Angel and Buffy sparred for over an hour to work out their frustrations. By the time they were done and showered it was almost time for lunch. Angel had his shower first; while his soul mate was in shower he called Cordy into his office.
"Cordy," he said, "I need you to do me favour. I need you to keep Buffy busy and out of the kitchen while I make lunch."
"What, is the menu a secret or something?" Cordy ask incredulously.
"No," Angel responded, "I'm planning on proposing to her and I want it to be perfect."
"I thought you guys were already married?" Cordy asked confused.
"We are, but only by the traditions of my people," Angel told her, "I want to make it legal here in the States."
"Ok, I'll keep her busy," Cordy agreed.
"Thanks Cordy," Angel said over his shoulder as he disappeared into the kitchen.
When Buffy came down the stairs after her shower she could hear Angel rattling around in the kitchen so she headed toward the kitchen door. She was headed off by Cordy,
"Buffy, I should show you around the office," Cordy said, "You know, show you how things work around here."
"Can we do that later Cordy? I was just going in to say hi to Angel," Buffy turned to walk into the kitchen. Cordy grabbed her by the arm, "no we have to do this now, because um, because I won't have time later," Cordy improvised, "Come on." She dragged Buffy towards the offices of Angel Investigations. Buffy was suspicious but didn't say anything. She decided to pay attention to what Cordy was showing her so she didn't have to ask again later.
"Ok, we take care of both normal and supernatural cases," Cordy began, "Active super natural cases are in the top drawer of the green cabinet, active normal files are in the second drawer, cases that are closed but need to be followed up on are in the bottom drawer. Closed supernatural files are in the white cabinets by both name and demon. Closed normal files are in the black cabinets. Following me so far?"
"green cabinet: active files, top drawer supernatural, middle drawer normal, bottom drawer follow ups. White cabinet supernatural closed files, Black cabinets closed normal files." Buffy repeated, "got it."
"We have two kinds of clients, those that come to us and those that I see in visions. The ones that come to us usually pay. The ones from visions are usually grateful and want to repay us some how. We always determine whether they could be a contact before asking for money. Using that method we have gotten informants all over the place. We have police officers, fire fighter, paramedics, doctors in ERs, sewer maintenance workers, electricians, lawyers, you name it we have it. We even get the odd hooker, but they don't like sticking around after their debt has been paid. They are very useful for the unfaithful spouse cases. The list of informants is in a purple folder in the closed case files under Merl, he was our first informant. In a file marked destroyed in the dead demon cases is a list of all famous or specific demons, it's basically a check list, the ones that are highlighted in red have been permanently destroyed, the ones highlighted in yellow have been defeated but non destroyed. You still following?"
Buffy nodded her head. Cordy was about to continue her tour when the kitchen door opened and Angel emerged.
"Care to join me for lunch beloved?" he asked Buffy offering her his arm.
