wardfordarkcreatures:

caro mio ben [closed rp]

asknobody​:

“Maybe I do,” she said with a chuckle. “You think we should start dating or something?” 

“Alright, I’ll see you after work. I should be done in a few hours. All I’ve got left is a physical and bloodwork and then I’m gonna hit the gym for a bit. Hmm. Maybe I shouldn’t have had some coffee before my physical. Oh well,” Emma shrugged and then downed the rest of her drink before smiling like an idiot at Jonah’s affection. “See ya later, babe.” 

The Proxy got up from her chair and set her mug on a cart for dirty dishes before heading out shortly after. She was definitely looking forward to tonight. 

—

As for someone else, she had to deal with a coworker’s love-life apparently. And on her day off nonetheless. 

Text Sent [16:57]: Give me a few minutes and I will have extra clothing in your room. Feel free to keep them for future use as well. Buy me a few of those fancy puddings that come in the glass cups in exchange. Or a slice of raspberry cake from that fancy new café that opened up. 

After a few minutes of Red gathering spare clothes that she kept on hand for guests and other Servants, she teleported herself up into Jonah’s apartment. Once there, she was surprised to see that everything was clean and tidy unlike the other times she’d broken into it. Not like he knew. Or was sure that he didn’t know she’d been in his place before. 

Text Sent [17:04]: Your apartment is clean for once. 

When she was done sending him the text, she went over to his room and put the clothes into the drawers of his dresser. The sets of sweatpants in one and a variety of shirts in another. This man really needs to organize his clothing rather than toss everything into his hampers, she thought to herself. 

Text Sent [17:07]: Everything is put away into your drawers. Four sweatpants, four T-shirts, and four tank tops. If you need more, let me know. 

And with all of that done, she went back to her own place to relax again. 

Oh, dope. She was willing to help out. Even delivering it to his place. Real cool chick, that redhead was. 

Except…wait a sec–

> wait, how did you get into my home? < 

Okay, maybe she was a little weird. After sending off another message thanking her for the clothes, he locked his phone and put any thoughts of home invasion out of his mind. Now, it was time to get back to work. 

God, Jonah knew that it was probably only two more hours, but it felt more like forty two. He really just wanted to go home with his date and chill out, but he had responsibilities and tasks to do, like arranging a squad to kick in a couple different smuggling operations. Ugh! Lame! It sucks! Regardless, the shift was almost over, so he just had to be patient…which he wasn’t very good at.

As soon as the clock hit five, Jonah leapt over his desk, locked his office door, and sprinted through the halls of the building, barreling his small frame into the elevator and getting to his car as soon as he possibly could. He leaned against his car and wheezed, definitely not built for this sort of exertion. After a moment, he pulled his shit together and dusted himself off (how did his clothes get so dusty? Maybe he fell down when he got into the garage? No idea, he wasn’t paying attention.), and leaned against his vehicle.

Just gotta play it cool.

The physical didn’t go too bad. Emma did get a minor scolding from the doctor for having coffee before visiting because that ended up giving inaccurate results for her blood pressure. In terms of immediate problems, there was some tension in her back that wound up getting her a recommendation to a massage therapist to help her relax. Otherwise, she was in tip top shape. She just had to wait a couple days for bloodwork results and come in for the follow up.

Her gym workout didn’t last nearly as long as she would have liked. Doc said no arm workouts or heavy lifting for 24 hours. She would’ve gone against his words since she’d been through worse and wouldn’t care about the extra soreness, but didn’t want to risk another scolding if she was caught. So it was a lot of ab and leg workouts instead before she hit the showers and left the building with some of her belongings in a backpack.

The blonde was a lot calmer and more casual when she was heading toward the parking garage. She was smiling sure, excited for the evening and whatever Jonah had planned, but there wasn’t any rush in her actions like her partner had going on.

“Babe!” She grinned as she saw her boyfriend, waving an arm up at him at the same time. “Hope you weren’t waiting long. I had to make sure to grab my spare clothes for tomorrow.”

caro mio ben [closed rp]

wardfordarkcreatures​:

“Wow, do you like, care about me?” He jabbed, as if his face wasn’t completely flushed. “You’re soundin’ like you like me or something.” He leaned close and gave her a little peck on the cheek, lingering a little bit before moving back. He was just enamored with her, but at least they could be closer later. “But uh, yeah, I’ll find some clothes that’ll fit you, I think I got something that’ll work.”

