Fun With The Boss [Liam]

[Rei Smith]

Rei Smith
                "Why wait for backup?"

Rei stood there on the beach waiting for Liam to arrive for there meeting. They had decided to have a meeting, and she was able to be the one to pick the meeting destination so she went with the beach because who could dislike the beach? She stood there in an outfit that consisted of a green bikini top and a pair of shorts that she wore over her bikini bottom. She had a beach ball in her hands and was bouncing it between her hands to give herself something to do. I hope even someone who is as uptight as Liam can be can have some fun at the beach.. She started getting into her little game of keep  the ball in the air and started bouncing it up higher and making it so that she would have to physically move. Eventually she started using her martial arts techniques to keep it up, concluding that it was a good way to keep her skills sharp and still have some fun while doing it. One of the times she hit it to hard, and she let out a sigh as the ball went into the water. She would normally go into the water and get it, but she wanted to wait for Liam to get here and make sure that he didn't pass by her, so she just stood there waiting for him quietly.

Fire930i | @liam Dalton | Rei Smith

[Liam Dalton]

The beach - Liam hadn't actually taken the time to visit the shore since he had arrived at the island. Which might have seemed hard to believed since they lived on a tiny island surrounded by water as further than the eye could see. But it was the truth nonetheless. Liam knew it was odd, even he thought so, that he was missing out on such a romanticized experience, but each time he would start heading toward that direction he would always find himself back at the school. As if subconsciously he was actively avoiding it. There were a couple of times he had tried remembering why, but with a frustrating lack of a clear childhood, there weren't many memories to pull from. So, for the time being he had just pushed the thought aside. Choosing to just stay inland, and not confront the problem. 

That was until one of his trainees Rei Smith had chosen for it to be the location of their meeting. Not wanting to be a sour fruit, Liam consciously made the effort to make sure he arrived on the beach. Not letting his mind wander onto over topics as he walked. "Whoa..." The young adult said in a low, and shocked tone. His eyes widening slightly as he tried taking in the entirety of the image before him. The white sandy shores, large rocks that collected together through it, crashing waves that washed over the lands, and lastly the boundless ocean. It was breathtaking, extremely beautiful, and equally as terrifying.

Liam's mind become a whirlpool of conflicting emotions, as he simply stood there, and watched the waves until he saw a ball being pushed back onto the shore. Hurriedly taking off his shoes and socks, revealing his black toenails (Just like his fingers), the dual-color-haired teen jogged over, and picked up the large plastic orb. Once he was standing straight he watched the tide wash over his feet before slowly backing out of the water's reach. He was scared of it... "The water. It'll take everything." The voice whispered in the back of his head. "And as you sink toward the bottom he'll awaken." The persona spoke in ominous tone, but at the edge of it Liam could have sworn he heard hear in it's voice. 

A bit more than slightly shaken, Liam snapped out of his trance with a shake of his head, and looked around for the owner of the toy. Only for the only other person to be Rei. Similar to the Liam was wearing beach attire. With a black swim shirt, and snow white swim trunks.  "Good afternoon Rei." Liam said in his signature kind and gentle voice. His lips turning upwards into a warm smile as he extended his hands toward her. "I think you might have lost this." Nodding toward the colorful sphere in his hands, as he handed it over to her. "Better be careful or else it'll bounce away." 

[Rei Smith]

Rei Smith
                "Why wait for backup?"

Rei noticed that Liam had finally arrived and was excited to possibly get him to lighten up a little. She smiled, taking her ball and laughing a little. "Thanks, I was just playing with it while I was waiting for you..it's not even mine, just found it while I was walking around. So I forgot what was this meeting about again?" Rei had forgotten the reason for the meeting, but she had managed to at least remember that there was a meeting to have, probably only because she picked the meeting venue. She then looked at Liam for a moment. "Sorry..I know I can be an airhead sometimes." She shrugged laughing a little, trying to somehow lessen the embarrassment that she was feeling, though it didn't do her much good.

Fire930i | @liam Dalton | Rei Smith

[Liam Dalton]

Life is a journey to be experience, not a problem to be solved. - Winnie the Pooh

The trainer blinked in confusion at the sudden influx of information that Rei suddenly bombarded him with within the time span of him handing over the ball. It felt like he was back at the Felicia's office being debriefed for the next mission, except the Team Commander tended to shove all of the information into Liam's brain telepathically. Something that Liam found both extremely helpful, and incredibly disorientating due to the occupied space of his mind. "Okay..." He started off slowly as he quickly picked apart what the girl had told him. Deciding to start off at the beginning.

"That's actually really good! Keeping a ball in the air is great excise for your reaction time, and helps focus on both your prime objective and surroundings." He said with an encouraging smile as took a handful of steps back from the girl, and put his arms out in-front of him. With his fingers being intertwined to bounce the ball back. "And how about we make it interesting..."

