his arms, Kyrin gave him a curious look. Where did he get Katzchen? She wondered. Instead of asking however, she got straight to business, gesturing to a seat. Once he settled she handed him the twins files. "I'm not sure if you ever got the chance to become acquainted with these two." She started, as she waited for him to look through the file. "I believe you arrived after they initially came by." Ky shifted through a few other papers on the desk and read something before looking back up to Jun. "Look those over. Get to know them as you can and then I want you to bring them here as soon as possible."
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