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« Feb 4, 2016 13:50:07 GMT -6 » 		Quote
Following Rhett's departure, Jan Di hadn't done much. When Josh wasn't around she didn't have much more of a reason to wander so she stayed in.

But staying in her pod sucked too.

She made her way to the cafeteria for the sake of sitting in the proximity of people. She thought it was a good way of...being social without being social.

But it wasn't working.

With a sigh, she rested her upper body again the table and stared off into space with a pout.
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« Feb 4, 2016 14:49:13 GMT -6 » 		Quote
260 pounds of Frenchman suddenly sat down on the opposite side of the table!

Lucien hadn't been really in the mood for his usual boisterousness, either. Between interference on his interrogation suddenly giving Harold his spine back, the hunt for whomever or whatever was leaking information to the Empire, and the case of the vanished team of junior agents, there hadn't been much to smile about. He had jobs, jobs that required a rare look at Lucien while he was being serious.

That didn't mean there wasn't time for food, though! There was always, always time for food. People had no idea about the sheer caloric intake his power needed to work at its best. Not to mention it wasn't hard see Jan Di just sitting there, moping. Sure, she usually seemed to just laze around, like a giant Korean cat, but this seemed different. And he hadn't heard from Rhett in a while, either...

"Hello."

Jan Di was one of the ones who didn't like his shouting.
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« Feb 4, 2016 15:09:58 GMT -6 » 		Quote
The shake of her seat caught her attention before his greeting, and Jan Di would give him a weak smile and a wave.

"Hey, big guy. What's up?"

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« Feb 4, 2016 15:13:42 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"You first."

That was why he had sat down here, after all! She looked like someone'd shot her dog or something. At first, he'd returned her smile with one of his own, but it wasn't long before his expression returned to today's unusual seriousness.

"You usually don't just mope around; I wanted to check on you."
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« Feb 4, 2016 15:16:21 GMT -6 » 		Quote
She gives a wry frown and sighs.

"Rhett's off to Italy on a mission so I'm just missing him..." she says, shrugging to show how small of a deal it was.

Well, to anyone else.

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« Feb 4, 2016 15:20:12 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"He went back into the field?"

It would be hard to tell if Lucien looked more shocked at Rhett going on a mission at all, or not telling him! Really, under better circumstances Lucien would be a little offended by that; the two of them were a great team!

"When was this? I'm surprised he didn't say anything to anyone."
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« Feb 4, 2016 15:21:53 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"It was personal. He didn't want me to go with him and he wanted to leave quietly." she explains.

"I was as surprised as you."

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« Feb 4, 2016 15:30:21 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"He is from Italy, so it makes sense."

A bit. But just running into Italy on short notice like that, what the hell was Rhett thinking?

"I'm sure he'll be fine. He's very good at his job."

Rhett had better be fine. If he died, Lucien would kill him.

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« Feb 4, 2016 15:41:45 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"He is. And it's something that means a lot to him." she agrees.

But still looks sad.

"I said I'd give him a bit before expecting a call from him at some point but I feel like I've been waiting forever. It hasn't even been a week."

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« Feb 4, 2016 15:56:24 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"Is there anything I can do?"

She knew Lucien. If she said "hop on a plane to Italy and drag Rhett home" that was exactly what he'd do.

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« Feb 4, 2016 16:05:23 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"I don't know. No? Not really?"

Since mostly, she would never ask Lucien to do that. She wasn't going to mess up Rhett's mission and make decisions for him just because she missed him. She wasn't that selfish. Or insane.

"Naturally I'm worried because he left not being quite himself. But it's mostly just that I miss him."

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« Feb 4, 2016 16:07:26 GMT -6 » 		Quote
Well, Lucien would have helped complete the mission first! Like he'd miss the chance to shed Imperial blood. Plus, Rhett had a good power, but he wasn't as sturdy as Lucien - or at least, Lucien never figured he was.

...Wait a minute.

"Not himself? How so?"
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« Feb 4, 2016 16:09:07 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"I kind of chose Josh again." she puffs her cheeks, staring at nothing in particular. She didn't like talking about it, but it was kinda important in this case.

