Security Officer, first day on the job

[Lex Barlow]

The Institute looked almost the same as when she had left it nearly 11 years ago. She had been one of the most popular girls in the school in her day and had excelled in her classes. After graduation, she became a cop like her father. She was on the force for five years before leaving on the search for her twin brother, Loki. She finally realized the reason she’d decided to come to the institute instead of going back to the force was because she secretly hoped her brother would return here as well. The red walls of this school held a lot of information and that was one thing Loki had always been interested in, even if it hadn’t shown in his school work. If he had tried in school, he probably would have graduated valedictorian instead of his sister. He’d been researching some shady things before his disappearance and she thought maybe she could do some digging here about it while she settled in with her new job. Security officer… not as honorable as the badge that she was used to carrying or any career she could have chosen with her school grades, but she would do it with the same amount effort she put into everything else. She wouldn’t do something unless she was giving it her all.
It was her first day and she had arrived an hour early so that she could familiarize herself with the grounds again. It was easy, once she was there it all came back to her. As she walked around she observed every detail of the place, down to how many trees there were. Her mind tucked the useless information away, to be recalled in the future if ever the need arose. Dizzle roamed ahead of her, running the grounds like he’d been there a thousand times before. He stopped at every student he came across, tail wagging and ears perked, looking for attention. Libby walked by Lex, matching her step. She hardly left her owner’s side unless she was asked to. Where Dizzle craved attention, Libby was leery of strangers and was not one to let random people pet her. She would not get aggressive; she just tended to avoid them.
A quick look at her watch told her she had fifteen minutes left to report to duty. She remembered exactly where the Security Office was and made her way there, hoping Mr. Vincent Romanov was in his office and ready to show her what her job would entail. At his door she gave three quick, loud knocks and stood waiting, a dog on either side of her.
Apparently she was earlier than she thought she was. When she didn't receive an answer, she decided she would look around some more getting her feel of the place. Maybe she would bump into someone that could tell her what she needed to do.

[Lani Hunter]

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Lani sighed and his face adopted a little smile as he picked the note off of his door. 'Mr. Lani Hunter, report to security upon you return.' He opened his door and laughed a little. You'd think eventually they would get sick of this, figure out Lani didn't learn his lesson well. He was actually surprised they hadn't gotten him a tracker yet, well good thing for him actually. He did not want anyone knowing about his secret life. This time he actually had a legitimate excuse, in his eyes at least. He was visiting his sister she was in the hospital and they were keeping her over night in case her pneumonia revived her cancer. That hadn't been all he had done but hey it wasn't like he was going to say anything else.

He dropped his bag and pulled a box out from under his bed. He stuffed the money into hidden compartment in the box and replaced his other keepsakes around it. He grinned and shoved it back under the bed and straightened. He tossed the note into the trash and sighed looking wistfully at his bed. Well better get it over with, the sooner he got his ears scolded off the sooner he could ignore them and go to bed, to hell with classes today he didn't run a night of heists to go the class in the morning. He took a moment to change into a pair of jeans and a button up before shoving his feet into his shoes and walking back out the door.

One of the wonders of winter, longer nights. He could stay out longer and leave earlier. It was altogether a better plan. He whistled a little as he paced to the main building. He smoothed his hair and stifled a yawn. "Morning," he said brightly to the woman at the front desk. One very interesting thing about this place. They had people there 24 hours a day because students were always coming in at odd hours. Lani remembered the clock reading a quarter after one in the morning when he made his rather... noisy arrival. He walked over to the security office and rapped on the door a few times then without anymore warning than that he opened the door. "Yo." He said upon seeing the woman. It wasn't someone he recognized but oh well. He let the door fall shut behind him and eyed the dogs. He gave her a charming impish smile, "I promise I have a legit excuse this time."

[Lex Barlow]

She had been about ready to leave the security office, seeing that she was a bit earlier than she’d thought. She stopped when the boy walked in and snapped her fingers twice quickly. One dog immediately stopped at her side, the other went straight for the newcomer growling softly. This was a little trick she had worked out with the dogs as a police officer to keep the suspect a little on edge. Dizzle would never get violent, unless Lex said the right words and asked him to. That was their relationship; she felt her animals were her friends, not pets. Probably had something to do with the fact that she could communicate with them.
Dizzle walked around him, sniffing the boys legs and hands before stopping in front of him again, placing himself between Lex and him. Lex eyed the student while her dog was doing this. She took in his impish grin, his cool charming demeanor. A sculpted brow arched and she leaned back on the desk behind her, “Oh, I’m sure you do.” Though she actually had no idea as to what he was talking about exactly, she had a feeling he was indeed a regular in this spot. “So you come here often?” She meant it to sound like a cheesy pick up line for at a bar, jokingly of course. She absently stroked the head of the dog sitting by her side.

