A/N) Hi guys! Just to let you know, I am just about to leave for a two week holiday, so you won't see any updates until around early September, when I'm back. For that reason today I'm posting every chapter up to 'I' in this series which is all I have prewritten so far, to make up for the absence. Anyway, see you soon; please comment if you like!
Dirt
"We need dirt!" announces Katherine as she strides into the main office, her hair up in a high ponytail which flicks her cheek as she swerves over to Nick's desk. She places her hands – slender and neatly manicured – on the back of the desk and faces Nick head-on so he can't look anywhere else in the room.
Obediently, Nick looks up, an enquiring expression on his face. "Dirt?" he asks uncertainly.
"Yes. Dirt," Katherine repeats. "Rumours, news articles, hidden secrets, the lot. We need as much as we can get on Lord Hoffman, in case he tries to challenge me for my leadership again."
"And what would be the mature, sensible thing to do?" Nick asks calmly.
His boss drops her gaze almost guiltily. "The mature, sensible thing to do would probably be to just lodge a court complaint against him, and hope that this whole affair fizzles itself out," she recites quickly, almost sounding like a sulky child.
"And are we opting for the mature, sensible option?"
"We've just created an adorable, nine-year-old child robot and named it KT," Katherine points out. "I think we dropped out of the realms of mature and sensible a long time ago."
Her colleague considers this, before looking back up and shrugging sheepishly. "True."
Katherine springs into action, moving around the desk and dropping into the seat next to Nick, fingers already poised over the keyboard, ready to type. "In that case, I'm on dirty rumours and secrets." Her eyes flash: a fleck of emerald green leaping out of the grey. "The juicy stuff."
Nick sighs, though truthfully he wants to see Lord Hoffman go down as much as his boss evidently does. "I'll check the tech news for the last couple of weeks, I guess."
She grins, an evil glint present in her eyes. "Let's dig up the dirt, Nick."