It’s Where My Demons Hide

[Cira]

There we go, showing a bit of optimism.

Starting to sound like yourself again.

A pause, then the sound of a smirk.

Perfect? In your mind perhaps.
All we ever do is fight.

 

[Sarge Potteiger]

"Wouldn't necessarily call it optimism...." He begins, smiling sadly at himself, hands wringing together as he thought. "Nothing wrong with that, Cira. All your fault anyway."

He was most certainly teasing.

 

[Cira]

Hmph.

Came what would appear to be her signature pout.

As if you had nothing to do with it.

 

[Sarge Potteiger]

"I just wanted to get to know you. You were the one with the giant 'get out' sign that I refused to read."

 

[Cira]

It wasn't just a sign.

I told you that many times.

An image of various scenes of her office depicting exactly that would bloom around them. She'd been so angry then.


Get out of my office! And stay out!

You never listen.

 

[Sarge Potteiger]

"The biggest walls hide the biggest prizes." He says, brows raising a little, head going down. His eyes had lifted though, almost afraid of what she was doing to him.

This was the last thing he needed. The last thing. "Ain't no wall ever been made what could keep me out."

 

[Cira]

Ghostly shadows would dance, her figure would move to an image of her desk. Fingers tapping, the narrowing of her gaze.

"Keep out of my affairs -- and my office." then came the sugary sweet smile, "Unless invited of course."​

You weren't invited.

 

[Sarge Potteiger]

"Never was. Except, of course, once I picked up your bodyguard duties. Then I was rarely uninvited. At least at work."

 

[Cira]

You were never assigned to be my bodyguard.

You just did it.

 

[Sarge Potteiger]

"Mm, funny. Thought Ayden had me do it. I stand corrected, I guess."

He frowned a little. "Sorry about that."

 

[Cira]

At least not by me.

There came a note of surprise.

Why are you apologizing?

 

[Sarge Potteiger]

"I forced you into my company longer than I remembered."

 

[Cira]

Here I thought it was because you felt useless.

That your skillset was not being used.

 

[Sarge Potteiger]

"That too. I had a very particular set of skills, and a government that prides itself on being a paragon of legality doesn't need those skills."

 

[Cira]

That is why you left.

 

[Sarge Potteiger]

"Stop confusing me. I don't even know where we are anymore." He was getting angry again.

 

[Cira]

Why are you confused?

 

[Sarge Potteiger]

"We went from me apologizing for being around you to my skillset with no bridge in between. Kark."

 

[Cira]

Her soft laughter would swell gently around him.

 

[Sarge Potteiger]

"Why the bloody 'ell are you so jolly?"