AN: Hello guys!
My first Reylo AU.
The idea started because of the following line: "You're my new bastard co-worker who keeps annoying me in meetings and your car is parking too closely next to mine so I retaliated by keying your car and you caught me"
Rey is a design engineer working at BMW. Due to the current diesel gas exhaust scandal BMW hires an external law company to check the product development teams and find out if something is fishy with their engines, too. This is how Rey meets the associate Kylo Ren, a man is immediatelly drawn to. However the attraction fades as she finds out that he is an asshole. She even retaliates with keying his car. Unfortunately Rey gets caught...
BTW: I am not a native english speaker.
Chapter 1: Scratch
Rey sighted, tucking the key's of her elder BMW model into her leather handbag while entering the tower building owned by the car manufacturer she worked for.
Her black heels clicked loudly and she greeted various colleagues queuing with her in the line, before raising her employee's card in front the huge glass entrance door, so it admitted her into the insides of one of the world's best luxury car producers.
After finishing with her degree in engineering about half a year ago, Rey had taken on the chance to apply to a design competition BMW had organized in search for the next "big talent" completing the company's creative team. Rey had always had a thing for cars. One could say that the smart brunette from Plutt's home for orphaned children had been fascinated with expensive fast cars from a very young age... So she had decided to participate with one of her concept works for a "BMW roadster", which she had drafted during an exhausting all-nighter mixed with a bottle of Merlot. Even if Rey found her draft lacking in many aspects, the chief of design liked her work and so the orphaned graduate started her career at BMW. With all the bad luck she was used to in live, something good had to happen to her at some point. And the brunette enjoyed her new work thoroughly, quickly familiarized with the processes in the design compartment and got along with her colleagues. She was just about to finish her task for the month and submit her draft for the new bonnet of the BMW series 1 as the "message" reached everyone in the company.
A month ago it was revealed by environmental organizations that certain car manufacturers have used manipulation software in their diesel engines in order to meet the strict EU-standards for exhaust gas emissions. The engineering lab ensured the management board that they never applied such software, so they would be safe from prosecution. But the majority shareholders hired an external hotshot law company to investigate possible "irregularities" within the product development. Rey never understood how an external firm could evaluate their processes better than the heads of each department could, but what the shareholders wanted the board granted. So it was useless to complain.
A quick glance onto the watch on her wrist signalized Rey that she was just about to be late for the "interrogation" of her team. "Fuck…" mumbled the young woman in a harried way, trying to hurry up in her uncomfortable high heels to claim the last place in one of the elevators. And fate made her believe that she wouldn't be late for her meeting with Kylo Ren and Armitage Hux, both hotshot associate of the First Order law company, because there was one place left in the crowded elevator going up into the 7th floor of the tower. However before the designer was able to step into the lift, a guy with broad shoulders, smart suit and unbelievably long legs had already snitched her spot. His dark shaggy hair fell loosely onto the back of his midnight black blazer suit.
Rey wanted to scream, knew however that it was useless. She had lost this round to fate and would probably need to wait for the next elevator. Her brooding mood only changed as the unknown man turned around, revealing his pale face with a strong and lean jaw and incredibly dark eyes. Shiny and jaw long hair almost hiding a pair of big ears. An intimidating and dominating aura emitted from the stranger…and awoke a feeling in Rey's gut.
Damn. He is my type. Is he a new colleague?
Just before the elevator's doors closed the man had noticed that he was being stared at, he lifted his almost black orbs and met the slim brunette's hazel eyes. Rey felt her panties twitch, before quickly dropping her gaze in embarrassment. Luckily the man couldn't see the flush creeping into her face, because the elevator's shiny doors cut them off.
The next elevator came three minutes later, which meant that the witted designer would arrive 5 minutes later in conference room 7.35. Needless to say that after her timid knocking on the door she was greeted by all the colleagues of her team and the two lawyers.
A redhead, sitting like he had swallowed a broom stick and the elevator guy.
"Sorry. The traffic" the brunette tried to gloss over her late arrival with an apologetic joke, breaking the tension in the room for a second and was immediately offered a seat by her supervisor, Poe Dameron.
"You are Miss Niima, correct?" the smaller man with red eyelashes in the expensive suit mumbled, before attempting a curt introduction: "We are here on behalf of the investigation relating to emission rates the board assigned to our office, First Order. This is Kylo Ren and I am Armitage Hux."
Silently settling down on the chair opposite of the attractive fellow, Rey simply nodded and began to listening half-heartedly to the first statements of Hux and his questions about their awareness of engine modifications and too high emission rates of their diesel engines.
Having regained her composure Rey felt an urge to adjust her hair, feeling nervous about the amount of questions Hux wanted to know. Luckily the red headed lawyer was engaged with writing down the answer of her more experienced colleagues, Poe and Kaydel, and left her alone. It was just then as she sat in silence that her eye's got stuck on the hands of the man sitting across from her.
Needless to say that Kylo's hands were huge. His nails were cut short and very well kempt… Unintentionally Rey's sleepy gaze wandered along the long elegant fingers complementing the black haired stranger's ensemble. He didn't wear a ring.
Fuck he even has big hands. I wonder where he could reach with them…
No Rey, don't go there! Don't think what a set of big hands could imply… oh god I am just imagining it! Bad Rey, stop it!
Another blush must have crept onto her face, while she gathered all her courage to check out the face of that hot guy over the wooden table.
And fuck. Their eyes locked. Klyo Ren was returning her stare. Rey felt her panty twitch.
