xp_logs | Adrienne and Sue: Recruiting (Backdated)

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Sue and Adrienne meet to wrap up the case and things happen.

"Thanks for meeting with me," Adrienne nodded at Sue as she opened the door to Warren's office and ushered Sue in. "We'll be sitting in Mr. Worthington's office today, I hope you don't mind. My office is being professionally cleaned.

"So it seems like I missed some excitement this past week, huh?" Adrienne asked, referencing her team's encounter with the U-Men. "Next time I'll have to request that nothing exciting happen during MLB Opening Week while I'm away." Not that she regretted taking in the Sox/Yankees series or the Home Opening series against Washington the past couple days.

"Why do I get the feeling I need to apologize for him," Sue asked dryly taking a set opposite Adrienne, "I'll try to make a not that MLB opening week is a strictly business as usual week and no excitement is allowed at all. Though to be honest I really didn't think that things would get quite this exciting, I was looking forward to opening week myself."

"Oh yeah?" It was a point in Sue's favour because it meant that maybe there was a chance this version was a little like the one Adrienne had known, the one she had grown to trust. That would be nice. These dopplegangers definitely ran the spectrum between being completely different from the person Adrienne had known, like Jean, and being eerily similar, like Wanda. "Are you a Yankees fan?"

Sue grinned, "Yankees girl, born and raised, well not exactly born but definitely raised." she allowed casting about in her mind to remember what she could about the Frost family, "you grew in in Boston so I'm guessing you're a Red Sox fan?" she hazarded a guess.

"Born and raised," Adrienne nodded with a slight smile, starting to feel a little more comfortable around Sue. "You don't by any chance like chess, do you?"

Sue arched an eyebrow, "You have done your homework Ms Frost, I have dabbled in chess before," she admitted, "started in high school and somehow it's stuck with me through all the years. Not that I really get as much time to play as I'd like these days, there is always something that seems to crop up."

Adrienne pulled a small set from her bottom desk drawer and got to work setting it up. "Let's play now," she grinned, the last rigidity in her spine slipping away as Sue began to seem even more familiar to her. "And please don't call me Ms. Frost." It was weird. She knew this Sue was older, but Adrienne still felt like she knew her, and it was strange not being called Yogi by the young blonde. Even when Sue had been a student she'd barely called Adrienne 'Ms. Frost.' "Adrienne's fine. So, I gotta level with you," she admitted as she put the chess pieces into place, "I wanted to talk to you today, not just to wrap up everything with your case, but also because Warren Worthington, my business partner here, asked me to. He mentioned that you might be looking for some work."

Sue's hand flicked out absconding with two pawns as she jumbled them behind her back before offering Adrienne two fists with a smile, "your pick...Adrienne." she smiled and leaned back in her chair, "Something like that," she admitted, "As you probably picked up I have a soft spot for a good cause but," she shrugged, "what we did with those police officers. I could never have managed anything like that alone. I've always been a lone wolf but, it was nice to have a team to watch my back."

Adrienne touched one of Sue's fists and accepted the black pawn from it, turning the board appropriately. "What do you do when you're not being a lone wolf?" she asked Sue, wanting to get a little better idea of how the blonde spent her time, particularly since Sue had seemed so casual about whether she was looking for work.

"Mainly, I work for my father in a floating capacity. His idea of a way for me to get a feel for the company and start to figure out the ropes. I'm basically somewhere between a PA and firefighter for him. Sometimes my grandad uses me in the same way, it's pretty cool actually. I get to fly all over the world to deal with business holdings. I honestly think they're having a competition to see who can attract me to their firm full time."

"That's quite interesting," Adrienne nodded, now beginning to see why Worthington thought Sue might be an asset to XFI. "So you obviously have some knowledge of what we do here at X-Factor Investigations in regards to providing information to primarily mutant clients in both the corporate and private realms of business, but has Worthington told you about our other goal here? Keeping informed about mutant issues- newly manifested young mutants, in particular- through a network of contacts throughout the country, and- to a smaller extent- internationally, as well as providing safe houses for mutants who may need them?"

Sue nodded slowly, "I think I can help with that. Since you've read the case file and talked to Warren I guess you know a little bit about me. I have a specialization in security systems and information control systems. I can help you set up and keep those safehouses secure." She might have started with an interest in breaking through the security but you had to understand how it worked in order to really beat the system, which had resulted in Sue coming up with a few new inventions for her father's firm.

Adrienne raised an eyebrow as she finished setting up the chess board and gestured for Sue to make her first move, intrigued. "Oh yeah? So that's something you'd be interested in? Maybe on a consultancy basis?" she offered. "Unless you're looking to invest some of grandfather and dad's money- through anonymous channels of course- in a worthy cause to make yourself a business partner?"

