Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans. But, who wouldn't love to see Robin flush against Slade's desk, getting the pounding of his life? That is the only thing I'm guilty of.
Pairing: Slade/Robin …Red/Speedy…a little Red/Speedy/Robin (those are the main pairings, there will be others, minor ones)
Warning: Rated M!
A/N: Chapter 4! Sorry about the long absence, I had family stuff and then work stuff, and I really just got home yesterday. I was supposed to be home Friday, but it didn't happen that way. Either way, enjoy the next instalment !
Edit: I wrote that AN two days ago, but the site wasn't working for some reason, so I'm just NOW updating!
The Secretary - Chapter 4
The elevator ride back to the CEO's office was rather interesting. Not that there was any actual talking, however. But, you could feel the tension between the two men who occupied the machine. Robin couldn't seem to cut the smirk from his face. Slade was beginning to resent ever hiring the little brat, and it was only his official first day as his secretary!
I'm loosing too many sets here, Slade sneered to himself. I've grown too soft without the competition.
The doors to the elevator opened and they both stepped out. Robin had a bounce to his step and seemed very content at the moment. Although, he did have reason to be. However, Slade was a master at this game and had an Ace card up his sleeve.
Twenty minutes before…
The meeting continued after the brief break and Slade had his game face on.
"I see the company has done exceptionally well since its brief …complication a year ago," the CEO drawled, resting his hands on the table in front of him.
"We've been able to pick ourselves up, yes," Ron nodded his head.
Robin raised an eyebrow, while glancing at the accountant. He was anywhere but the meeting at the moment.
Almost a year ago Harper Inc. had undergone a project that they had claimed had been "of their own design". The leading party on that project had been of someone under the current CEO, who had been a highly respected employee. Unfortunately, the actual design had been from another company and there had been a rather large lawsuit towards Harper Inc. They'd lost the case, the lying man had been fired, and the company had suffered not only financial setback, but also a loss of respect and PR.
They had thus been trying to pick up the pieces, a feat in which most companies wouldn't have been able to, at least in a little over a year.
It was then that Robin realized what seemed amiss.
"Hmmm," the secretary hummed, almost to himself. All other occupants of the room quieted down and glanced at the blue-eyed man.
"You have something to contribute?" Ron Carter questioned, a bushy eyebrow raised. Almost if he was wondering why he'd spoken in the first place.
"I was just wondering how exactly you'd "picked yourself up"?" Robin said, before reaching over the table and picking up the yearly expenses. "I've learned a great deal from Rose White, Wilson Enterprise's leading PR agent, someone who is responsible for having our companies image kept positive in the public eye. It costs a lot of money to maintain that image."
"What are you saying? I'm not sure I'm following," the only woman in the room asked, her eyes shifting to her superior. "Mr. Carter has done an excellent job is retaining our public image," she almost scoffed at this.
Slade narrowed his eye.
"Let me see that," the CEO demanded, while Robin handed him a few pieces of papers he'd been looking over.
All four Harper Inc. employee's seemed to sweat a little while Slade re-read over the documents they'd presented him earlier.
"Good thing you noticed that early, Sir," Robin thus claimed, giving Slade a look. The CEO raised an eyebrow. What was Robin doing?
"Noticed what?" the female demanded angrily. The accountant was most definitely paying better attention now, and he didn't seem to know which shade of pale was the most flattering.
"The financial report for the PR Department?" Slade sneered, it wasn't a question.
Robin couldn't help but smirk.
"They tried to pull a fast one on you, Sir, isn't that funny?" The secretary chuckled.
"This is nonsense! We've done nothing of the sort!" the female snorted.
Suddenly Slade stood up, motioning for his secretary to as well. There was a rather harsh ripping sound, as the CEO destroyed the documents and threw them on the table.
"You think I'm a fool? I'll have your company for this one, make no mistake of that," Slade growled coldly, his steel eyes blazing in a fury that made the employee's of Harper Inc. shiver. "I suggest you clear out your cubicles at Harper Inc. because when I'm through with it there won't be anything left!"
Present…
"What was that back there?" Slade demanded once they returned to his office.
"Me winning," Robin smirked cockily.
It had been rather easy to figure out that in order for a company to get back into the public eye and continue making the amount of money that they claimed they had, in the reports, they would need to invest a lot of money in PR funding to do so. Which they hadn't. They hadn't spent a damn thing, because they hadn't been able overcome the huge lawsuit. They'd just been looking to steal another design.
"You know what I'm talking about, boy, don't patronize me," the CEO sneered, his voice giving away to his impatience.
"I might be a lot of things, but I'm not one to put someone under the bus," Robin stated, his arms crossed. "You've a reputation, and I intend to keep it that way. That is why I claimed you had already known that they had faked their financial reports. Either way, I still win."
"They are bankrupt," Slade claimed out of the blue.
"What?" Robin raised an eyebrow, his smirk faltering.
"You silly boy," the CEO smirked now, patting the secretary on the shoulder in sympathy. "You think I didn't know they had faked their financial reports? I had one of my departments look into their files, snoop around and do a little digging. They don't have a penny to their name."
"Then why did you invite them in the first place? If you already knew!" Robin snarled angrily, blue eyes blazing.
"Why indeed?" Slade chuckled, tilting his head, arms behind his back. The secretary realized that his boss was taunting him with the gesture. That didn't sit well with Robin. Not one bit.
"What?"
"Perhaps you should do your homework from now on, little boy. Leave the tougher equations to the adults," he laughed, motioning to the door. "Now…run along. Tell Rose I'd like to have a word with her."
