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 Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:20 pm
The office of Tseng, leader of the Turks.
And separately, on the same floor, the personal apartments, including living quarters, personal study, kitchen area, and more for each inhabitant.
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:39 pm
Tseng leaned lightly against his phone, listening to the nearly hysterical voice of the blonde he had so long trusted. Something inside of him churned uncomfortably. He wanted more than anything to respond with both forgiveness and harsh goodbye, but he could bring himself to do neither. The leader of the Turks had long suspected the way Elena had felt for him, and though he had at once felt that there was something that lifted inside of him whenever he saw her, he could never truly allow that to show. It was not like him to return such affections, nor to show them in the foremost.
Tseng took in a long and slow breath before letting it out soft and wearily. He had no idea where to go, caught at an inevitable crossroads without the faintest idea which way to turn. He remained silent for a long time, closing his eyes and letting thoughts fly through his head and allowing them to continue until his mind fell quiet. He opened his eyes and spoke quietly, steadily.
"Where are you?"
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:05 pm
"I'm..south of Midgar..in a warehouse..its another secret Avalanche HQ's...please help me soon.."
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:11 pm
Tseng remained silent for a moment and then sighed softly.
"I am trusting you Elena, for one last time," he said gently, emotions withheld from his voice as he got to his feet and reached for the jacket he had shed before. He hung up the phone and lightly activated the GPS that immediately picked up on Elena's exact location. Slipping on his jacket he quietly made his way out of his office, locking it behind himself and heading for Rufus' office before anything else was to be done.
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:33 pm
"Thank you" and with that she hung up and sat where she was..waiting for her first true love and friend.
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:39 pm
Tseng finally reached his floor and stepped out from the smoothly opening doors of the elevator, turning down the hall and heading towards his office. Unlocking the door, he quietly slipped inside and closed the door after himself, turning on only one small desk lamp that would do him barely any good on the desk riddled with stacks of papers. Every one of those sheets needed signing and his or Rufus' authorization to complete the legal transactions and begin the Shin-Ra Headquarters' full-scale upgrade.
Taking the first sheet off of the closest pile, Tseng clicked on his pen and flew through the document. It would be a long, long day.
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:54 pm
Elena made her way down to Tsengs office, and nocked on the door.
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:16 pm
Tseng did not lift his head from his work as he called out.
"Come in."
His pen glided across what seemed like the thousandth paper in the stack of pages reduced now by half under the fury and consistency of his work ethic.
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:57 pm
She gracefully slid into his office and shut the door and softy took a seat.
"So, how has your morning been?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:02 pm
Tseng didn't need to look up from his work in order to recognize at once the voice that addressed him so calmly. "So, how has your morning been?" He held back the small sigh that threatened to escape from lips set in an unexpressive line, his grey eyes gliding over the papers that he easily glanced over, signed, and then placed in a far larger pile to the left of the other and smaller one.
"Guess," he said with a quick glance upwards at Elena's face, showing her briefly that he was not being harsh or dismissive in any way by being so curt with her. It was merely that the man had only one thing on the mind at the moment, and it was not the idea of entertaining someone who he could not yet classify as someone he would be willing to forgive, or not.
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:15 pm
She felt the tension emitting from Tseng.
"I can see you are pretty stressed...you know what this calls for?" and with that she leaped out of her seat and massaged Tsengs tense shoulders.
"Way back when, if somebody was stressed, they would come to me for a nice rubdown....they seemed to like it.."
A smile escaped from Elena's once sad face.
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:31 pm
Oddly enough Tseng did not mind the soothing hands that Elena so confidently placed upon his shoulders, which were indeed tight as a violin string. He let out a light, breathless laugh at her words and continued to move through the papers, allowing her hands their calmly settled place upon his body.
"I appreciate this Elena, though it does not mean that my mind is cleared of doubts and puzzles that I have yet to solve or touch upon," he said softly, his eyes reading more smoothly and leisurely over the papers held in one corner by one hand as the other directed the pen in a neat and large cursive over its surface.
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:38 pm
Elena continued to rub his shoulder as she noticed him relaxing a bit.
"I know you won't change your mind about me anytime soon...I just want to be nice..I'm sorry if I'm wrong to do that.."
She abrubtly stopped and looked him in the eye and placed her arms on his shoulders.
"I just want to show you that I care for you...alot..and I don't know how to prove it to you..do I have to walk on water to prove I love you?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:53 pm
Tseng glanced up from the paper, his hand moving automatically to place it upon the large pile of pages as his grey eyes met hers. He frowned slightly, turning in his seat to look at her more directly. His critical and cool gaze searched hers, quietly attempting to find something else in her face and demeanor that was in direct opposition with the words that flowed so easily out of her mouth.
"I am not condemning you for being kind to me, especially after how I am treating you, Elena," he said in level tones, unsure of how safe it would be to lead into anything other than nuetral grounds on the already unstable turf they found themselves on. "You need do nothing else to prove anything to me, and I appologize for the miscommunication, but there is nothing you should be sorry about and nothing that you need to work to make me see. The only one that is at fault currently is myself in my indescisiveness. And I am sorry for constantly making you feel on edge around me."
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:05 pm
Elena frowned. "I just never seem to make you happy" As she spoke those words..she walked out the door with her head drooping in sadness.
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