“So, I gotta get back to work, so just meet me at my car once the day’s over and we can head on over.” He started to stand, taking her free hand and giving it a little kiss before fully getting up. “See ya later, sweetcheeks.” Ah, young love. It filled him with joy. However, as soon as he got around the corner, his fingers immediately started to type out a text to his boss’s girlfriend.

> emma is coming over tonight and she’s way bigger than me and can’t fit in any of my clothes. help pls. <

“Maybe I do,” she said with a chuckle. “You think we should start dating or something?” 

“Alright, I’ll see you after work. I should be done in a few hours. All I’ve got left is a physical and bloodwork and then I’m gonna hit the gym for a bit. Hmm. Maybe I shouldn’t have had some coffee before my physical. Oh well,” Emma shrugged and then downed the rest of her drink before smiling like an idiot at Jonah’s affection. “See ya later, babe.” 

The Proxy got up from her chair and set her mug on a cart for dirty dishes before heading out shortly after. She was definitely looking forward to tonight. 

—

As for someone else, she had to deal with a coworker’s love-life apparently. And on her day off nonetheless. 

Text Sent [16:57]: Give me a few minutes and I will have extra clothing in your room. Feel free to keep them for future use as well. Buy me a few of those fancy puddings that come in the glass cups in exchange. Or a slice of raspberry cake from that fancy new café that opened up. 

After a few minutes of Red gathering spare clothes that she kept on hand for guests and other Servants, she teleported herself up into Jonah’s apartment. Once there, she was surprised to see that everything was clean and tidy unlike the other times she’d broken into it. Not like he knew. Or was sure that he didn’t know she’d been in his place before. 

Text Sent [17:04]: Your apartment is clean for once. 

When she was done sending him the text, she went over to his room and put the clothes into the drawers of his dresser. The sets of sweatpants in one and a variety of shirts in another. This man really needs to organize his clothing rather than toss everything into his hampers, she thought to herself. 

Text Sent [17:07]: Everything is put away into your drawers. Four sweatpants, four T-shirts, and four tank tops. If you need more, let me know. 

And with all of that done, she went back to her own place to relax again. 

caro mio ben [closed rp]

wardfordarkcreatures​:

Gosh…

Once she let him go, he practically melted into a nearby seat. This was what he needed. “Y-yeah…I’d really be, well, like, okay with anything. Whatever you’d prepf-prefer to do, y’know?” He stammered. Even after all this time, talking to her was really sort of an uphill battle. “b’yeah if you wanna, stuffs open or ya.”

“Yeah I’ve sorta been trying to catch you and ask you all day, but we sorta just got a lil disjointed. Lotta stuff came up, y’know like jobs and stupid drivers who don’t respect jaywalkers…but uh, whatcha think, whaddya wanna do?”

The blonde leaned over so that she could whisper into Jonah’s ear for a quick second. “And if I prefer to do you?” she asked half-jokingly before sitting back and taking a sip of her coffee. 

“We can head over to your place together after work if that’s chill with you. I know I have backup clothes in my locker to wear tomorrow, but I would have to steal something of yours to wear for the night if that’s ok,” she told him. “If you don’t have anything special planned though, there’s some new shows we can watch on Netflix together. I think there’s also a new season of Forged in Fire we can watch and be all judgy-judgy on if you’re down for that.” 

Emma blew on her coffee a bit, helping it cool off faster before she went back to drinking it. “You oughta be more careful when you cross the street if nobody is respecting jaywalkers. Can’t have my blue-haired babe get run over.” 

wardfordarkcreatures:

It’d been a few days since the last time Jonah was able to hang out with his girlfriend. Things just just sorta didn’t match up time wise, what with Ward having him do recon work at night and Emma crack skulls during the day. It was important work, but the little man was starting to miss her. Finally though, the blue haired mercenary was getting a night off and he planned to use it.

Unfortunately, every time he was gonna approach his blonde bombshell, something came up. First, he saw her headed into the building and nearly got hit by a car when dashing across the street. Then, he was gonna ask during lunch, but spilled a soda all over himself and had to change. So yeah, fucky day all around. This time though, he was gonna do it.

During the final break of the day, he dashed down a few flights of stairs, across the building, stopping at the break room Emma usually hung out at. He stopped to compose himself and walked in, sidling up to his girlfriend. “Hey-o, howsit? I uh, was wonderin’ if you maybe wanted to like, come over to my place tonight.” He said in his typical stuttered twang. “We haven’t gotten to hang in a while, and when we do we’re usually at your place so like, i thought it’d be a nice change. I even cleaned my apartment for it!”

[ @asknobody ]

Ugh.

