Try again?

by moops

Well looks like i get another go at my life, since i just woke up as a 6 year old with a splinting headache. Now lets see how i can make my life better. Wait you mean i get to have magic! SI who doesn't have plot armour.

26. Chapter 26

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Well it's been 5 years since I finished university for computer engineering / computer architecture and a lot of things have happened.

My sapphire material selling has expanded because now they are being used on all phone screens.

I have moved all my holdings out of England including the small accounting and law firm.

Most if not all of Umbrella operates in Australia and surrounding islands.

Most of the women who came with Pansy, look like they have de-aged from there 80's now look 40's are learning all they can to run the administrative side of companies I start. They want to use there slytherin skills to dominate the Market.

Umbrella Legal & Records is now a very big player in Asian import and export legalities.

Umbrella Electronic Storage has a huge building in Port Eden to handle future expansion. They are sharing space with Umbrella Net for now.

Umbrella Electronic Storage has grown to the point that it's 95% muggles running it, along with some white hat hackers to provide internal security for a high fee.

Umbrella Electronic Storage has started to branch into domain and server hosting more with the increased SSD storage space created through profits.

Umbrella Net is the main supplier of internet access to businesses using the blue cubes.

Umbrella Net supplies most if not all internet access to multiple internet connection resellers. New blue cubes created with multi ports on them for these businesses rented with appropriate rates.

Most hardware designed to connected and manage internet connections are housed in one of the subs to help power portals from cubes because of proximity to lay lines.

Purchased "small" plot of land in the northern section of the Gibson Desert that will be the start of Umbrella Works.

Releasing small amounts of gold and silver from plot of land to justify expense and pay for more surrounding land.

Raided the ministry with elves help after paying off the maintenance staff 30,000 galleons, who were all half-bloods to make sure no one was there on Christmas Eve. The entire thing was a big joke and we plan to look into other ministries that treat there people horribly and raid them also.

Took all time turners and everything else from all rooms including those brains and placed them in a warded hive so no locating charms can be used on the items.

All books raided have been added to the library after they were checked to see if they would cause me issues later. About ¾ are help back and added to a private section of the library that only I can access along with anyone else I let in.

Bribes have started with the Australian Ministry of Magic for legal status and other back room deals to keep them away from me.

Kids have started to trickle in from schooling that I have paid for from all over the world.

Most IT has been slotted into Net or Storage.

I have rented decent sized building and have told all graduated students the plans of Umbrella Works. They have been split into groups of 5, to come up with ideas on what could be done with all UAV's that have remote power and processing capabilities.

Other buildings in Port Eden have been purchased to house research grants and needed machinery for scientists and researchers that have moved here to work under Umbrella Technology & Research.

Antarctica has become a vast network of huge tunnels with a spider web of silver running everywhere along with a bigger hearth stone then the island.

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Hermione POV

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Wow I can't believe I'm 23 and finished university with a degree in genetics. I never pictured this as my life. I live on a tropical island with my boyfriend and his girlfriends. I still find it weird to think of Luna and Halley as his girlfriends. I was never raised to be in a poly relationship I always expected to find a guy and marry him and have 2 kids. But I think all that changed when I met him and now look at us.

I want to stay with Mark, i still don't plan on leaving him, and I have gotten used to watching him have sex with those 2. I just treat it as hard core porn, or just soft core if he's going down on them under the sheets. Since this has been going on for so long I think my jealousy is dead because I know if I ask he will jump me in a second. Hell he stands to attention every time he sees me naked while changing or when we are nude on our stretch of beach.

Oh well I don't care what anyone says I am happy with the life I have, and it helps that I have a personal date night with him every week. It does help that he takes all 3 of us out on Saturday night. When we discovered this we asked him how and he let us know he was using a time turner to keep up with everything Umbrella was doing, and giving him enough time to spend with us and relax. When he told us this we all wanted one and he provided them. He let us know that rules about them and getting us kicked out of this reality if we touched a temporal duplicate. He suggested that we just use it for relaxation and enjoying time with family so that we never burn out. We all agreed this would be for the best, unless something horrible could be prevented. So now we work on a week working and then a week off doing what we want.

