Post by White Tiger on Oct 4, 2019 23:19:04 GMT -5
Julia woke up and, still thinking about her relaxing evening with Zakk, she prepared herself to go to the rescue reunion when the phone rang. It was Michelle.
“Hi, mom!”
“Julia, how are you doing?”
“Oh, fine!”
“Good. Because you know how your grandmother and I worry that you are so far from us, during such a time…”
“Huh, yeah. But don’t worry, I’m fine. You know my boyfriend is in the police forces… I’m well protected.”
“Yeah, I know, I’m happy your boyfriend is in the police forces…”
Suddenly Julia heard her grandmother say in the distance: “And he is very handsome. Julia have great tastes.”
“Thanks grandma!” said Julia at the other side of the phone. She was glad her grandmother quickly accepted Zakk. Her mother was more reserved. She wanted to meet him before she would get a real opinion. But Michelle had to say, he seemed nice as far as she knew, she had nothing to say against him… Michelle then told her mother:
“Julia thanks you for the compliment, mom…”
But then Michelle added, talking to Julia again: “… but somehow it may also bring you some problems… enemies from the police who want revenge…”
“I know. But you know I can handle it, right?”
They was a silence and Michelle then said: “I know.”
Julia could feel the pride in her mother’s tone since she was the one who trained her to fight yet she also could feel the worry on her tone as well.
“I just don’t want you to go into unnecessary troubles…”
Julia wondered if her mother suddenly got a sixth sense to learn about the fact she would go on a mission maybe today. But going to G-Corporation was necessary troubles… Yet Julia didn’t dare tell her mother about it.
“Of course, I won’t, I work at the Mishima laboratories. It’s safe.”
“Yeah, the Mishimas… You know what I think of that family…”
“Lee Chaolan has always been kind to me. I trust him. He cares for my safety, he wouldn’t have offered me the job if it was dangerous.”
Julia knew that Lee didn’t offer her the place because she needed work after G-Corporation but mostly because the Mishima Zaibatsu needed her work on genocells. He helped her find her first job when she got out of university but now she was the one who was asked. She was valued more than cared for.
“And his nephew? Jin Kazama started the war, I don’t want you to get hurt by him or get into troubles with the United Nations because you worked at the Mishima Zaibatsu. It’s a criminal organisation! You should not have accepted that offer.”
“No, everything is fine, mom. The United Nations have agreed on things with the Zaibatsu. I cannot really speak on the phone but everything is okay. Again Zakk is on the side of the law, I’m protected. The Mishima Zaibatsu is not what it once was.”
“Hum. I still don’t trust them. And when will you come to visit with Zakk?”
“Huh… Soon?”
“I hope so… I miss you… It's the pow-wow soon, you could come then…”
“Maybe. And I miss you too, mom… But I gotta go now…”
“Hum okay. But call me once you’re back from work.”
“Huh, okay.”
Julia then thought she would have to remember to call her mother even if she was on a mission… and not show that she was on a mission… She hated to hide things to Michelle… Searching in her closet what to wear, she noticed her luchadora costume that she wore until the women she replaced went back into the ring. Julia thought outloud: “I feel like Peter Parker or something, hiding things from aunt May… Maybe I need a superhero identity… Humm… That would make a good idea for some streaming…”
But she quickly let go of that idea for now and dressed for the day with the clothes she thought would probably be more discrete to infiltrate G-Corporation while also taking the smock and identity card she had when she worked there, just in case she had to disguise herself… She needed to be prepared for everything… Once she prepared her backpack, she called Zakk.
“Hi, mom!”
“Julia, how are you doing?”
“Oh, fine!”
“Good. Because you know how your grandmother and I worry that you are so far from us, during such a time…”
“Huh, yeah. But don’t worry, I’m fine. You know my boyfriend is in the police forces… I’m well protected.”
“Yeah, I know, I’m happy your boyfriend is in the police forces…”
Suddenly Julia heard her grandmother say in the distance: “And he is very handsome. Julia have great tastes.”
“Thanks grandma!” said Julia at the other side of the phone. She was glad her grandmother quickly accepted Zakk. Her mother was more reserved. She wanted to meet him before she would get a real opinion. But Michelle had to say, he seemed nice as far as she knew, she had nothing to say against him… Michelle then told her mother:
“Julia thanks you for the compliment, mom…”
But then Michelle added, talking to Julia again: “… but somehow it may also bring you some problems… enemies from the police who want revenge…”
“I know. But you know I can handle it, right?”
They was a silence and Michelle then said: “I know.”
Julia could feel the pride in her mother’s tone since she was the one who trained her to fight yet she also could feel the worry on her tone as well.
“I just don’t want you to go into unnecessary troubles…”
Julia wondered if her mother suddenly got a sixth sense to learn about the fact she would go on a mission maybe today. But going to G-Corporation was necessary troubles… Yet Julia didn’t dare tell her mother about it.
“Of course, I won’t, I work at the Mishima laboratories. It’s safe.”
“Yeah, the Mishimas… You know what I think of that family…”
“Lee Chaolan has always been kind to me. I trust him. He cares for my safety, he wouldn’t have offered me the job if it was dangerous.”
Julia knew that Lee didn’t offer her the place because she needed work after G-Corporation but mostly because the Mishima Zaibatsu needed her work on genocells. He helped her find her first job when she got out of university but now she was the one who was asked. She was valued more than cared for.
“And his nephew? Jin Kazama started the war, I don’t want you to get hurt by him or get into troubles with the United Nations because you worked at the Mishima Zaibatsu. It’s a criminal organisation! You should not have accepted that offer.”
“No, everything is fine, mom. The United Nations have agreed on things with the Zaibatsu. I cannot really speak on the phone but everything is okay. Again Zakk is on the side of the law, I’m protected. The Mishima Zaibatsu is not what it once was.”
“Hum. I still don’t trust them. And when will you come to visit with Zakk?”
“Huh… Soon?”
“I hope so… I miss you… It's the pow-wow soon, you could come then…”
“Maybe. And I miss you too, mom… But I gotta go now…”
“Hum okay. But call me once you’re back from work.”
“Huh, okay.”
Julia then thought she would have to remember to call her mother even if she was on a mission… and not show that she was on a mission… She hated to hide things to Michelle… Searching in her closet what to wear, she noticed her luchadora costume that she wore until the women she replaced went back into the ring. Julia thought outloud: “I feel like Peter Parker or something, hiding things from aunt May… Maybe I need a superhero identity… Humm… That would make a good idea for some streaming…”
But she quickly let go of that idea for now and dressed for the day with the clothes she thought would probably be more discrete to infiltrate G-Corporation while also taking the smock and identity card she had when she worked there, just in case she had to disguise herself… She needed to be prepared for everything… Once she prepared her backpack, she called Zakk.