Hay there everyone let me introduce myself my name is Lily I'm the heroine of this story. I'm also the head of the computer services branch of Lilac and suns law practice. Now I know what you're probably thinking that sounds like an important job well you'd be wrong all I really do is monitor the computer systems from my fucking cold office that sits over the server room and occasionally organize files or act as tech support when the normal I.T. guys are too busy. I technically have a crew of eighty three working under me but in all actuality, I only have five guys who actually work with me directly Fred Thomas Tater George and starting today Sam. Fred and Thomas are two of my many many brothers and whose job it is to maintain the servers. George runs security at night and Tater and yes that is actually his real name. He works night shift maintenance he's also an eighth or was it ninth cousin who I can't fire even though he just sleeps through his shift and now Sam my new secretary. Why the hell I need a secretary is beyond me I do little more than Tater but what the hell ever my father went ahead and got me one any ways well at least he's not related to me. I think honestly, it's really hard to keep track with a family like mine. Well I just hope it's not another bunny oh I forgot to mention I'm a rabbit I live and work in the city Zootopia and this is the story of the day my life changed forever so now sit back and I hope you enjoy my fucked up life.
I yawned as I got up and out of bed and started to get dressed. I had to dress in business attire as I was considered a member of the management team and like the lawyers at Lilac and suns, I had a dress code. I had chosen a dark blue business suit with a knee length skirt. I had decided to not bother with underwear mainly because I was out of clean ones and I find them really uncomfortable with the winter coat of fur I can never seem able to get rid of. no matter how hard I tried to deal with it. It just keeps growing back. The reason for the out of season coat was due to my office is always so damn cold because it sits over the server room.
I sighed and walked over to the wall mirror to start and get ready I combed my overly fluffy brown fur with small black and white splotches. Though I guess I should mention there were two of these splotches I liked one was a white almost v shaped mark that ran down my back I like to think it sort of looks like wings and the second a tiny perfectly shaped black heart on the right side of my ass. Another thing I liked about my appearance was my bright luminescent ice blue eyes that seemed to slightly shift in color depending on my mood and or the light.
Once I had finished getting ready, I went and grab my bag and copy of home burrows catastrophe (i.e. home world cataclysm.) and put it in my bag. The game was a classic and one of my favorites sure the graphics and interface where crap, but you can't beat the music and story. I had also just found and rigged up an old computer so I could not only play the old game, but I could play it on my work set up. I smirked at least I had something to look forward to today.
I walked out of my apartment and decided to walk the five blocks to my office instead of taking my car because it was warm out and it felt great compared to what I had ahead of me for the rest of the day. And tell then the day had been a reasonably normal day that was until she happened. A tall female calico with a box of files and belongings fell right on top of me.
"Ouch hay get off me!" I coughed pushing her off of me and trying to catch my breath as she had knocked the wind out of me. I was pissed and ready to give her a piece of my mind that was tell I realized she was out cold.
"Oh, crap oh crap oh crap hay are you ok." I coughed still trying to catch my breath at the same time as I tried to wake the calico girl.
I soon heard an ambulances siren over the ringing in my ears it was damn hard to breathe. But I was finally starting to catch my breath. After a few more minutes I was finally able to catch my breath and start to breathe normally again. The ambulance pulled up next to us less than a minute after and just as she had finally started to come to, but she really seemed out of it though. So, I said the only thing that came to mind as I tried to keep her calm and tried to comfort her. "It's ok you're going to be ok just hold on a little longer."
Though this didn't last long and by the time the EMTs pulled out the gurney to load her up in to the ambulance her eyes had slowly shut, and she passed out again. But she said something I could barely hear her over all the noise of the ambulance, but I think she said. "An angel?"
The EMTs loaded her onto a gurney and checked me out before insisting I come with them as somehow, I was the more injured of the two of us and after having to get my wrist reset got a lot of griping about refusing pain meds. That seemed to make the doctors worry more so I told them how I didn't like the way they made me feel. But in all honesty that was only part of it. The truth was whenever I've gotten badly hurt in the past, I just go numb no clue how or why but the meds seam to counteract that making me feel the pain sure they lesson it, but it still hurts. The one time I mentioned it the doctors they said there was nothing physically wrong well nothing that would cause that at least but whatever they put my arm in a sling and told me to take it easy for the next few days.
