The Hotel in Lior

[androgynos]

The cab pulled up to the hotel and Archer got out, waiting for Sheska and the cab driver to get their luggage out. He paid and tipped the cabbie and asked, "If you would be so kind as to carry the lady's luggage up to the front desk." and handed him another bill for his troubles. He picked up his own luggage and carried it in, followed by the private and the cabby, who set her bags down at the desk, saluted Archer casually and left.

Archer paid the front desk clerk for the rooms and requested a bell boy to carry Sheska's luggage up to her room. Three floors was quite a lot to carry all the luggage she had brought. 'Books, no doubt,' he thought to himself.

It was a small hotel with no elevator and only three floors, which they had to climb themselves. They climbed the stairs up to the third floor and the bell boy dropped the luggage at room 32 and Archer reached into his pocket and pulled out another bill and gave it to him. He opened her door and then handed Sheska her key and walked across to room 33 and opened the door. He turned back to the private and said, "Oh, I'm ordering room service to bring us both up something to eat." he gave her a warning look when she looked like she was going to protest. "Take some time to clean and rest up, it should arrive in about a half hour or so." he walked into his room dropped his suitcases and called up room service for food and drink. He then plopped on the mattress and lay back and fell asleep immediately.

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Sheska complied with a light and tiring "Yes sir.", as she walked into her room, while dragging in her bags and closing the door back.

She stared around at the not so very vast area in front of her. The hotels in Lior obviously didn't really accommodate well to space, which she could greatly see why too as the area was out in the middle of the desert. Nonetheless, with placing her bags near the bed, she begins to go through one of them, while also caculating around space of where she actually could put them. She afterall had to bring enough for two long weeks.

"Geez, if I load all my books in here, they will take up the whole room." Sheska stated and paused. "Oh well, I guess it just will. It's not like I never gotten use to bunch of books all over the place. "

She then places the luggage of books off to the side, to eventually get back to organizing them later on. As of now however, she needed a good shower and a good sleep. So with walking over to the (small) bathroom, she turns the shower head on while grabbing some towels and wash clothes off the rack.

Once that was over, she then went back to one of her luggages that supplied clothes, and got some fresh one's out. Which as she was doing all this, her mind wandered over to how Archer was acting a min ago. He seemed to had gone slightly caring on her. 'Opening up the door for her', 'requesting people to take her bags to her room'...Where did all this come aboard? Sheska knew he really didn't care for nothing but about himself, and making sure he gets what wants in praise.

"Weird...I dunno what brought that upon." Even so though she looked to a nearby clock and saw that the time was steady away ticking. "Well I better get to the shower, that room service will be appearing soon..." She said slightly droned, while grabbing her clothes, and heading into the bathroom, to shower.

(( Hmm, what exactly is the time setting around here? XD ))

[androgynos]

((dunno, maybe around mid-afternoon or early evening?))

Archer jumped with a start when he heard a knock at his door. He stood up and smoothed his pants and went to answer. It was room service. He yawned and let the man in to set up the food. He sat back on the bed and waited for him to finish and leave. He simply assumed that they had taken dinner over to the private, so he was surprised to see two servings of food. Unless they'd made a mistake and brought him two dinners, one of these was for her. He sighed and took one of the plates across the hallway and knocked on her door, unaware that he had a tuft of hair sticking up on the top of his head from his nap. It smelled delicious and he was starved and ready to eat his own meal.

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(( Well early evening it is ^^...seems suitable XD ))

Sheska, now exiting from the bathroom with a new fresh pair of clothes on, and might add towel over her head, begins to ruffle through her hair to make it somewhat dry. Once doing that, she then pulls it off in a huff to notice her hair go standing up...

"Oh geez..." Sheska mumbled out dryly, when feeling how her hair was behaving. She then grabs out a brush and begins to tame it down somewhat by stroking it, though when doing so a sudden knock struck her by the door.

"Hmm...?" She uttered out a moment puzzled by it, but then she had realized about the room service. "Oh wow...there already here? That was fast. Uh hold on please!" Sheska called outloud to the person, while hurriedly moving from the spot she was in, to get to the door.

Though when getting there she slightly tripped over a luggage while almost about to fall flat on her face, but was however this time saved from that when her hand reached the doorknob to hold her in place. She after all still had a lot things strewn about all over the floor.

