Drabble #10 - Average Joe, Part 2

Charles goes back to his suits and ties. Ties in with the season 3 premiere Renovation Klok.

His suit jacket seemed foreign to him now, the material scratchy and stiff. He wasn't used to anything tight around his throat anymore, but the shirt had to be buttoned and the tie had to be tied. Eventually, he would get used to it again. It was bad enough he had showed up in a leather jacket and jeans, he couldn't let his boys think he was always going to dress like that. He had an image to maintain within the walls of Mordhaus.

In a way, his suit had become a second skin -- he felt naked without it, exposed for all to see. With the suit, he was Charles Foster Offdensen. For the nine months he went without it, he was merely Charles or Charlie (he shuddered at the nickname). That wasn't him. That was the man he left behind when he became the manager to Dethklok. Someone he had hoped to never have to see or become again.

Now, in the back of his closet in his room at Mordhaus, he buried the leather jacket and jeans. He buried them underneath the t-shirts he had hidden back there. That jacket he despised, it had become a cruel reminder that he wasn't who he thought he was. He couldn't be this casual man who roamed about, gathering any information he could on the true nature of his and Dethklok's existence. Time that could have been spent better protecting the boys from financial ruin. Simply put, he had an empire to run.

He straightened his tie for the umpteenth time. His suit in place, his hair slicked back -- the only thing missing were his glasses. Slowly, he reached into his inner suit pocket and retrieved them. Luckily, he kept a spare pair around. Before placing them in their rightful spot, he stopped. Not yet, his mind screamed, leaving him to wonder why the hesitation.

His mind answered him, his boys needed to see the transformation, that he was truly back to his old self. That their CFO Charles Offdensen was the same man that had appeared after disappearing for nine months, that he was in charge again. It would give everyone a sense of closure.

Charles made a mental note to have a Klokateer burn those clothes -- if only to give himself some closure -- before straightening his tie one last time and seeking out the boys.

Not much to say about this one. It really makes no sense cause I just wrote what I thought. Please let me know what you think.

- Silvarius