Why did she react so strongly to that guy? It wasn't that he was a natural beau. No, his features were far from perfect. The nose he wore on his face was too big and his lips as pouty as the one of a whore. Still, the eyes they did it for her. His eyelashes were very long and dark, complementing the feverous passion in his doe eyes. Stupid hormones. It was probably due to the fact that her last lay was months ago…
Nevertheless Rey kept on staring. As if he was a flame and she a brainless moth. Suddenly the side of his full lips turned carefully upwards.
Shit. He was flirting with her.
Rey, suddenly feeling shy, dropped her eyes before things got out of hand.
"Last week we picked up that your team wanted to change the design of the new BMW series 5 because of problems with the performance. Is it possible that these performance problems were related to emission rates?" Hux questioned her supervisor arrogantly, which caught the brunette's attention again.
Poe started to search for words. Everyone in their team knew that the changes in the series 5 design was due to adjustments of the available parts from the factory. But that guy Hux was like a bloodhound following a track. Problem was that the track he wanted to find…didn't exist.
Rey gathered her courage and used the moment Hux scribbled some notes down for her input: "Why are you questioning us? I mean no one in this room has ever heard anything about issues with the emission rates of the Diesel motors. Designing engines and exhaust pipes are not part of our work. Especially since our design concepts are the same for every series, regardless of the motorization." She wanted to help Poe and end this senseless meeting. If these lawyers were looking for something fishy regarding emissions, they were digging in the wrong place.
In response Hux sneered in an ugly manner, while Kylo Ren simply shook his head and turned to his co-worker: "I think we can assess better if your department is worth looking into. However, Miss Niima, be warned that I have to report every unproductive engineer that I come across in the report for the board…." "Hux" The pale man warned sounding annoyed, knowing that the red headed dog lacked social skills. Rey's heart sunk, suddenly feeling intimidated.
"I don't think that will be necessary" Poe, a real cavalier and great supervisor, cut in to protect the newby of his team: "Rey certainly meant to do no harm with her…commentary." The slender brunette's wanted to gulp, but found that she couldn't.
Why had she been soo stupid? Why didn't she just remain silent?
She wasn't allowed to lose this job!
She had to pay rent, the redemption for her immense student loan and the loan for her BMW!
Bloody hell.
"I gathered from the HR files that Miss Niima is the newest addition to Dameron's team. She has worked here for just half a year. Applying manipulation software undetected or being involved in any conspiracy outranks the capabilities of a fresh nobody like Miss Niima by far."
Thank god her Knight in shining- Wait. Did he just call me a nobody?
Rey's face burned from the heat.
She felt the shame clench in her breast.
Shame.
She was nothing. Even after everything she had achieved so far people regarded her as worthless...
No one had called her a nobody for a long period of time now…
Incredible that the term still hurt her so much.
How dare he anyway?
Because he has a posh law degree?
No financial problems and probably a pent house?
Because he has a six-pack and a posh upbringing?
Bloody asshole!
Hux nodded in agreement, scribbling something down again on his paper block before returning to his professional attitude again.
Rey wanted to melt into the ground and become invisible. The whole room was staring at her for another second, before Kylo Ren took over the conversation again and proceeded with the questionings… This meeting couldn't end soon enough.
Rey sighted marching decidedly with her clicking heels down the second floor of the underground carpark of the BMW staff. This day had been hell.
After the lawyers left her design team alone, no one was able to get any work done. It was suddenly like that the atmosphere in the team was gone. There was no spirit. Somehow everybody feared losing his job after Hux's comment….
At home I'll take a long bath and empty a bottle…
Almost reaching her usual parking spot Rey spotted a Mercedes Benz SUV parking next to her BMW. And man whoever parked that SUV was not very skilled with it, because the person had maneuvered so close to her door that it would be impossible for her to open it.
Fantatic.
Just bloody fantastic.
What kind of asshole was driving a pitch black Mercedes GLS while working for BMW anyway?
Angrily placing her leather bag gently but aggressively on the deck of her silver car, Rey decided to check the number plate of the disturber so she could call the secretarial office to call out the driver.
What she saw next to the shiny type reference of the car was a logo. A logo of the enemy.
It was the car of those First Order lawyers.
Great.
Another glance spared at the number plate gave the engineer the clue regarding the owner that she needed: the number plate clearly said "KR-1".
"KR" as in Kylo Ren. Kylo fucking Ren.
To say that Rey began to fume was an understatement. She was boiling! Literally about to explode, because she simply felt mocked by those arrogant bastards once again.
The lean face of Kylo Ren flashed in her mind, reminding her how his jaw clenched and his brow twitched as Hux had threatened her.
Asshole. Unbelievable that I found that jerk attractive!
And like a possessed madwoman, Rey decided to let the anger get the better of her and retaliate. Taking her keys in her strong right, she positioned the metal of her pivotal in her palm in the fashion of a screw driver. Ever since she had left Plutt's orphanage Rey hadn't felt the familiar rush of adrenaline pumping through her veins before damaging something… It was exciting.
Her heels clicked again as she went around the massive SUV, only to let the metal get in contact with the body and the lacquer coat. Rey halted before committing the act, listenting if she could make out any foodsteps nearby. As soon as she was sure that the only noise was caused by the wind the brunette continued, feeling assured that no one would detect what she was about to do. She skillfully applied pressure on her key while dragging it along the bodywork and as a consequence the ugly noise of metal scratching echoed through the empty garage. Rey couldn't help but stared at the small line she left in Kylo Ren's car with an unhealthy fascination.
Fuck this feels awesome! The former delinquent exhaled while closing her eyes, letting the itch of gratification wash over her.
"What do you think you are doing?"
It was the baritone voice she would have recognized from a mile away.
Fuck.
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