Robin's jaw dropped.
"Bastard! Arrogant bastard!" Robin fumed, as he entered the staff room a floor below for his last break of the day.
"Like we haven't heard that one before," Alex's voice said amusedly from the seats by the window. That appeared to be a favourite spot among a lot of the employees. Roy was also with him, although, he was sitting on his husband's lap, leaving the other seat free. Robin plopped down in the free seat, completely ignoring the other four people conversing in the room.
"Tell Papa what is wrong," Alex chuckled, his full attention on the new meat...correction; the extremely hot new piece of meat.
Robin explained what had happened.
"I take it things didn't go so well?" Rose questioned when she found herself in her boss's office about ten minutes after the meeting with Harper Inc.
"Depends on who your referring to," Slade said, not really in the mood for idle chitchat, although he seemed to be in an exceptional mood.
"Robin seemed pretty upset," the PR agent tried.
"He passed," the CEO let her know.
"I knew he would, he's different, that one," she sighed, almost as if that was a bad thing. She'd been wondering how Robin would fair on Slade's test. Sometimes she wondered if the man needed a hobby. She sighed to herself.
"Not only did he pass, he let those fools think that it was I who originally realized their fault. He didn't take the credit."
Rose quirked an eyebrow, setting a few files down on the man's desk that he needed to check over.
"He's been turning heads," she said. Robin had certainly shaken up a lot of the employees in the building. She wondered just how far the boy would get under Slade's skin. Although, she didn't think it was a bad thing. The blue-eyed man had shown the CEO that he was trust worthy.
There was silence for a moment.
"Go now, I have things I need to attend to," the CEO commanded, turning his attention to work. Rose quietly let herself out and made her way downstairs to finish the last of her work before the day was out.
Robin might not have realized it, but he'd just scored huge bonus points with Slade.
"Then he says, "why indeed?" and tells me to "run along and do my homework"!" Robin recalled with vigour.
Both Alex and Roy were laughing so hard they could barely sit in the chair, Roy having almost fallen out several times throughout the story.
"I fail to see what is so funny," Robin growled.
"You've got your panties in a twist, exactly what Slade wants," Roy quipped, calming down a little bit, his arms around his husband's shoulders.
"What?" the secretary sighed.
"Roy, love, why don't we tell Robin a little story," Alex said a bit dreamily.
"Only if you tell it, baby, you have an angelic voice," the short-haired red-head grinned, kissing his husband.
Robin rolled his eyes, but didn't comment.
"Once upon a time, in a far away land…"
"Alex, this isn't a far away land," Roy interrupted.
"…there was a Prince and a Princess," the long-haired man continued, as if he hadn't heard his lover.
"Alex! Tell the story right!"
"…and the Prince had a stick up his ass," Alex burst into laughter. "But, we suspected that the Princess had a stick half-way up her ass too. The Princess was much too cute to have it fully up there anyway."
Both Roy and Robin stared at the man in the chair, wondering if they needed to get a straight jacket for him.
"Moral of the story," Alex continued. "What do you get when you have two people with sticks up their asses?"
"I fear for my life at this point," Robin announced, but he was ignored.
"You get two people who are always butting heads, the Prince just has a little bit of an upper hand, just because he's been a Prince longer, get it?" the long-haired red-head concluded.
"Yeah…but?"
"However," Alex said mischievously. "The Princess has Sexy God Parents that are going to bring the Princess lots and lots of pleasure….erm, I mean help."
"What the fuck?" Roy quirked an eyebrow, cuffing his husband on the head. Alex seemed to snap out of the daze that he'd been in, but only grinned in apology, rather cheekily, Robin thought.
"I think everyone has been going about this the wrong way," Robin finally said. "I don't think that it is Slade they should worry about, its you," he said, pointing at Alex, almost rudely. The long-haired man took absolutely no offence though. He was used to it. Besides, he was just getting back at the young secretary for his comment the other day. He was allowed to have fun!
"I think I have to go," the secretary said, standing up in the chair, about to make his way upstairs. He'd almost forgotten about the CEO. Those two were a little distracting.
Alex piped up at this moment.
"Just think about what I said!"
"Sure," Robin said, frowning slightly.
As he made his way to the elevator though he smirked slightly, he had some thinking to do.
Once he was gone, Roy gave Alex a look.
"What?"
"You like him too much," the Advertising Agent accused.
"He's fucking hot, Holy Christ!"
"Your lucky I think so too," Roy shook his head, at least a little more sane than his husband. It didn't bother him that his lover wanted Robin, because sex was just sex, and he knew who Alex loved. Besides, they did enjoy the occasional rut with other couples who felt the same way. It was exciting. Plus, Robin was fiesty.
"He's completely different than those other people Slade's hired. I can't wait to see the shit that he stirs up while he's here," Alex laughed.
"Language, baby, we're still at work."
"But you love my potty mouth," the long-haired assistant pouted.
"Yes," Roy smirked, kissing him. "But only when I'm pounding into you from behind."
"Tease!"
A/N: Hahah! Writing this chapter was fun, and with a little help from Wynja, I tweaked it a bit, so I hope that it made the story a little better. Only Wynja's knows what I'm talking about, so I hope that I worked it out ;)
So sorry about my absence, but it couldn't be helped. I'll be back on my posting schedule from now on, Sunday's or perhaps earlier. Who knows.
Please review! It makes me feel all tingly inside-No Alex, bad! -glares-
/Jay
