It had all started with a simple grin. That stupid, arrogant grin of Jack's. Handsome. Fucking. Jack.
Had Rhys known what was going to happen, he more than likely would have tried to skip town, or just leave the state altogether. And yet, he had been willed to stay.
"Handsome" Jack O'Connell was the infamous CEO of the Hyperion company after the last CEO had just seemed to… die. Of unknown causes other than the theorized heart attack (which, honestly, no one really cared since the guy was like a hundred and a huge, narcisstic asshole). Jack took office, and things had definitely changed. For the better, or worse, Rhys was still unsure.
The pros of having Jack as the CEO meant the man expanded the company all over the globe, from Tanzania to god damn Vancouver. But, that also meant the whole company changed due to the new locations.
See, originally, Hyperion had only been an engineering company, helping technology advance and help the third world countries develop to be decent. But now, Hyperion was mass-producing weapons, out-sourcing all the popular weapon brands out there. Hell, even Dahl, the recent number one had been surpassed tenfold by Hyperion. All because the weapons were better, cheaper and a hell of a lot more powerful.
Jack was at the top of it all. The man even owned the best science program in the world, Atlas. How the man had managed the get his paws on the certificate of ownership was beyond anyone, but no one bothered to question him, since it seemed that any man or woman that questioned him, or even looked wrongly at him, that employee would mysteriously disappear. Rhys liked to think they were just fired, and he really hoped he was right.
Now, Rhys was just a normal intern. Started working a few years after Jack had taken the reigns of the company. He had to say, he never saw the man in person. Only in magazines, talk shows, news and the occasional online papparazzi picture. The CEO seemed to spend most of his time in meetings, his office, or in the engineering labs (rumor has it that the guy was actually an engineer before becoming CEO, but it seemed so long ago that no one thought it was the truth anymore).
So yeah, Rhys had been working a few years after, however he's been working for about five years total, being at the age of twenty-eight. His best friend was an accountant for the same company, though the only time they could really talk and hang out was after work hours, or during lunch breaks. But, Vaughn was pretty cool about it. They liked to complain about work every now and then (even though Rhys had been jobless for a good while, and was more grateful for the job than anything).
Though, it seemed that fate had some other plan than for him to just live his life as that one-armed intern from Western New York.
See, it had begun when he was called into the office of a coworker, who told him they needed a subject to test some new technology. Something about the brain being a computer or something.
"It would be double the pay." And that was all it took for Rhys to agree and take the paperwork home to fill out.