"I'll even let you use your powers." He said with what could only be described as a poor attempt at a cocky smirk. Instead it came off as dorky, and playful. However, even while they played Liam would make sure to carry on their earlier conversation. "Well... I guess if no one claims it by tomorrow you can keep it." He said with a small shrug as he ran over to the side, and bounced the ball back into the air over to Rei after she passed it. Hitting the plastic orb slightly harder to cause it to fly over her head. Forcing her to run after it to keep it up in the air. "And we're having the meeting so that we can talk about our next assignment." He stated-of-factually as he watched the bikini clad girl. His hands on his hips as he waited for her to pass the ball back over.

"And don't worry about it. Like I said when we first met." A pause. "I'm here help you guys achieve your true potential." A gentle smile spread a cross his lips as he got back into stance to receive the ball.  

[Rei Smith]

Rei Smith
                "Why wait for backup?"

   She thought about what he said for a moment and he was right, her little game she was playing while bored was actually helpful to her. She smirked when he said she could use her powers. "It's not like I can turn off one of my powers..the whole agility side of it is just always active. She thought about her time on the mainland for a moment. "And I guess it makes sense considering I use to win at dodge ball in grade school". She laughed a little when he said she could keep the ball if nobody claimed it. It was weird for her to see Liam so calm and relaxed, considering normally he was uptight and all motherly.

   He then passed her the ball and she hit it back to him gently. When he next hit it to her she noticed that it was going to go over her head if she didn't do something. Rather than run and waste time and effort on that, Rei jumped up, leaning backwards and hitting the ball back to him. While a normal person would fall on their back from doing this, Rei was able to do a backroll that allowed her to get right back on her feet. She began talking again, doing her best to focus on their conversation and the game, which for some reason she was getting really into. "Oh, so what's our next assignment? Do we have to go and stop some guy who's groping girls or some idiot who's littering?" She giggled a little, making sure to return the ball each time he passed it to her. She then shook her head a little. "Nah, I'm joking. So I'm guessing we're going to have to take down someone who's attacking people as usual?" She didn't really want to have to fight someone, but she knew that it was essential to her training, and anyways the Prefects already had enough trouble with the major threats, a few minor fights against the less threatening troublemakers wasn't anything to complain about. The next time the ball returned to her, she moved, bouncing the ball high so that it would force Liam to either run forward or dive for it. Then she thought for a moment. Or he'll just use one of his things that belong in a Japanese porno...

   She sighed a little after she had sent it to him, figuring her efforts were futile when he just had to use those. She looked back at him for a moment. "So boss, I feel we should get to know each other, so what kind of life did you have on the mainland?" She wasn't trying to be nosy, but she could see how someone could take it that way. She was just trying to make conversation since she was perfectly willing to talk about her life on the mainland since she trusted Liam enough to talk with him. "Oh, and you don't have to tell me if you don't want to, I was just trying to make conversation.."

Fire930i | @liam dalton | Rei Smith

[Liam Dalton]

"A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey inside." - Winnie the Pooh

Friendship; the emotions or conduct of friends; the state of being friends. That was the technical definition of what it meant to be someone's friend. But knowing, and understanding something were two incredibly different things. Liam could know the written meaning of every word in the dictionary, and still not understand what a single one meant. After all, he would need to experience what each of them meant, or at least something similar.  But this whole 'friend' thing... Liam was still so new to it. His little fairy-tale to learn the meaning of friendship had just begun.  Back on June Twelfth with a certain brunette in the middle of the forest. 

The memory brought a smile to the young man's face as he reflected back on it. It had been a rather large step for the young man, he didn't know it then, but now he saw how important it was. "Huh?" He said in a confused tone as he snapped out of his trance. "Well it's a good thing I already planned on you using it huh?" The Leader teased his trainee after she made her comment about dodge-ball. Then quickly passed the ball back to her. His smiling broadening when she laughed at what he had said about the ball. It felt good to see his team smiling. As if he was actually not doing half-bad with this leader thing. 

He watches as the ball soared through the air, and Rei's solution to the problem. Leaping high into the air, and spiking the ball back at his side, before rolling backwards to clear her landing. To say Liam was impressed would be an understatement, but the young adult wasn't one to be distracted by pretty lights. He bounced the ball off of his arms, and sent it back towards her send the field. With them passing the ball back and forth casually for the moment. "No. Not exactly." He said dramatically as he watched her return the ball back to him, trying to force him to run for it, or dive. Well, she was in for a surprise. 

The dual-color-haired boy took a few hurried steps forward, and quickly kicked his foot up - catching the sphere in curve of his leg and foot, and sending it high into the air. Once it had made it's descent back toward Earth, he slammed his fist into the side of it, and sent the ball flying to the right of Rei.  "We're going after a major threat. We're going after the Ice Manipulator in the mask." He said before falling silent when she mentioned his past. He should tell her the truth... The truth was that the year before he arrived at Ashford, Liam was training with the Government. Before that. The first twenty years of his life was a blank. He didn't remember... He only knew what the Government Officials told him what his childhood was. 

