When my computer went down I had a lot of time to write/draw. So I'll be typing out the good(ish) stuff this week. Hope you all enjoy!
It was not as though Kat hated her partners themselves, just the fact that she had to be partnered with someone who just got in the way. It usually didn't take the said partner much time to figure out that they were more or less useless and ask for a transfer.
She had tried as hard as she could not to be teamed up with Max. The first time had worked out in her favor, forcing Rachel Leeds to take on the rookie (of course, everyone in the office saw how that turned out.) The next time Kat had no choice, but was now stuck with not one but two rookies partners.
Oh, and did she ever mention that one of the said rookies was always saving the other two's butts? Not that Kat would have gotten into any of the messes if it hadn't of been for Turbo Boy and his ability to screw anything up. But it still stung to be turned into the damsel in distress all the time.
Once she said something to that extent to Josh and he'd made some crack about her fighting abilities and how the whole damsel thing suited her. He didn't say much after that, as he was still almost drained and now had gotten a nice bonus of cracked ribs from Kat's fists. It had taken weeks before the two would speak to the other, mostly thanks to Berto's pleading and getting kidnapped by some crazy plant person.
She'd kind of forgotten about the whole thing the next year, when Josh invited her to dinner the first time. And it was a pretty nice (and costly) dinner, so of course Kat had to say yes to the next one if Josh was going to pay for it. Same with the concert tickets and trip to a minion free Italy. And hey, if she got some added bonuses on the side, who was Kat to complain?
She's had an inkling of what was going to go down when she found the ring tucked away in Josh's room. It looked alright, for being a ring. Not that Kat really noticed or anything, she'd only put it on her finger to see what it really looked like. No tacky stones that could get caught in anything but not one of the really cheap ones either. But he should have known that Kat hated to be tied down, that she couldn't put up with partners at all.
The stupid guy had to make it not simple for her at all. Dressed up in that stupid dress he'd gotten from someplace with a note saying that he could be the damsel in distress if Kat really wanted him to be. Everyone was watching and besides, the sword that she'd just gotten out of the deal was almost as nice as the ring.
Maybe she could try giving this whole partner for life thing a chance.