2 July, 2022
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A Day Off with Your New Boss
You Are Special to Me
Isaac has given himself a day off, but you notice something is different about him.
{ Almost 3 Months since Listener has started living with Isaac }
- Isaac has taken the day off at Listener’s suggestion. Listener finds Isaac swimming in the pool. They want to discuss their assignment from Isaac’s latest case, an inheritance issue for Mr. Finch:
- Listener has done a very thorough background check, researching Mr. Finch’s connections, the connections’ connections, children, grandchildren, parents, work associates, close friend group, previous and on-going contractors. One or multiple people on the chart are plotting his demise to take his fortune.
- Isaac asserts that the most likely suspects are the immediate family – greed and/or desperation as the most prominent motives.
- The youngest daughter is estranged and has a 2 year old son with a medical condition. In the event of Mr. Finch’s death, she won’t receive any money, so she has a motive but it doesn’t benefit her in the end.
- She’s close with her siblings, and they are very involved in the grandson’s life, so there’s a possibility that they would want to kill Mr. Finch to help the grandson.
- Listener’s duties have now changed to just making Isaac’s morning coffee and cooking dinner + helping more as an assistant.
- Isaac praises Listener, and tells them to continue with their investigation tomorrow. Isaac invites Listener to sit next to him on the side of the pool to chat.
- They hesitate to do so – Listener doesn’t know how to swim and is wary of the water. Isaac offers to teach them how to swim at a later date.
- Isaac talks about how the house is unchanged since his parents’ deaths, because he wants to hold on to those memories as long as possible. The only new thing that’s been in the house is Listener, and he wants Listener to buy something for the house for Isaac to remember them by after they leave.
- Isaac has conflicting feelings about the house: it’s meant to be a home, and Grandfather had planned on making it a generational home; but Isaac is too afraid of the dangers of his profession and how that could potentially affect any family he has in the future.
- Isaac shows Listener a scar on his stomach – he got it from a woman who was hired as a live-in housekeeper, that also took on the role of nanny whom he had learned to trust. She worked for almost 2 years before she tried to kill Isaac.
- Grandfather became paranoid after the incident and decided that he would teach Isaac how to be a PI and for him to be able to make his own network. Grandfather originally didn’t want Isaac to go to college, but Isaac needed the experience, and it was also a test.
- Isaac attended college in England where no one knew about him, his family, his Grandfather’s work, or his past and he was very happy there. He had more freedom, and was able to meet a large variety of people.
- One person in particular was Andrew, whom he met in literature club. He’s incredibly impressed with Andrew’s intelligence, calling him a genius. Isaac describes a technique Andrew uses for remember things called a mind palace. They became friends, and later dated.
- The main reason he tells everyone that he’s only had flings is to protect Andrew from being a target. When he graduated, he told Andrew that he’d gotten a job offer overseas at a prestigious law firm, but in reality his Grandfather was dying and Isaac needed to go home to take over his practice. Isaac wanted to stay longer in England, but he knew sooner or later that he’d need to leave, so sooner would be less painful. Andrew wanted to keep in touch, but Isaac didn’t want him to find out that he’d lied and so they haven’t spoken since. He’s kept tabs on Andrew and knows that he’s become a professor with a new partner.
- Isaac asks Listener how they feel about being his assistant now, and he knows they’ve thrived since coming to live with him. He’s grateful for the companionship they provide – he’s been alone since the death of Grandfather. They are also becoming a more important part of his life, and Isaac finds it harder to keep them at arm’s length to protect them and him – them from danger and him from heartbreak.
- Grandfather’s Secret!!!
Due to his reputation, Grandfather was hired by Asirel, an extremely powerful man that is the head of the Court, an organization that runs the world behind the scenes. Asirel wanted Grandfather to look into a man that was part of the Court, Samuel Kennedy; he is now deceased. Grandfather found that he was a part of a cult called the Trimedian and learned that Supernatural creatures actually exist in the world. Grandfather had a spy successfully infiltrate the Trimedian, who was able to video record evidence. Isaac brings Listener to his study, where he opens a false panel and shows them evidence on a computer that’s hidden in there. The video he shows Listener is of a Werewolf (mauling a man to death?). Grandfather reported this information to Asirel and Kennedy was expelled from the Court. However another Group also found out that Supernaturals exist, and wanted the information that Grandfather gathered. They gave him an ultimatum: hand over the information or they would kill his family.- Isaac is currently conflicted on what to do with this knowledge – should he or shouldn’t he expose Supernaturals to the world?
- Grandfather worked to take down the Group and was mostly successful, exposing their crimes of human trafficking, and illegal weapons that they had in caches around the world. They eventually proposed a sort of truce with Grandfather: they won’t harm him and his family, and he won’t expose them. Now Isaac has made the same deal and he keeps an eye on them.
- Isaac admits that being morally gray is a benefit to this line of work.
- Isaac asks Listener if they would like to continue working as his assistant: he’s able to get work done faster because he’s less scattered. Isaac wasn’t looking for a protégé, but Listener is very capable. Isaac has also learned that he can trust Listener because they aren’t a honey trap to get closer to him.
- Listener has been with Isaac for almost three months now, and Listener has slowly become more important to him, despite his best efforts at keeping himself detached from people and relationships.
- Isaac kisses Listener; he’s flustered afterward.
- Isaac has given Listener a drawer in the study to store their work.
- They leave his study, and Listener asks Isaac to join them in watching TV. Isaac is pleasantly surprised, and agrees to meet them in the living room after a shower.