Chapter 37
"How did it go?" someone asked as Cat came out of the Storybrooke mayor's office. Cat looked at the girl in front of her and sighed.
"Lets just go Keira" Cat said as she walked past the secretary on the front and waited for Kara to follow her out of the building.
When they were both outside, Cat started to walk toward to somewhere, leaving Kara behind her.
"Where are you going….Ms Grant?" Kara asked as she jogged up to Cat to walk alongside her. At the question, Cat stopped and turned to Kara, she pointed to the little café in front of her.
"I just wanted some coffee" Cat admitted. Kara then looked to where Cat had pointed and looked at her boss again.
"I am capable of fetching you coffee…..so please get in the car, I will be there with your coffee shortly Miss Grant" Kara said she started to walk past Cat.
"No…wait a minute…why do you keep calling me 'Ms Grant'? I told you when we are alone you should call me by my name " Cat said to Kara who still had her back facing Cat. Kara then turned around and faced Cat.
"Well….why don't you apply the same rules to yourself then!" Kara blurted out, avoiding eye contact with Cat.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Cat asked as she walked up to Kara. "Look at me…Kara" Cat demanded with an edge to her voice. Kara then looked at her boss and sighed.
"We are not in national city right now…and no one knows us HERE so why couldn't you call me by my correct name in there" Kara asked with a defeated voice as she pointed toward the building they just existed out from.
"Is this what this is about?" Cat asked more like demanded. "God…Kara…you are a super alien, why are you acting so childish?" When Cat didn't get any answer from her. She released a deep breath and started walking to the car instead. "You know what Kara….just forget about the damn coffee and lets just go" She didn't wait for Kara's reply and reached her car and sat inside. Kara was still standing where Cat left her.
"Rao…I messed up again" Kara said as she speed walked to the café and got the coffee Cat wanted and quickly returned to the car and sat alongside Cat, who was waiting for her but didn't look at her.
She tried to reach for her hand but stopped, so instead she held the steamy hot coffee in front of Cat. Cat looked at the hand offering her coffee and let out a huff.
She took the coffee from Kara and took a sip. "Thank you" She then looked at her assistant. "….Kara"
Cat then saw Kara take off her glasses and look into her eyes, those deep blue eyes pleading with her.
"Cat….I am sorry if you are bothered with the way I was behaving but you know when we get these moments alone….i want it to not feel like we have to we professional then too….i don't know lets just forget about it" Kara tried to abandon the topic.
All Cat did was look at her and sighed, she knew she wasn't going to get anywhere if she said something now or happened to say something rude again, so she decided to let it go for now and will talk to Kara about it later.
(Back to Regina…)
She had finished her lunch and afterward she decided to type up the report for this morning meetings. When she was done, the next party had arrived, and she got herself engaged in what was being talked about around the tables. She knew some of the members from this team also, thanks to Elsa, but there was one other person she had not met during her week at the main office building. She then came to know that his name was Daniel Colter, he had asked for her help during the discussions. She was happy to know she could be of any help because she was still learning a lot about the company's way of doing things and how to handle the basic things for every department. The meeting ended up taking the whole afternoon, after they had also left, she was alone again, she had expected that Emmett would have been back by now since his meeting with the other company's client had ended an hour or so ago. She decided not to dwell on it, they had covered the meetings so far so all there was left to do was to go over the files with Emmett and have them signed and ready to take in effect. She was done with her first day and now all that was left to do was wait for her boss to return.
After Ruben had dropped off Belle back at the main office, Emmett, and him both went to meet one of their clients again. After the meeting, which took quite some time then it should have, ended. They both headed to Emmett's parents' mansion, the older Nolan's requested their presence. When they got there both could sense something was wrong. But soon they learned that from Emmett's parents that Cat Grant, the National City's media mogul had contacted them to ask them about Robin. Cat had known Mary and David since their college time, they tried to keep in touch afterwards but all three of them got busy chasing after their dreams and working towards it, now they all were managing successful businesses. So, when Cat contacted them after many years, it was strange to learn the main purpose of the conversation was their younger son.
"What could Cat Grant want from Robin?" Emmett questioned out loud as he entered the home office. Ruben had left to the office an hour ago and Emmett had decided to stay and talk some more with his parents. Once he was inside, he saw no one at first, then looked to Regina's desk, at what he saw he didn't know how to react, he darted across the room and when he reached her desk his features softened at the display in front of him. Regina was sitting up and leaning back on the chair, sleeping soundly with her head titled to one side. Emmett was in awe, at her simple beauty, he couldn't take his eyes off her face. He then noticed a strand of hair over her eye; he quickly brought up his hand but slowed down before reaching her face to remove the strand of hair. He then took a few steps away from her but couldn't move his eyes away from her sleeping face, he felt as if he could stare at her beauty for as long as he could. He forced himself to look away and try to concentrate on something else. As he was looking around his sight landed on the folder on Regina's desk, he picked it and opened it to see the reports for both discussions. He then went to his desk and sat down, he put the folder in front of him and as he was reading over it, he was impressed with all details it included, he then looked over to the said person, who was still sound asleep.
