Thread:Rexir2/@comment-24664052-20150914055852/@comment-24664052-20150914055902

''General Nickolai Suvorov, you are to come to office at 1400 hours, by the order of Supreme Leader Alyona Romanov ''

Supreme Leader Alyona Romanov, or Alyosha (her nickname) as you know her: Your childhood friend, benefactor, boss…and to shyly admit, your crush as well. Considering that she’s known outside the world as a murderous tyrant who murders people to instill fear and discipline, it only makes the truth more awkward. Every time you’re at her side, your feelings are conflicted. Part of you wants to support her, protect her, shelter her and be her husband, while the other deems her as a danger not only to her people, but also to her colleagues, that being on her side might as well be asking for a death wish.

You have been with her since age 8, playing together various things such as hunting imaginary terrorists, water gun fights, snow ball fights, any game you might think of. You’ve been with her at high school, only in college your paths divulged that she took culinary arts while you opted to enter the military school. But when her brother, the supposed successor, died, her father took her out of college and immediately made her take a crash course in military strategy and tactics, as well as political science. If not for your help and your experience, she could’ve faced a more difficult situation in her most unexpected turning point in life. In reward for your help, her father made you the commander of the prestigious 4th Combined Mechanized Division, one of the most elite units of the army, before he died, thereby placing a part of his daughter’s fate on your hands. And you didn’t fail Alyosha: you have crushed rebels for her, as well as protecting her when some parts of her army launched a coup against her. These recent times, now, although she’s maintaining the cold and calculating persona she has been known to have, she’s warm to you privately and serves you with dishes she had learned from her previous college lessons.

On the other hand, as said, she is also one of the cruelest dictators the world has vindicated; it only surprised them since they do not expect that a woman could be such as cruel. Critics, officials of the former regime, freethinkers, members of the old guard faction, minorities and almost half of the population, she had purged in pursuit of her goals. Admiringly, though, she did what her father would shrink from doing so: open up the economy that allowed for the country’s GDP to rise and for the government to earn more money from the businesses that start to sprout all across the nation. But still, she’s still under attack by criticism, from foreign nations to human rights groups, and even defectors from her regime. Recently, she had begun conducting loyal checks all over her subordinates, and you’re no exception, evident by the letter she sent.

You’ve got nothing to fear, though, for you’ve got nothing to hide, unlike many others. But recently, you are having doubts about your loyalty, despite your infatuation with her. Reading that letter made you more doubt about it; ''is she worth dying for? ''You thought. ''Or should I just get out of this mess and live a new life somewhere outside the country and forget her? ''Maybe that might be a smart move, since many suspect that she trusts no one, and nobody is safe once she ordered another purge.

You’re still pondering that question when you pass over two bureaucrats. Even in your thoughts, you managed to make up what they’re talking about. It’s about that Alyosha is replacing many of the buxom and tall women officials. ''Maybe it’s just her inferiority complex, or the fact that she’s removing all those who only have the looks to get themselves to power. ''Those who are left are forbidden to make direct contact with her inner circle. Well, when you’re the ruler you get to make up whatever you want.

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*Knock* *knock* *knock*

General Alyona opens the door for you. Kinda out-of-character, it’s always that she would just give permission to the knocker to come in. Still you’ve put that out of your mind and allowed her to prepare the seat for you.

“Ah, Nicky, come in.” Commonly, she calls all her other subordinates either by last names or titles. But why she called you by your nickname? Maybe that’s just an accident, but it looked like she really didn’t mind; she was gleefully waiting for you to come.

In contrast to what propaganda says of her as an imposing and all-knowing figure, she is small that her full height can only go as level with your shoulders, and you being just of average height. Despite that, what she does lack in imposingness, she has more points in cuteness. You’ve always been hearing from her male subordinates that she’s cute (they’re just not letting her know, out of fear that they might rouse her ire). And by many ways, they are right.

It’s like she could be your own little sister, if not for the fact that this girl had put thousands of people to their deaths. But despite that, unlike many other rulers, she believes in what she’s doing, and she is determined to make her dreams for the nation come true. It’s only sad that she’s resorting to such tactics to achieve that.

As soon as she goes to her own seat, her warmth at seeing you faded back into a seemingly aura of coldness and professionalism.

She begins to interrogate you with many questions, mostly about what you have been doing, and you have answered them truthfully, without any fear or any hesitation for that matter. She looked on your action log and nods approvingly, convinced that you’re telling the truth. It seemed like the judgment is over when she asked you something unexpected.

“Who’s the girl you have met at the park?”

The unexpected that she will ask this, but then you realize that this is the third time and it is the same question you were confronted before each of your two female acquaintances “disappeared”, as well as their relatives. Till now, they are still not found, but it seems like the police are not putting much effort in finding them at all. You answered truthfully that she’s just your friend, but the dictator remains suspicious, so you ask her “Do you know her?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“No, but you should watch out whom you’re befriending.” She warned. With that question out of the way, the interrogation is finally over.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Do you know why I’m asking you all that?”

<p class="MsoNormal">You were taken aback by that question as well. Most of the time, she’ll just let the answerer go after that. Before you could answer, she spoke “I-I noticed that you have not been enjoying as much working for me for these past months.” She answered. “If you have something to say, tell me…”

<p class="MsoNormal">Well, she had noticed it too, it’s just a miracle that she never realized what causes it: your conflicting thoughts over her. Whether you should still fight by her side, hoping to get a “live happily ever after” ending, or just forget it and save yourself, and let her be all alone since she only trusts herself, or so many of her subordinates thought, but you could not be sure. Still, you…

<p class="MsoNormal">1. Admit that you have a liking to her

<p class="MsoNormal">2. Tell her that you have a plan of resigning from your position (you’re free to make up a cause)

<p class="MsoNormal">3. Criticize the way she rules

<p class="MsoNormal">4. Your own choice (get to make up your answer)