Hearing his name called, his head immediately jerked up, giving Caelius his undivided attention.
... Wait. Ranked underneath her? Wrong set of orders? Did he think... that he was supposed to be following Ofelia's instructions or something, just because she was higher-ranked than him? Oh HELL no.
He was about to object, when Ofelia interrupted him, and he only shot her a look as if to say WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? Was she... taking the blame for him?
As if to insult him further, she had implied that he had followed her orders. WHAT ORDERS? Lady. Shut up. SHUT. UP.
He was pretty much an adult now, dammit, he can own up to his own mistakes, even if it was your freaking pet that got us into this mess.
"I apologize, sir." he muttered. Realizing that he was mumbling, he straightened up and cleared his throat.
"It was due to my own negligence that the minis managed to escape from their tanks. This intermediate trainee-" He shot a dirty look at Ofelia.
"-had nothing to do with it."
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"In that case," the Death lead continued as always, speaking very slowly, in the off-chance that someone had recruited yet another trainee at the shallowest end of the gene pool, "As the intermediate trainee takes full responsibility, and the other admits their negligence, then the problem here seems to be discipline. Ofelia, do you have a problem with disciplining Jake?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 8:04 pm
" . . . . No sir, Ah do not." Ofelia, while she didn't particularly want to hit Jake, knew that if she had to punish him in that way it would be far more gentle than say like...Caelius doing it. That was it if involved physical violence at all, and the teen loosened her grip on her pom just ever so slightly. It was still oozing off a onion-scent, almost like a toxin creeping into the air, but Ofelia could barely smell it. All she could hear and smell and taste was perhaps her own heart pounding in her chest.
So much for this little adventure being fun or what have you. "Yer orders, sir?" God, she hoped it wasn't something extreme or crazy. Ofelia could only deal with so much drama this soon into her day.
This kind of was all Jake's fault though, she should have just shut her mouth entirely and let the blame fall upon him like leaves. Part of her wanted Jake to run, to totally get the hell out, but that wouldn't work.
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Really. He should of just kept his mouth shut.
Fists tightened when Caelius gave Ofelia permission to punish him. Hell. He'd much rather be put 6 feet under by the division leader himself than have Ofelia do... whatever the heck it was Caelius was going to tell her to do.
Jake grit his teeth.
So much for acting mature. All he ended up doing was proving how childish and inexperienced he was. But... what's done is done. He wouldn't bother trying to worm out of this. If Caelius wanted Ofelia to punish him, then FINE. He still had to track down those other two minipets before they dissolved themselves into oblivion or something and get himself in even MORE trouble with the life division.
He turned his gaze from Caelius to Ofelia, lips taut in a frown. Part of him was expecting a punch. Oh GOD please just let it be a punch.
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:38 pm
"I thought," disinterest again, as the Death lead picked up another stack of mission reports, "It made it very clear that your orders, if you could even call them orders as more a responsibility, was to discipline."
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:41 pm
"Ah got that, but in like...what way? Make 'em scrub the floors or sommin'? Clean the minipet cages that he already broke?" Those were probably not what he meant, but she had to try. Then, of course, she listed what she assumed was next.
Clearing her throat, she went ahead and asked even though part of her already knew. " . . . corporal punishment, sir?"
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He... really didn't know what to expect now.
Part of him sort of wondered if he could just slip out the door unnoticed while the two seemed to try to define the meaning of responsibility and punishment and figure out just what the hell was going to happen to him.
Even Chester seemed less worried and was more or less curious to what was going to happen. Jake gave a small mental shrug.
The minipet in his hand seemed to stopped struggling, and just let out a pitiful meow. Maybe it was just his imagination, but its tail started looking kinda wispy...
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:24 pm
Ofelia's questions were answered by a blatant silence. More silence. At this point, anyone within reason could have probably walked in or out of this room easily. Relatively easily.
"Jake." The sudden dichotomy of dead silence to Caelius actually talking was almost a bit jarring. "What do you think is appropriate discipline for your behaviour."
If the two didn't know any better, it almost felt like the Death lead was intentionally making this as awkward as possible.
