(BL) Hunting The Field Guide

The blaring alarm stirred Kellen from his slumber. Sluggishly, he turned it off before flipping over onto his back. Blearily, he stared up at the ceiling, blinking as he slowly woke up.

Yesterday felt like a fever dream.

Honestly, the last several days felt like one.

But yesterday...he could not believe what he'd found. He'd liked the Captain. He'd liked the Captain for years. Idolized the man in fact. He couldn't believe that he'd forgotten about all of this for years! He'd worked with the man for seven years and he never remembered any of this? He never thought back to the fact that he had so many articles and magazines he'd read about the man in shoe boxes back at his parents house, and now in the apartment next to said man? He was now in a pair with this man, and his brain never thought to remember any of this? What crazy block had he put into place in his brain to forget this? He had scared himself with how much knowledge he'd had about the man as soon as he stared reading recent articles about him.

Whatever the case, Kellen knew that no one else was allowed to find those boxes. His life as he knew it would be over if they were found out.

Getting out of bed, Kellen changed into some of his workout clothing and headed downstairs for the gym, going through a fast, but heavy workout to clear his mind before coming back up to shower and get ready for the day. He made himself a quick breakfast before checking if he had any work related emails. He had a few from Casper about some edits for the first draft, along with some clarifying questions. Something he hadn't expected, however, was a couple of messages from his friends. The same friends who hadn't really reached out in the six months he'd been back in the city.

Surprised, he took to responding to them as he headed downstairs for his office. His plan for the day was to finish working on the edits Casper had made, along with checking the storage areas he hadn't seen yet. It was a rather solid plan, and Kellen got to work executing it. With a small direction from Maeve, he found his way to the storage floors. Like Kellen had assumed, they were well protected by several layers of protection. Maeve had worried that he wouldn't be able to gain access, along with the guards stationed there as well. When Kellen scanned his card and confirmed that he was Kellen Woods, he was let in. After that he went over the list of all of the equipment available to him, and sighed. If he was going to train Field Guides here, away from the front lines, he had feeling he was going to need a couple very difficult things to get in the city. He also wanted to get the trainee Field Guides the official uniform as part of the incentive to continue their training, but getting those custom ordered was going to take a lot of time, and a lot of money. He wasn't sure that the Guild was going to be willing to spend that.

When he met up with Casper to voice his concerns at lunch, the other Guide had laughed at him. Kellen didn't find it that funny, given the work that lay ahead of him. Casper only shook his head at his fellow Guide as they found a seat, noticing Kellen had picked even more food than normal.

"Kellen, did you forget? Gunther and the Captain wanted you to be the Field Guide instructor, and wanted you to be in charge of everything that entailed. Do you think that they came to that conclusion without putting a budget aside for your team you plan to make?" Kellen blinked, before he felt his face flush. Ah, he'd completely forgotten about that fact. Of course, because it was such a large Guild, they must have budgets and whatnot. He was used to being on the front lines basically on his own. He didn't have a backlog of money he could rely on outside of contracts where that was written in.