One More Time Around

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A couple of Threes had told him he looked smug today, which had earned them nothing more than laps. Carlos wasn't a harsh captain, he didn't mind being friendly with the other guards, but he knew well enough that if he didn't draw line somewhere, he was going to lose all authority. Besides that, he thought, tilting his head as he watched them round the track again, it was fun.

"Are you going to tell me I look smug too?" He asked blandly as Ty paused next to him. "Because, you know, I can probably convince Lady Eileen that you need to run laps too." He very much doubted he could pull it off, actually, but it was his favorite card to pull, if only because of the immediate eyeroll.

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"I am not worried, thanks. What I am going to do is go back to my office- which I hope you have no plans to defile while I am away. And right now I don't trust you- maybe you should just stay in your own office while I am away."

Because really, why does his mind go there. Ah well, he did smirk as he turned and then looked back at Carlos. "You can do whatever you want within your office. Also- I am going to need those reviews for your guards, because it is that time of the year, love."

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"If I stay in my office, people are going to complain they can't find the acting head of security," Carlos pointed out with some amusement. "Besides, if you want me to challenge up, you should at least trust me a little, Mr. Kagan. What good's a right hand man if half the time you're wondering what the right hand man's doing to your office?"

It was a point, at least. As for the reviews, Carlos smirked a little bit. "Don't worry, darling, they'll be on your desk by the end of the day. And I haven't even illustrated them this year, since you let me know that was unprofessional last time."

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"Progress, it can happen!" He said with a laugh as he shook his head. "And thank you- because last year it was a very difficult conversation to explain why there were drawings all over the reviews to my father. My father gives the most terrible 'I'm disappointed' looks ever, you know. You've met him."

And speaking of Elisha- he had a meeting with him. All the Department heads did. Something about budgets and sharing- he wasn't sure how this applied to him, other than someone apparently claimed that Securities budget was too big and the others didn't get enough funding. Go figure.

"I have to go- be....be careful with my Guards. No breaking. Save that for your boy-toy."

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"I thought he'd appreciate the artistic touch." It had been, after all, Elisha who'd taught Carlos how to draw - at those times when the tremble in the king's hands was quelled enough to allow him to demonstrate with a pencil. It also, frankly, seemed like the kind of thing Elisha would have done had old king Alexander ever pushed him into security.

He just raised a brow, though. And Ty wondered why he resisted challenging up further. No one dragged Sevens into meetings with royals to argue about budgets. The paperwork, Carlos could handle. The potential of having to discuss things with Catherine Munwane or Elisha Kagan was enough to give any reasonable Club pause.

"Oh, don't worry, Ty," he drawled. "I won't make any of them run away screaming. Try not to run away screaming from the director of finance." Those accountants, after all. Probably more terrifying than the rest of them combined.