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Ofelia happened to be wondering what to do, what should happen next, when the silence came and Jake was asked what he deserved. The teen turned to him and waited, wondering what he would say (she may have even raised an eyebrow).
Maybe it would have worked best if she just hauled off and hit him without waiting? But if that happened to be what Caelius wanted so he could punish her for attacking another trainee outside of sparring grounds then everything would suck. She didn't want to take the bait, and instead just sort of mouthed the words 'yeah Jake, what do you think would work?'
She also noticed that Caelius wasn't looking and so she took a step towards the door, softly. Jake probably wouldn't say anything, or maybe would get the hint they could try and sneak out, right?
Because sneaking out and away from Caelius would totally make this all better.
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Jake's attention at the moment had been diverted to the minipet that seemed to start hissing, but not from its mouth. Hmm.
When the death lead addressed him though, he looked up, a baffled expression as it seemed he was being offered the choice to decide his own fate. Was this... pity? Mockery? He really had no idea anymore.
Ignoring Chester, Jake's gaze went back to the minipet.
"In all honesty, making me actually finish this task." Because really. He never even wanted to do this in the first place. And with the amount of time they spent in here, it was going to take a miracle to get this thing, along with the two that were currently running around rampant who knows where, back into the lab before they completely dissipiated.
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More silence. Was it right? Was it wrong? Had the Death lead lost his mind and gone inane in the aftermath of striking down small blonde underage midgets and assistants the events involving Red? Really it was anyone's guess thought he didn't particularily strike anyone as good company.
More silence. It almost felt like a surreal experience at the principal's office waiting for some sort of verdict.
"Are are dismissed then. After you clean up what you ******** destroyed."
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Awkward clean up time! -Roll 1d10 to clean up various areas your poms bounded around. That determines your success level, 1 being a disaster and you can't pick s**t up and 10 being you at least managed to make it presentable again. -After done just wait for further uh inspection. - Also your poms are rapidly dissolving
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 10:50 pm
If cleaning was all they had to do that was super easy, and Ofelia shifted her onion!pom onto her shoulders (it went happily) as she moved to try and get things together. She could hear and see the hissing and dissolvement of the pms, had they really been out of their cages that long, and so to get things over with she needed to move way, way faster. If the pets died outside of the cage then holy crap neither she nor Jake would make it off okay.
Basically they both would just...yeah. it wouldn't end well. At all.
Of course though as Ofelia tried to grab stuff it just kept going everywhere, mostly because she'd stepped on it and it ripped as she tried to pull it up, and then there was the whole just kicking it further out of her reach. In one word, or less, she was a a total failure.
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...Clean up. His punishment was... cleaning up. Was this the same man who ordered hunters to attack each other and pretty much maimed one himself?
Jake already knew what Chester's reaction would be before he even responded, so he only shook his head and bent down to pick up the broken lamp, the arctic!pom tucked tightly underneath his arm should it get ideas of escaping.
Surprisingly, it was still in somewhat-decent shape even after being knocked to the ground, and after re-arranging some of the broken pieces, it almost looked... ok not BRAND new, but presentable. And a lot better than whatever the hell Ofelia was doing.
Was she... ripping up papers? He shook his head and dusted himself off before turning to his division head.
"...Sir?"
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"Did I not say you are dismissed after you clean up what you ******** destroyed?" Caelius turned to Jake, ignoring Ofelia entirely. "If you have not purposely made your goddamned mistake then take your incompetent intermediate Hunter with you and get the ******** out of my office." It was said in a sort of flat tone that could have been addressing next week's weather report. "I would recommend you think very carefully on the company you keep, Jake, it would be a shame for you to ruin your reputation before you had a chance to prove yourself properly."
And that was pretty much that.
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Ofelia felt sort of bad? At least it looked like neither she nor Jake were going to get smacked around and that was an amazing thing, but the minipets that sizzled in hers and his arms had her wanting to go. "Yup! Sorry fer screwin' stuff up as per usual suns are only good fer dyin' so let's go Jake we gotta get the other pets okay."
The redhead was not one for waiting or taking longer than needed when she was spared the wrath of Caelius. Screw the fact it got Jake yelled at, she had no regrets at all.
None.
And so she was at the door before either of the two men probably knew it.
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