Hojo moved out of the holding cell to give Sephiroth time to partake in his usual morning routine, muttering under his breath raw insult and how useless he thought the boy was. He picked up the latest printouts displaying the results from Sephiroth’s most recent tests and growled, tossing the clipboard back onto the table, quite dissatisfied with what he was reading. It was then that he noticed the female lab assistant. He never recalled hiring a female for the day shifts before. At least, not since her…
Hojo stared at the female for a moment, sizing her up as if she was opposition, glaring at her with open and obvious suspicion. He quickly shrugged this off however, assuming that the higher ups had hired her and sent her in to work with the team. It didn’t matter. If she could do the job, could keep quiet, and was loyal to the project, he didn’t care what gender his lab techs were.
“You, woman. I don’t care what your name is.” Hojo hissed. “I’m assuming this is your first day here, so pay attention if you want to keep your job. First, you will do everything I tell you. You will not argue or complain. If you have a suggestion, voice it, but you better be damn sure that it is an intelligent one.” He paced towards her, narrowing his eyes further behind thick-rimmed glasses. “And tie your hair back. Sephiroth is a rather defiant little brat. If you upset him, he could grab and pull on it. I also don’t want bits of your hair becoming part of the experiments, or test results.”
Hojo backed away from her again, returning to the table to pick up the printouts of results that he had been going over just a short time ago. “Your first task is to take the tray of food on the table beside me here into the boy.” He pointed a slender finger towards a tray from the building’s cafeteria, containing a bowl of rather sickly-looking and watery scrambled eggs, two small slices of buttered toast, a large banana and an apple. “Make sure he has properly showered and groomed himself. Also, make sure that he has taken care of his bodily functions, for he is developing a habit of using them as an excuse to shirk his tests or flee.” Hojo moved away from her and headed towards his office, a small room connected to the laboratory at the far end of the room.
“You know what to do.” He said, before disappearing around the corner, leaving Jenna standing in the laboratory. She wasn’t alone however, as other techs were working in the background.