Grell sat in his office staring at the huge pile of paperwork looming in front of him, he pawed at it uninterested for a few minutes examining the scrawled writing and then leaned back in his chair kicking it off the desk in irritation.

"Will's got to be having a laugh." Grell said flicking his hair over his shoulder and crossing his arms, "No field work until I get all this done. Who does he think he is?"

Grell had arrived at dispatch raring to go, the thought of getting back into reaping some souls had nearly distracted him from the thoughts of Rose and how much he was aching to be back home with her, then when he had got there Will had given his orders that Grell couldn't go out to do field work until he had caught up in the office and now he was sat here completely miserable.

Grell sighed as he stared up at the ceiling thinking of Rose wearing only his red silk bed sheet, he grinned widely and closed his eyes imagining what would have happened if he hadn't had to come to work, "My darling, only mine." Grell said whimsically flinging his arms open and pretending to kiss thin air for quite some time.

"Grell Sutcliff." Said a stern voice.

Grell suddenly opened his eyes and lost his balance on the chair falling behind his desk, he scrambled up and peered over the edge, Will was stood in the doorway looking extremely displeased as he waded through all the paperwork on the floor that Grell had knocked off previously, "Hello Will darling." Grell grinned getting to his feet and sitting on the edge of his desk in a sultry fashion.

Will's eyebrow twitched and he tried to keep himself calm, Grell was really trying his patience these days and he was sick of chasing him up on things, "Have you even attempted to do any of this?" Will said picking up a handful of sheets and dropping them on the desk, "Or have you been sat lazing around as usual in your little dream world?"

"You know I'll get it done," Grell said waving him off, "It just takes me a little longer than everyone else, I was never the studious one if you remember, that was always your thing. I was the one with the physical prowess...I should be out doing what I'm good at."

"A little longer?" Will said looking down at his watch, "You've been doing nothing in here for over eight hours?" Will pushed up his glasses and stared down at Grell.

"Huh, really? It doesn't seem that long." Grell said uninterestedly.

"Well it is," Will said angrily and then he sighed pushing up his glasses, "I came to see how you are getting on, it seems those with higher authority are wanting you back out there as soon as possible, your high level skills are required." Will trailed off quietly, he hadn't wanted to say any of this, he knew it would make Grell's head swell up.

"Of course it's only natural I've been missed." Grell grinned leaning over his desk and picking up his chainsaw, he stroked the blade like it was some sort of beloved pet then his eyes shot to Will, "Well then, maybe I can get this done another time if I've been personally asked for, what do you think Will darling?"

Will bit the inside of his lip to stop himself exploding at Grell, "Yes, seems that way." Grell stood up leaning the chainsaw on his shoulder, his eyes wild and full of excitement, it made Will feel slightly ill, Will knew Grell's bloodthirsty nature and that he was a loose cannon out in the field but he got the job done better than most, if he could just keep focused for a moment. "We're taking out the newly approved initiates tonight, one will be assigned to each of us so that we can make sure nothing goes wrong but there shouldn't be a problem."

Grell had forgotten that while he was away the initiates had either passed or failed the final exam, there would be a new team of initiate Shinigami hanging around now, once it might have excited him to see the fresh blood hanging around the office but now his thoughts were only of Rose and how he couldn't wait for this day to be over.

"Great." Grell sneered getting off the desk and following Will from his office.

The office was bustling as usual in the late afternoon, Shinigami rushing around here and there with stacks of records awaiting verification and processing. Will and Grell walked through and the usual heads turned or Shinigami darted out of the way hoping they wouldn't attract the attention of the high level dispatch agents.

Will came to a halt staring across the office and he pushed up his glasses sighing, "Now what."

"Hm?" Grell said looking from Will to where he was staring.

On the other side of the room near the water cooler there were a lot of the female office workers gathered around a tall black suited figure and they were all laughing a giggling as he spoke, many of the girls were all trying to edge in as close as possible but the figure was doing his best to keep them at bay by keeping his huge death scythe out in front of him. Grell's eyes widened as he caught a flash of dark crimson from behind one of the girls and he tried to hold in a gasp as his heart leapt into his throat. Will started towards the back of the room at a faster pace and Grell quickly followed anxious to know if it actually was who he thought it would be.

Grell stopped behind Will who was looking at the group of giggling girls with scorn and peered over his shoulder, sure enough there he was in all his glory looking ridiculously handsome with his dark red hair dressed in his black suit with the girls swooning around him dazedly. The boy finished what he was telling them and they all laughed, then his eyes rose to meet Grell's and a little smile flickered in the corner of his mouth.

"Sempai." The boy nodded to Will and the girls all turned around and froze for a moment under Will's furious gaze then they all scampered away leaving the three Shinigami alone.

"I'm not your Sempai anymore," Will said with a bit of enthusiasm nearly smiling, "This is Grell Sutcliff, your new Sempai," he said gesturing to the stunned red head behind him, "And this is Alex Winter," Will said gesturing to Alex who was smiling assuredly, "Your new problem ."