Hey everybody! I've never done one of these before, so I'd thought I'd give it a shot! I fell in love with this show after watching one episode and then I bought all the seasons and am now watching the new season. The last episode that aired? Mind blown. Completely. And Annie and Auggie? Perfect. 3 Which means, in all of these little Word-of-the-day one shots, Annie and Auggie are a couple unless stated otherwise. And my Word-of-the-day app has all of the words already given in a homepage kind of thing and then just adds a word every day. The word will be in the one-shot somewhere. So, I'll just keep going through all the words (I may write more than one a day) but I'll only post one chapter per day! Unless I feel generous... So, enjoy! P.S. these will have no exact chronological order. At all. So some may be from fourth season or first season, yada yada. I will speicify before each chapter.

Kleptocracy (noun) – A government by the corrupt in which rulers use their official positions for personal gain.

Set around Season 4

The bright Tuesday sun shone in on the glass walls of the DPD, casting it in almost a heavenly light. Agents were either typing away on their computers or passing files from one another, trying to decipher patterns and possible links. People smiled and hummed tunes, and didn't even complain when Calder dumped another pile of folders on their desks. The day was winding down, and overworked agents were excited to go out in the sun. It was just a good day for everyone.

Well. Almost everyone.

Auggie Anderson slouched in his chair in his office, a piece of paper clutched in his hand. His hand was shaking with anger, and he was sure that he probably couldn't let go even if he wanted to. Once Joan had gotten the DCS job, and Calder got her old job, the DPD had turned into a kleptocracy, and everyone was tense. After a couple of deep breaths and one last run with his fingertips over the raised lines on the page, he pushed himself up to his Braille keyboard and opened a new email message. He had a couple of words for that good for nothing, lying, rotten –

"Auggie?"

His fingers froze and he quickly forced a smile on his face.

"Walker. What brings you to my side of the neighborhood?" He quickly minimized his email, not wanting her quick eyes to get a glimpse.

"You just...looked at a little stressed," The silence between them then was not uncomfortable, but he could almost hear her eyes traveling over to where he had thrown the piece of paper to the ground. "What's that?"

"Nothing," he bent down and after missing the first time, successfully grabbed a corner of the paper.

"It's not nothing," she quickly plucked the paper out of his hand and smoothed it out. Auggie groaned a little, but it wasn't like he could keep if from her for long anyway.

He waited for her to say something. Anything. But instead, he just heard a quick intake of breath and a slight curse.

"Annie?" When she didn't respond he tried a new tactic. "Sweetheart? Say something," He reached forward and found her hand, which unsurprisingly was clenched into a fist.

"No. This isn't happening." She finally spat. "He already tried this. Why would he do it again?"

"To get his face known. The more missions you complete successfully while he is your handler – " he let the comment die. It hurt him to even say those words aloud. He nearly lost his mind when Calder was Annie's handler for the mission in Vienna. He wasn't about to let it happen again.

"I'm going to go talk to him," She pulled away and he heard her heels against the tile.

"Annie, Annie!" Auggie quickly jumped out of his chair and grabbed his laser cane.

"You can't stop me, Auggie." The determination in her voice was the kind that he heard when she was knee deep in a mission, and while he admired it, he wasn't sure that this was the right time.

"Annie, if you say something against him he could have you on desk duty for weeks. Hell, months."

"Oh?" She suddenly stopped and spun around to face him. "And what about that email you were going to send him? What did you think that would get you?"

Damn. "You saw that?"

"Yep. So don't try to stop me from doing the thing that you were going to do in the first place. I'll be back soon." She squeezed his shoulder and he heard her make her way to Calder's office. He sighed and pressed his back against the nearest wall. If it was going to happen, he was supposed to take fall, not her.

"Hey, Auggie. What's up?" The voice of Barber and the crunching of his chip bag reached Auggie's ears. "You don't look too good."

"If I don't look good, I can't wait to see what Calder is going to look like in a couple minutes." Auggie grumbled as he ran a hand over his face.

"Why?"

"What do you mean he's not well qualified!? He's been my handler for three years and counting! Don't you dare tell me that he isn't good at what he does!" Annie's voice reached the outskirts of the DPD, and some typing paused for a split second to see if there would be more.