Thanks to Mark we have more money then what we know what to do with, and we would never have to work again in real life. But instead Mark has created something stupidly big that's not just for magicals. He has hired so many people and is a main part of the Australian culture. On many billboards are posted with "powered by Umbrella" and the Umbrella symbol after it.

And now most schools in the lower income areas have a poster with Umbrella advertising for scholarships near the guidance rooms in many countries. Because of this other big companies like Google and Microsoft are looking at what will happen at Marks company. They are using him as a case study on if this works in getting qualified people that will work for you for 10 years. If this works then that means you can put a lot more resources into a person, and not worry about them leaving because by then they will be emotionally invested in a company where all their friends work.

Take me for example; I will be working with people at Umbrella Technology & Research as a person in charge. The difference will be I have hired people to watch over everyone and read over there weekly reports. I have also instituted daily blogs about what they did at work that day or that they figured out. This is an internal blog that helps give me and the people I have watching everyone a way to review their progress and leave reviews or suggestions.

The reason I hired other people to do most of my work is that I want to work with those JP computer and genetic files because I plan to clone Re'ems, or Golden Ram's and other extinct magical animals that we can use for rituals or parts. I figure if I can clone another animal and then clone a magical animal I can work with the limited genetic samples we have collected. The hairs of most things we want to clone are in wands and they are perfectly preserved inside. We have also spent a lot of money to get samples that we didn't have from wand cores.

So far I have been able to clone a Compsognathus but Mark has made it clear that any animals cloned or anything of the sort have to be put into an isolation sub at the bottom of the ocean. In each case the only way to access the animal can be through apparition and nothing else for them to escape. Then they will be a panic button that can implode the sub at any time it is necessary killing everything inside without question. He told me he doesn't want another JP situation, and that I can only have one species per sub unless they are herbivores. At first I thought this was stupid but the more I looked into the situation in South America the more I agree. Add into the fact that anything I make will change the world and we could get eco-terrorists demanding them be set free. Or we will have magicals trying to steal the cloned magical animals for the price they will get.

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Luna POV

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Mmmmmm as I lay here on the beach I love my life. I get all the bed time fun from Mark and at the same time he can last for so long, because of his empowering of himself with magic. Hell I had thought Victor was fun but you just can't compete with a magically enhanced human. Oh god I find the best is when he's pushing his magic through his tool when it's inside. It just doubles the sensations for both of us and I have never needed manual stimulation to get me off since then when we are playing.

I don't think of Mark as a boyfriend; I would put it more on the lines of friends with benefits. I wish I could get the girls to play with each other or me but they have turned that down because they either are scared to try or don't feel anything. Oh well not the biggest issue I have, I tried it out but I want to have fun with my best friends.

I also think its funny on apparently my body has changed into my ideal idea of a womanly figure. When he told us our magic will change our shape that we picture will be perfect, I was sceptical. But I don't think I would have this hour glass shape because none of the women in my family have these huge breasts and at the same time it's as if I don't need to wear a bra with how perky and upright they are. For god's sake I look like I have a body of a porn star. Not that I am complaining because who would?

But I still get to play with women even if Halley and Hermione won't play. Because all the maids also sunbathe on the beach nude hoping to entice Mark. Some of their programing won't go away and since they have found out that the house is cleaned by the elves they are trying to help or make Mark or us girls happy. So at times I have played with them, they want Mark but he has many times stated that he couldn't have more gf's, but they just want to make him happy not be in a relationship. I might have to get them to rape him for him to get it through his head it's just fun sex not marriage. So now because of this they are working so hard to try and anticipate everything he would need in the company, and help it along by running it for him and starting new areas to branch into. I don't think he knows what he has with these maids, add to the fact they are also trying to make themselves more powerful knowing it will increase their life expectancy. And now he has devoted management team that will do everything in their power to help the person who rescued them along with a hint of subconscious prodding to serve there master as best as they can.

And speaking of doing things with friends I get to work with Hermione at Umbrella Technology & Research. I have no idea what I will do there but I think I will float around and see what people are being paid to research. When Mark came up with that idea I asked him about the money issue and he said he could easily pay for it by claiming he found gold and silver on a claim he bought in the outback. Along with that he gets a lot of tax write-offs because he is paying for this along with R&D grants from the government if someone actually finds something that's able to be practically used.

