Thief
Vinyl was leaning back in her chair in her office, thinking about what had happened. Last night after she had gone to bed and gotten to sleep, someone had broken into the studio and trashed the place. Her and some other employees had searched around but nothing had been taken, everything had just been moved hastily and made it look as if they were searching for something.
'Wonder what it could've been...' Vinyl thought to herself. She heard a knock on her door and gave confirmation to whoever it was to enter.
"So," Said an unmistakably male voice, "They've decided that nothing was stolen. And as a saftey precaution, I'm going to be standing guard here along with a few of my more... pudgy associates."
Vinyl turned around to see the stallion who was talking to her.
"Really Carbon? Isn't that a little much?" She asked, not wanting to have a plathora of guards around her at all times.
"No." He said blatantly, not giving it a second thought. "It's necessary until we figure out what they were looking for, and why it would be here."
Before Vinyl could respond to him, Carbon turned his head around as his shoulder was tapped by a hoof.
"Excuse me, I'd like to see my marefriend if you wouldn't mind." Ray said to the black stallion in front of him. Carbon stepped out of his way and made his way to Vinyl, spun her chair around so she was facing away from the doorway, and walked in front of her.
"Everything okay?" He asked Vinyl as he looked to her through his glasses.
"Yeah.. Everything's fine. Somepony broke in last night after you left and tore the place apart looking for something. And we still don't know what it was." She said, hopping off the chair and leaning onto the stallion. "Just happy to see you."
Ray placed an arm around Vinyl's neck and nuzzled her cheek. "Me too." He said, trying to comfort the mare as best he could.
After a few moments of them sharing the embrace, Carbon coughed to get their attention.
"So, I'm assuming that you're Vinyl's coltfriend." He said, eyeing the dark blue stallion. "Since I'm going to be taking up positions here, I believe we'll be coming to know eachother quite well." As he said this he approched the dark unicorn, raising a hoof for him to shake.
Ray shook the other stallion's hoof after having let Vinyl out of their embrace and asked him, "What's you're name?"
"My name is Carbon. And you are?" Carbon retorted.
"For now, call me ShoutOut, if you would." Saying this, Ray made sure to make it sound as if he wasn't asking. And he wasn't.
"Alright... ShoutOut. Since we'll both be involved with Vinyl a fair amount for a while, I think we should talk about some things." He told the other stallion. Now it was Carbon's turn to give the command. "If you would come with me." He said, walking out the door to the office.
Before he walked out, Ray turned back to Vinyl and told her, "I'll be back when we're done." And then gave her another tight hug before following the gray stallion out of the room, leaving Vinyl alone to her thoughts.
She sighed, different posibilities for her studio being ransacked ran through her head. 'Maybe it was just one of the other employees looking for something and got frantic..' She thought to herself. 'No.. that can't be it. Maybe it was somepony looking for something my Ex Boss left here.. Nah, there's no way he left anything that important here. Especially if someone wanted it from him..'
Vinyl had waited for about a half hour, having placed on a pair of headphones to pass the time. She took to resting her eyes for a few minutes, seeing as Ray probably wouldn't be back for a while longer, and fell asleep shortly after.
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About an hour and a half after they had left, Ray re-entered his marefriend's office to find her asleep. He walked over and layed himself against the side of the chair she'd somehow fallen asleep in and waited for her to wake.
The thought of waking her himself crossed his mind, but he thought better of it.
'I'll just let her sleep, it's not like there's anything important to do right now, seeing as the police are taking care of things for now.'
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Vinyl awoke slowly, and removed her headphones. She blinked a few times to clear her vision and looked around the room. After scanning it quickly, she went to get up and felt something pushing against her chair.
She smiled, "Ray, you could've woken me up."
"I know, but I thought you deserved some rest." He responded, rising to his hooves and coming closer to the mare.
"Aren't you just so considerate?" She said, teasing the stallion as she wrapped herself around him in a tight hug.
He smiled and returned the embrace. "I do try."
"So what did you and Carbon talk about?" She asked him, staying in the embrace, not wanting the contact to come to an end.
"Nothing important." Ray answered. "Just some mumbo-jumbo about security and you having an escort from now on. By him personally, of course."
"I think that counts as important, ya big lug."
"I guess it depends on how you look at it."
Him and Carbon actually had a lengthy conversation and at some points, began to argue. Ray wasn't exactly comfortable with the other stallion constantly watching over Vinyl, but he wasn't going to let her know that.
Vinyl sighed. "I guess I should get back to making sure everything's going well around here. The place isn't going to run on its own." She said, pulling her head back but not pulling out of the hug. "And I've got a nice big stallion here to help me." She added.
"Anything you need, Vinyl, I'll help as much as I can." He told her, bringing his face closer to hers so their noses were in contact.
Vinyl simply smiled and looked at the stallion. "I know you will." She told him.
The two had apparently had the same thought at that moment and leaned into eachother's muzzles for a kiss. The session lasted for a few minutes until they needed to catch their breath.
Vinyl gave her stallion another quick peck and said, "Well, the work isn't going to do itself."