New story! Hope you like.
Lie to me doesn't belong to me yada yada ya. Oh, and all mistakes are mine.
Ria was working in the lab when Loker came bustling in. "Hey Ria," He sat and rode a chair across the room to her. "Did you hear about the psychological evaluation were going to get?" He whispered with excitement.
Ria had heard about this, from Foster actually, but she didn't know why Eli was whispering. "Why are you whispering?" She asked getting back to watching the videos from their latest client.
Loker looked behind him at the open door suspiciously, when he turned and saw that she wasn't paying attention to him he waved his hand in front of the screen, "Did you hear about them?"
"Yeah, so what?"
"Well," She couldn't help but smile, he looked so cute when he was excited. "Don't you think Fosters' going to be pissed? I mean, she is the psychologist around here." Now he was twirling in place on the chair.
"I talked to her about it. She said it'd be interesting to get an outsiders' evaluation on how partnerships in this company work." She said now with her full attention on Eli.
"What about Lightman? What'd he say?"
"Oi! What about me?" Both turned abruptly at their boss who was standing in the doorway.
"What do you think about the evaluations?" Loker spat out not twirling anymore, instead half twirling in his chair side to side. Ria just had to laugh a little at her associates lack of fear of their boss.
Cal stood still for a moment before returning to his normal self. "Torres get back to work," he turned towards Loker, "And you… stop doing that. Make yourself useful and get me a cup of coffee." Loker stopped what he was doing and walked out the door.
"Deflection!" Was heard down the hall when Loker turned a corner.
"I take it you didn't know?" Ria said rewinding the video.
"Where's Foster?"
"Talking to Anna I think."
Cal walked down the hall to the receptionists' desk and spotted Foster, Anna and Heidi conversing. "Why didn't anyone tell me about this evaluation?" He interrupted. Foster said her 'excuse me's' to the others and led Cal to her office. "I am the boss here aren't I? We don't have enough money in the budget to have some psychologist come in here and tell me what I already know."
Gillian sat at her desk and began typing on her computer. "Believe it or not Cal, not everything is about you. And she's not just some psychologist; She and I went to school together. She's being sent over by the DCPD. If we're going to continue working with them they want to have us evaluated."
Cal stared at her and sat on a chair, "well, uh, that's stupid. Why can't you do it?"
"Because they need an outsider's perspective," She was looking at him now. "They think my relationship to you, Eli and Ria will affect the evaluation severely. And besides I can't evaluate myself."
"Pfft, sure you can. Or I can do it for you." He flashed her a grin before standing and walking around the room.
"It won't be that bad, Cal. They're just small exercises about trust, judgement and all that stuff." Gillian trailed off taking a candy out of her drawer.
"Seriously, you went to trick or treat?" He looked at her with an exasperated but soft glare.
"No, My niece," She explained.
Cal shook his head, "Gillian Foster, taking candy from small children." He walked out the door.
As he stepped out the door Loker showed up with a coffee cup, "Here you go boss man." Cal took the cup from him and walked away.
"You're Welcome!" Loker called after him.
When Cal entered the building the next day he was expecting to be the first one to arrive. He was surprised, however, when he heard voices coming from the break room.
There was a gasp, "And what did he say?" Gillian's voice carried in the empty halls.
"He told me to back off, how am I supposed to back off? You know. He's my little brother. I couldn't let that skank play him like that."
"Hello! Who's this?" Cal barged in asking no one in particular, "Who are you?" He stood real close to the woman Gill had been talking to.
"Cal. This is Cynthia. She's the psychologist assigned to evaluate us. Remember I told you about her. Cynthia this is Cal Lightman."
Cynthia stretched her hand out to shake his, "Nice to meet you Cal." He didn't return the favor.
"Dr. Lightman," He paused as if thinking something over, "You know what? Just Lightman."
"Well, Lightman, we'll get started as soon as Torres and Loker get here."
"Uh huh, well, ladies. You can get back to talking about the skank." He left in a rush, once he was out of earshot Cynthia turned to Gill.
"Oh my god, That's your boss?" She asked taking a sip of her coffee.
"He's not my boss. We're just business partners."
"Just?" She raised an eyebrow to Gill questionably. She chuckled as if in disbelief, "Ok"
"You know what; Let me show you around the office." Gillian and Cynthia both left the room.
I hope you guys like it. My posts won't be quick, maybe once a week because I'm writing this story as it goes along. So yeah, let me know what you think.