Harley Sawyer X Yarnaby's FAVORITE Security Guard!Reader drabble.
Just because he's embarrassed to reveal himself to you, doesn't mean he isn't watching...
Pt. 1 - Pt. 2 - Pt. 3 - Drabble 1
“It got out! Again! I thought you were supposed to be watching it!”
“He got out because an idiot opened his enclosure while my back was turned, thinking they were going to show off to the other idiots around them despite knowing he is territorial AND attacks literally everyone!”
“You’ve got a lot of gall talking back to me! I outrank you!”
“Clearly someone made a mistake! I have to wonder how you even got your job if you didn’t have enough common sense to not walk into a literal lion’s den! You’re lucky I got him back in there before the Warden returned from his meeting and no one was killed! Corralling him now is nowhere near as easy as it was before!”
“Look what it did to my arm! And two of my guys had to be rushed to the medical wing-!”
“Good! I hope it hurts! None of this is Yarnaby’s fault! Maybe it’s mine for thinking my coworkers weren’t lobotomized with the survival instincts of a table leg!”
“Oh, just WAIT until the Warden gets back! He’s going to love to hear that you failed at keeping that thing in its enclosure!”
“Okay, Dumbass, then have fun explaining to him HOW that happened! There’s cameras all over the place! You may outrank me, but this is a heavily secured area! None of you are even supposed to be in this wing!”
The security guard wearing a makeshift sling glaring you down stepped forward intimidatingly but you held your ground. His arm lashed out, snatching your collar.
“Fine, then if I’m going down, I should use this opportunity to teach you a lesson about talking back-!” he started with a growl but his eyes glanced past you and his expression shifted from red with rage to wide-eyed terror with his face going white as a sheet. He cleared his throat before releasing your collar and backing away. “L-Look, we won’t say anything if you won’t. Got it? We’ll come up with something else to tell the Warden if he asks.”
“What?” you furrowed your brow, confused at the tone change.
Turning your head, you caught a glimpse of the mechanical vessel standing at its charging dock, staring with a red-eyed screen which changed to inactive a moment later, as if it realized you saw it. The sound of the door closing at the far end of the hall made you glance to see you that the other guard had left.
Seeing that you were now alone in the area, you took this opportunity to approach the vessel cautiously. You understood why it spooked the guard. Only the Warden had the ability to activate it when he was in the vicinity, which he wasn’t. He was supposed to be meeting with the head of production multiple floors up.
After a short time of staring, you decided it might have been a fluke somehow, but before you pulled away to check on Yarnaby, the screen came on again. This time, the eye slightly cracked open before looking left to right, only to widen when it saw you and the screen turned off, causing you to gasp and stumble back in shock.
Your mind raced on what this could mean. With so many dangerous entities in the Shelf, you opted to head back to your office without taking your eyes off of the vessel before trying to figure out what you saw, just in case. For good measure, you pushed a filing cabinet against the door with the intention of only moving it when the Warden came to check on you.
With his screen off, Sawyer curled his hands into fists hard enough to start shaking.
