A Friendly Discussion
Ray walked out of the office to see a semi-impatient look on the other stallion's face.
`"I see you've finally made your way out." He said in a tone that didn't exactly make Ray's impression of him much better. "Well, since you're here I've got some things I want to discuss since you seem to be in a relationship with the one who my job is centered on." Ray listened carefully, trying his best not to show any disrespect.
'I don't need to give this guy any reason to dislike me. Especially with that hardware.' Ray thought to himself as he eyed the other unicorn's belt which contained about a half-dozen knives that looked to be designed for aerodynamics. "And why is your job centered on Vinyl, exactly?" Ray asked with his usual indifferent tone, although having an amount of interest in the subject.
"Well," Carbon started, "We don't know what those ponies were after, and it doesn't seem like we're going to find out any time soon." He turned his eyes onto the blue unicorn, "So until we either find the object in question or the ponies that were after it, I'm going to be an escort for your marefriend in there." He said as he gave a nod in the direction of Vinyl's office.
"Hold on a second." Said the blue stallion, "Escorting to where?"
"Anywhere she has to go." Carbon replied, much to Ray's displeasure.
"You're joking, right? Everywhere?"
"Do I look like I'm joking?" Carbon asked, giving the other pony a very serious look.
Ray just glared at the other stallion through his sun-glasses. He didn't like the idea of some other stallion constantly being on top of his marefriend, and he wasn't planning on letting him without setting some ground rules.
"Look. I don't want to cause any conflicts with the both of us, but if you think I'm going to let you invade Vinyl's privacy and constantly be on her tail, then you'd better reconsider your thought process." As Ray finished his rant he relaxed himself a bit, not wanting to seem like a hot-head near this particular pony as it had the possibility of ending badly for the both of them. After all, Ray wasn't the kind of stallion to stand there and take a beating.
"Sorry pal, it's a necessary precaution and it's strictly for her protection."
Ray scoffed at this statement, not quite caring for the other unicorn's attitued toward the entire situation. "So you think I'm going to let you invade her, and by extension, my privacy?"
"Sounding a bit confrontational there, ShoutOut. If you'd like, we could take this outside." He looked over at Ray to see if there were any changes in his attitude, but much to the stallion's surprise, the blue unicorn wasn't backing down from this.
"You know what? No. I'm not going to stoop myself to that." Ray told Carbon. "And besides, I don't think Vinyl would appreciate me getting arrested for taking on a security escort and leaving them useless."
Carbon laughed, which made Ray jump. "I like you kid, we're going to get along just fine." He said. Carbon walked over and gave Ray a pat on his shoulder before turning away and heading to the group of his colleagues who'd gathered across the room to watch him and Ray argue.
Ray just stood there, dumbstruck. He hadn't been expecting Carbon to have been joking the entire time.
Carbon turned his head around before he got too far away from the other male and said, "Don't worry, if you two want some privacy I'll give it to you. But I'm still going to be nearby constantly." Once he finished speaking, Carbon turned back around and reached his associates and began conversating with them.
Ray shook his head and turned back towards Vinyl's office. 'Well that was.. Interesting.' He thought as he replayed what had just happened in his mind. He reached Vinyl's office and opened the door to find his marefriend sleeping with a set of headphones upon her head.
After debating about it for a moment he thought, 'I'll just let her sleep.'
Ray went his way over to his marefriends seat and lay down next to it on the floor, taking a moment to get comfortable, and relaxing his body. After a few minutes he began to feel himself drift to sleep and his last thought, before entering the land of dreams, was that of him and mis marefriend enjoying themselves at their previous dinner.