I also found out what happened to the calico she had apparently tripped on the buildings third floor fire escape and had hit her head. Before falling off and plummeting to the ground but luckily for her and unluckily for me she managed to land on an overly fluffy bunny i.e. me and I broke her fall and surprisingly the worst she got out of it was the bump on the head. That she got when she tripped Oh well once I got discharged, I had them call me a cab and I went to work as I needed to update the family and if I don't come in at all I don't get paid and I now had a doctor bill to pay off at the end of the month.
As soon as I walked into the building Thomas had noticed my arm and him and Fred rushed over to me with worried looks on their muzzles. I quickly explained what happened and Thomas just had to chip in with his two cents.
"Damn sis I know your fluffy and all but you're not a damn crash pillow." He said his southern draw worsening this was one of the few tells he had or at least one he showed openly and right now it was showing just how worried he was.
"I know I know I was just in the wrong place at the right time I didn't even see her tell I was crawling out from under her." I said Before starting for my office. "But would you mind helping me spread the word to the family and please stress the fact I'm a little banged up but I'm Fine!" I stressed that last part because I really didn't want or need the entire family fretting and worrying over me well more then they normally do.
"why the hell do we have to do that didn't dad just buy his precious little princess a new slave to boss around." Fred teased me about our father hiring me a secretary.
I sighed then said. "look for the millionth time I'm sorry for being born as one of his only five daughters instead of one of his eighty-seven suns like you but you know as well as I do, I don't like the special treatment but there's nothing I can do about it." I stopped in consideration for a minute before asking. "speaking of which have you seen my new secretary come in, yet he was supposed to meet me hear this morning but with everything that happened I had forgotten about him?"
"No sorry he's not hear well not unless dad gave him a master key so he could go straight on up but I doubt he'd do that because well you know how anal he is about security and all but still I might be wrong maybe you should check your office just in case?" Thomas said with a casual shrugged before heading back to work.
I headed to my office on the second floor and as expected it was empty and fucking cold as usual. I sighed and switched on my space heater and started on an email blast to the family when the walkie talky in the charging stand on top of my filing cabinet beeped. I went over and grabbed it.
"Hay what's up" I said hitting the talk button.
"Hi sis you got a guest and they're on their way up." Thomas said on the other end of the line.
"Okay." I said before pocketing the walkie talky and heading over to the stares to greet them and to my surprise it was the calico girl from earlier.
she looked shocked then afraid as she quietly said. "Th th the angel." she then screamed as she had tried to take a step back as she had forgotten she was still on a stair case causing her to miss her footing and fall.
What happened next shocked even me I acted on instinct and without thinking I dropped to all fours and darted forwards before jumping and rebounding off the wall then landed behind her just in time to catch her. But needless to say, me being a small bunny and her being a much larger cat the force of her hitting me when I caught her it nearly knocked me over and would have, I hadn't managed to catch myself by hooking my left foot in the arm rail. Luckily for the both of us Fred had heard the calico scream and him and Thomas came running.
"Sis what the hell." Fred said before I interrupted him.
"She fell heavy help hurry." I said through gritted teeth as I struggled to keep the two of us from falling the rest of the way down the stairs. Now to save a little face hear I could normally support her weight no problem but in my current position the only thing holding us up was my foot in the handrail. Fred and Thomas help me back onto my feet and helped me set her down on the stairs.
"Ok first up who are you and how did you know I was here?" I asked the calico still a little out of breath.
"I Im um my name is Samantha but for some reason everyone seems to call me Sam and I didn't know you where hear I just came to meet my new boss a Lilly Flore Lilac." She said nervously.
"Oh, really I figured you came because of what happened this morning?" I asked Sam more than a little surprised by that and the fact she was my new secretary who I had presumed up to this point was a guy do to her name.
"No what happened this morning?" Sam asked sounding confused tilting her head to the side slightly and I had to admit it was kind of cute.
"You fell three floors and landed on top of me." I said starting to get a little annoyed.
"Oh, so that was you I am so sorry." Sam said with a surprised and embarrassed look on her muzzle.
"Weight this was the girl who fell on you damn sis you and your fucking luck." Fred said starting in on his hole rant again.
"Look I don't want to hear about that again and your just wrong ok I honestly don't know where you get this crap from but no just no." I said cutting him off.
"Um excuse me but um I need to find miss Lilly I'm already super late and I really don't want to make it any worse than it already is. In fact, could you help explain what happened to miss Lilly because I really don't want to lose the only job. I've been able to get in months and I'm really starting to get desperate hear." That worried me and what worried me more was if Sam was as desperate as she claimed how had she gotten this bad off, but that train of thought was derailed by Thomas teasing her.
"I doubt being late is the worst of your problems as my sis here the bunny you fell on twice today and who wrist you also dislocated, I might add. Is your boss Lilly."
