Hey everyone, this is my first fan fic so please be nice. Make sure to review and look out for the next chapter soon.
Chapter one:
Adelle caught the elevator down to the dollhouse main floor. The sound of her high heels notified everyone of her presence. She made her way to the programming centre where loud laughter was coming from.
Ivy had just finished Tango's treatment and had been finishing up some things on the computer. More laughter came from Topher's office. "He's been like that since I got here." Ivy said, without turning around from the computer.
Adelle moved forward into Topher's office. He was on his computer chatting to someone. As soon as he heard the sound of Adelle's heels he closed the net conversation and spun around on his chair to face her.
"Boss lady, hey ah... What's up?" he asked trying to sound as casual as possible hoping she would go away soon enough so he could go back to his chat.
"Topher, why is Ivy doing all the work? Do you realize your shift started two hours ago? We can't have clients waiting just because you're social networking." DeWitt replied.
"No, no. I'm not just social networking I'm Bennett-working! You remember the DC d-house's chief programmer? The really, really fine chief programmer?" he asked.
Adelle rolled her eyes and sighed. "Topher?" she said wanting him to get to the point.
"Right, well, I started talking to her last night after Mike's treatment and we've been literally talking all night! Which is kinda why I'm a little jittery from all the coffee but anyways. She's like totally AWESOME!" Topher rambled.
"And this is the reason you're not helping your assistant with your work?" Adelle asked.
She already knew the answer. She knew about Topher's crush as soon as she saw him and Bennett together, the boy clearly had fallen head over heels for her from the moment they had met. Adelle never would had allowed any of her other employees to take a two hour break so they could get a girl, but Topher wasn't like the other employees. She was never as strict with him and over the years he had become like a son to her.
"Tell Miss Halverson you will speak to her after you have completed your work." Adelle said, then leaving Topher's office.
"You got it boss lady!" he shouted as she walked out the door.
Once she was far gone Topher turned back to the computer and opened up the chat window. He smiled to see Bennett was still online. "Ten more minutes." He said to himself as he started typing.
Topher exhaled as he finished the last treatment for the day. "I'll be on the computer." He said to Ivy as he walked out of the Imprint room into his office.
"Topher you haven't slept all day, Miss DeWitt won't be happy if you're too tired for work tomorrow." Ivy said noticing him rub his tired blue eyes.
"I'm fine." He said. He was too tired to argue with her or to think of a witty comment to insult her with.
"You know she's probably not even on the web. It's called sleep, it's what normal people do when they're tired and something you should be doing." Ivy said.
"'She'? Who said I was talking to a she?" Topher paused realizing what he just said "Well, I am talking to a she and why is it any of your business? I'm sure Bennet-"He stopped to see that she wasn't online. "Yeah, sleep. I ah, gotta get some rest." Topher got up and walked into the back where he slept most nights when he didn't feel like driving to his apartment.
Ivy smirked to see she was right. She didn't like Topher talking to Bennett on the internet. Ivy had a small crush on Topher. She could hide it well, most of the time. She thought that over time his crush would fade and he would forget that Bennett existed, after all Topher was in LA and Bennett was in DC. Ivy had been fairly sure that she could forget that Topher ever mentioned her. Until this morning where she had walked in to work listening to him laugh every five minutes about whatever Bennett was saying to him.
Ivy just sighed and grabbed her bag and walked out of the dollhouse. "Lucky girl." She said quietly to herself.
Topher woke up and rushed over to the computer. It was 10:30 am.
"Damn! Why did I sleep in so late?" He said to himself once he had noticed the time.
A smile grew on his face once he seen the new e-mail from Bennett that said…
"Topher,
I enjoyed speaking with you Tuesday night till Wednesday morning, yet Mr. Lipman was not happy with me being tired at work. Sorry I wasn't online last night I needed my sleep but I hope we could do it again sometime. I was thinking of coming to LA for a visit next week since I am taking some time off. Perhaps you could show me around your office since I've showed you around mine. I look forward to our next chat.
-Bennett Halverson."
Topher jumped out of his chair. "YES!" he shouted. Causing Ivy to jump who was in the next room.
Ivy walked in to see what Topher was so happy about.
"I have to ask DeWitt." He said to himself ignoring Ivy as he walked right past her and to the elevator.
When he was gone Ivy went over to the computer and read the Email. "No way." She said to herself.
Topher, the boy she had a crush over ever since she joined the Dollhouse was going to ignore her for a week because his crush and most likely soon to be girlfriend was coming to LA.
"This is going to be hell." Ivy thought to herself.
"Hey, how's the awesome Adelle DeWitt today?" Topher said as he walked into her office.
"I beg your pardon?" She asked. 'The awesome Adelle Dewitt'? That was new. She wondered what Topher was up to now.
"Just trying out ya new nick name. You know, you being awesome and all. So awesome that you would let Bennett come over for a week." He said, smiling trying to work his number-one-son charm.
"Absolutely not. Have you forgotten what that troublesome girl did last time?" Adelle asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, but we're past that. And you can put a whole lot of security guys around Echo she'll be safe as a house. Plus, since you'll have two genius programmers in the Dollhouse we'll get more work done. See. The clients will be happy, you'll be happy but best of all Topher will be happy." He said. He was hoping this worked. His next plan was to get on his knees and start begging like a child… and then maybe crying if that didn't work.
"Yes. I'm sure you and Miss Halverson will get much work done when you're both laughing at whatever the other says." Adelle paused to see that look in Topher's eyes, that pleading look. "I suppose I could ask Mr. Langton to gather a security team to keep an eye on Echo." She said and then she sighed at what she just agreed to.
There was now a big smile on Topher's face. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" He shouted in excitement. He ran up to Adelle and gave her a friendly hug.
Adelle was shocked and patted his back awkwardly. "It's, ah, quiet alright." She said and then breaking away from the hug. "You best be getting back to work, I don't want Ivy to start complaining about you leaving all the programming to her."
Topher smiled and nodded. He hurried off back to his office to tell Bennett the great news.
