Seto stared at his laptop as per usual. He'd been staring at it for the past 6 hours and had 12 cups of coffee. He sat back and rubbed his eyes and glanced at the door when he heard a knock.

"What!?"

The door slowly opened. Kari poked her head in.

"I brought you some coffee" She said as she walked in

"Did you get it right?" He asked looking at his laptop

"Cream, 2 sugars" She placed the mug down on his desk

"Did you get those reports done?"

"And faxed them"

Seto looked up at her.

"Did you do all the filing?"

"Then some"

"Then some?" He raised a brow

"Well…you were so busy and I was bored so…I did some down in reception…" She said carefully and looked at her feet

Seto was gob-smacked he'd never had such a worker before, the others would slack off and chat until he walked past then they made it look like they were working. But Kari, Kari worked and worked, was she just trying to impress him? He had to know.

"Kari" He asked calmly

"Yes!?" She quickly looked up from her feet

"Why are you working so hard?"

"Well…you don't like me much" She started "And I thought that if I did well…you…would…like me" She ended up looking at her feet again

"Uh-Huh" He said with a smirk while sitting back

"So…is there anything else I can do?" She asked looking to Seto and back to her feet

"File those" He pointed to some files on his desk "In there" He then pointed to the filing cabinet

"Ok" She picked them up and walked to the cabinet

"Take your time" Was the last thing he said before he went back to work.


Everything was oblivious to him besides him tapping on the keys and the sound of draws opening. He glanced over at Kari as she knelt down to one of the draws putting a file in. He rubbed his eyes again.

"Maybe you should take a break"

Seto glared at her.

"Sorry!" She said quickly and went back to filing

Seto saved his work and closed the laptop. He sat back and closed his eyes. Kari smiled and placed the last file in.

"I'm done"

"Hm?" He opened his eyes "Good we can go then"

He got up and walked to the door, he looked back to see Kari pulling her skirt down a little. He shook his head and headed to the elevator. Kari stopped.

"What's the matter?" He looked over his shoulder at her

"I've…been taking the stairs…" She said looking guilty

"So? Now you take the elevator"

"But…"

"But what!?" He snapped

"I'm…" She paused for a moment "Never mind" She walked into the elevator

"What's the problem?" he asked as he pushed the button for the ground floor

"N-Nothing…" Her voice shook

"There is, now tell me" He demanded

"I'm…scared of the elevator…"

"Why?" He raised a brow

She shrugged. Seto mentally slapped himself, of course she wouldn't know.

Floor 12

"You scared it's going to get stuck?" He asked

Floor 11

She nodded slowly

Floor 10

"It won't"

Floor 9

"Why is his office so far up" she thought

Floor 8

She tapped her foot becoming scared.

Floor 7

Seto noticed.

Floor 6

"It'll be ok"

The elevator jerked and stopped.

Floor

"Oh sure…everything's ok" She sarcastically remarked

The lights went out.

Kari let out a little squeak. Seto tried to pry the doors open, but couldn't. Kari slid down the wall until she was in a sitting position and shook with fear. Seto watched. He didn't know what to do to help even if he wanted to.