Nonetheless when finally reaching up to the door, she sighs while opening it up to give off a apology to the person (for the wait), but instead immediately became poise when seeing it was Archer, and with a plate of food in his hand?

"Oh sir!" She exclaimed surprisedly, not expecting him of all people to be delivering the food to her. "I'm soo sorry. I-I didn't know you would be out here..." She trailed off, the last sentence coming out barely audible. She noticed also while getting a slight glance of him that he must of also just woken up from one of those abrupt naps, since some of his hair was standing on it's ends.

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Archer tried to stifle a yawn, but it came out anyhow. His eyes were bleary and tired and he held the plate of food out to Sheska, "Here, they brought it to my room. I certainly hope you have an appetite by now." He yawned again and scratched the back of his head, unaware that the top of it was sticking up.

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Sheska stared, while slightly observing the somewhat messy hair Archer had upon him. She figured he must have not noticed, or in the least did not care considering how tired he look. But even so though she took the plate of food with much gratitude.

"Um...yeah I guess I do actually...Thank you sir." She said in response, while kind of trying to hold in a giggle from escaping her mouth. It again was always kind of amusing to her when seeing him like this.

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Archer raised his eyebrow when he saw the look on her face. Apparently something was funny, she was obviously trying to not laugh.

"Ok then," he said, "I'm going to eat and catch up on some much needed sleep. Be ready at 07:00 hours. Goodnight." he turned around and walked back to his room and ate his meal and then lay on the bed, falling asleep immediately with his clothes on.

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Sheska, when seeing Archer leave, then closes the door, while now releasing out her giggle into the area. She knew that he probably already suspected that she was going to do that, but luckily didn't question her about it.

Still yet though, with giving out a yawn herself, she then gets situated, while eating up the meal. Once done, she gets into the bed to go to sleep, and be ready for another given 'order' day.

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Archer woke up to the sound of the traveling alarm clock he took with him while traveling. He shut it off and rolled back over going back to sleep.

Awhile later, he started upright in bed. He grabbed the clock and looked at the time? 7:15AM?? Not only was he not yet up..he was already 15 minutes late as well. This was not good. The only other time he'd been late in his life was when he was sick with a fever and delerious, and he'd still gone in that day for about an hour before giving up and going home..at the insistence of his peers. Well, being late was certainly no way to establish authority with your underlings that was for sure. He wondered if the Private had tried knocking already..

[androgynos]

[ oh sheska...come out, come out wherever you are... ]

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(( I'm here! XD And alive somewhat...(lol) Sorry about my long absence away, I been busy with doing school work. My weekends have been getting tied up with having to do assigned projects all the time. It's such a pest >_<. So thats what been kind of restricting me away from the computer. Also I unfortunately don't have a post now. But I will soon enough, hopefully by this weekend or the upcoming week.

Nonetheless since I had some time to use the computer, I thought I would drop the line. I plan to be back soon and posting, once all this mess is out of the way XP ^^ ))

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Sheska waited outside the door of Archer's room. And had been waiting there for practically over 15 mins now, that being because she always came a bit early then her time. Just to be on point.

She had knocked earlier on the door, but there oddly was no reply or action given from Archer. Strange. She would have thought most likely he would have been already outside the door by now. But he wasn't. Though she figured when she did knock before, it was given off rather lightly, since she didn't want seem as if she was being a annoyance. Which as of now she was kind of hesitant on knocking that door again, afraid that he may come out furious. So she waited as patiently as she could, hoping that he would come out any min now.

"This is strange. He said be up by 7AM and yet he's not even out of his room yet. I hope everything is alright in there with him..." She said out of somewhat concern, while staring curiously at the door. "I'll wait another min, and if nothing happens. I'll knock again."

(( Excuse me for the double posting XD ))

[androgynos]

He dashed about wildly, throwing his clothes on and cursing himself. It was all wrinkled still from the train ride! Well, there would be no time for a shower this morning, he would just have to endure the day in this condition. He was buttoning up his shirt when he heard a knock on the door. He jumped and cursed, "Holy crap!" What a way to get his nerves going in the morning!

He strode over to the door and swung it open, looking expectantly. "Yes, what is it?" he snapped impatiently, upset with himself. He stood there, looking at the Private, with his shirt buttoned lopsided and his hair a mess. He was smoothing his hair out, but had no clue the shirt was lopsided.