Sue smirked as she slide her queen's side pawn up across the board, "I'm sure I could arrange for something. I've had the first release of my trust fund burning a hole in the investment bank's pocket for a couple of years now. It's about time I put it to good use. And I'm pretty sure that Grandpa would love the chance to get in on the ground floor of a business like this. He lives for this."

"That's what I like to hear," Adrienne replied with a grin, making her own opening move with her king's pawn. "I'll make sure to have some paperwork drawn up. You're living in the city, right?"

"I was until all this happened," Sue allowed nodding at the casefile, "but it left my apartment trashed. I'll need to get it repaired, and maybe put in a better security system. I'm staying at the Xavier mansion up in Westchester right now, sharing a suite with Julian Keller."

"Are you?" Adrienne's eyes widened in interest. "I guess we'll be neighbours."

"You too!" Sue's face mirrored Adrienne's, "wow, talk about a small world."

"Yeah, especially with you being my ward's boyfriend's roommate." Adrienne steepled her fingers diabolically. "This could be verrry beneficial to me." Not that she had much interest in Tandy's love life, but it was fun to make them think that she did.

Sue's grin turned decidedly impish, "Embarrassing stories and or pictures can be shared of course," she assured Adrienne as she slide her next piece out to set up her opening, "Talk about coincidence, please don't tell me Warren is secretly your cousin or something, I'm not sure how much more coincidence i can take."

"Oh Christ." Adrienne rolled her eyes and made her own move on the chess board. "That would be horrifying. Although he does have many Frost qualities so if it turned out we were actually related, I wouldn't be altogether surprised. How do you know the guy?"

"I met him at a trade expo, I might have told of a crowd looking to use some tech to identify and isolate mutants and Warren showed up when a few of them decided to make things get ugly. Saved their asses too," she told Adrienne in a stage whisper, "turns out our families used to holiday in the same resort back when we were much younger...and he has baby photos. Things just kinda snowballed from there and now," Sue shrugged, "Somehow I find myself apologizing for him."

Adrienne chuckled at that, waving a hand dismissively. "You don't have to apologize for him. I know he's a good guy underneath all that frat boy immaturity, and while I may not approve of the majority of his decisions, I do trust him not to get any of this team killed. I just think it's kind of amusing that he wants me to hire you so he can keep an eye on you, when I've known you for like twenty minutes and already have a feeling that you're more mature than he'll ever be."

"Warren has a case of the big brother thing going, which to be honest I'm pretty ok with," Sue admitted, "Only really known him for like a month but feels like a lot longer. In a lot of ways he kinda reminds me of my little brother, only you know, a lot older than me instead." the blonde shook her head, "Warren and Julian, I apparently have a type when it comes to my friends," she noted with a laugh. "He won't get anyone killed, but as for everything else, it's fair game, you don't mind if he redecorates the offices if he feels like it?"

"Oh, I absolutely mind," Adrienne told Sue with a smirk. "If anyone from the mansion is going to redecorate our offices if they feel like it, I want it to be Felicia Hardy, not Warren Worthington. Or maybe you if you don't put up any Yankee stuff. Pretty much anyone who's not a Frat Boy."

"Awww not even a little flag? on my desk...I do get a desk right?" funny how she hadn't even thought of something like that, "and if it's my desk then I get to decorate it however I want to right?" The younger blonde grinned innocently at Adrienne.

Adrienne glowered at Sue as hard as she could. "Your desk," she informed Sue matter-of-factly. "Yes. You can do whatever you want as long as it's not profane to your desk and your desk only, and if you really wanted the Frat Boy to decorate it, you can even do that if you want."

Sue shuddered, "I like Warren but no, I don't think I wanna let him anywhere near my desk. I don't really want leave myself open to his tender mercies like that, I have no idea what it could end up like." she pointed out holding up her hands in surrender, "I promise no Yankees paraphernalia on my desk, have to keep it professional looking in the office, I have a suite back in the mansion I need to redo if Julian lets me. Though, to be honest, the whole over doing it with sports stuff doesn't really do a lot for me on the design scene. I prefer something that looks nice to something that blasts my preferences all over for everyone to see."

"Good girl," Adrienne nodded. "I think we're gonna get along just fine. Now, concentrate," she encouraged, gesturing to the chess board, "cuz you're going down."

Sue smirked wickedly, "Tell me that after I crush you into a pulp so hard you cry uncle," she shot back at Adrienne as she shifted her focus to the board. She was gonna like it here.