Sam looked shocked and blushed and it wasn't a light blush either it was a dark red blush that reached her ears and could even be seen through the small patch of orange fur on her face then she started stuttering off apologies.
"Stop just stop im not mad let's just move on and Thomas stop that you're starting to get as bad as uncle Bastion and the poor things been through enough for one day." I said to him as I led her up to the office and her desk.
Where I found out a few minutes later that Tater hadn't set up her computer properly in fact the unit was one of the old ones we used to cannibalize parts from, so it didn't even work and was practically empty. "Damnit this is an empty box Its been stripped let me see if I can't find one that is in tacked if not ill see what I can cobble together. Tell then you can use my computer in my office." I said opening the door to my office what happened next surprised me.
"Oh wow where did you get a set up like this is it custom wow I couldn't get something like this unless I slapped like a year salary down on just the tower unit let alone the other parts or equipment." Sam said she was practically drooling over my work set up.
"No, it's not truly custom but it's all high end with a few minor tweaks hear and their but it's mostly original but the original was built to my personal request and standards so yeah there's that but yeah mostly it's nothing special." I said casually as I logged her in.
"If this is nothing special, I'd really love to see what you consider special." She sounded a little too eager about that, but I doubt I'd sound any less eager if I was in her position.
"Well play your cards right and you might just get the chance to look at my home unit now that one's something special." Sam blushed again when I said that, so I weighted a few seconds in silence before I changed the subject and continued. "Soooooo it more than obviously like computer so how did you get into them it's well not rare but uncommon to find another girl interested in the tech side of computers I mean most mammals who do like them just like them for what they can be used for and then some are just gamers but not many like the actual tech and components and other things like that?"
"I guess I started out as a gamer but started to take interest in the programming and technical side of things and how that worked but because my dad held the purse strings when I went to college he made it so I had to take business courses and I could only take computer ones as my optional courses but in the end, I didn't really get enough of either to go too far down ether of those paths. So, I ended up trying to get a job involving computers and save up to get my degree and do what I wanted but I couldn't get one and could barely hold a business job and now I've hit rock bottom so hard I had to beg my father to help me get this one where and im directly quoting him hear. All I have to do what I was told like fetching coffee and play on one of those dame things you seem to want to waste your life away on and maybe if you're lucky once in a blue moon you'll do some actual real work like organize files or something close to halfway productive like that." Sam sounded pissed on that last part and it was way different from the sweetly shy girl I had been talking to up tell that point and that sort of pissed me off to.
"Wow and I thought I had daddy issues my dad treats me like I'm made of glass and ok I have to admit he has a halfway good reason for that but damn just damn." I said patting her on the shoulder as I tried to cheer her up. "Well look at it this way his little shaming scheme just back fired in his own muzzle big time he just put you in a position where you can learn and be promoted to the type of job you want I have access and control over the entire computer services division take some online courses and I'll let you try your hand wherever you would like but you'll need to earn any job offer or promotion I am willing to help but I'm not giving you a free ride." I offered pulling a tool belt out of the file cabinet.
Sam looked shocked and surprised but after the shock wore off, she asked clearly suspicious of my intentions. "Why would you do that and help me?"
"Simple I had someone who gave me a push and a leg up early on and though I still don't have the life I want I'm working towards it and I feel like even if I fail, I at least tried so why shouldn't I give you the chance to do the same." I said with a shrug.
Sam looked shocked and confused and said. "Um ok I'll try it and see what I can do."
"Good now see if you can't find a intact unit In the logs and let me know if you do or if something happens use the radio oh and if someone named Jeff gets on the line just ignore him go two frequencies up he's some conspiracy nut who thinks this is a government facility he's odd and a little crazy but he's harmless." I sighed before leaving.
Four hours later I had scrounged up the needed parts and a few odds and end I thought I could use to make her something nice. I took the parts I needed and left the rest of the stuff in the storage room. I then left a note for Tater that said if he didn't bring them to my office before, I came in work tomorrow that I'd inform auntie Scarlet that he'd been slacking off again then took the needed parts to my office.
"I'm back and I found the parts and a really big ass spider luckily I also found an empty jar." I said setting the jar with the giant spider inside on the desk Sam jumped back looking terrified.
"What the heck is that thing and why didn't you just squish it." She said sounding grossed out and a little afraid.
"I got a relative who owns a pet store she'd love something like this and if she can't sell it, she can feed it to something else." I said sitting down in a guest chair and getting to work we chatted a bit as we worked and during that time Jeff guessed our frequency again, so we changed frequency's and that was about it tell Fred and Thomas showed up as the day started to wind to an end.