I'm also wondering if I can help Hermione on making extinct animals. The only thing Mark told us about this, is that all animals need to be housed in the subs. And at the same time there had to be 3" sapphire between any ways to get out. If someone needs to get in they need to apparate, he says that if something ever went wrong with the animals he wants us to be able to implode the subs at a moment's notice. After what happened at JP and what is happening in South America where all the animals are getting mad cow, along with people being killed off from free roaming raptors I am not going to question it. These subs are also on lay lines near the Antarctic circle on lay lines so if they don't die from the water pressure the cold water will kill them.

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Halley POV

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It's been a while since I graduated and I have tried to stay on top of everything Mark has come up with and help him hire people to run things for him as he oversees everything. Him and me are cheating a bit by using the time turners to keep up with everything and not letting the others know. there would be no way we could keep up and keep the company profitable and continuously growing.

I feel like I am married to Mark because even though he has sex with the other 2 and goes on dates, I spend my entire day with him and am with him whenever he isn't trying experiments. I have gotten over my jelosy because with the power we are training I can be with Mark forever. I don't think I could be with anyone else because he has always been with me and thanks to him I can live forever with him. I don't need marriage all I need is Mark. If he goes to hell I will be right beside him as his left hand as we set out to rule hell, because he deserves everything he can get.

I am happy I have found likeminded people who see Mark as he should be seen. And I found them in the most unexpected place. When the maids started to show up whenever Mark was on the beach nude and doing everything they could to get his attention, I had a little talk with them. I then found out that they didn't want him as a husband or anything they just wanted to make him happy and when they found out that they weren't helping in the cleaning they became depressed and wanted to do anything to make him happy. They figured since they had these bodies they could use them till they found something else to make him happy. I ended up telling them that Mark had so much on his plate and he needed to unwind. From that point on I had a dedicated group of women who would work under me to make Marks life easier. But they still asked if they could sleep with him at least once or maybe have his baby and I told them they could have that as a reward if they were exceptional.

I'm just sad that I only have 23 maids right now but maybe I can get Tonks not to kill the person who is doing this right away so I can find out how they do it and rape there mind for all their knowledge. They I can go out to the prison system and take all the girls that will never get released and change them into something that will help society. The system won't need to worry about their drain on the system and since their minds will be wiped then Mark will have new maids that will do anything for him. I think this will work out perfectly, because as long as I don't let Mark know, he will be so happy that I "found" people who are loyal to help him with his endeavors. Add to the fact that I will first blood adopt them using my blood to make them magical then they can work forever for him if I get them to train there cores also.

I know Mark would never like this but what he doesn't know won't hurt him and after a century or 2 he won't ever bat an eye. I'm sure by then he will have lost his pesky morals on those kinds of things and he will not be able to live without all the help me and the maids provide.

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Brenda Holding POV

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I can't believe I am 45 and I'm retired on a private island and it's all because of my son. I guess it all started when he was 6 and his attitude just changed. I don't know what happened but he is still my sweet boy. I always heard that when kids grow older they will distance themselves from their parents but that never happened with Mark. Sure I don't see him that often but that is more because of first his schooling and now that he has a job.

Instead of moving away and seeing my son a few times a year while he went to college or university, he decides its best to buy and island and move me and his friend's parents here! He then decides its best if all the people he knows who are dissatisfied with the English magical world to come with him to his island.

When we get here my son tells me how to access magic and make it stronger. I can now do magic! I am not ashamed to admit that I was jealous of my son's abilities. And he has taken time to teach me all I want to know and the library he has created is just ridiculous. The thing is expanding every day I am here with more and more books. Most I won't bother reading but the fact that he has created this is unbelievable. Even with all I have read so far, it still brings me up short on how he managed to do this.

Also I don't have a job anymore because my son has told me that he will give me 40k a year just to stay out of England. I know we don't have any family especially after his father left us one night, and never came back when he was 5. I don't know where he went or if he is even alive. He didn't show to much care about Mark but I don't think he would just abandon him without saying anything.

