Liberation [completed]

Piling and Pacing- Asher

As I paced around my empty apartment, I couldn't help but let my mind wander to the moment it all began. It just kept piling on and it came to a point where I thought, I could never get through or live to see the day this was all over. 

"Mr Billiard, we really can't finish this prototype by the end of the week. We're gonna have to push the showcase" Fredrick, my head scientist tells me right when I was about to go home.

I had a whole day packed with meetings and discussions about the showcase. There was so much problems that seemed to come up just at the last minute. It was as though everyone found joy in adding pressure to me. I was far too eager to go home and be with Mia. We had a great weekend and she had told me she no longer saw me as one of her tormenters. Which meant she wasn't afraid of me anymore. Which was perfect for me, it was progress.

"Fredrick," I stop and look at him giving him a menacing glare.

"Look, Asher- Mr Billiard, I know you don't care and all that and you expect us to get it fixed but this is science and we can't rush science! We have to do math and calculations and so much research. This is new age technology you're trying to create! It's-"

"You're fired. Get out" I say smoothly cutting him off. If he was going to make excuses and talk back to me like that, he had to go. I demanded respect from my employees, I don't care what the circumstances are. Plus, it was obvious his heart wasn't in the job.

"What?" Fredrick asks me shocked.

"Do you need me to repeat myself? I SAID GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY OFFICE!" I yell at him knowing the implications of my actions. It was all the more tormenting now that I couldn't go home to Mia. And for that, I fucking hated this man.

"You'll regret this" the balding man curses and looks at me desperately.

"You're right, I should have called security to do this instead," I say and yell at Natalie to get it done.

Ever since that Monday, my office has been a hive of intellectual energy. I hadn't done this in a while, but with the showcase coming up in a few weeks, I had to get down to the calculations and research. But first I had to study them. It was time to take full control of everything here. I had let this go for too long, I had been distracted. I called for an urgent staff meeting and gave every one of them a good yelling. I reminded them of what had to be done and what was expected- nothing less than excellence and full concentration when at work. I had meant that for myself too.

After dismissing them, I stayed back that day and went through all the research and plans that had been done. I didn't even bother about the time and I was fully immersed in reading and consolidating my ideas. The next day, I was right down in the labs with them working and doing the research. The calculations were wrong and they didn't add up. It was frustrating and it stretched all through the week. I needed peace and quiet if I was ever going to figure this shit out.

To add on, at the end of the week, I got a lawsuit against my firm from Fredrick. The bloody bastard wouldn't leave quietly and wanted the rights to what he was working on. Since it was the weekend I couldn't do much besides waiting till Monday, but that never sat well with me. I hated sitting around and waiting for things to happen, I either did it myself or got someone else to do it for me. Waiting was for losers. 

So at the weekend, I locked myself in my office and stared at the damn drawings and numbers until they added up. I had to make something happen by Monday! The pressure was on and the stress only seemed to motivate me. It was just like old times when I was alone. It felt good to be so involved with this project. I had forgotten how fun it was. I had so easily fallen into a routine where I stopped working on the weekends of cause Mia, that doing it now felt weird and odd. With Mia around things definitely had changed.