15 January, 2022
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Getting Closer to Your New Boss
Do You Want This?
Isaac has immersed himself in work ever since the kiss you shared, but he starts to see that some things are inevitable.
{ A few weeks later }
- Listener brings a homemade snack to Isaac’s study late at night.
- Isaac is feeling slightly under the weather with a mild sore throat.
- Listener plans on starting a new book to read. Isaac suggests buying some new books or even a kindle. They both have a preference for actual books.
- Isaac praises Listener for being useful helpful around the house. Isaac asks what Listener’s plans are for the future.
- Isaac tries to reset the boundaries between him and Listener, but Listener pushes, especially about the kiss.
- Listener gives a lame excuse for wanting to enter the study, but Isaac calls them out and asks for the real reason. Listener proposes that they can help with Isaac’s work as well, but Isaac is hesitant to drag Listener further into his world.
- Isaac explains why he saved Listener – because the thought of “what would my mother have done?” popped into his head.
- Isaac reluctantly allows Listener to enter. The items in the study are expensive gifts given to Grandfather, and other research books related to PI work (psychology, sociology).
- The main job Isaac is working on right now is for Asirel, specifically on the gangs of Stockton and finding out who killed Callum Harris.
- The main question to ask in this investigation is cui bono from Callum’s death?
- 18 March Callum was killed.
- The obvious suspect(s) would be the Wraiths, but at the same time were unlikely due to the state of the relationship between the two gangs by then: they had a tentative truce and even held a joint charity event hosted by a Vex member in Wraith territory in January.
- The address of the event is the same location that Listener was supposed to courier a package to – one of the Wraith owned hotels. Isaac writes this in his notes.
- Listener took the job because it was too good to pass up: an upfront fee to deliver a package, as long as no questions were asked.
- Isaac probes for more details, and Listener tells him verbatim something they heard from the people who hired them.
- More puzzle pieces fall into place. There was a potential alliance between the Vex and Wraiths in the works, but with moves like the assassination of the Vex leader, an attempted assassination of the Wraith’s heir, and the package that Listener was supposed to deliver to a Wraith owned hotel that the Wraith leader could be located at, someone wanted to prevent that from happening. Isaac comes to the conclusion that it’s the Penance’s leader Morgan who masterminded it all.
- Though Listener was meant to be a scapegoat, the same gang who hired them attacked Listener instead and left them for dead, though Listener is unsure which gang it was.
- Asirel is invested in the gangs of Stockton, and is a Vex benefactor.
- Vex now have a new leader, but it’s unclear as to who it is.
- Isaac and Listener leave the study to call it a night. Isaac praises Listener for their help with the investigation, but cautions that this is only an initial trial for being an assistant.
- Listener pushes again about the kiss, and this time Isaac tells them about his feelings towards them. They were highly emotional at the time, and though he’s not ready right now, he’d like try kissing again once he completely sorts his feelings out. Listener has been the longest/closest relationship he’s had in a long time.
- Isaac gives Listener a kiss on the cheek instead and tells them goodnight.