Why does this always happen to me? I'm stuck with a bucket load of paperwork… again. Me, being Rose Hathaway, cannot handle this. I sigh, loud enough for everyone in the office to hear my dismay. No one looks my way. We recently attacked a small Strigoi colony living just off the coast of Seattle. My ravishing partner, Dimitri, and myself were selected as two of the seventeen Guardians to attack the twelve Strigoi. Everyone made it out alive, except the Strigoi. I hear a rustling of paper as six of the seven Guardians pack up for the night. I sigh again. Everybody files out of the door. No matter how much empathy they share for me, no one is willing to do my paperwork. All except one. She stops walking and turns around. To face me. She isn't very tall, somewhere between me and Dimirti. Her long hair is tied back in a messy ponytail, the colour stuck between red and brown. Her big eyes overwhelm me, making me loose myself in their murky, black depths. She smiles broadly, reveling shiny white teeth behind the stained red lips. She. Is. Gorgeous. She is also familiar.
"Hi," she says, "I'm Shay. I was there for that case." She says, pointing to the file that I was currently working on. So that is where I recognized her.
"I can do it if you would like. You can work on that other case." Again, she points to the lonely manila folder sitting half a meter away.
"Really?" I say is utter astonishment. No one had ever offered to do my work. She nods.
"Well thanks. I'm Rose by the way; Rose Hathaway."
"I know." She says with a small smile.