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(( Hehe@Archer's unreadiness XD ))

Sheska from how the door swung open, had sort of backpedaled her steps a little. A bit taken back from it. Nonetheless she became upright when hearing him snap out on her. Someone was having a very bad morning. She could tell from just looking at him.

"Uh...Good morning sir. I'm sorry to bother you, I was just making sure everything was alright. Since you did say be up by 7AM..." She stated, as if reminding him.

Her green eyes moved slightly to his uniform. It was wrinkled and a complete mess. Did he even bother to iron it? Well clearly she could see that he didn't. And she also didn't want to irk his nerves anymore then it already was by pointing that out to him. So she looked away, afraid that if she even did point it out, that it would only cause more anger on his part.

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Archer blushed when he saw the Private observing his unkempt state. How humiliating! He had an image and a reputation to keep up. Well, it's not like she was wasn't a scatterbrain with a few wrinkles in her uniform from time to time...probably from crawling around stacks of books and boxes of case files for him.

"Oh, begging your pardon! I know I look dreadful..ah..I'm afraid the train ride left me exhausted and I overslept. I'll be ready presently. If you would wait in your room, I'll be out in, say, five minutes?" he stammered out nervously.

"You must be absolutely starving to death first thing in the morning. Well, late or not, a person cannot function well on an empty stomach. Would you accompany me to the dining area for breakfast? That is, unless you've eaten already..." he added, trailing off nervously.

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Sheska kind of remained silent, while taking in his words. She indeed had never seen this sight of him before. He even was nervous! Well then again he is human, and even someone like him has to have a bad day every once in awhile. But she on the other hand, never really thought she would've experienced it from him.

Nonetheless after being silent for a whole second. She answered kindly to his offer.

"Uh...well sure sir. That would be fine. " She gives off a somewhat smile. "And no, I haven't ate anything. I'll just let you get ready for now though."

She gave off an uneasy chuckle, and walks away, heading back to her room. Though before she entered, she glanced back at him for a moment, still a bit surprised by his actions. It was different indeed, though she didn't want to draw attention to herself by just staring, so she swiftly resumed her lead back into the room.

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Archer straightened his uniform out and scowled at his reflection. A bit messy, but it would have to do. And who would care out here in the middle of nowhere anyhow? He decided to splash on a little aftershave since he didn't shower that morning. What was he thinking, asking the Private to join him for breakfast in such an unkempt state? Well, no matter...he'd already asked, and he was hungry and anxious to start the day.

He locked his hotel door and walked across the hall to private sheskas room and rapped sharply on the door, brushing a few wrinkles out of his jacket lapel as he waited.

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(( Sorry about the delay again . School's been aggravating me XP ))

Sheska was reading through a book, until she heard the sudden sound of the knocking. She looked over to the door, while placing the book onto a nearby nightstand. She assumed that had to be Archer, and he must have gotten himself all readied up by now. Well she hoped he did, from his earlier appearance.

"I better not keep him waiting for too long..." She heeded to herself, knowing how he could get.

So with making her way over to the door, she opens it. As suspected, it was the Lt. Colonel, but now in a more proper manner.

"Good morning sir..." Sheska greeted out to him, as she did before. "All ready?"

She gave out a kind smile, not wanting to trigger any offensive mood. She was aware of that he wasn't having already a good morning, so there was no use in prolonging it.

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Archer straightened his uniform lapel again and looked at the private. "Yes, I'm ready. And could you grab a few case files for me? I want the files marked 'eyes only' for Marco and Tuckers research. I'd like to go over them during breakfast...and I'm certain you needn't be reminded that files marked 'eyes only' are to be held in the strictest confidence. I'm sure you understand that it's only due to your unique abilities that you are allowed access to them at all, correct?" he waited for her reply.

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Sheska smile kind of faded away when hearing him. "Yes that is correct sir..." She replied, feeling slightly downtrodden. "I'll go get them now."

She then heads back into the room shuffling through all the books, until she ended up in the area where she put the research files at. She had placed them in this briefcase for them not to get mixed up with anything else or for that matter her studies. She knew if that ever happen, she be in severe trouble.

She opens the case, went through it, while pulling out one manilla folder packet. Again she had splitted them up like that for a reason, since there was so many of them. Which when retrieving it, she heads back up to where Archer was waiting, while handing it over towards him. Figuring he would want to have them now.