[Lani Hunter]

Lani stiffened when one of the dogs came forward. He let it sniff him and he stood his ground firmly. He held out his hands letting the dog see he had nothing in them and smell him over carefully. Apparently he passed the dog backed off and Lani couldn't say he didn't breathe a sigh of relief. He flickered his eyes back to her but kept just enough on the dog. He grabbed a chair and calmed him mind to hold it in a just in case weapon.

Lani smiled and with a mental hand he felt the collar of the dog ready to grab it. He looked back up at her feeling a little more relaxed. He smiled and let out a little laugh. "I'm sure what that must sound like. You must be new here."

"As much as anyone I suppose." Lani answered, this was amazing he was faced with someone who didn't know who he was. He might be able to get out of here quick and get into bed. "I actually just got a note on my door to come down here." He said making his eyes bigger ever so slightly and projecting an air of innocence. It probably wouldn't fool her but it was worth a shot. "I'm actually not sure what I did wrong."

[Lex Barlow]

She smiled with a brow raised, showing her skepticism. "Why do I find that hard to believe?" She turned and looked at the desk, scanning the papers on top incase maybe there was a note about why this student would be here. "Listen, I can't just let you go back without resolving your issue, since I have no clue what that is. You'll have to either tell me what you're doing here or you'll just have to wait with me until Mr. Romanov comes in and deals with you." Her eyes made the faintest flicker in the direction of one of the dogs next to her. The dog stood and walked to the door, laying down directly in front of it.

[Lani Hunter]

He shrugged and gave her an innocent smile when she asked him why she didn't believe him. As much as Lani liked to pretend otherwise he was rather transparent. He sighed and shifted waiting for her to give him leave. No dice apparently. He leaned against the wall and gave her a pained expression. Of course they couldn't let him leave, that would be too easy. Maybe he could talk his way out of this one. After all if she was new he was simply a innocent polite kid. As long as she didn't look at his file. That was practically a book. His mind started formulating an excuse, a lie, something to get her off of his back. He had done what he was told and reported to security, now he could leave, right?

He nodded. "I understand, Ms....?" He raised a brow hoping she would supply him with an answer. "Anyways, I just got this note on my door. It just said 'Please report to security upon your return.'" He shrugged and shook his head like he was clueless. "I mean the only thing I can think of was skipping class the other day, but I don't know why they don't just give me detention." Maybe he was overdoing it on the innocent front but really he was about to get out of this without a lecture and he was going to be as slippery as eel. He was good at what he did. He wasn't about to go to detention though either. He had a long list of detentions stacking up and sooner or later he was going to have to do them but for now he was balancing on a wire. He watched the dog move and smiled. He leaned against the wall and smiled at her. "Are you new around here?"

[Lex Barlow]

She took a seat at the large desk desk and smiled at the student, "Ms. Barlow, you may call me Lex or Lexi if you wish." This was her first day, though she relaxed in the chair as if this were her office. She had yet to even meet the head of security and was unsure if he would be ok with her sitting here, but she was trying to look like an authority figure. She'd come to realize in her years as a police officer that people had a hard time taking her seriously because she wasn't a large woman and she looked very sweet.
"New to working here yes, but I was once a student. Things haven't changed much here in the past eleven years, as far as I can tell." She had considered turning the computer on and entering her log-in information to try and look up this student's information, but once again she wasn't sure how Mr. Romanov would react to walking in to her on his computer. Lucky for this student, she had a soft spot for troubled youth and bad boys, they reminded her of her lost twin brother.
"Here's the deal.. you can either hang out with me until Mr. Romanov returns, which I expect should be very soon, or you can leave on the condition that you will come back in exactly an hour. One hour, no more. I'm going to trust you to return. If not though, Dizz here," she motioned to the dog that had sniffed him earlier, "has remembered your scent and you will have a hard time hiding from his magnificent nose. Your choice."

[Lani Hunter]

He smiled back at her. Ms. Barlow. Or rather Lex Barlow. He didn't think he would be addressing her so informally. Some of the things his parents had beat into his head had stuck and being polite was one of them. He certainly might not show respect or even any care for authority but he would be polite. Lani smiled at her, so she was new to being security here. No wondered she hadn't known exactly who he was. He hoped his file wasn't anywhere close, it was rather book like. He knew he had slipped in a few times and just checked to make sure they weren't too onto him. Just enough trouble to be well a trouble but not enough to be cause for tracking.