A few moments passed before Liam had decided, and spoke up. "I grew up in New York City. My parents work for the Government, and nothing bad ever happened in my life." He stated matter-of-factually... No... He lied. That was what they had told him. He just said in a way that would make it seem like he was telling the truth. "How about you? If you don't mind me asking."

[Rei Smith]

Rei Smith
                "Why wait for backup?"

   She watched him figure out a solution to the problem that she had attempted to create for him. She was impressed with the way he had handled it and with his abilities. She was also a little disappointed in herself for not thinking of a better challenge for him, though she figured that she'd have plenty of time to do that. She quickly jumped to her right, bumping the ball back to him gently since a topic of conversation had come up.

   She listened to his brief explanation of what his life had been like prior to Ashford. She smiled lightly. "Well, I'm glad that you didn't have to experience anything bad and parents in the government seems cool." She thought for a moment on how much she felt like telling him of her life. She decided to give him a short summary of it. "Eh, I grew up in Japan and did typical things such as taking Karate and hanging out with friends. I guess you could say my life was normal like that of most teenagers." She didn't really have anything interesting in her life until Ashford, though she figured that was probably how it was for some of the students here.

   She smiled lightly, thinking of her past. It wasn't often that she though of it anymore due to her not really opening up to many people. "Oh, and I had this one friend who was the best person ever.." She momentarily frowned because she had missed her friend ever since leaving Japan and coming to Ashford, but her attitude quickly changed back to being cheerful.

   She decided to return to their previous conversation about their next mission. "So uhh...who's this major threat that we have to deal with this time? I swear if it's something that will ruin this uniform I am going to die. I already got one ruined by some idiot fire user..."

Fire930i | @liam dalton | Rei Smith

[Liam Dalton]

Liam brought his hands together, intertwining his fingers as he bounced the large plastic ball off of his forearm, and sent back towards the girl. The setting sunlight reflecting off of the sphere, and Liam's eyes as he listened to Rei with a somber expression. "Yea, it's very cool." A pause. "I guess I was just lucky." Keeping his lie going - Liam gave one of his usual light chuckles. That's right. He just needed to keep his appearance up. Just keep wearing the mask, and don't show any insecurities. His inside felt like they were twisting from the guilt he was experiencing - lying to one of his teammates. But, this was his problem. Not theirs.

"You really are like me." The voice taunted him, but Liam kept his eyes locked on Rei. Keeping his soft smile up as it took form, and the hallucination wrapped it's fingers around Liam's throat from behind, threatening to strangle the life out of him. The Prefect started to shake slightly. "I"m sorry to hear about your friend. Hopefully you can find them when you leave Ashford." He said in a reassuring tone, with the ball in hand as the imaginary fingers tightened their grip. The person behind him wasn't really there... It was just a figment of his imagination. But even so - Liam was panicking within. On the surface he might have seemed fine, with only a few tell-tell signs like the small beads of sweat forming and his breathing becoming a bit shaky. However, on the inside, Liam was terrified. It took everything he had to not let his anxiety attack consume him.

Conjuring up whatever stability, and courage he had in reserved, Liam pushed the voice away. The hallucination fading away - allowing Liam to regain control of his breathing. "You're uniform might be the least of your problems with this mission." Liam stated-of-factually as he desperately tried to regain his composer. "This man we're going after. He's suppose to be one of the most powerful people on the island, let alone the Battlefront." Liam looked down at the plastic sphere that rested in his hands. "I don't know if even the four of us working together could beat him."  

[Rei Smith]

Rei Smith
                "Why wait for backup?"

Rei watched Liam as they passed the ball back and forth, and she noticed that his breathing had changed from what it had been. "Eh boss, do we need to take a break? You seem like you could use one..." She then would sit down holding the ball if he had said yes, or continued standing and passing the ball back and forth if he'd said yes. She let out a sigh as they began speaking.

"What's this person's name? I'd probably recognize the name if they're so well known and dangerous." She let out a sigh, upset that she had to go and risk her life for a single person. She figured if this person is so dangerous then why don't the higher ranking Prefect members take care of it since they're suppose to be more skilled than people on the lower teams anyways. It was annoying how a lot of the harder task would just get pushed down if the higher ups didn't feel like doing that. Though it wasn't only like that for hard task, no Rei was sick of a lot of the minor and annoying task like rebuilding fallen structures being pushed down just because a high rank was lazy.

After her little rant in her mind, Rei returned to their conversation. "Also, even though I was joking, my uniform could be a big problem. What if I'm basically fighting in my bra and underwear during the fight because my uniform gets so messed up? And I mean he could mess up my undergarments as well..so I could be naked..that would seem like a big problem to me." She then laughed at what she was saying. "Sorry, I was just saying a logical scenario that could easily happen..especially if this person is a pervert."

Fire930i | @liam Dalton | Rei Smith