So right now I make the most of my days in Sydney or in Fiji and see sights I haven't before. He told me he doesn't want me in England and from everything I have heard from everyone those English wizards are crazy.

But I think in all reality I will ask my son if he needs some help somewhere, I know I don't know much that can help him who knows maybe I will go back to school. I'm not blind to the fact that Mark has figured out a way to give back wizards there youths. The reason me and all the older women love Mark, is that we get to lose all the wrinkles and everything else age have given us, but still allowed us to keep our whit's and all that's needed is to spend an hour or two a day in magical and mundane exercises. I don't know if we actually have to exercise and only need to do the magical ones but by now it has gotten into habit now. I actually find going through the forms for the martial art relaxing in the way that I will always be able to defend myself. Mark said that only a stupid person will let himself be helpless if he loses his wand. The older women who now look my age all agree with this because in private I can see how they look when they talk about their late husbands or fathers. I don't want to think on what happened to them but the fact that they now feel confident after Mark and the girls have instructed them in the beginning of doing group classes. From the stories they have told they have lived there whole lives filled with intrigue and back stabbing. They told me that they were happy about the oath later on once they had settled on the island and gotten comfortable. Because they can finally relax around people that will not try to have something done to them.

As for men I have been on a few dates, but it's hard not being able to bring then home so I might buy something in Australia. I think its fine now that Mark has his life and I don't have to worry about work and can take things leisurely as time means nothing now.

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Tonkss POV

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I love my job, I never would have thought I would run my own section. Since the first time Mark sent me to America to get muggle military training, to my first drug lord raid. This has been so much better then what I would probably be doing now, just endless reports along with fixing wizards stupid mistakes that caused problems with the public. Now all I do is write up AAR's and read over the AAR's from my men. And the fact that I have men is nuts. I don't have that many, but we are always working our hardest to stay in the best shape possible. It also helps that we keep all the money, weapons and anything else we like. Then add to the fact that I can buy anything I want for my men to keep them safe and we have yet to have any issue that can't be solved.

Hell one of my men got his hand blown off by a trap on a door. When Mark found out about that he had my man come to him for a week of him doing something to "fix" the issue. So when he shows back up at our training area for hand to hand combat sporting a paler new hand we all were shocked. I knew Mark was changing things but before a healer could never regrow and appendage if it had been destroyed. Reattached sure no issue but a brand new one no and apparently he wasn't the first either. Mark might not be bragging about it but the fact that he can do this news to us.

With this revelation I now started to look at squibs to had been in the military but who have been crippled but had a very good head on their shoulders. If Mark can fix them and we can turn them into wizards I don't see any issue of them taking the oath and never leaving. Since they wanted to be in the military before they will love what we do. Because Mark told me my job was to protect the company and make life hard for criminals financially. He said we could kill as many guys as we want but that never solves an issue like this. The way to truly mess with criminals and the problems they cause is to destroy them financially. If we make it not profitable being a criminal that causes people issues then they will try something else. He said to leave white collar criminals alone and only go after drug dealers and people dealing with them.

I usually meet Mark bi weekly and Halley weekly for them to keep on top of what we are doing and giving their opinion of what we are accomplishing. He said that when Umbrella gets bigger I will have to get more administrative staff to coordinate with people who do intelligence gathering and to bring it all together. As of right now we are just going off of legilimency trails when we find a drug dealer. It would be better if someone else does that and we concentrate on just doing the fun stuff.

But hey whatever, and I am even having fun with one of the guys who does magical R&D for Mark. He's a nice guy but since we are going to live so long and only if the worst happens will we die I don't see the need to settle down just yet. Especially since I am having so much fun and enjoying my life. Maybe later I will settle down for a decade or 2 and have a kid or 2 but for now I will just enjoy my dept.

Hell Tim's has been looking into magical tattoos and what tattoo's there are in the library along with if he can add wards to them. What he discovered is that yes you can but it drains your core fast so its not practical. When he told Mark this he asked if the tattoo's had to be done on the skin or could it be done under it. that just messed with Tim's mind so much that they tried it out on him with a simple rune that would make it so you stayed at an optimal temperature in case you were cold. What Tim later told me is that they pulled the skin and muscle back on his rib and tattooed it right on the bone. Since it's done with a wand and ink not needle it worked. So now Tim had a safe tattoo that only used power when needed and not all the time somewhere anyone could see. Mark then asked him to take it to the next level and put in Sapphire gems into the bones and see if they store magic that the tattoos can feed off of. In the end it wasn't that easy and the sapphire had to be added before and the tattoos had to go around it for it to work. This gave us more options in adding an arrow ward to every member of Umbrella that was magical at the back of their skull.

