[Ivan took in a shaking, excited breath and then eased back. His face was plastered with the most malicious looking grin.

It was rare nowadays in the Nexus, but Ivan's more sadistic nature has just been waiting to be drawn back out. The power he had stripped from him by his arrival was finally back--or at least it felt like it.]

I think the scars of public humiliation will be deeper, Colonel.

[He sneered as Ocelot reached for mercy beneath his lover's (official here or not) merciless boot.]

Don't bother, Major Ocelot, this is the Colonel after all.

[Then the alarm rang off, Ivan whipped his head around in confusion.]

What did he do?! [And then water sprinkled down as if the room had turned into a public shower. Instantly the implications hit him and he looked over at Volgin with terrified eyes.

If Yevgeny ran out of here...he...]