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Eli Delacroix ([personal profile] aspectional) wrote in [community profile] diversified2014-01-26 11:22 pm

Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away [closed]

He's late.

Being in the employ of Shannon Vaughn means that being late is a bad thing and Eli knew that well, but living with his father and having to deal with him meant that sometimes he ran late because of a conversation had gone on too long or he needed to go run an errand for him. Normally, he could cheat by just teleporting to get there on time, but he still wasn't familiar with this part of town and he didn't want to be seen by anyone who didn't know about his powers. Plus, he had been ordered to go to an alley and teleporting in would just be a bad idea all around in that case.

So Eli had to run all the way from the apartment he shared with his father to the specific alley he had been told to go to, nearly getting turned around at a couple of points due to the mental map he had of the area not being fully complete yet. But he successfully got to the street the alley was connected to only a few minutes late, looking like he had run all the way from home. He took a moment to slow down his breathing and heart rate and did his best to make himself presentable. Once that was taken care of, he slipped down the alley and did his best to try and make sure Shannon didn't notice when he got to where he was dealing with whatever unfortunate person who had gotten on the wrong side of his boss.
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[personal profile] privatematter 2014-04-23 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"How should it be, Mr. Keaton?" challenged Shannon. It wasn't a dangerous sort of challenge, not the one that would result in someone dead or fired, but there was always a hint of something going on in the background when Shannon was involved. He was curious to see how Jasper thought he should handle the affairs of his people, the ones he had taken in and claimed as his own which was about as close as anyone ever got to Shannon Vaughn. They were his elites and he took care of them. Did they consider that not enough?

Shannon leaned back in his chair and allowed the question consideration. "That's why I would let her train him. Because she trained me, not because you don't trust her. Whether I trust her or not is inconsequential, it's because she gets amazing results. You honestly don't think I'd leave a kid like that alone with her, do you?" he added pointedly. "We're only speaking in hypothetical, anyway."
Edited 2014-04-24 03:56 (UTC)