An arrow ward is from back in the time when muggles shot arrows at wizards and they didn't see where it came from and died. This made it do that it would stop any arrow or anything going quicker than a casual throw from breaching the ward. So in the end it was actually a kinetic ward and depending on the strength and reserves of your core before the sapphires it could stop a clip from a 1911, or 1 shot from an anti-material rifle. But with cores bigger than your avg. English wizard and a sapphire battery the only thing limiting it will be the person's core and regeneration speed.

Needless to say no one turned that one down even those women that came with Pansy that trust so little in anyone. Because who in their right mind want to risk being shot, a knife wound will be no issue to be fixed with the Torq most people started to use. It is an emergency portkey that is tied to a health monitoring charm that also puts the person into stasis using their own core to keep it going. The reason it's a Torq usually a Keltic design and not an armband or ankle band is that my guy just showed you can lose a body part and be saved. On the other hand you are not going to lose your head and a necklace can fall off or be ripped off and doesn't have the surface area for all the runes needed on it.

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Fleur POV

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I love reading in this library, it's been about two years since I came here and I never left. Once Mark had contacted me and said he might be able to help me as long as I swore and oath and came and worked for him. It took me a long time to actually follow through on his proposal. For the longest time since the tournament I never left my parents' house. How could I, I was ruined my body that all the boys lusted after and there adoration turned into lust but also pity. I couldn't stand it, I now look at myself back then and I have to say I had a giant stick up my ass. I went from god's gift to men to a creature to be pitied, and it destroyed me. If I had wanted to I could have gotten a prosthetic and continued with my life as a warder at Gringotts, it's not like they don't have enough people working for them with missing body parts. But I just gave up until Mark sent a letter.

Now I am whole once again an a bit more humble, the fact being that I am surrounded by beautiful women and people aren't drooling over them and pawing them. It seems that all these women are Marks maids or are apparently women who ran away from England when their husbands disappeared.

At first I was confused when he told me he had to drain me of blood. I was scared that he was going to use it to control me but he reminded me that there was an oath for a reason. As soon as he said that I had no issue about giving him my blood since it had something to make me whole again. After he drained so much that I was about to pass out he removed the needle and blood bag, and gave me a blood replenishing potion. I asked him why he didn't take more when I had taken the potion and he let me know it had to be blood I made myself and the potion only made of artificial blood that worked in a person's body.

After he did this I was let go and told to relax on the beach or go to the library and read a book. I have seen so many beaches before and I don't want people to see me before Mark can supposedly fix me. That meant that I went to the library, when he told me to check out the library and one of the maids showed me the way I didn't expect what I found. What I figured would be a small room that held books from a muggle borns buying of books from Flourish and Blots was smashed when I came in through a door. The place was 5 levels high crammed with shelves that just kept going. On the ground flood I could look out on a wonderful seen of a water guardian with many comfortable looking chairs all around. When I was showed how to find a book and the other rules I knew something was up. There is no way a muggle born has access to this kind of magic. The maids I could explain away because there are rich people in this world and they are all eccentric. But this, this was just wrong on so many levels because I have never heard of anything like this along with the amount of books. Then add to the fact that they al that the same shape and color the only thing different was the cover and what was written on the spine, and I knew these where not originals. So that brought up the fact that Mark had copied magical books! He has gotten around the protective enchantments and created his own library. On top of that I have never seen these titles anywhere let alone others that I can't read because of the different languages there in.

I was starting to have a very good feeling that I will be perfect once again. I may just have to reward Mark for all his good work. It helps that the magic leaking out of him is delicious and all vela want a strong mate. It's not told to wizard kind but strong magicals are like vela to weak magicals. So add all this and I want to jump him so bad, the only issue is that he has one woman by him at all times it seams, and she watches me like a hawk. I would assume she is just his assistant but the slate she has that she is constantly sliding her hand across and sometimes telling Mark something tells me she is much more. Add to it the little touches he does to her and I know I have to get past her to get to Mark. She has a lot of magic bottled up but not as much as Mark so they will make delicious babies for any future vela that meet there kids.