"I told him the day before he had to go so...yeah."

Yeaaaahhhh.

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« Feb 4, 2016 16:44:58 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"Oh."

No judgement there, as long as his friends were happy he didn't really consider the various romantic entanglements his problem. Still, ouch.

"Well, what matters is you're happy. I'm sure he'll understand that."

Technically it hadn't even been Rhett's place to make a move, anyway!

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« Feb 4, 2016 16:48:38 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"He does. We got it all talked out. It's just kinda bleh. To leave with that."

She kept imagining being in his shoes and she felt so bad for the part she played in it.

"Anyway. That's it. Why do you look so mean today?"

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« Feb 4, 2016 16:53:13 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"The Director has trusted me with two missions. Important ones."

He was glad to be trusted with the job, no doubt, but the nature of those missions was what wiped the smile off his face.

"I don't have to go into the field, yet, but I have to take things more seriously than I usually do until it's all done."
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« Feb 4, 2016 16:59:04 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"Two, huh? That's a lot of work." she says, somehow sounding happy for him but also exhausted and put off by the idea of it.
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« Feb 4, 2016 17:02:06 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"Work that needs doing. An entire team of junior agents has disappeared - Jack wants them found and brought back safe. The other one..."

Lucien looked from side to side, leaned forwards, and lowered his voice.

"If I tell you about that one, you can't tell anyone else without running them by me. Okay?"
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« Feb 4, 2016 17:04:35 GMT -6 » 		Quote
Jan Di had heard and noticed the whole missing student bit, but Lucien being in charge of that was news, so she nods.

As for the second one, she'd raise a brow.

"I'm not the gossiping type."

Mostly because her list of people to gossip with was pretty small.

"But yeah, need clearance. Gotcha."

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« Feb 4, 2016 17:06:35 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"Good."

Technically, Jack had said not to tell anyone... but then, he also said bring in anyone he wanted to.

"Someone here is giving information to the Empire. That's how they know we have a prisoner from Belarus. Jack told me to find who or what is behind it, and plug the leak."
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« Feb 4, 2016 17:09:40 GMT -6 » 		Quote
Jan Di's brows furrow.

"Whaaat? That's fucked up, dude."

She wonders how that managed to happen.

"Do you at least know where to look? I mean if it was a person I thought we'd know already. Background checks and all that shit."

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« Feb 4, 2016 17:13:26 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"You'd think so. I guess if we have spies and black ops there, it makes sense they have some here."

As soon as Lucien found out who it was, he would drag them off, let the Director grill 'em, then kill them. Jan Di could probably see at least the 'kill them' part in his expression.

"I have a suspect. One of the disappeared agents brought back an Imperial robot and reprogrammed it, a while ago. However, I can't prove anything without data it says is restricted access, and only that one agent has poked around inside it enough to know how to reprogram it without risking losing the data."

Sure, R&D probably had people who could program circles around a teenage girl, but none of them had gone rooting around in Aegis like Eliott had. And, most likely, Aegis would only allow Eliott near him to do it.

"Without proof, though, we can't rule out the possibility of it being a person. What I know is even if the robot hasn't been talking to the Empire, they've been talking to it."

He was seriously considering just killing the thing anyway, to be safe.
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« Feb 4, 2016 17:18:59 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"So wait. The suspect is the robot? Or the girl who reprogrammed him?"

At first she thought he meant the girl but then it sounded more like the robot so she was just trying to get the facts straight.

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« Feb 4, 2016 17:20:09 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"The robot. It communicates with the Empire by a satellite connection; Eliott turned that off when she reprogrammed it, but it told me it turned the connection back on to 'operate at full capacity'. Says it's received several communications from the Empire since, but discarded them all."
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« Feb 4, 2016 17:22:21 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"Discarded after checking them out, probably." Jan Di frowns, leaning her face in her hand.

"Is that not enough evidence? The fact it repaired communications and is getting them? Like that's just screaming guilty."

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