Later on at the Golden Chopsticks restaurant the two ladies are having dinner when a young man walks up and asks if he can join them. Julia looks over the young man and can tell he is not a threat. “I do not mind if my friend does not.” Julia looks at Fuka.
“Sure we have room.” Fuka tells the young man.
“You two are new to town.” He takes a seat.
“What makes you so sure?” Julia asks him.
“If I had seen two such beautiful ladies around here before I would remember.” As he looks over at both.
“Wow do you use that line every time.” Julia looks at him with a smile on her face.
“Not all the time. I hope you are not offended?”
“No just looking to see were things stand that’s all” Julia looks at Fuka, “You are very quiet.”
“Not mush to say. You have been handling things so let the master work.” Fuka takes a drink.
The night move on and the three enjoy dinner and dancing. When the ladies go to head home the young man asks if they could give him a lift home as he lives just down the road. They say OK.
On the way Fuka looks over at Julia. “We do not need to take him home.”
Julia looks at Fuka. “Why you have other plans for him?” With a smile on her face.
“No. this is my friend I talked with you about.” Fuka looks to the back seat. “Eric. Julia. Julia. Eric.”
“OK then back to base it is.” Julia heads back to base.
As they drive back to the base, Julia looks over her shoulder at Eric and proceeds to inform him, "Our CO was going to tell Fuka that he's agreed to provide for your protection, but I guess you two beat us to the punch."
Eric looks a bit more relieved before saying, "Well, I couldn't take the risk of waiting too long and when I saw Fuka-san with you, I figured you were connected with her new job."
"Well, you figured right, Eric." Julia replies before picking up the radio and relaying a message to Camp Haken. As she is speaking in Mandarin, Eric doesn't understand it and Fuka only partly understands it.
"What was that about?" Fuka asks.
"Juuuust calling in some insurance." Julia replies with a smile.
About 10 minutes later, the three see two clouds of dust coming from the direction of Camp Haken. One coalesces into the form of a peculiar-looking Battlemech, the other into a familiar hovertank. Both bear the black paint scheme and gold kraken of the Ironborn.
Fuka's eyes widen as she looks at Julia. "Those are--"
"They are indeed." Julia laughs. "Lieutenant JG Botley's
Wraith and Sergeant Major Kenning's
Regulator. I had the Colonel send them out to escort us to base. He doesn't want to take any chances with your koibito here." She points at Eric as Fuka blushes.
"We're not--" Fuka and Eric say in unison, evoking another laugh from Julia.
"Relax, kids." Julia interrupts them, smiling ear to ear. "For now, just leave everything to your Bad Sister and her friends. Welcome to the Ironborn, Eric-chan."
Once they reach Julia's jeep, the 'Mech and hovertank take up flanking positions on either side of the vehicle and slow down to keep speed with the jeep.
Fuka giggles at the affectation while Eric looks confused. "Whatever you say, Aku-nee-san."
Translations: koibito=boyfriend or lover.
-chan=an affectation attached to a person's name that indicates youth or close affection (usually used
by adults with little children or between close friends or lovers). Japanese girls tend to overuse it as they
consider the term cute.
Aku-nee-san=roughly translates to "Bad Sister" or "Bad Sis", though aku can also mean "wicked" or "evil".
OOC (to shadhawk): All kidding aside, once the party gets back to base, Euron is going to talk to Eric about what he knows about the 'Mechs we've been looking for that were involved in the two most recent missions with Fuka and Julia present and then set him up in the technicians' barracks, with Infantry Platoon Delta given primary charge to keep him safe. Also, Euron will inform both Kiah (just Kiah) and the FRR unit basing with the Ironborn of Eric's existence and the need to keep his identity a secret from anyone outside the base. Once Euron has enough useful information (or he feels Eric's told him everything he knows), he'll reveal who he is to Jack and the other unit commanders and arrange for Grandmother to find him a new place of work (and a false identity if necessary) so no enemies will look to target him.