After a few days he showed me a new arm and told me the only issue he has so far is that I won't grow hair on it and I will have no fingerprints. I told him that vela don't have hair on their bodies except for their eyebrows and hair, so that was no matter. And fingerprints are a small price to pay for being whole and will remind me of what I have lost and gained.

After that I was told that everyone in the company was to have as much blood drained every 2.5 months in case of emergencies and that it is kept in stasis the entire time. The blood is stored in a place that is only accessible by certain medical people, and kept under a fidelius so I don't need to worry about miss use. A log is kept on who access the blood at any time so it can all be traced.

All this sounded wonderful to me, I can only imagine the people he will gain because he can make whole again. I will have to ask him if I can go recruiting people who have issues that can be fixed by this and that have skills this company can use. I am sure as hell people would jump ship so fast from Gringotts curse breaking section that have been harmed who just stay because there is nothing else for them. Hell I can see so many uses for this it's not even funny. No wonder I was made to take the oath people will be banging down Marks door to replace body parts, and if he can replace them I am sure as hell he can change them.

That means he would become the worlds most wanted surgeon if this ever got out, and by the way he acts I don't think he wants the attention. I believe this because for everyone the CEO is Mr. Holdings but no one outside the company has met him or if they have they are keeping it down low. But the more his company expands in and from Australia the news people will start getting curious. Add to it that it's a privately held corporation and has no debt that has been found (I was curious about the company) then he is on the right track to get up there with John Hammond or Bill Gates.

So finally I now sit here and read as much as I can, even muggle science fiction books to give me ideas on wards. The reason for this is because I run my own section that recreates and modifies wards and comes up with ways to break them. After he let me recruit people I was told to slowly take them away and not let the goblins know they are getting new jobs. He told me he is worried about them and the amount of real power they have since no one knows or even the size of their population. The first thing he wanted was a goblin ward that repelled or killed them or anything that would cause them issues. He wanted them all over his properties and anything Umbrella owns.

So since then our small group has grown to be about 16 people that I watch over. Every week I submit reports on what's going on in my dept. and to Halley, every 2 weeks Mark shows up to talk to people and to hear about what is new. I have heard that he does this for every section of Umbrella to stay on top of things. For him to do this he must get no sleep at all and that's not counting Halley and all she and the maids so. I am glad that I only have my dept. I would be nice to have the power that Mark has but the effort he needs to spend to keep it I would never want. But that's why he is the CEO because he keeps people in jobs they like and get paid well for it. With that people are more than happy to keep working for Umbrella and don't think a second of going anywhere else. Why would you when you can concentrate on what you love and not about the business / political side of things outside the company.

Hell he has two floors of a building just filled with accountants that actually want to be accountants but were too poor to go to school working for him. I can't even think of the loyalty that he gets for putting people from low income families or orphaned kids who have just been kicked out because there 18. He is giving them their dreams and a wonderful places to live with people they can trust.

I think that was the most ruthless thing he has done to date and it makes me wet with the power that gives him. He has basically started to get a loyal workforce that would do anything for him especially since his maids that are everywhere, and it seems they stomp on any sort of in-house politics fast and hard. No one in Umbrella needs to worry about that and can just enjoy their job without worry. He has also instituted personal in-house blogs that people can write on so him and management and keep abreast of anything new or problems creeping up. And if anyone abuses it they have to have a one on one talk with the maids about why they feel they needed to do that. Usually after they come out they say that the maids made them feel like the bully of a loving family and they are disappointed in them. After that 9 times out of 10 they don't need to be told again and if they do it it's a long time down the road.

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Blake Wonderhall POV

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It's my first year working in the law dept. of Umbrella, and I can't believe I am here. When I was graduating school in I had no real chance of getting a full scholarship. Sure I could get some minor ones because of me being an orphan and having no financial backers but I would probably have to go to school part time and take forever to get anything I wanted. Let alone getting a law degree with the time and money it takes. I got lucky because on my graduating year when looking for scholarships a poster was at my school by the counselors room, it gave the stupidest offer I could think of then.

