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The sound of his wooden geta on the stone floor was almost obnoxiously loud in the rather quiet hallway, but the wearer didn’t seem to notice. The corrupt moved with purpose through the space erasing anyone’s thoughts that he was out for a leisurely stroll. Especially considering the look of annoyance tinged with concern.

Heliodor had gotten a rather hasty summons from his superior. Albite had made it sound important and dire enough that it required Helio’s attention immediately. Now, Albite certainly wasn’t beyond theatrics, something Helio was very well aware of, but the worry that perhaps something of importance had actually happened and that either Albite himself or someone else may have found themselves in a dire situation was enough to push Helio to cut a photoshoot short. I swear if Albite is blowing whatever this is out of of proportion…

The door was now a familiar one for the corrupt. While his hand off to Albite had been anything but smooth or welcomed just barely a year ago, Helio had begrudgingly accepted it, before finally settling into the change in his life. One change of many, and honestly this one being the most kind of them to have occurred. He stared at teh door for a moment. It’s rather unobtrusive and same-same look as the others in the hallway seemed very inpersonal in comparison to the owner. Honestly, Helio was surprised there wasn’t more that screamed ‘this is Albites office! Proceed with caustion for you sanity’.

His hesitation at the entrance was short. Urgency still motivated him. He announced his arrival with a knock and vocal announcement that it was him, before entering when he heard Albite’s voice from the other side beckoning him in.

When he entered and saw Albite looked whole and healthy and not at all in any form of distress, the anxious worry that Helio was feeling dissipated away like a leaf on a wind. “I really hope this is actually as important as you made it out to be that I needed to leave my photoshoot early.” The annoyance colored his tone, as he locked golden eyes on warm brown.

Tama could hear Heliodor before he could see him, thanks in large part by the bulk of a man standing in front of him. Still, the cat could imagine the senshi’s pretty face going from photo shoot ready to business quite well. Oh, a hint of annoyance? He’d seen that enough times that he could picture it clearly just like a photograph.

Yet, despite having seen it before, he couldn’t help but pace a bit on Albite’s desk. The tall senshi was in the way for his ‘surprise’, but Tama liked watching people’s reactions. Half the fun of being around Albite was just observing what kind of face they’d make when he started his antics which he enviably would.

Even if the most utmost important of situations as this.

That Albite was not being hyperbolic about — at least, to a Mauvian. Upgrades, after all, were their specialty.

“Very important. Of the utmost importance!” Tama tried to play along, but he really just wanted to get a good hard look at Heliodor’s face. He’d just come from a shoot. That meant a little extra for his eyes.

“Albite. That’s not your heart. It’s your starseed. And you’ll end up wounding yourself with not help from Heliodor if stick your hand in there.”

There was some teasing involved as he pranced on the desk into view.

“After all, it’s not your starseed I want to see today.”



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Albite was happy to, finally, stand aside for the pair. His grin tinged with warmth and plastered firmly on his face as both he and Tama got to watch Helio's face morph over through a range of emotions. He never loved it more than when the people he cared about looked half a hair away from slamming a door on his fat head-- it meant they cared!! And if he briefly looked like he was contemplating what the risk of putting himself in the kind of trouble that would warrant wound care and a rapid attempt cpr?

Could anyone truly blame him.

He didn't have the nerve to look sheepish for being called out about his clumsiness, not with the Super as the one meant to be the true focal point in the room. The way Helio was done up to the nines; eyes a deeper shade of gold, ever more expressive for being so delicately lined, makeup neatly done by a true professional. It was rare as 'never' that he ever got to go to the shoots, the dance rehearsals? Sure! But sitting in on the tail end of a practice was nothing at all the same as seeing Helio truly done up.

If he'd learned anything from Treys shoots at all---

It was more than just looking pretty, there was actual work put into it, but damn if the looking pretty part didn't have some appeal!

"I might deserve it some-" Pinching his fingers together a twinge before lacing his hands behind his back, attention split between the two. "And it's cause you're a model, Helio. With a models starseed." Laced with a line of teasing, before he settled himself with softer tones. "N'you've more n'earned your place amongst the prettiest stars. Course, Tama's the only one I'd ever trust to be the judge of that."

Helio could feel the warmth gathering in his face. A tell-tale sign that his cheeks were likely giving away his reaction to their coy and doting responses. "You two..." They were ******** incorrigable and Helio was both ready to knock their heads together and hug them both. It wasn't fair how the two of them managed to pull him out of funks. So instead of verbally and physically assaulting them he dipped his head with a polite cough.

"You two feed off of each other far too easily." Ok. Perhaps a small, tiny verbal lashing. Nothing terrible.

"I can't imagine that Tama is here to do what I think he's here to do." His gaze shifted from the white mauvian to Waru. "Cause I damn sure am certain I don't deserve this."

"I've been nothing but a nuisance to you. Why do this now?"

"And you, Tama. You agree?"