Ocean Eyes I Sebastian Stan I

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"You don't praise me, Miss Sloan?" Ian says with a cocky smile after congratulating a guy on my team "Oh believe me, it's enough that I let you help out with something. You already heard me, right? You will do the most basic and boring jobs I find. You're going to wish you never got this job." He glances at me and frowns at my neck. Sebastian left a mark on me, not too big, but he took great care to leave it. I've put on ice and makeup and it still shows

"Who did it to you?" he asks, touching my neck "What do you care" I take his hand away and continue on my way, but he follows me. "Who was it, Brooke?" he stops me, taking my arm. "Stop calling me that at work, I'm your boss. And I repeat, it's none of your business" I tell him letting go of his grip

"It's my business, that way I'll know who I'm competing with" I raise my eyebrows, unable to believe what he just said. I think he left his brains at home before coming to work. "You don't compete with anyone" I say and he smiles. He is an idiot "There is no one and you are not even going to be part of my life again. Leave me alone"

"But..." I cut him off before he gets on my nerves "Leave me alone" I turn and see Chris, Ian nods and leaves. "What a pain in the ass..." I walk over to Chris who gives a protective look. I smile to assure him that I'm okay, but I don't want to talk about Ian.

We walked together and stopped at his trailer. I have to go to Paul's. "What time you finish today?" he asks me, climbing the stairs of his trailer. "Half past eight, I hope." I tell him. Out of the corner of my eye I see Sebastian walking out of the trailer next door with Mackie. "I should finish at nine. You wait for me and we'll go to the bar? I'll buy you a drink" I nod smiling

"Miss Sloan! Everything is ready in Mr. Bettany's trailer. He has arrived too." Dany yells at me in the distance. "Okay, I'll be right there."

"I have to go, see you at nine then. Love you!" I say, turning to Chris with a big smile before running off to Paul's trailer.

"Hi Paul! Ready to be purple?" I greet, entering the trailer. I check all the materials and notice that the yellow stone is missing. "Dany, you forgot the stone. Go get it while I put the suit on." I say to the girl who immediately ran off for it "Wow, you got her intimidated?" the actor asks jokingly I laughed with him. "She's trying to prove she's useful. I told her she had to prove to me I could trust her to let her do more than just follow me around." Paul laughs harder "Well, I hope she gets it. Don't be too hard on her" I laugh again "I'm being soft! Jud treated me like her assistant for a year and a half. I don't make her bring me coffee and she'll only be like this until show me what she's capable of"

"Well then. You're the boss" he jokes raising his arms in surrender, I laugh "I'll go put on the suit and come out so you can help me with the zipper and adjust it. Okay?" I nod smiling to him. He goes into the bathroom to change and I start making the purple mix in the meantime.

"Brooke" I turn and frown "We need to talk" says Sebastian entering the trailer "What? No, get out. I'm working," he sighs "Just a second.." he says "No. Get out Sebastian. I'm busy" I tell him seriously. "Last night, what happe-"

"I told you not now! I'm busy, in case you haven't noticed. Paul's going to be out that door any second, I don't think you want him to hear how you cheated on your girlfriend. This is not the time or place." I tell him angrily in a low tone so Paul doesn't hear. He looks at me, he can't bear my gaze and turns his eyes to the ground

Dany walks through the door and looks at us. "Here she is, I'm sorry Miss Sloan" At the same time, Paul comes out to help him. I sigh trying to calm down. "It's okay Dany. Please help Mr. Battany with the zipper" she nods and walks past Sebastian.

"We'll talk later" Sebastian says leaving the trailer

I'm about to finish off Paul, I finally took pity on Dany and let her help me out a bit. We only need to paint his hands and he is ready. "I'm going to trust you and let you finish the hands on your own. It's just painting them, please don't stain the suit, Dany. I need to go check on the others, I'll be back in a few minutes." I tell her getting up from the bench where I was, letting the excited girl take a seat. "I'll be right back, Paully. Hands and powder and you're good to go" I tell him with a smile walking out of the trailer.

"Really? Is the girl going to do better jobs than me? You can't do that Brooke. She should be putting stupid dots on actors' faces and I should be doing something actually useful." Ian stops me abruptly. "Leave me fucking alone Ian." I let go of his grip and keep walking "Wait until the Russos-" he ends my patience and I interrupt him "The Russos are not your direct bosses! Yes, they hired you, but I decide what you do. And if I decide to put you to serve coffee, you do it without questioning me, understood?!" He freezes and I keep walking. I go into the trailer and sit at my desk to relax before I continue working.

"Brooke..." Sebastian knocks on the door "We have to-" I rub my temple and cut him off "Talk, I know. I've had a shitty day Sebastian, the last thing I need is to talk about last night." He closes the door and I sigh, rolling my eyes. He closes the blinds and sits facing me. "Sebastian, really..."

"Shh, shut up" I roll my eyes. He grabs my chair and pulls it closer to him. "What happened?" I sigh. That this morning I woke up with a guy with a girlfriend, then Ian got pissed off when he noticed the hickey you worked so hard to leave.." he smiles embarrassed "Then, while I was working, someone... insisted that we talk and made me angry. Who comes to do that?" he lowers his eyes in shame

"Then Ian had the idea of claiming me for putting him to work on something he didn't want you to do and he dared to try to threaten me by taking Joe and Anthony out on his claim." My breath hitches with anger as I speak. "I don't know why he insists on being here..."

"Hey Brooke, look at me..." I look into his eyes "You need to breathe..." I roll my eyes, I'm not stupid, I know how to breathe. "Come on! You're revved up, close your eyes and take deep breaths" she says between laughs. I do it, maybe then he'll stop bothering me and let me go to work.

"Think about the drinks you're going to have with Chris after work" he says taking my hands "Think about your bad taste for bourbon" he makes me smile "Think that if you get drunk today, tomorrow you take the aspirin with water or you'll end up high like last time" I laugh out loud and open my eyes "Better?" he says and I nod

"Now it's your turn to reassure me. I'm not going to tell Alejandra." I shrug "You don't care?" he says he surprised "To be honest?" He nods "No. You're the one with the problem, you had and have a commitment to Alejandra. I don't have anything with anyone, so I don't have to feel bad about anything" he frowns "Don't you have a grudge against the girl Ian cheated on you with?"

"No. She wasn't my friend, she just lived at my house and was, supposedly, a friend of Ian's. We only lived together for a couple of months, I was hardly home, so our conversations didn't go beyond a good morning." I tell him shrugging my shoulders "She didn't have a partner or anything, no relationship with me, she was practically a stranger to me. Just like Alejandra is"

"Wow" he says "Do you dislike Alejandra?"

"No. Not that I love her either, she's just there.If she doesn't mess with my job again, I don't care what she does with her life." He frowned, he didn't understand me. For me, Alejandra is a person who is there, existing. If something happens to her, well, maybe she would worry me a little, she didn't wish her any harm. But if something happens to her, it's not like she's going to go to the hospital or something. "I don't know, if she dies I wouldn't start crying, but it's not like I want to kill her either."

"Well, it doesn't matter because it won't happen again" he says very sure "Okay" I nod shrugging my shoulders "See you at the bar" He gets up and kisses me close to my mouth "That... was accidental, it was for your cheek" I nod trying to contain my laughter "It won't happen again" he says to himself and walk out the door.