A/N: Happy New Year everyone! I'm discontinuing the interview bit for now, if I get writer's block I might end up bringing it back temporarily. This is how Joe imagines Komui and Reever's first meeting. Oh and as a random side note work is weird because they keep, jokingly, referring to me as "Dr. Lee's fiancé" (My fiancé is finishing Med. School and it's his last name, but my coworkers mean it as a DGM reference which is weird).

After opening the parcel, the first thing that Reever pulled out was a (handwritten) note from the Supervisor, the entire contents of which was:

"Reever,

Happy birthday! Come have lunch with Lenalee and me.

Komui."

Reever sighed. He still remembered that day, he had been at head quarters for almost two years (which was long enough to know that no one else got that sort of treatment, except maybe Jerry).

The three of them had sat in Komui's office together and talked about projects and Lenalee's missions, while eating amazing food. It had ended up becoming a tradition, every year after that the three (or two if Lenalee was away) of them would have lunch together on September eighth , even if they just bolted it down and got right back to work.

But the surprising and touching thing was that Reever was invited (along with Jerry,) to the private little lunch gatherings on Komui and Lenalee's birthdays, whereas everyone else had to wait until the party at dinner time.

He never had understood why he'd been included in their little family unit. It was true that Lenalee was like a little sister to him and that she was grateful that he looked after her brother, but Komui…

Well he never had been sure what the Supervisor thought about him and a good part of his time was spent giving Komui hell.

Xxxx

He set the note a side and pulled out a short but thick leather bound journal. Rachel had given it to him for Christmas one year. In the beginning, he'd used it as a planner and notebook, but it just wasn't as portable as he would have liked. Still it was handsome, so it had sat on his desk under mountains of books. Or it had until Reever had found something that needed to be written down.

Reever didn't bother opening it, he already knew what he'd find. He knew the first two real entries by heart.

The Oceania Branch had been working on a few massive robotics projects, Reever wasn't really sure of the details because it wasn't his area of expertise (and because he was wrapped up in his own work). The Asia Branch had sent over some help, which normally might have been seen as an insult on their intelligence, but since it was their top people on the subject, they let it slide.

There had been a huge fuss on the day they had arrived, but Reever had been too busy to even think of going to dinner that night.

Two days later he was carrying four huge supply boxes (the stack extended above his head) to one of the labs, when he ran headlong into someone.

Reever fell backwards with a small squeak of surprise and landed flat on his ass. The boxes had gone everywhere but he'd managed to hold onto one and it seemed the stranger had caught another. He didn't care about the supplies (it was mostly rubber tubing and metal stands anyway, nothing breakable), he was too busy craning his neck to look up at the man before him.

Wow! He was super handsome! Reever had never seen him before so he reasoned that he must be one of the visitors. Otherwise, he would have remembered him. Besides, no guy at the Oceania Branch had such long and silky black hair. Reever blushed when he realized that he was staring. "Ah! Sorry…"

The stranger just smiled, showing off a set of blindingly white teeth, "No, it's my fault. I should have watched where I was going. Here, let me help."

Without waiting for a response Komui, for that's who it was, hauled Reever to feet and returned his box before picking up the other two and making an "after you" motion.

By this point even the tips of Reever's ears were red. He was surprised to find that the man was strong and quite a bit taller than he was.

The lab that he was headed to was only a few doors away, so he let himself be helped.

Xxxx

The room was empty so he set his load down on the table and Komui followed suit.

Reever turned, "Thank you , um…"

Komui opened his mouth to introduce himself but before he got the chance, Rachel popped up and literally dragged the blonde away.

"Reever, there you are! Come on, Jones needs our assistance with an experiment!"

Later when he had a quick break, Reever sat down and wrote out the encounter. He didn't know why, it wasn't that big of a deal but somehow he felt that it was important. He was a bit disappointed that he'd never gotten the man's name but at that point he doubted he'd ever see him again. As such, he allowed himself to speculate over what he was like.

He had really only known a few things about Komui at first: that he was a scientist from the Asia Branch, that he was good at robotics, that he was tall and handsome, and that he was absent minded and kind.

A/N: Aw, 19 year old Reever! More flashbacks in the next bit as well as Komui's point of view.