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The day had gone on as usual, Laura had gotten to work just in time even though she was exhausted from last nights date. They had stayed up later than she had intended but even through her fatigue she couldn't stop smiling. Laura sat down by her desk and started humming to herself as she flipped through her file.

"Excuse me?" Natalie said as she politely smiled at Laura who looked up at her.

"Natalie! Nice to see you." Laura said kindly.

"Yes, you too. I'm actually here to inform you that the director wants to see you in her office as of right now." Natalie always sounded worried when she brought up the director. It wasn't like it really shocked Laura, a lot of people were afraid of her and she understood why. However, seeing that Carmilla had informed her last night about the conversation she had had with her mother, she wasn't too worried.

"Thank you Natalie, tell her I'm on my way.

Laura knocked politely on the directors door before entering.

"Ah, Miss Hollis. Glad to see that you made it on time." The director nodded. "Take a seat."

Laura walked over and took a seat in front of the Director. She was starting to feel much more comfortable around the woman now than she had the first time she met her, also probably because she knew what was about to come.

"So, I want to discuss your article that you wrote." She said as she took of her glasses.

"I promise I'll do better next time!" Laura played along with her game.

"Well, that's why I wanted to talk with you. You do need polishing up, however I was a bit too harsh on you yesterday. You wrote a good article." She said. Even though those were the words Laura had expected to hear, the way the director said it just made it sound emotionless. As usual.

"Really? Wow, thank you Miss. Karnstein!" Laura said, acting surprised.

"Don't thank me, I am just telling you the truth." She said with a smirk on her lips. "I want to reward you." She continued, which made Laura's eyes widened. She hadn't expected it to go this far.

"Wait…you want to reward me?" She asked as she furrowed her brows at the grey-haired woman.

"Yes, I do. Usually when one is new at The Oracle you would be writing the stories no one really gives, excuse my French, a shit about really." Which made Laura hold back a smile. "And as I saw yesterday, you do have talent. So I want to see how far this could go. I want you to write an article about the economic downfall of this city. Do you think you can handle that?" She said as she pointed her glasses at her.

"Well, yes! Yes of course Miss Karnstein!" Laura said bewildered. She had to thank Carmilla later because whatever she had said had made her career jump a leap within a day.

"That is all. You may leave. The information will be given to you from Maria." She said nonchalantly as she put her glasses back on.

As soon as Laura had left the room she quickly took up her phone and dialled Carmilla's number.

"Well hello cupcake." Carmilla's smirk was heard over the phone. How she did that Laura would never know.

"Thank you, thank you thank you, thank you and a million more times thank you!" She said hurriedly.

"You're welcome. But what did I do?" Carmilla asked confused.

"I know you can't talk cause you're at work and so am I but I just HAVE to share the good news!" Laura said excited as she talked towards the elevator.

"Go on." Carmilla said with anticipation in her voice.

"You're mom just pulled me into her office, not only did she say I wrote a good article BUT also that I will get to write bigger articles, like actually important ones!" She said with a huge smile on her face.

"Laura that's amazing! Good job!" The brunette answered and Laura could hear that she was smiling. "And don't thank me cupcake, you did the job, I just delivered the information."

"Well then, I'm thanking you for being the best postwoman ever." She said with a playful smile on her lips.

"It's tough job but I try my best" Carmilla sarcastically answered which made both woman snicker. "Hey, do you maybe wanna grab lunch today?" Carmilla asked.

"I would love to, but I want to spend all my time at work writing my article" Laura said as she frowned.

"Hey, no problem sundance. Maybe I'll see you later?" Carmilla asked. This made Laura's smile widen because of the fact that the brunette already wanted to meet her again.

"Maybe." Laura said with a smirk which made the other woman snort.

"Well, I'll hear from you later creampuff."

"Yeah, you too!"

"And Laura?" Carmilla said, her voice suddenly going serious.

"Yeah?" The blond asked a bit hesitant.

"Good luck."

It had been a couple of days after her date with Carmilla and both of them had been extremely busy, however they had been talking on the phone every night for at least an hour. Not that the brunette said much, mostly listening to Laura's gibberish, but the journalist couldn't help but smile at the thought of the taller woman. Things at work had eased down, she was getting a hang of things and as Carmilla had predicted. Her paper was going really well and she was going to meet up with Carmilla later tonight.

Laura was sitting by her desk, her eyes glued to the screen as she typed away. She had predicted that the article should be done by the end of the day, if she gave it her all. Suddenly a familiar voice was heard.

"Hey Laura, hows it going?" Laura turned around and saw Will standing with a big grin on his face.

"Oh my god, hi Will!" Laura said as she got up and hugged him. "What are you doing here?" She asked as she rubbed his arm in a friendly manner.

"I'm actually here to see mother, we're going to lunch together."

"How nice!" Laura smiled back as she sat down again on her chair.

"So, what are you working on?" He asked as he looked over her shoulder at the screen.

"I'm actually writing a paper about economic downfall of the city. Quite tragic actually." She said as she frowned and scrolled through her text.

"I'm impressed that mothers already let you handle stuff like this."

"Yeah, it's pretty exciting. I think she secretly likes me." She said as she smiled a goofy smile.

"Well, she shouldn't like you too much. Carmilla wouldn't like that." Will smirked. Before Laura could answer she heard someone behind her.

"What wouldn't Carmilla like?" The director said, extremely confused. Her eyes drifted to Laura and then Will. "Do you know my children?" She asked Laura as she raised a suspicious eyebrow at the blond.

"I…eum…I"

"Yeah, her and Carmilla are actually-" Before Will could finish Laura had driven her chair over his foot which made him yelp out in pain.

"Oh I'm sorry Will." She said before she turned around and looked at him angrily, which caused him widen his eyes at his almost-mistake. "We're friends!" Laura said, a bit too loudly, which caused Elizabeth to frown at the reporter.

"I see…" She said suspiciously. "And how do you know Will?" She asked, looking at the two.

"We went to the same university, didn't we Will?" Laura said with a exaggerated smile on her lips.

"Eum yeah…yeah we did actually! I forgot!" Will said, not at all sounding convincing.

"Oh yes, I remember now. I saw that on your resume." Elizabeth said after a while. "Did you meet Carmilla through Will?" She asked, her lips tightening slightly.

"Exactly, I ran into Will and Kirsch at a bar and they introduced us."

"I see. Will, I'll be right back I just need to go make a phone call." She said sternly as she walked off.

"That didn't go so bad did it?" Laura asked Will who just shrugged his shoulders at her.

"I have no idea. I'm sorry, kinda forgot that it's a risky topic because she's her mother."

"Well yeah, I don't want to get Carmilla in trouble…" Laura said as she sighed.

Carmilla was sitting eating lunch by her desk. As she was typing she heard her phone ring and to her surprise she saw that it was her mother calling. Mother never called while she was working, nor did she call this often. Carmilla swallowed her food before answering.

"Hello?" She said unsurely.

"Hi Carmilla, this is mother." Elizabeth said sternly.

"Yes, I know mother, i have caller id. I'm just confused why you are calling while we are both working." She said as leaned back into her chair.

"Well, this is actually about work. Hence why I'm calling." Elizabeth said. Carmilla had excepted her to continue her sentence, but when she stayed quite she sighed.

"Yes, and?"

"It's about Laura Hollis."