Sienna warily stepped into the abandoned apartment, resisting the urge to turn and leave. That wouldn't help her out of her current predicament. The boss had never really raised his hand against her or anyone else under his control, but there has always been an underlying fear during the times when he was in one of his moods. Sienna made her way up the creaky stairwell that lead to the second floor. She took a deep breath and stepped into the well lit room where her employer was pacing back and forth, with several of his other followers standing near the walls. "Alright, Boss. I'm here."
The man was on her in a flash, leering at her with dark crimson eyes. He gripped the collar of her trench coat. "Did know about the eye thing?" he asked.
"No way. If I did, you would've known." Sienna replied, narrowing her eyes at the man. "It's not like I can keep secrets when you can see into my head, Jett."
Jett stared at her long and hard before he finally released her. "That's right. That's absolutely right..." he said to himself. He seemed to relax slightly, though he started pacing again. "I didn't know that happened..." he muttered thoughtfully. He ran his fingers through his black hair. "Things might get difficult if people start noticing the eyes..." He cast an accusatory glance at Sienna. "Also some of my little worker bees might see this flaw as a chance to escape."
Sienna allowed a humorless smile to grace her lips. He was referring to her, and he wasn't wrong. She always made it painfully obvious that she disliked working for him.
"Oh well." Jett took a seat on the sofa in the middle of the room. "I guess there won't be any mind-visiting until I get this sorted out." he decided. He didn't look too happy about it, but he didn't really let it bother him, either. "But don't think this means you don't have to work, my little tigress."
"Ah, I knew it. It was too good to be true." Sienna sighed dramatically.
Jett ignored her. "Keep working with the phoenix." he said.
"You've got to be kidding...I told you earlier, there's no way I can recruit someone like that. This is way out of my league!" the fiery girl stated.
"Oh, just work those oh so heavenly charms of yours! You've done it before."
"My acting doesn't work when the target is onto me. Especially not this one." Sienna replied.
"Well, if that doesn't work, we've always the old fashioned way of doing things. A little thing called 'force'." said the red eyed man.
"...I don't know if you're tiny brain can remember as far back as a year ago," she ignored her boss' indignant frown, "but he used to be a Whitebeard pirate. And not just any pirate. Whitebeard's first mate. It's a damn miracle he even agreed to come with me in the first place. I can only imagine he must have been delirious with exhaustion. Or something along those lines."
"You underestimate our strength, little tigress."
"Or maybe you're the one overestimating your strategy." she retorted.
Jett shrugged and sat back, crossing his legs. "I'm sure we'll see who's right eventually." he said. "Now, try and recruit the phoenix. That's an order."
Sienna sighed and turned around, muttering, "I can't wait until this blows up in your face..." With that, she exited the building.
Marco paused his leisurely stroll to look over his shoulder. He frowned when he saw someone duck behind a group of people lingering near the entrance to a bar. It was that time of night when people started looking for some fun. He had been aware of a stalker for a while now. From what he could tell, this person didn't pose much of a threat, but it was irritating nonetheless. He considered confronting the rat hiding in the shadows, but decided against it when he spotted a familiar shade of orange appear from the opposite side of the street. She appeared to be muttering to herself.
"—and give me some impossible task. 'Oh but you've done it before! It'll be easy!' Yeah right! If it's easy, then why don't you do it yourself?!" Sienna stopped when she saw Marco. "Oh. You're still here?" she asked.
"I'm not gonna leave just because some girl told me to." the pirate replied. "Besides, I wanna know why I'm being followed all of a sudden."
"You are?" Sienna looked around as if she'd be able to spot whoever was stalking the phoenix. She couldn't see anything out of the ordinary, but she hadn't expected to. "Looks like my boss already moved into Plan B."
"What does that mean?"
"It means you won't be able to leave peacefully anymore." said the fiery haired girl. "Unless you'd be willing to go to the trouble of taking out my boss."
"...I take it that would benefit you more than me." Marco replied.
"Of course it would. I hate my boss. I want to see him lose for once."
"Well that doesn't concern me." the phoenix replied.
"I figured you'd say that...No way I can change your mind?" Sienna asked hopefully.
"Doubt it." he replied.
Sienna nodded and turned away from the pirate. "We'll see." she replied as she began walking in another direction. She had some planning to do. Planning that involved making things go her way.
Marco watched the girl suspiciously. "Yeah...We'll see." he murmured. There was no one on the island capable of physically overpowering him as far as he could tell, but he kept his guard up all the same. If Sienna was as good at plotting as Rory, then she'd come up with some convoluted scheme to get him right where she wanted him, regardless of how weak she was.
