The halls were busy as everyone went around to get their work done, talking amongst themselves with nods and some with laughs, showing or handing each other paperwork and files. Work at Hyperion went on as usual as they all did their part to help make the world a better place. It's been 4 years since things have changed for the better good after Handsome Jack's fall, and it was all thanks to the youngest successor after the death of the previous CEO. (Y/n) (L/n), or Red Eye as she's preferred being dubbed that title since no one really knew her actual name when she came to rise in power. She used to have two beautiful (e/c) eyes that had a certain sparkle to them, but after taking on the name Red Eye, she had one eye removed and replaced with a ECHO-eye that was the color red. But she still kept her other eye to stay original and herself. (Y/n) came to Helios at the age of 19 as a souvenir of Handsome Jack's, her life before spent in the lands of Pandora. And she's the first to take the throne of CEO at the age of 20 due to Handsome Jack's will after his death. No one knew what her relationship was with him, others would occasionally see her walk down the halls with the man and not know who she was. Some believe that she was working in a very secret department of Helios while others believed she was one of Jack's one time flings, these theories led to how they think the young woman ended up being CEO in his will.

     But the real story behind it was that the relationship between Handsome Jack and (Y/n) was something more than a friendship. They were together romantically for almost a year. That was a secret from Handsome Jack's subordinates and employees. All of them except the body double, Timothy, who has taken the responsibility of being by (Y/n)'s and protect her as her personal bodyguard, and the assistant, Courtney, who became (Y/n)'s assistant after being Handsome Jack's assistant. The two kept it a secret until the time was right to tell everyone, it's been like that for 4 long years and (Y/n) and Timothy intend to keep it like that. Speaking of which, the two are walking down the halls as employees went up to her to ask for her opinions.

     "Miss Red Eye, what do you think of these flyers for the yearly Handsome Jack Memorial?" An employee asks as they all walked. (Y/n) looks at the flyer closely.

     "Hm... Instead of 'Come pay your respects!' in big bold letters. Make it a little more sophisticated like, 'On this day, come join us to pay our respects for the death of Pandora's Hero'. Doesn't that sound better? It's a memorial, not a music festival." The few employees nod.

     "Yes, ma'am!" They say as they took off. Courtney speeds up to (Y/n).

     "Miss Red Eye, about the charity funds for Pandora orphans..."

     "Oh right, how are those looking?" The assistant pulls up a screen on her holographic notepad. The three stop walking, along with the other employees who surrounded her, they all watch the graph chart as the line went up and hit the highest peak.

     "We met our goal." Courtney says as (Y/n) smiles.

     "We met our goal for the Pandoran orphans' charity, everyone!" (Y/n) says out loud as all the employees stop walking, "There will be free donuts in all the break rooms for all departments! Good job everyone!" All the employees cheer and clap. (Y/n) smiles and whispers to Courtney.

      "Make an order of at least a hundred dozen boxes of donuts and have them delivered right away." Courtney nods as she makes the order and the three continue to walk with the other employees following after them.

     "Miss, what do you think of these blueprint layouts for the new shelters?" A employee asks as she held up a blueprint with a concept idea of a single shelter home. (Y/n) rubs her chin as her red eye scanned the measurements.

     "There's a slight error. You need to use a stronger material for the beams and make that beam a bit taller." She says as the employee nods, hurrying off. A guard marches up to (Y/n) and the three stop walking.

     "Ma'am, a group of bandits ambushed one of our construction sights in the Dust."

     "Send down a Loader Bot right away. Make sure they're careful with the construction." The guard nods and salutes as he marched off. (Y/n) sighs heavily from exhaustion as the three continue to walk. Timothy chuckled as he glanced down at her while they walked, mask off so he looked like Jack before he got his scar and so employees know he was the loyal doppelgänger of Jack's.

     "Tired there?" He asks as (Y/n) hummed.

     "A bit, it's just one of those days." She sighed as they stop walking when a mini-bot prototype runs out in front of them and dashing down the halls. A engineer stumbles out and sees the mini-bot and runs after it. (Y/n) sighs with a shake of her head and smile, Timothy and Courtney chuckle as they continue to walk.

     "No doubt about it. But you've been doing really well and more these past few years." Timothy hummed with a small smile to her and she returns it.

