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Speak when you are angry --

Jul 25, 2010 02:35

Characters: Keshet and Belial
Where: Eighth Circle Administrative, Belial's office
When: July 25, afternoon
Rating: PG, I should think
Summary: Paperwork mix-ups happen even in Hell. Belial and Keshet get off on the wrong foot.

( and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. )

keshet, belial, [hell]

Comments 10

vacuus_lex July 25 2010, 06:40:44 UTC

Belial stared at the papers in front of him, not quite able to make sense of them. Upon first look, one might think he was simply staring into space, but honestly, he was working. Trying to reconcile not two, but four conflicting reports was somewhat taxing ( ... )

set_aflame July 25 2010, 06:46:39 UTC

She scowled at him, not at all intimidated. Logically, she knew that she should be. The executives tended to be rather powerful. But she would cower before none of them; just because she held a lower position did not mean that she would cater to the egos of everyone above her. She had more dignity than that.

Keshet stomped forward and slammed her file on top of his. How dare he just dismiss her like that? She had been saying something important. Nobody ever listened to her. No wonder she had this terrible job; nobody paid attention to any good sense she spouted.

"Why do you even have this job when you get re-evaluation files mixed up with papers three Circles over?" She huffed and folded her arms defensively. "Would serve you right if I'd just burned them instead of having the decency to bring them back to you."

She didn't like this smooth demeanour of his. It was patronizing. She really should have just torched the files.

vacuus_lex July 25 2010, 06:48:41 UTC

Belial drew back, eyebrows raising as he blinked at this upstart child standing in his office. Slowly -- and honestly just a little bemused -- he lifted the file she'd slammed on his papers and held it back out to her. "I was working on those," he said mildly -- deceptively mildly. If a breeze was stirring in his office, then perhaps she should take notice and step away.

"Perhaps you should try this again. Start by telling me what this is," he indicated the file by gesturing with it and holding it a little closer to her, "who you are and why you are here."

Wind gathered near silently and held the file aloft as he removed his hand and went to straightening the papers he'd been reading. "It's really not that hard and, personally, I find it far more efficient than stomping into my office and yelling nonsense."

set_aflame July 25 2010, 06:51:16 UTC

"It's hardly nonsense ( ... )

vacuus_lex July 25 2010, 06:53:40 UTC

"Well thank you," he said dryly, "for finding my mistake." Did it really not occur to her that any number of things could have happened to send that file to the wrong circle? It wasn't the first time it had happened, nor what it be the last. "I'll keep your absolutely amazing efficiency in mind the next time I find a misplaced file here from the Fifth."

This little slip of a girl had one hell of a mouth on her. If she at least looked like she wasn't twelve, Belial might have considered a different route altogether here. There was something to be said for a romp with a woman as fiery as that. Too bad she didn't have anything resembling a rack.

"Ah," he said at her introduction. "A secretary, then." A secretary who needed to learn her place. Who was she to speak to an Executive in this manner? No one, that's who. Absolutely no one.