"I was not planning on sleeping in here…. what should I do? Should I yell to make her get up?" Emmett gain questioned himself second time today, as he leaned back into his chair and sighed.
"Alright!" he said as he got up and moved to her desk again, stood by the chair this time, looking down at her. "Regina!" he said in his normal tone, it received no response.
He then took a breath and yelled "REGINA!" at that Regina quickly opened her eyes and stood up as if on autopilot and lost her balance. Emmett at noticing this quickly acted by grabbing her arm and pulling her up on her feet. They were again face-to-face but not close like before and Emmett still had his hold on her arm. Again, no words were being spoken, as they continued to look into each other eyes. Emmett let go of her arm and averted his eyes away not wanting to have a repeat.
"I-am…" Regina began to speak but Emmett cut her off before she could finish what she was trying to say.
"Save it! Let's just go" he said as he walked off to the door. Regina stood there for a second then gathered her things quickly and walked after her boss. When they reached the other part of the mansion, where their rooms were. They noticed that the staff was gone for the night. They were both standing in the middle of the living area, besides each other trying to not make eye contact or look at the other.
"I already ate at my parents' mansions, I hope you didn't forget to eat dinner!?" he tried to question, hoping she didn't just wait for him all afternoon and evening without eating any dinner.
"Ah…the staff had actually brought me dinner at the office,….I had actually forgotten" she had whispered the last part, but Emmett was able to hear it from their close proximity even though they were avoiding to look at each other.
"Alright…. good night" he then started walking to his room. Regina said 'good night' back which she wasn't sure was heard by her boss or not. She then went up the stairs to her room.
For the next three weeks they had gotten into a routine of getting up early and having breakfast on the same table, they slowly got used each other's presence and would have small talks here now but nothing deep. Regina then would have everything set up and ready for Emmett to work on, she quickly learned to manage the teams and organize the materials needed for them all, you can say she was getting the hang of everything around the office that meant Emmett had less chances of yelling at her. Emmett had slowly started to spend more time at the office to work closely with the company's four team's members. Regina had gotten to known about them all as well by working closing with them and helping them whenever she could. But one member from the graphics team had developed a quite an interest in Regina. Daniel would try to get Regina engaged in the designs as much he could, asking for her opinion and complimenting her ideas, this was not going unnoticed by Emmett, who was getting bothered by their bonding, to another individual it might look that they were better acquainted but to Emmett he couldn't help but feel bothered by it but he knew he couldn't do anything about it either which was making things for him even worse, he didn't know why he was feeling this way. When he shared the incidents with Ruben, he had told him he was getting jealous or might be developing feelings for his secretary, at the conclusion Emmett couldn't help but feel horrified at which Ruben couldn't help but laugh at his friend.
He then decided not to pay much attention to Regina, but he couldn't help but have his wandering eyes always land on her since she was always wherever he would be, he was really regretting not fighting his parents harder for hiring Regina. What he didn't know was that Regina could always feel whenever he was looking at her direction, at first, she discarded it as her boss trying to supervise her but then she slowly started to notice the difference in his behavior whenever she would work along with Daniel, she didn't know what to make of her boss's reaction to what she considered was just a friendship. She also shared it with her friends when she visited them for Sundays. Belle and Katherine, both saw it as a good sign, they told her at least he wasn't giving her the angry glares or finding reasons to yell at her. Regina still thought there was something more to it but decided to go along with her friend's reasoning. Regina confronted Belle about their last meeting and about her behavior toward Ruben. Belle then disclosed the fact about how she had learned about Ruben and Elsa having thing in the past, she had already told Katherine. She then told Regina how they talked about it and cleared all the misunderstandings away and now they were back to doing good, they had gone to few more dates nothing drastic.
All this had transpired a week earlier, now both Emmett and Regina had gotten done with another workday and were sitting on the dining tables, eating dinner together. They had started doing this after a week of Regina's arrival to the small mansion. At first, they would quietly sit and eat and then say good night to each other and leave, but slowly it was Emmett, who would start talking about the next day's schedule or anything related to the company and Regina would try to engage in the conversations as much as could, but she also couldn't help but feel exhausted with the same routine of the conversations every night. Emmett at notice her mood started talking less about the business and would try to engage in conversation in that could make her feel more excited or at least talkative. Their dinner talks soon turned into sharing childhood memories or anything random to keep the mood comfortable. Because of this they slowly started to learn more about each other. For now, they were content with the way things were going, it was turning out to be surprisingly well for them, at the office they worked like a team and outside it they managed to be civil with each other, but their moments of closeness had started to increase as they started to get along better now, they both decided to ignore those short moments of hesitance and fluttering feelings and concentrate on what was important.
Forgive me for the late update!
