succession

09 hunting

Since the Hamptons, Logan had decided, they were going to fight. His stellar idea for the next move is to buy the media company PGM from the Pierce family. This idea that he boasts about to board leaves everyone blanching and speaking in hushed tones. Just in time for the Corporate hunting retreat.

Employees gather on the tarmac, packing up guns and getting onto the private plane. To the surprise of most, Rose was invited. She enters the plane and takes a seat by Kendall, Roman, Tom, and Greg.

Roman: Wha- what the hell are you doing here?

Rose: Well Roman, I am in fact an employee, and this is in fact a corporate retreat?

Roman: You don't even like hunting? It would probably mess up your fuckin- nails or something?

Kendall: *chuckles* Dad can't go anywhere without his little chihuahua

Rose: Oh my dear brothers, don't get your panties in a bunch because dad wants me here

The conversation quickly gets interrupted by Logan screaming about a "rat" and some biography being written about him. Apparently someone "close to Logan" had met with the author.

Once in Hungary, they arrive at the million-dollar house to greet the rest of the company. Rose find her room to change into her hunting attire, that she spent hours curating. Because how the fuck do you make hunting boots and a neon cap look good? But by the time she's ready to go she finds that everyone has already left. At least they left her one of the jeeps. She runs up to the driver and tells them she wont be needing them to drive her and quickly takes off, attempting to catch up with the rest of the gang.

Driving on an almost deserted road, Roses sees a lanky man walking aimlessly... thats got to be Greg. And it is. As she pulls up next to him slowing the car to his speed. She yells out the window, "Hey you look good with a rifle! Get in loser!" She stops the car and an anxious looking Greg gets in. Rose starts driving of the dirt road and into the wilderness.

Greg nervously turns to her and says, "I'm kind of freaking out and I need to tell you something."

Rose replies concerned, What is it?"

Greg blurts out, "Okay so um I was the one who met with the lady about the biography... and i, um like told Tom and he was- like Logan's going to kill you and like that tech guy would be able to find out through a private email-"

"ohh.. Greg...no." Rose disappointedly answers. "But i'll see what I can do."

Greg thanks her and says, "yeah i'm just like super scared he's going to find out its me..."

Rose pulls into a very dense part of the forrest and stops the car.

She turns to Greg and says, "wanna do something to take to mind off of it?"

Greg enthusiastically concurs and Rose climbs on top of him. Both of them attempting to remove their clothes, and worst of all huge rubber hunting boots in the cramped car, unintentionally already aggressively grinding on each other in the process. Rose could feel him get hard almost immediately. She reaches for the lever to move the seat back and the old car jolts them back significantly, creating some much needed leg room for Greg. The jeep rocks back and forth in the quiet forrest. The sound of leaves falling now is accompanied by their moans as Rose rides him. The windows now fogged up like the fucking titanic scene as they finish.

Later that evening back at house everyone comes together for drinks and food. Logan starts getting aggressive on a variety of topics accusing people of being rats, so Rose takes this as an opportunity to take a smoke break. As she's mid-cigarette #2 she hears what sounds like "BOAR ON THE FLOOR" being shouted from inside. As she comes back in the room she sees Logan berating Tom, Greg, and Karl. Having them sit on the floor and screaming at them to crawl around in a circle.

She shouts at Logan, silencing the whole room- and freezing everyone in their place, "c'est quoi ce bordel!?  (what the fuck?) Tu es cruel! (You are cruel!) Ils ne méritent pas d'être traités comme des animaux. (They don't deserve to be treated like animals.) J'attends plus d'humanité de votre part." (I expect more humanity from you.)

Logan is left speechless as Rose storms out. Logan shouts at them "Alright get the fuck. We're done." He also storms out of the room.

Now to some that looked like Rose having a full mental breakdown and shouting at her father in an incoherent foreign language. Despite Logan's "all American" conservative reputation, he's actually fluent in French.  Completely to the credit of Rose, who is multi lingual due to her Lebanese and French mother. But as a little girl Rose so badly wanted to father and her to have their own "secret" language. And surprisingly and completely un-characteristically Logan let her teach him. Rose doesn't often butt heads with her father when it comes to his other extremely unethical practices but when she first hand saw him publicly humiliate someone she truly cared about she had to step in. But specifically calling him publicly out in another language, that very few people in the room especially not her siblings knew, allowed it to be just between them.

The next morning at breakfast Logan goes to find Rose who is sitting quietly and eating in the corner. "Is this seat taken Rosie?" Logan asks. Rose shakes her head and motions for him to join her. Softly he talks to her saying, "sorry if last night got a little bit... fruity?" He chuckles and waits for her reaction. He goes on, "You know, jet-lag, meds, horse play? yeah yeah?" Rose gives him a small smile and replies, "its okay dad... and i apologize for my outburst." Logan grabs her hand and smiles.

That was about the most apologizing you could ever get out of Logan. And Rose had mastered getting him to own up but still letting him feel in the right, "my outburst" was total bs, but hey it got him to resolve it.