"Was that Annie?" Barber asked.

"Yep."

"Yikes," Barber shuddered as he popped another chip into his mouth.

"What the hell has Walker tied in a knot?" Stu came up on the other side of Auggie, a teetering stack of papers in his arms. It was silent for a moment, so Auggie could only assume that Barber had shrugged.

"Calder is trying to make himself Annie's official handler." He gritted.

"What! That's not possible. You and Annie are the dynamite team!" Barber exclaimed through a mouthful of crumbly chips.

"Don't you DARE bring that aspect into this conversation. That is NONE of your business. Do you understand? NONE." Auggie winced as he heard Annie again, this time even louder. The door slammed and everybody that had been listening in quickly turned back to their work.

"Well, I have to go file these um...papers." Stu ran off, almost bumping into three people in his haste.

"Yeah, I have to – go do that – thing that you asked me to..uh. Yeah, I'm going to leave." Barber scurried away and left Auggie to deal with the fuming Annie himself.

"I can't believe that he had the nerve to bring our personal relationship into his reasoning." She hissed right next to his ear. He jumped about five feet and clutched his chest as his heart tried to slow down. How had she snuck up on him twice in one day now?

"What happened?" he managed.

"I got him to take back his order." He heard the ripping of paper and assumed that Annie threw the offending pieces into a trash can. "And made him promise not to meddle in our personal life unless it started to affect our work lives," she took a deep breath and leaned against him. "I miss Joan."

"Me too, but, she's only a couple doors and promotions away."

"I know. I just miss her being in charge. It was so much easier." She tugged on his hand and started leading him toward her desk.

"Easier? Joan? I think you and I have very different memories of when Joan was in charge," he smiled his signature grin and was rewarded when he got just a little laugh out of her.

"Ok, she was pretty...intense. But she was still better than Calder." She spit out his name like it was poison.

"Agreed." He heard Annie power down her computer and then she slipped his hand into his.

"Allen's and then a nice movie at my place?" She offered as they walked hand in hand toward Auggie's office.

"Sounds perfect," he powered down his station and instead of taking her hand, wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her closer.

"Auggie. We're at work." She giggled.

"Yeah, but no one is really looking in my office," He replied as he brought his lips to her jaw line.

"Glass walls." She answered breathlessly. He didn't answer, for his lips were already preoccupied by sealing hers in a passionate kiss. She automatically responded and leaned into him as he pulled her upward. When they finally broke for air, they were panting heavily.

"Maybe we could skip Allen's," Annie suggested, the light, feathery touches of her lips on his making his knees weak.

"Perfect." He said as he brought himself closer to her. She pulled away slightly and laughed lightly.

"You already said Allen's and a movie was perfect," Auggie grasped her face with his hands and caressed her cheeks with his thumbs.

"Anything I do with you, Miss Walker, is perfect."

The next day, there was a sudden commotion from Calder's office. He burst out the door and leaned over the railing.

"Anderson! Get one of our techies over to my office! Now!" Then he stalked back inside and slammed the door. Annie, who was currently leaning against Auggie's desk with his coffee in hand, looked on curiously.

"Barber –" Auggie began.

"Nooooooooo," he moaned.

"Go." Auggie grinned.

"Fine." He heard Barber get up and make his way out of Tech Ops.

"I wonder what happened? Maybe his computer stopped working?" Annie asked as she set the coffee cup in Auggie's outstretched hand.

"Maybe. Or maybe his entire system got a bug that is now popping up inappropriate ads on his computer."

"Oh that would be so funny," She laughed a bit but then stopped. He could feel her laser gaze on him. He just grinned.

"August Anderson," she gasped. "You didn't." He could hear her trying to contain her giggles.

"That's what you get for messing with the head of tech ops. Techie is my name, computer hacking is my game."

"You're insane."

"Only for you."

And he was rewarded with a kiss on the cheek and a 'see you tonight'. And that promise that she would be in his bed that night was all he needed to make his Wednesday just a little bit brighter.

Can you tell I don't like Calder? Like at all? But I don't really like this one, I just wanted to get my feet under me. Plus, I'm still trying to get these character's voices. It's hard! But I'm trying! Read and review please!