Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

Tea knocked on Kaiba's office door.

"Come in." He said curtly.

"Mokuba wanted me to give you Tristan's resume."

"Mmm." Kaiba grunted

"Mokuba also told me you wanted to interview Tristan at 1pm today, but with traffic and everything he can't get here till 1:30."

"That's fine." He said as he typed on his computer non-stop.

Tea was just about headed out the door, but then she turned around. "Promise me you'll be nice."

Kaiba stopped typing and looked up at her. "What are you talking about?"

"To Tristan, when he comes for the interview."

"If your friend is too sensitive to not be able to handle a couple of interview questions he shouldn't have even bothered to send his resume along."

"Look Kaiba, we both know how you can be sometimes. I know Tristan is more than qualified for the position, but still, you can throw anybody off." Tea said with a hand on her hip.

"Not anybody." Kaiba mumbled, more to himself.

"What was that?"

"Nothing, I'll be nice." he said going back to his work.

"Thank you,...also I want to say I'm sorry."

"What about?" This time Kaiba lowered the angle of his computer. Did she do something last night?

"Well about the article, if I hadn't been so careless that night, nothing would've happened between us, and you wouldn't have had to buy that stupid pill."

"Look Gardner, I'm a big boy, you can't force me to do anything I don't want to do. Like you said yourself, we both were in that bed."

This took Tea by surprise, she hadn't expected Kaiba to remember her words verbatim.

"Besides," Kaiba continued. "I don't regret it. If you do that's fine." He said angling up his computer again.

"I don't either." Tea said her words tripping over one another. "Honestly I haven't been able to stop thinking about us." she said as she rubbed her neck, where the hickey still was.

Kaiba walked over to her until he stood in front of her. "Really?" he asked.

"Yes…" Kaiba put one hand on her cheek. "But we can't do this." Tea said as she took a step back.

"Why not?" Kaiba asked frustratedly.

"Kaiba, even after we slept together you still treated me like I was an idiot with a tone of superiority. Also, why do you even want me if you can kiss any blonde bimbo with a red dress." Tea said as she took further steps back.

"If you're referring to last night, I didn't care about that girl. I barely remember what she even looked like." He let out a sigh. "Besides I didn't kiss her she kissed me. What's it to you anyway, we're nothing and whatever we even had you ended it the night before remember."

"I'm not stupid I know we aren't nothing, but I still felt jealous. And if you really hated it, why not push her off of you?"

"I was trying to forget you!" Kaiba said exasperatedly.

Tea's eyes widened, what did he mean? "What are you trying to say?"

"Look Tea, with everything going on in the company, I won't be leaving for at least a couple of months, but I am leaving. I can't offer you a real relationship and quite frankly I don't think I want one."

Tea let out a deep breath. "I don't want a relationship either." She finally said. "I just want you to treat me with some respect, no more acting like I'm you're lackey. Also, I don't just want to jump in your bed and leave anymore, I want us to be friends." She walked over to him and ran her fingers through his hair. "I want to know you."

"Didn't I just promise I'd be nice." He said as he smirked. He put both his arms around her waist and pulled her in.

"I'm serious." She said with one hand still in his hair the other on his chest. "I want to hangout with you, get to know what Seto Kaiba likes to do on a lazy Sunday."

"I work." He said, this time pressing his forehead against hers.

"Well then we can do what I do on a lazy Sunday. Cuddle up together with a good book, and stuff our faces till we can't move."

"That sounds nice, Gardner."

"Let's make it official then." Before Kaiba could respond, she pulled him in for a kiss. This kiss was different from all the other kisses they had before. It was tender and gentle. It wasn't as hungry as their previous kisses but just as passionate, maybe even more.

He was the first to break their kiss. "If I don't stop now, I won't be able to stop anytime soon." he said, giving her a playful smile. "I still have a lot of work to do."

"Hmm," Tea breathed him in one last time. She didn't want to let him go, but she knew she had to. She gave him a quick peck on the lips and headed towards the door. When she had her hand on the door knob, she looked back at him. He was still standing there where they had just kissed. He looked at her so intently. "One last thing, no more call me Gardner." She said before closing the door behind her.

As she left Kaiba's office, Tristan was walking in. Talk about impeccable timing.

"Hey Tea." Tristan said brightly.

"Hey Tristan, you're early."

"Ya, traffic was great. So how is old money bags? Is he in a good mood?"

"Something like that." Tea smirked to herself.

"So you know what position they want to offer me?"

"No, I'm sorry Tristan, I should've asked before I called you. There's just a lot going on today, both Kaiba and Mokuba are really busy."

"I understand. I saw the paper this morning, that can take a drastic toll on the company's image which in turn affects the sales."

Wow, hearing him talk like that really took her aback. After all this way the guy who had eating contests with Joey almost on a bi-weekly status. "Well good luck in there Tristan. I know you'll do great."

"Thanks Tea." with that Tristan walked in.

Tea was at her desk working. Mokuba had been called into Kaiba's office almost fifteen minutes after Tristan went in. Now it was an hour later and no one had come out or gone in. Tea was worried, what was taking so long? Had Kaiba kept his promise and been nice to Tristan. Another half an hour had passed and finally Tristan, Kaiba and Mokuba came out of the office.

"Well Kaiba, there is definitely a lot of work coming for Kaibacorp." Tristan said as he came closer to Tea's desk. "Can't say I'm not interested in the role, but quite frankly I'm not sure you and I can work together."

Kaiba raised an eyebrow. "Look Taylor, we both know that Kaibacorp is your best offer. I already looked into the other companies who you already interviewed for, and none of them are offering you such a high position or even half the pay of it. This job is not for the light of heart. You will work for seven days of the week, most nights and even some holidays. I will expect you to represent Kaibacorp even when you aren't on the clock. If you can't handle that then you should leave right now."

"Look Kaiba, while I was at college I not only went to classes full time I held 3 part-time jobs. I'm not afraid of a little hard work, cause unlike you some of us don't have a rich stepfather to give us a company. You might've built Kaibacorp to what it is today, but you still had something to build off of. I come from nothing, the only thing I'm known for is being Yugi's lackey. As much as I love and support him, that's not all I want out of life. Even though those companies might not be able to offer me half of the benefits of Kaibacorp, at least there I will be treated with respect."

"You think if I didn't respect you I would be offering you this job? I can't promise you I'll be a little kuriboh all the time, but I do promise you have my respect."

Tristan took a minute to think about it and the extended out his hand. "Alright Kaiba, I accept the job offer."

Kaiba shook his hand firmly. "Good, cause you start right now."

"Wha-" But Tristan was cut off.

"You said so yourself there's a lot of work to do. It's time to announce the release of the new Kaibacorp Duel Disk system, I'd also like to announce the start of our new CFO, would look better if he was actually there don't you think?"

Tristan gave a big smile. "You're on pal."

Kaiba and Tristan headed towards the elevator. "Come on Tea, you don't want to miss this." said Mokuba as he waited for Tea.

"You bet I don't."

And with that all four of them headed up the elevator to the roof.