Okay platonic Cleo and Helen, ninjas/secret agents AU
ok so this turned out SUPER different than how I normally write them BUT I STILL THINK IT’S REALISTIC?? Helen is a bit more passive than I want, but I have no idea how to make Cleo backdown from center stage when center stage allows her to like...Combat Hannibal’s actions?
Also Helen Magnus, whomst i love so much but whomst is a very big hypocrite...doing the right things with questionable methods. *inhales* my gosh was she fun to write in this. I really enjoy it when she gets called out and when she gets to actually enforce and uphold her beliefs and I think I did both in this?
anyways this is uhhhh. spyverse where there’s a cold/secret war going on. raleigh is james bond or smth idk.
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Helen needs to get close to Chau, which is...Impractical. For many, many reasons, not the least of which is that he knows her and does not care for her. But in her research, Helen makes a startling discovery - Chau is married. Has, apparently, been married since he was 18, and is by all accounts, a doggedly loyal husband, if not a particularly loving one.
And the woman is...Well, again, by all accounts, a fluffy, blonde-dumb woman who’s interests are fashion, spending her husband’s ill gotten gains, flirting, and drinking. It’s a bit puzzling that Chau would choose that, but, there’s no evidence to the contrary.
It’s not hard to approach her at a bunch and get into her good graces (Under the name Helen Druitt, not Magnus. Chau’s wife might know the name Magnus.). The rate that she responds to a show of friendship hurts Helen’s heart, but she reminds herself that this woman is certainly privy to what her husband does. Even if her husband leaves her lonely and desperate for human connection, she makes the choice to stay with him and aid him in his work. A month and they’re friends, two months and Cleopatra (Alias well chosen, Chau.) graciously invites Helen to her birthday party.
That should have been Helen’s first clue.
