"Beca, please meet your new partner, Jesse Swanson." Luke said happy when Jesse walked inside.
Beca turned her head so quickly that she could hear her neck click. Maybe it's not the same Jesse, she thought. What are the chances?
"Fuck." She cursed as she saw her neighbor on Luke's door.
Jesse froze with his eyes wide opened as well.
"You're at a work space." Luke reminded her. "Jesse, meet my producer, Beca Mitchell."
"Uh…" Jesse was speechless. "Hi."
Beca turned to Luke. "You have to be kidding me!"
"Wait. You guys already know each other?" Luke seemed amused.
"Unfortunately." Beca sighed. She pointed at Jesse. "Neighbor."
"Well, that makes things… interesting." Luke said hopeful. He pointed at the chair next to Beca's. "Have a seat, Jesse."
"Oh, yeah… Thanks." Jesse was still recovering from the shock. He sat next to Beca uncomfortably.
"Now you guys are spending a lot of time together, so try not to kill each other." Luke said mostly for Beca.
"Can I kill myself instead?" she asked.
"You're not getting away that easily, Mitchell." The boss answered curt.
Beca snorted.
"How long are you planning to torture me like that anyway?" She asked.
"Stop being dramatic. It's only fifteen days." Luke rolled his eyes.
"Two whole weeks?" Beca was indignant.
"Actually, fifteen work days." He said already knowing what would come.
"What?" Putting poison on Luke's coffee wouldn't be that hard, Beca thought. "Are you serious?"
"Do I look like I'm not?" he asked. "Nwo go get to work. Both of you, by the way."
"I hate you." Beca said as she stood up.
"Like I even mind." Luke didn't even look at her. "And since you two are working together, why don't you show him this place, Mitchell?"
Beca just narrowed her eyes at him as she walked out of Luke's office.
"Uh…" Jesse stood up as well. "I guess I should go too."
Jesse just followed Beca out of the office. She seemed furious.
"What the hell are you doing here?" she asked not even stopping to look at him. "I thought you worked with movies."
"I do." Jesse felt like a child being scolded. "I score movies."
Right, Beca thought and then shut her office's door on Jesse's face.
"What about you?" Jesse asked opening the door and getting in. "So you're not the coffee lady after all."
"Sorry to disappoint you." Beca said from behind her desk. "Get the hell out of my office."
"Aren't you gonna show me around this place?" he asked looking through her office.
Beca just gave him a look and took the phone on her desk.
"Hi," she said on it. "Barb, can you do me a favor? I need KJ to come here."
"Thanks." She said as she hung up.
"… So?" Jesse asked her hesitant.
"Don't talk to me." She didn't even bother looking at him. "I'm working."
She heard the knocks on her door and let Kimmy-Jim in.
"What?" the receptionist asked unfriendly.
"This guy," Beca pointed at Jesse. "will be working here for a while, so Luke asked you to show him everything, make him comfortable and all that stuff."
"Why would I do that?" the receptionist asked with her bored voice.
"Wow, KJ" Beca looked at her pretending to be shocked. "Are you really gonna question you boss' orders? Luke will be so pleasant to know you disobeyed him." Beca said in a fake gentle tone.
Kimmy-Jim narrowed her eyes to Beca and looked at Jesse.
"Come with me." She said curt and left.
"You should follow her." Beca said as she noticed Jesse was still there.
"Right." Jesse said as he started walking. "I'll see you later, I guess."
"Luckily not." Beca sang.
"You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Jesse asked as he was back at Beca's office.
"I don't wanna talk to you." Beca said as she kept occupied with work.
"You made me go with that scary receptionist on purpose." He sat in front of her. "I thought she would kill me every time I opened my mouth."
"I'm glad you liked her."
Jesse kept waiting, expecting her to say something else.
"Aren't you gonna leave?" she asked after a while.
"Aren't we supposed to work together?" he gave back.
"Yeah, just as I was also supposed to show you the office." She looked at him for the first time. "I don't want you in here."
"Come on!" Jesse leaned on her desk. "We're working together for three weeks Beca, can't we get through this project being nice to each other?"
"I'm not nice to people. And I work alone." She said in her usual bad mood.
"Wait, what was that you said to the receptionist again?" he asked thinking. "That you shouldn't disobey your boss." He raised an eyebrow challenging her.
Beca just stared at him, remembering Luke's words. It's your last chance, he had said.
"So let me reformulate it." Jesse started again. "We're stuck with each other for three weeks, we need that project done on time and it will only happen if we do it together. So I suggest we have a truce, finish whatever needs to be finished and then, when the three weeks are done, it's over. You get back to your coffee duties and I get back to my movies."
"What do you say, partner?" he asked her hopeful.
Beca rolled her eyes. "Whatever." She mumbled.
Hey! So, I need help with something.
I need an object. It has to be for some unknown reason at Beca's office. And let me say it already, she's hitting Jesse with it, so something big and awkward.
Luckily, there'll be at least one answer to it, I hope. X_X
