Secrets and Things (MxM)

POV: 3rd person

Wrathful doesn't even describe half of what Wendy was feeling right then. It was too soft of a word. Not only was her entire scheme, that she'd been planning for months, on the verge of collapsing, her old singing group mate/enemy was the one to crush her plans and completely humiliate her, put her down, insult her and utterly embarrass her. She'd never been this slandered in her entire life and she's an Oscar nominee.

Aiden on the other hand, couldn't give less of a shit about her feelings that were targeted towards him, as demonstrated by his head bobbing. He just wanted to go back to Erwin's building so he could finish a couple of things for a hopefully earlier clocking out than usual.

The captured was still sitting in the chair, his emotions schooled. Even though a lot had happened, he was adamant about not letting anyone having a read on him. Internally, he was confused beyond his sane mind and the initial intrigue for the new employee turned into full-blown fascination (and slight attraction). How did Aiden have all these connections with well known individuals? Who was he and how did he grow up? Why was he doing what he's doing? The questions were endless and as much as he wanted to enquire, his pride refused to let him do so. Feeding into his curiosity would give another one up to the other man in the sudden (and unnecessary) game they were playing.

As soon as Wendy finished her one minute of scowling, she pounced and configured a huge wave of water out of the carpet, targeting it towards Aiden. It was about half the height of the room, so it was going to drench everything in its way without any mercy. Luckily for Erwin, Aiden happened to be standing on the other side of the room, so the former just experienced droplets hitting him. Aiden, unsurprisingly, completely dodged the wave by jumping/flying to the other side of the room, to the left of where Erwin was situated. The wave disappeared out through the newly broken window. The water user gave no chance for recovery as she immediately called for a string of water that was floating freely in the air. It morphed to shape into a whip, which genuinely shocked Aiden and he couldn't help but clap for her as he praised her improved ability.

"Oh my god, you can create a whip? I remember last time you couldn't even control a water ball enough to hold its shape. You HAVE grown. I'm so proud of you." Now to anyone else in the world, this would sound condescending as fuck but Aiden honest-to-god meant it. He only hoped she saw it like that as well. However, her scowl turning into pure rage and her face turning red told him maybe she didn't see the genuity of his words. She sent a harsh whip towards Aiden, which he avoided, once again by hopping and for once, he was a bit freaked out because the whip made an enormous crack sound which resonated throughout the penthouse and split the bookshelf that was behind the man.

As soon as Aiden landed by Erwin's side, he couldn't help but cringe a bit and the CEO – who had been blank without showing any sort of reaction – couldn't help but flinch a tiny bit. Regardless, Aiden wasted no time putting his plan (that he formed twenty seconds ago) into action. He stood behind his intrigued boss and quickly set his plan into action.

"BEFORE YOU BEGIN WHIPPING ME AGAIN, a kink I would love to explore for another time," said Aiden with a joking undertone, to lighten up the mood (he didn't want to be whipped. He tried it before. It's not for him), "I am genuinely curious. That attack of yours was so powerful and I'm in awe. Surely you could explain where and how you learnt to do that, please answer as an old friend?" The blue-haired man knew as much as she currently wanted him dead, Wendy would never miss an opportunity to flaunt, brag and flex anything or any trait of hers. 

And what do you know, he guessed correctly because she began going on a tangent about how she struggled, had some sort of teacher and blah, blah, blah. Aiden immediately zoned, even though he was intently looking at her. It's only so he could achieve his underhanded goal of getting the captured finally uncaptured.