The day had been socially exhausting so far. She normally didn’t have to talk to anybody, but there were plans that had to be discussed, some paperwork and statements needed to be filled out, and she even had a checkup and physical to do. There was just. A. Lot. Of. Talking. She could really use some time to-

“Babe, hi!” The blonde perked up instantly and pulled him in by the collar to give him a much needed kiss on her part. She may have been tired of work people, but she sure as hell wasn’t tired of her boyfriend. There was always time for him.

“Ooh inviting me to your place?” She asked playfully before pushing a button on the coffee machine to get herself a drink. “What’ve you got in mind? And do you want me to stay the night or just hang out for a while? I don’t mind staying over, I just need to know if you have anything I can wear or if I should go home and pick something up.” When the machine was done pouring her drink, she took her mug and added in some flavored creamer and sugar before plopping down on a chair.

Emma gestured at the seat next to her for Jonah to follow suit. “Where’ve you been all day anyways? I feel like I’ve been all over the place but haven’t seen you.”

In The Meantime [closed rp]

wardfordarkcreatures​:

Jonah led the way to the equipment room, keeping an eye on Conner’s office while the pair darted across the hall. He scanned around the room, scoffing at all the supplies. “Man, can you get more cliché?” When the Proxy opened the wall, a giggle left his lips. “Well, there you go.” He pulled out his phone, snapped a few photos, then followed his girlfriend out of the room and out of the office.

“Well…shit. That was…close.” He said, putting a hand on her shoulder. “We should head out now. Tell Ward about the goings on.” After a moment to breathe, they loaded into the truck and sped off, Jonah turning the radio on to fill the air. “So…did we decide on what to get to eat? I can’t remember after all that stress.”

“Ohmyfuckinggod-” she said in a winded tone once they were out of the building and in the clear. That was… stressful. “Uh. Yeah. Let’s go and give the rundown,” she answered as she got into the truck. 

“I think we said pizza for food? Not gonna lie, I’m kinda thinking Chinese takeout now. Get a lot of little things to eat to make one big meal, you know?” Emma said with a chuckle. “Think I’m gonna have to order dessert from some other place though. That ending was just- ugh. Stressful.” 

In The Meantime [closed rp]

wardfordarkcreatures​:

Jonah rummaged around in his pocket and pulled out a half tube-like electronic device that he proceeded to unfold. “I’ve got a scanner that’ll send things directly to Ward’s servers. I’ll go through these, you keep lookin’.” He started to slide the device over paper after paper, the tube making soft beeping noises as he went.

“So…what do you think about tonight? How are we gonna go about getting you clothes to sleep over? Should we just like…buy you some stuff to keep at my place, just in case?” After a moment, he blinked and realized what he said, spooking himself and pulling his arms in, the device buzzing angrily as he fucked up his scan. “I’m sorry, that too much? I shouldn’ta asked.”

Suddenly, the front door slammed. “WHERE THE FUCK IS CONNER?” An angry booming voice sounded through the building. It was gruff, brash, and violent, and was pissed. Next, there was heavy, thudding steps down the hall…stopping at the door. Jonah glanced back and saw a large looming silhouette through the frosted glass of the door. He frantically waved at his girlfriend to get to a corner not near the door, pulled a rather large knife from his boot, and mantled the wall right next to the entry way.

A door opened. “Ah, Ronnie. There you are.”

“Wait a minute…some shit ain’t fucking right around here. Someone else is here.” Jonah gripped the knife hard, slowing his breathing down until it was nearly stopped. 

“Yeah, I got some people here giving me a quote on that sublevel we talked about.”

“Eh, whatever.” The man grunted. “So what the fuck do you want?”

“I’ve got someone for you to waste. Come into my office, we’ll talk about it there.”

The thudding continued down the hall and then stopped, a door shutting behind them. Jonah glanced over to Nobody and nodded. “We need to get lost. I’ve got enough. We need to finish up, and fast.”

“We could just head over to some store on the way to your place if that’s chill with you, that way there’s not a ton of back and forth,” she answered as she watched him scan the papers. “You could probably buy yourself some clothes to leave at my place too if you want. That way you don’t have to borrow my clothes again.” 

When the Proxy heard the door slam paired with a loud voice, she went on guard and followed her boyfriend’s instructions, going over to corner and keeping quiet. Then when everything was quiet, she nodded back at Jonah. “Yeah. Let’s head over to the equipment room real quick and then head out,” she said in a whisper while making way for the door. She held it open for him and when he was out, she speed walked over to the equipment room and slipped into the next room. 