He realized he could like this woman, she seemed nicer than most of security. If he could get her on his side... "Well then, welcome back," he smiled. "I'm sorry we couldn't meet on better terms." He raised a brow, his suspicion building at her offer. That was quite a large amount of trust. But then again he didn't want her dogs after him. But then if he took a path they couldn't follow. He resisted the urge to give her a sly smile. "How soon is soon?" He asked as if considering the offer. He smiled down at the dog. "Dizz, you can find me anywhere, huh?" He asked with a grin, he had no doubt the dog could find him just about anywhere. Dogs were notorious.

[Lex Barlow]

"Well, I can't say that for sure, Mr...?" She used the same tone he had when asking her name, "I was expecting him here by now, so he may just be running late or something.. " Lex sent the dog a mental command and he growled just the tiniest bit when Lani spoke to him. "Yes, these two have spent years as police dogs and I have spent thousands of hours training them to be perfect at it." Not to mention, she herself was a fine detective. Her father, one of the best Detectives their local force had ever seen, had ingrained the necessary skills in her head since she was a child. Always playing small games to get prizes when she remembered things correctly or found the hidden items. And when Lex wanted to find something, she found it. Security was not what she wanted to do with her life, and boy had her father been mad whens he quit the police force, this was only a stepping stone in finding her missing brother and the bad things he had been caught up in before his disappearance.

[Lani Hunter]

He smiled to hide the little disappointment that came from her asking his name. "Lani Hunter," he supplied for her. Why not, he was about to be in a load of trouble anyways. Might as well go down and maybe get points for honesty. He nodded and shrugged. "Car trouble?" He offered, "I can't see him being the type to over sleep." He had met that Romanov fellow once or twice, he was not someone Lani wanted to mess with. Well he certainly was going to get out of here before he showed up and could give Lani a verbal flaying. He blinked and backed off when the dog growled, alright, dogs are to be taken seriously.

He raised a brow at her and nodded in approval. "You certainly know what you're doing. And I'm sure your pooches do as well." He sidled to the door and reached warily over the dog for the door. "I have some homework to catch up on, so I think I'll be seeing you in an hour at... 8:32?" He asked checking the clock on his phone. He really wanted to sneak out of here before she did something like pull up his file. Altogether this day was starting to look up. The chances of his coming back were relatively high, unless he fell asleep. He liked Lex and he wasn't about to turn down a potential ally.

[Lex Barlow]

She gave another mental command and the dog moved to her side, out of his way. "Fine. You are free to go, Mr. Hunter. But remember, if you are not back here within the hour... we will hunt you down and I will not be happy that you made me search for you. I appreciate your cooperation and I will meet you back here soon." Well, she figured she couldn't just sit around all day waiting for Mr. Romanov to show up. She'd go around and begin her patrol of the grounds. Maybe do a little spying on this young troublemaker, if the opportunity arose. She could always send one of the dogs to track and follow him, to make sure he returned. She stood from the desk and put the chair back as it had been before, doing a quick scan to make sure that she had left nothing out of place. Once she was satisfied that Mr. Romanov wouldn't be able to tell she had sat in his desk, she followed the student from the room. "Anything or anyone I should keep an eye out for while I am here?" She figured a boy like this would have his finger on the pulse of this place, not that he would probably tell her if he knew anything, but it was worth a try. Anything to bring her close to the information on the people involved with her brother was helpful and there could be something useful in the long run of information that seems useless at the time.

[Lani Hunter]

Lani smiled as the dog moved and laughed a little. He wasn't taking her threat lightly, on the contrary he was taking her threat rather seriously. "I'll be back," Lani said with a grin and crossed his heart with a finger. This woman was nice, and perhaps a little foolish for being so gentle with Lani. Lani was good at turning a deaf ear to people talking or streaming at him, it took a lot to get him to really listen. Lani was pretty sure she wouldn't have a problem. As much as he wanted to get out and nap he also wanted to spy a little. He smiled a little as he opened the door but he couldn't lie and say he was at all happy she was following him out. Now he would have to worry about her actually wandering around.

He held the door open for her and her dogs. He smiled a little at her question. "Well, generally when someone yells 'duck!' its a good idea to do so." He told her with mock seriousness. The anyone part got him though, he wouldn't give up Thyme no matter how much he annoyed him and he really wasn't too familiar with trouble makers around here. He usually made trouble on his own or with Cassie, and he certainly wasn't going to sell her out. He shrugged. "I haven't been here as long as you might think," he admitted, "I actually don't know many people. But I do know that you should watch out for those college kids on campus," he said a little annoyed thinking of his fight with Braxton. "Hammel's pretty quiet though," he lied.