Most days, Aries would've come home with a sense of relaxation and accomplishment from having done a long day's work. Today, however, was different. He didn't feel at ease, he felt anxious, worried about what he could possibly have to deal with from his boss. Perhaps he'd found out he hadn't followed his orders to a t. Perhaps he had a rather laborious task for him, he knew that he didn't like doing dirty work.

He turned on the light as he entered his apartment, almost exhausted at what he'd done that day. Though it wasn't that he effectively fired a man, moreso that he had been anxious all day. Not even his usual smoke break had calmed his nerves, odd, they always seemed to do the trick. He set down his briefcase and went to grab a tumbler for his whiskey. He didn't bother putting any ice in it, he wasn't doing it for pampering reasons, he was doing it for some form of relief from the feelings he was having.

His home life wasn't terrible, incredibly boring, but not terrible. Aries found it to be quite comforting, the sense of repetition being soothing to him. It was nice to have something being relatively predictable in the mess of a life he had. Although, in a way, everything was predictable to him. Or at least, it would be eventually. As he threw back the glass of whiskey he felt the slight burn down his throat that he had come to enjoy after years of drinking. If anyone asked, he would say he didn't have a substance abuse issue, or that he was dependent on it, rather it was an occasional assist.

"Back on the drinking again, Aries?"

The sudden speech made him jump and drop his glass. Looking down upon it in disappointment, he'd have to sweep that up later. He turned around to see Fane, his boss, standing in the living room. His presence almost suffocating Aries. It was a feeling he'd never grown accustomed to and he figured he wouldn't anytime soon. Yet despite his overwhelming presence there was something alluring about him, something that made Aries want to know him more personally. He wasn't sure what it was and he wasn't sure if he liked it. "What do you want?"

"Now darling, is that any way to talk to your superior?" Fane said walking closer to him, looking him in the eye. Now Aries wasn't a short man, he was taller than most, but Fane's height almost made him look below average. What Aries lacked in height, he made up for in muscle mass compared to Fane. Fane could've been described as very lithe, whereas Aries had more tone to him. Aries hung his head and shook it, not trusting himself to come off as more annoyed and risking his already questionable relationship with his boss. "Good, now, I have a contract for you."

"At this hour?"

"From a newer client, they contacted us and informed us that they need a target eliminated." Fane explained, walking away and turning to look out the window that overlooked the city. Aries watched with mild contempt, he had just gotten home and now has to go on another job. Fane folded his hands behind his back as he looked out the window with disdain, a grimace evident on his sharp features. His blonde hair given slight different hues from the city lights below. "All of the needed information is in the packet next to you."

Aries picked it up and flitted through it similarly to the way he had done with Mr. Wilson's file earlier that day. Something about the contract needing to be eliminated in the most sadistic way possible, Aries could do that. Upon further inspection he found that they were half way across town, that might cause some problems. He checked the watch on his wrist, 5:32. As much as he deigned doing contracts at this time at such a far distance, it did have it's perks. Namely that it would be harder to catch him in the act by anyone he knew he'd left his apartment.

"Pathetic."

"What is?" Aries asked, not sure what his boss was talking about.

"Humans live like this, droning on day in and day out, without a care in the world. Their lives almost like grains of sand on a beach, blissfully unaware that they'll be swept away by the waves of time." Aries set down the packet back on the counter, folding his arms over his chest and listening to Fane's cynical rant about humanity. "There are so few that don't understand the true potential that they have. And even fewer that will actually seize the potential."

In all honesty, he couldn't care less about his boss's outlook on life. If he had the courage, he would've told him to shut up, but he rather enjoyed living. Just as he was about to check the time again so he could time his boss's ramblings, he turned around, getting his attention almost immediately. He stood in fear of what his boss was planning on doing to him. He hoped that he hadn't known that he wasn't paying attention. Once Fane reached him, he grabbed ahold of Aries's tie and wound it around his hand, rendering the shorter man immobile.

"You, however, were just bright enough to figure it out." Aries swallowed thickly, the tension between the two of them unlike anything he had ever felt before. It wasn't unpleasant. Before Aries had another moment to question what Fane was going to do to him, he was let go. The taller man said not another word before walking out the front door, leaving his subordinate confused and dazed.

Aries left to get the broom to sweep up the almost forgotten glass that was on the floor. As he made his way to the closet he was left with thoughts of how he planned on executing the contract and his feelings about his boss. There was obviously something there but given that he had felt this way about him ever since he met him, he brushed it off as just some weird gut feeling.

As for how he would take out the contract, he figured he'd need to get some equipment, or he could just use psychological tactics he'd learned over the years to make them squirm under his boot. Of course he'd need to change clothes, he wouldn't want to be seen in something like this for a contract. Then he would run himself a nice hot shower, and head to bed.