     "I know, just helping everyone out as much as I can."

     "You learned pretty quickly your first year. Jack would be proud." Timothy says as he patted her shoulder with a gentle smile. (Y/n) sighs softly and looks up at him with a sad smile.

     "I know he would." The three hummed as they continue to walk and talk. Three employees stand down the hall in front of them and watched them walk closer.

     "There she is." The man in glasses says and elbowing the other with a mechanical arm. He looks over and takes a deep breath.

     "I don't know, Vaughn. She'll hate the idea." He says as the woman with them rolls her eyes.

     "You don't know that, Rhys." Vaughn nods as Rhys whines softly.

     "But I do know that, Yvette."

     "My calculations say that she will like the idea and will promote you." Vaughn says as Rhys is quiet for a moment, staring at (Y/n) before shaking his head.

     "No, my eye just did the math and statistics. It won't work." The two groan and facepalm at Rhys.

     "Well, maybe you need the new upgrade."

     "It's fine, it doesn't need the new upgrade." Rhys grumbled as he turned, "Oh god they're getting closer. I can't do this." He turns to escape before the two friends block his path.

     "Unless you want Vasquez to beat you in everything," Vaughn turns him around and Yvette starts to push him, "Man up and do it."

     "W-Wait!" Rhys begged before the two give him a shove and he stumbles in front of (Y/n). The three stop and look at Rhys in slight shock as his face was inches from (Y/n)'s face as he caught himself. His eyes wide as he stared at her cleavage, since she wore a pale yellow button up with a few buttons unbuttoned and the shirt neatly tucked into her pencil skirt.

     "Um... Hi?" (Y/n) raised a brow with a confused smile while staring down at him. Rhys blushed madly and quickly stood straight, holding the papers in a tight grip. 

     "U-Uhm, hello, Red Eye. MISS Red Eye, I mean." He stammered as he wanted to slam his head against a wall. Vaughn and Yvette facepalm as they watched from a distance, "I'm um Rhys. I work down in the data-mining department, with coding a-and such um..." He looks down at her as she stared up at him with a slight tilt of her head, her one (e/c) eye looking up at him innocently with a slight twinkle in her iris. Rhys feels his heart beat faster and his blush gets slightly darker. Timothy and Courtney glance at each other and look back at Rhys with a brow raised.

     "You alright there?" She asks with a soft chuckle and he nods.

     "Y-Yeah. Sorry, I'm just kinda nervous talking to you..." He admits sheepishly as he rubbed the nape of his neck.

     "Do I scare you?" She inquired with a brow raised.

     "W-What? Pft, no. You don't scare me." He says with a rather cocky tone before pausing when he realized how he spoke to her. "I-I mean, you don't scare me. I bet you are scary, I just don't see you as scary because you've done so much good for others." Rhys says frantically. (Y/n) looks at him with a unsure smile.

     "Um, okay? Is there something that you need?" She asks as Rhys nodded and handed her the papers, she reaches a hand out and takes the papers but he doesn't let go as he held it with a tight hold in his robotic hand. "Can I take this?" Rhys notices his grip and lets go.

     "I'm sorry." He says and mentally groaning for being such a pain. (Y/n) looks at him before smiling gently at him.

     "Do you wanna grab something to eat with me?" Rhys looked at her in slight shock.

     "M-Me with you?" He asks and she nods, Timothy leans down to her ear.

     "You have a busy schedule today, ma'am." (Y/n) waves him off and looks up at Timothy.

     "It's fine. I'll just use this as my lunch break. Courtney, move any meetings that I have in a short time being to later sometime today." Courtney nods as Rhys waves his hands.

     "Are you sure, ma'am? I-I don't want to be a bother if you're busy today." He says frantically as she laughed softly and takes both of his hands into hers, a blush rises to his cheeks again.

     "You're fine, Rhys. I just think this will help you not be so nervous around me. It's quite adorable though." She says with a sweet smile and he feels his heart leap into his throat as he nods.

     "A-Alright." (Y/n) hums as she let go of his hands.

     "If your friends over there want to come, they can." She added as they look at Vaughn and Yvette who both looked in different directions to make them look like they were distracted by something else. Rhys sighs and shakes his head before looking at (Y/n) with a sheepish smile.

     "Uhm... Yeah, they would." The two smile at each other.