"Alright Kosi you're up next" a brunette woman said looking at Kosi. Tentatively looking at Sam Kosi took three steps back. Making eye contact with him he charged forward and leapt into Sam's arms. Effortlessly catching him Sam maintained him in the air and spun in place holding Kosi up.
Once he'd set him down the group met Sam with a round of applause as he stood forward into the center and took a bow and doing comedic bicep poses. Brimming with joy the brunette woman exclaimed "Gentlemen, I present to you your new anchor" she beamed with joy and giggling.
"Yeah great job Mr Peng" Kosi said playfully patting Sam on the arm. "Kosi I'm not your teacher anymore it's Sam" he replied with a grin. "Alright got it, great job Sam" Kosi replied as the pair bumped fists.
"This was a great idea Hori" Sam said to the brunette woman. "Well you know when some of us are sooo experienced and sooo much better suited to leading a team, us team leaders gotta do what we need to do to get our guys bonding" she replied with a shrug while pulling a face. Rolling his eyes Sam looked around the room. First at the tense group of men and the laughing group of men and women and back at his own which seemed like a healthy balance of cheerfulness and productivity.
"Wait a second how's the team selection going to go don't we need to swap around loads" he asked. "If I had to guess Thomas isn't gonna let couples work together..." she replied with a slight grimace. "Typical Tom, I'm guessing I don't really know the guy" Sam said to Hori rolling her eyes. "Yes so typical and just like all of the probably two times you've talked to him" she replied snarkily.
Over the course of the day the teams were rotated and alternated until everyone had the chance to spend time with the other 14 recruits. Once the final thirty minutes had passed they all went their separate ways waiting to be addressed by Thomas.
"Alright fall in" he said before signaling to the lab technicians with a nod. Walking forward they handed forms to the fifteen Exploration Team members. On each was the names of the five veteran members of the team. Next to each of the names was a box.
"Alright take five minutes to select three of the veterans you want as captains for each team. Once you've selected your three return the forms to the desk on my left. Team selection and placement will be done tomorrow" Thomas said nodding to the team.
Ten minutes later the results were tallied and Thomas addressed the team. "Alright the captaincy will go as follows. Hori, Lucas and Eric are captains. Lucas because you're an anchor you have to pick someone to lead the line on your behalf so keep that in mind when you're selecting your team" Thomas said sternly.
Once they were dismissed Belal looked to the left of the room and rushed towards his friends. "The fuck lads, you were supposed to help a guy out" he said admonishing them. "Hey man we voted but there's ten other people here not like you exactly won them over" Grant replied. They all looked at him and shrugged as they went to walk off. "Hey man just let it go and let's all go get a drink" Nikolas said stopping to look back between Belal and his friends. Shrugging they all walked off together.
Heading out of the compound Kosi was met by Rue. "Hey babe, ready to head home" she asked with a glinting smile.
"Still can't believe your parents are cool with you staying with me" Kosi said with a grin. "To be honest it's doing them a favor since they agreed when I told them they were focusing on me to distract from their own problems. So they're using the time alone to work things out" Rue replied.
"Still you're their kid and you're off basically living with me" Kosi said tentatively. "Well my dad did say if something happens he's gonna and I quote "ruin you, end you and get away with it cause he's the fucking deputy mayor so who's going to stop him" so yeah be careful with his baby" she said resting her head on his shoulder.
"Roger that, will handle with care" Kosi replied pulling her closer. "Oh not too careful I hope" she said mischievously as she squeezed his arm as they walked off together.
Arriving back at his apartment they walked in to papers layed across the dining room table. "Ah fuck I forgot about this shit" he said despondent and rolling his eyes. "Shit you're a slob" Rue replied.