Once they got into room and the door was shut behind them, she started searching, but not before doing her ‘job’ and writing a few notes. At first, it looked like your basic ass office supply room. Papers, staples, sticky notes, and all sorts of other things you’d expect for an office. Hell, there was even a spare photo-copy machine in the corner. But after a quick minute, she noted a few things that were a bit off. The placement of some of the shelves weren’t where they’d generally be for most offices, and parts of the carpet were worn off. After pointing them out and feeling out the area, all of a sudden there was a-

-*CLICK*-

One of the walls moved forward like a door, revealing a set of artillery on the other side. No wonder the carpet was worn out here, this door was used often enough to cause the damage. Not only that, but it didn’t look like much effort was put into the bottom of the door to keep said damage from happening. 

Ludenberg really is a fucking dumbass. Can’t even hide shit right. 

The blonde didn’t say anything to her partner and instead just gave him a nod before she closed the door. Whenever he was done with his part of the search, she had them leave the room and head over to the front desk. There, she gave a quick recap of the work that Conner would be needing done and any information that they’d be needing before he met up with any more of the crew that would work on the building. She also apologized for having to tell the woman the information and not the boss, but seeing as he was in a meeting, she didn’t have much of a say. Then, with all that done, she didn’t say anything again until they got back to the truck, and even then, all she really did was let out a heavy sigh of relief since they didn’t get caught. 

In The Meantime [closed rp]

wardfordarkcreatures​:

Conner looked over the drive, clearly confused. He plugged it in, and immediately his face went red. Well, it was working at the very least. The silvered haired man looked back at the pair and coughed. “It’s, eh, numbers. Charts. You know.” He wheezed, leaning back in his chair. “You uh, no no, I don’t have any notes. You just uh, do you.”

The merc rolled his eyes and stepped out of the room, proxy in tow, and headed into the records room. A cramped room filled with filing cabinets, Jonah immediately started to leaf through folder after folder, page after page. After a few minutes, his eyes widened and a large smile crossed his face. “Hey, you know what you don’t do when you’re committing crimes?” He said, turning to Nobody and holding up a fat folder. “You don’t keep a paper trail.” It was full of transactions, very clearly showing embezzlement, thievery, and other illegal dealings, and even where all the money was being held.

Jonah had a giant, bucktoothed smile on his face. “We got it, baby.”

After they had gone out of the room and were a decent ways away from Conner’s office, the blonde finally let out a laugh. “Oh my fucking god. I can’t believe he started looking through it right there in front of us. Did you see how red his face got?” she laughed again. “Pretty sure he’s gonna think that some dude was watching porn in the server room.” She smiled stupidly as they entered the records room, still not over what just happened. 

“Damn, he really is a dumbass,” she agreed. “How’re we gonna get all this info? Should we snag some pictures or something? I know I didn’t bring anything to photocopy with and I don’t think we can get away with faxing either…” She pursed her lips and exhaled through her nose before scribbling on the clipboard some basic notes about the room like she did for room they were in earlier. 

“If anything, I think we could take a few pictures? Maybe. I don’t know if I wanna risk stealing the paperwork since they know we’ve been in here…” Emma let out a heavy sigh. “Any ideas, pretty boy?” 

wardfordarkcreatures:

In The Meantime [closed rp]

asknobody​:

“Hell yeah I think that’ll work. We can make a quick trip back over to his office to hand it over, act like we’re doing something good by finding it and immediately turning it in and shit,” she said with a grin. “Let’s head on over right now. If you want, this can probably give you an excuse to talk shit about him picking out staff that’s forgetful or something if you wanna yell at him some more.” 

Emma smiled and gave him a kiss on the cheek before going over to the door and opening it for Jonah, letting him get out and then having the door shut behind him. 

“So we checked out the server room. Records and equipment next?” she asked as they made their way back to Ludenberg’s office. “Also, not gonna lie, I am curious about what kind of food is served at the cafeteria here. Is there a cafeteria here? I know Ward’s building has one but I dunno if this guy put one in or not.” 

“I don’t think they’d have a cafeteria? I think this is just an office building?” Jonah mused, pushing open the door to Conner’s office. “Hey you got a cafeteria in this joint?”

Ludenberg sat up straight and blinked, fairly confused. “I- what, no?”

“Tsh, not even a cafeteria.” The merc snarked, glancing over at Nobody. “Well, we’ll put one of those in.”

“Surely I don’t need-”

“Hey! Who’s the construction crew around here? Don’t go tellin’ us what you do and don’t need.” Jonah snipped. “Also, we found somethin’ in your server room.” He looked to Emma again, a smile on his face this time. “You still got it, right?”