"Hay are you two ready to pack it up for the day Gage is already holding our booth and what's the hell is this." Thomas said picking up the spider in a jar. "I found that in the storage room luckily that's also where I found that jar, I'm planning on seeing if ant Alice will buy it or warn me that I need to get rid of it because its stupidly deadly or both. I'm honestly kind of hoping for both but sure let's go." I said grabbing my bag as Sam got up a little confused and asked. "Um what's going on?"
"A sort of initiation ritual and before you freak it's not like one of those hazing things. We all just go to a local bar and celebrate a little and we pick up your tab well as long as its ain't over sixty dollars that is." Thomas said casually as we all started to gather up our stuff to head out.
A short time later we arrived at the ironworks pub which was across the street from my apartment needless to say even though I don't drink alcohol I spend a lot of time there. We walked in and headed to the booth with the little plaque on it proclaiming it was reserved and owned by lilac and son's computer services branch. As soon as we had set down Gage a brown bear walked over with our usual drinks two different brands of beers and a large mug of ginger ale and asked with his strange cross between a Irish and Russian accent. "What can I get you knew girl?"
Sam looked a little surprised as he handed her a menu and after a minute of consideration, she ordered a margarita and a soft drink. Gage left once she had ordered to let us decide what we wanted though we all already knew what we wanted except Sam who seemed surprised by the mixed and pred menus.
"Wow this place has everything I mean do you know how rare it is for any place in the city to sell poultry I mean fish and insect joints are a dime a dozen but this place has all three I mean there's only a hand full of places like that and they are super expensive so I've only had it two or three time but um." She suddenly stopped as she seemed to remember that the three of us where all prey species. "Um well I guess you wouldn't know much about that sorry."
"It's ok and if you want to go ahead, we won't stop you just remember were only covering up to sixty dollars." I said curiously picking up the pred menu I found it a little gross but even I had to admit it was a large and extensive selection.
"You sure I know it can be a little unsettling to watch us pred's eat meat." She sounded a little ashamed.
"Hay where fine with it me and Fred are friends with a weasel, we've seen it before as fore fluffy hear she simply don't fear preds." Thomas said as Sam looked at me with both a confused and shocked as Gage came back and took our ordered.
Sam got her chicken and yes it was a little gross looking but none of us said anything about it. we all started to chat about differing topics though the other started to get a little drunk. Even so it was all going good tell a drunk ocelot stumbled over hoping that he might just get lucky and laid. "Hey kitten want to ditch these little fluff balls and come spend the night with a real feline like me." He drunkenly slurred
"Um it I I'm ok I'm I'm fine with them plus I like fluffy thing." Sam said pulling me in for a hug and dam her fur was soft and she smelled nice like vanilla and cherry's and faintly of booze and I had to admit it was kind of nice. But how was she this drunk as she was only on her third drink.
"Oh, gross don't tell me your one of those lesbians and a cross specie freaks." He said sounding disgusted.
"No, I just said I liked fluffy things like plushies and Lilly and whatever else's but not you." She said before he grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the booth and heading for the door despite Sam's repeatedly stating she didn't want to go.
Gage had already moved to block the door but before he got out from behind the bar I did it I acted without thinking I pulled myself up so I was standing on my seat then I jumped over the table and hit the ground running I quickly reached Sam and the ocelot then I grabbed his arm and said a lot calmer then I felt "let her go!"
"What the where the hell did yo aaaaaaah!?" He yelped as my grip tightened to the point it was obvious to the entire bar very painful.
"I said let her Go!" this time a was said a lot angrier as he released her "good now apologize!" I said looking over at Sam she looked shocked and 'was she blushing'?
"I'm sorry I'm really sorry just let go please!" He begged as I let go and turned to Sam to see if she was ok but before I could reach her.
Her expression had changed to one of fear and it happened again I dodged to the right avoiding his punch i then reared back with my good arm and slammed my fist right into his face and knocked him clean off his feet and half way across the bar knocking him out. "Ok that hurt." I said shaking my wrist which actually hurt 'weird'.
Gage rushed over and said. "Nice punch at least you didn't wreck my place this time."
"Whatever just bring us another round and get read of this asshole." I said heading back to our booth with Sam as Gage called the cops to drag off the ocelot.
After that we had a few more and Sam passed out and Fred and Thomas where plastered, so I agreed to let them all spend the night at my place if they'd help me carry Sam to my apartment.