The sound of a high pitched whistle overhead getting closer and yelling from her fellow Marine's as a bomb touches down on the caravan. She instinctively throws open the door and jumps out of the camouflage armoured Jeep she'd been travelling in with the members of her Opp team. Rolling away as metal, body parts, shrapnel and blood rains down around her, the woman scrambles to her feet in search of her gun but can't find it. The next instant she is being apprehended by the enemy screaming and yelling for anyone who'd been in the caravan for help.
"Ruby, hey Ruby." A familiar voice coaxes her out of the nightmare she was stuck in.
"No don't! Stop!" She shouts and rolls off the other side of the bed and crouches down as if looking for her gun.
"Corporal Bennett, stand down." The man tells her standing up straight to match his authoritative tone and as it usually does snaps her back to reality.
"Sorry boss.." Ruby sighs standing up and realizing she is wearing nothing but a tank top and panties and he is only wearing underwear.
"It's fine, just uh just try what that fancy psych doctor told you." He instructs leaving her room, the therapist ordered her to meditate and clear her mind right before sleep and that never works but he doesn't know that.
Ruby drops down on the double bed she has been sleeping on for the past two months in her boss's guest room. Having only gotten out of the Marine Corps two months before that and struggled until she found Anvil and got a job as one of the trainers. Her boss William, Bill Russo, saw her potential right away, not to mention the fact that she is a 5'6, auburn haired and an emerald green eyed beauty. After she got kicked out of her apartment for her nightmares and the screaming that follows them, he gave her a place to crash with him. He flirts with her outside of his place but hasn't gone beyond that because he read her file and knows the reason she got out. She had tried to kill the sergeant who was forcing her to sleep with him, so she was the one that was discharged. Having saved hostages after being tortured for four days and blown full of shrapnel saved her from anything less.
Ruby wouldn't be opposed to exploring the possibility of seeing her boss but she has a tough enough time maintaining rank as it is. If the other trainers and workers found out she was sleeping with or dating the boss it would be ten times as bad. Mostly he lets her stay because she is one of the best and looks good on his arm at events when he doesn't have a date. She dresses pulling on some work out pants and a sweater that she zips over her well endowed chest. Then slips out of her bosses place unnoticed to head to the training center and work out until she is too tired to dream. This is her routine a few nights a week, she had to slow down because her body was starting to look more muscular than feminine. This lead her to dancing to tire herself out, still a form of working out but it doesn't build muscles like weights and things like that nearly as quickly.
Two nights later she offers to lock up after everyone had gone for the day, something she always likes doing. The solitude of no one can touch her, no one can judge her gives Ruby a sense of calm and the ability to relax which is a luxury. Once she is sure that she is alone in the training area Ruby turns on her bluetooth speaker and closes her eyes taking a deep breath of relief. Then she starts dancing, she had gone to a few classes at the community center but she likes to splice the dance forms together. A little bit of hip hop here, Jazz, modern and a bunch of contemporary to create her own style. It helps that Ruby is very agile and flexible, not to mention graceful, she had been subjected to ballet as a kid, her mother's doing.
Bill Russo hears the music from his office, having come in through the back after everyone had gone for the day. He is supposed to be doing some paperwork but can't help but wonder where the music is coming from and gets up to check it out. He mastered the art of sneaking up on people through all his time in the Marines, so when he steps into the training room he doesn't think Ruby notices. Ruby has eclectic taste in music and is currently dancing to Marilyn Manson, causing the expensive suit wearing man to grin. He is attracted to his employee and sort of tenant and knows that half of his other employees are too.
Ruby opens her eyes having heard his footsteps even over the music, but doesn't stop dancing, instead she kills the lights. She knows her way around the training room in the dark but she doubts her boss does, and she doesn't like being snuck up on. Ruby moves silently around the room, her eyes quickly adjusting and knows that his will be too, hiding behind on of the machines. Then she moves behind him and in one precise movement is holding her ever present large pocket knife blade to his neck.
"I don't like to be snuck up on." She warns in a low voice, close to a growl.
"I wasn't sneaking, this is my training center after all." He says calmly not even flinching.
Ruby instantly regrets the knife and puts it away which allows him the ability to grab her and pin her to the mats that cover the whole left side of the training area. "You messed up your suit boss." Ruby remarks sarcasm dripping on every word, coming out of the jaded woman's mouth.
Bill leans in dangerously close to her lips and stops, "I'm not above getting my hands dirty." He whispers his eyes connecting with her electric green eyes.
"Well that's why I'm here." A tall, older man with one milky eye and a scowl that seems permanently etched on his face declares flipping on the lights.
"What are you doing here?" Bill Russo demands looking away from Ruby who takes the opportunity to free herself from his grasp and turn off her music.
"If your done playing with the help let's go to your office and discuss it." The man states walking away from them and up the three flights of stairs to Billy's office.
"Ruby?" Bill is about to say more but she cuts him off.
"See you later boss." She says gathering up her things and leaving quickly through the employee entrance.