“No cafeteria?” Emma pursed her lips in mild disappointment. “Mr. MacLeod has one, thought you’d have one too,” she said with a shrug. Maybe using her boss to one-up this guy would make him want to spend more money for extra renovations.

“Oh right, yeah,” she nodded and shoved a hand into her pocket, pulling out the flash drive and handing it over to Ludenberg. “We found this in the server room, one of your staff must’ve left it in there. We don’t know anyone here so we thought it’d be best to hand it over so you could look through it and find out who’s it is. But ah, you should probably pick out some better staff if they lose stuff like that. This is supposed to be some high-end motel business, I don’t think you’d want any trade secrets out.”

The Proxy stretched her arms out nonchalantly and then rested a hand on her hip. “Before we head back to check things out again, anything you want us to make note of? I dunno if you want anything added other than a sub level. You didn’t even say what you wanted it to be for, and that’s stuff we gotta know to build it right for you.”

In The Meantime [closed rp]

wardfordarkcreatures​:

Jonah looked around the room trying to find a port to work with, but these were servers. It wasn’t going to be quite that simple. Besides, there wasn’t any guarantee that the servers would even be able to download what the virus…but the merc had an idea of what might.

“Okay, you said that it has naughty stuff on it? And we know that Conner has been gross toward’s Ward’s girlfriend, right?” He said, his face starting to light up as he stepped closer to the blonde. “If we give it to him, he’ll definitely put it in his computer. If he sees it’s porn, then he’ll probably keep it so he can ‘use it’ later!”

“What do you think, will that work?”

“Hell yeah I think that’ll work. We can make a quick trip back over to his office to hand it over, act like we’re doing something good by finding it and immediately turning it in and shit,” she said with a grin. “Let’s head on over right now. If you want, this can probably give you an excuse to talk shit about him picking out staff that’s forgetful or something if you wanna yell at him some more.” 

Emma smiled and gave him a kiss on the cheek before going over to the door and opening it for Jonah, letting him get out and then having the door shut behind him. 

“So we checked out the server room. Records and equipment next?” she asked as they made their way back to Ludenberg’s office. “Also, not gonna lie, I am curious about what kind of food is served at the cafeteria here. Is there a cafeteria here? I know Ward’s building has one but I dunno if this guy put one in or not.” 

In The Meantime [closed rp]

wardfordarkcreatures​:

“You got a point. We need to check everything we can. After this, we can double back to there and slide in and see what he’s got.” He said, gently bumping her arm with his elbow. His face was kinda red. Man, she really knew how to…affect him. Spending more time with her…she was gonna turn him into a fucking mess sooner rather than later.

As they got into the server room, Jonah’s phone pinged. Once he looked it over, his eyes widened and he tapped Nobody on the shoulder. He turned the phone to her, showing off a conversation with Ward.

• Jonah [sent 12:42]: hey, do you know anything about people named ronald reich and anastasia harcourt?
• Ward [received 12:43]: In what regard?
• Jonah [sent 12:43]: they have offices here
• Ward [received 12:45]: For the love of god, do not get caught. If you do, I fully expect Emma to die…so you can guess what expectations I have for you.

“Alright, we need to be…sneaky.” He said, taking a deep breath. “Do you do sneaky? I don’t do sneaky…”

“Oh boy,” she said after reading the texts. ”I can be sneaky-ish if that counts for anything. Also, I think I’ve got an idea on how to use the flash drive. Let’s check out the server room and I’ll tell you in there though.” 

When they got into the server room, she made sure the door was closed and started to pretend to do her job just in case someone came into the room. “Ok so, Ludenberg is a dumbass, right? We can tell him we found a flash drive in here and hand it over to him. He’ll either take it to someone that’ll figure out who it belongs to or he’ll be some snoopy little bitch and plug it into his computer. Either way, whatever Donnie put into this, it’s supposedly undetectable, can steal info, and I think it’s implied that there’s some naughty stuff in here too? We can ask more about that later. We can also hopefully find a USB port to work with in here, but I don’t know if there’s a spot for that here?” 

She scribbled on her clipboard a rough estimate on the size of the server room along with how much of what was in said room too. This would probably come in handy later. Just in case anyone in the building decided to go over the notes, she did write a note saying to be careful when constructing around this area so that the electronics wouldn’t be broken. She needed these notes to look official. 

“Wanna plug the stick in some place here or should we hand it off? I know if we hand it off, it’d look like someone forgot it in here. But if we plug it in, I don’t know how long we’ll have to stay here for so-” she pursed her lips and shrugged, not exactly sure what to do.