It offered free schooling, room and board along with food if I went to schooling for something a company called Umbrella needed. When I looked over the list I found out that I could go to school to be a lawyer because it was on the list of things acceptable. Then came the fine print I basically sold my soul to the company for 10 years. I would live breath and sweat for Umbrella at a decent pay but since I would not be paying my own way I would have to wait till the end of the 10 years till apparently my pay increased according to my work ethic and what gave to the company.

I was thinking of all those liberal Nancy's that would get up all in your face at this but in my mind I actually thought hard about this and finally agreed to do it. All it took was for when I agreed for the scholarship was a contract signed by my guidance counselor and me since I was 18 that if I ever left before the 10 years where up and didn't pull a grade equivalent to being in the top 20% I would pay back the company 150% of the expense spent on me. It also stipulated even if I declared bankruptcy that I couldn't get out of it. I don't know how they got that in the contract and made legal, but I was told it was all true.

So I ended up fulfilling all those requirements and I have been here a year now. I can say that I will probably never leave here because this is exactly what I wanted. Also I don't have to play that political bullshit game that I heard about from my friends from university. They don't have me doing bullshit work either, I am already working my damn ass off and it helps that every piece of paper that enters the office is digitized with the latest software making is to searching for things easy. Add to it that we have our system link with Umbrella Net and anything needing searching on the internet is done so fast it's not funny.

I always thought these big companies would screw me in the end but the CEO who is close to my age basically told us his philosophy is a happy employee will work harder and give more of himself, then someone who is only here for money. After all the schooling and working here for a year I can see that Mr. Holdings is a damn genius when he made that scholarship. Because as I look around I can say that all his younger staff is all from the program. And in 10 years, we will still be here and we have a secure job I'm sure many banks will have given more generous loans to us knowing we will have a steady income. Hell he has a pension of 5% of our pay going into a fund called Umbrella that the company has a team managing so even if this company went under I would still have a pension unlike other big companies who paid out when people retired from there profit. There by making them have less profit every year people retired.

The weird thing but what I like is that I have to do a daily blog entry that is internal. All management even the CEO checks to see if there are problems to be addressed, or people to be moved around so others don't burn out. Neat idea and it has worked so far for people I work with, who are getting overwhelmed by big cases.

With how things are going I don't think I will ever leave because I have gotten an idea of what people make here compared to outside and Holdings keeps is people paid 10% higher than the national average for the position during the first 10 years. Later it is rumored to be much more, especially if we have been doing a good job. Hell that doesn't take into account the massive discounted holiday rentals all over the world that we can sign up for and as places get booked out he ends up buying more in the area so no one ever feels like they can't go somewhere.

With how big the company is right now I can only imagine how big it will be later, when we branch out into building a military R&D place that I have been working on getting papers filed for. Hell it's going to be out in the desert and no one so far give a crap about that other than environmentalists. And Australia right now would rather have Umbrella happy and making jobs for Australians in a place no one would ever use then listen to them, since it is specified 90% of the facility will be build underground along with housing for employees since nothing is around.

There have even been paperwork filed for liquor and food prep so that he can make some bars so people can do something on there off time. So in all reality there will be an Umbrella town in the middle of a desert that the government gets taxes from the people working there and property taxes from Umbrella. There is no one in the government nay saying this because Umbrella plans to use its own money, so if it fails the government can just come in and take over. But with the profit Umbrella Net makes by being everyone's connection to the internet no one believes it will go under.

As of right now everyone is clamoring for the owner to release the stock on the open Market that normal companies do to make some investment money. Since the owner doesn't need the money it is pretty much assumed that the company will stay private. It helps that he is making it so it's not a monopoly by having reseller's of the internet startup and still having the connection speed of a cube. The limiting factor is the reseller's lines and services. Hell there have been many condo companies that have bought a cube to set up for their buildings and new ones are being run with Ethernet and fiber optic because many customers are asking for it.

When you look at all this I don't think I will ever leave, add to it that I'm dating a girl in accounting and I think my life is set.