A knock was delivered to William's office door, just as William himself was completing paperwork as to not be left with overtime once more. William sighed in annoyance as he adjusted his glasses with a click, "Come in"
William immediately straightened up and adjusted his suit and glasses when he saw who was entering his office, the high council, the oldest reapers to have existed. He saw as all of them entered, maintaining his focus on Simon, not that the others weren't important, but he didn't want to linger his gaze on Blake. William could smell the odor of demon on him, but as well as a scent of shinigami, he was a mix.
"William~!" William scowled as he recognized that shrill voice, he could already feel a migraine coming along with embarrassment. Of all the times he could bother him, it had to be right now with their superiors in the room. "William we have visitors! They so wanted to meet you and I led them here!", Grell sing-songed as she walked up to his desk and leaned on Blake's shoulder.
William grabbed Grell's arm and ripped her off Blake, starling the red reaper. William turned to Blake and the other Reapers, thinking of a hasty apologize for the demon reaper, "I'm sorry for my subordinate's behavior, High chancellor-" William was cut off with blake raising a hand and speaking, "It's quite alright, She's honestly one of the more interesting reapers i've seen in the facility."
William mentally gaped at Blake. He didn't mind the flamboyant attitude of the annoying red reaper? William was snapped back into reality and let go of Grell, who had a visible look of awe and embarrassment clear on her face. "You're part of the high council?!", Grell asked a dark blush on her cheeks.
"Yes, indeed we are", Belladonna said as she sent the grim a smile, which only made Grell gape a bit more. Grell realized how ridiculous she might have looked in front of them and remembered how she bumped into one….
"Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry for colliding with you in the hallway, ! I didn't mean to, honest!"
" your behavior with the high council members has been unacceptable, I would suggest you leave the room and return to your desk to complete your paperwork for the week so I can continue this mee-"
"Actually, this Mr. Spears, we were about to request to be our personal guide for the rest of our stay here", Simon said, cutting off the stoic reaper. "We believe she shall suit our needs. We would also request to have a look at her files."
William froze up a bit at the request, shock, a clear on display on his frame. "Are you certain sir?", He asked, a bit off put by the high chancellor's choice of words whether it was the request for Grell or the use of pronouns for him, surely they had to be aware of what Grell was.
"Yes, of course I am sure . Now please, the files", Simon said as he extended his hand out for the files, which were soon delivered to him. They started to take leave from the office, but just as it almost seems that the high counselors were about to leave, Simon stops and ever so slightly tilts his head to face him. His glowing grey eyes directed at William. "And don't underestimate our way of reading people Mr. Spears, we are as good as doing that as we are as good as reading minds, much like we've just read yours."
And with that Simon left the room.
"So here it says you are a male senior shinigami, has had some trouble with the higher ups and took part in the Jack the Ripper cases?", Mary said as she looked up from the papers to face Grell, who looked uncomfortably off to the side. Belladonna looked over to Mary, before walking over to Grell, placing and arm around the redhead. "Hey common, don't let that get ya down, we've all done something messed up like that before!"
"You have?!", Grell said as she looked up to Belladonna, who nodded eagerly.
"Yeah, no doubt about it", Blake said as he stepped up to the redhead. "For example, Bella here went on a killing spree by making shrubs of poison berries sprung up from the ground and poison any unsuspecting chumps, it was supposed to just be a fun prank but it got out of hand.
"Miss Mary, known in legends as Bloody Mary, dragged people into mirrors if they were dumb enough to call out her name."
"In my defense, I was in a very emotionally broken period of my life, having lost family members in that century. Humans, I say they die too easily", Mary said, earning a small giggle from Grell. "Michael although he didn't do much killing, he was a bit of a trickster. One of his more famous stunts was posing as the loch ness monster."
"You were that thing?! IT almost bit off my hand when I tried petting it!", Grell said as she took hold of her gloved hand.
Michael laughed and doubled over, "Oh gosh! I'm sorry! I didn't know that was you! B-But your Face was Hilarious! Though, You did get your revenge on me for the scare I gave you" Grell remembered how when she was younger, she truded near the lake and found a large animal in the water, when she tried to pet it, it snapped it's jaws at her. Needless to say, Grell gave it a rock to the face. Grell smiled a bit as she remembered the incredulous look the beast gave him before diving back into the water.
Grell turned to look her smile diming a bit as she noticed the uncomfortable look on the demon reaper's face. "Being a demon is apparently reason enough to label me a menace", Blake said, not saying much other than that.
"I don't care if you're a demon or not"
The words cut into the atmosphere, piercing through the demon reaper's self-hatred, making him turn to look at the red-reaper, surprise and hope in his expression.
"I don't mind at all what you are, in fact, I have a bit of a liking towards a demon. And let me just say, you are one of the most captivating faces i've seen in a while and the body~ ooh just marvelous-", Grell abruptly stopped as she remembered who she was talking to, shutting her mouth with a clap of her hand, face flushed red. "Oh! Oh m-my goodness i'm so sorry! I said too much, didn't I?"
"No! I think you said all the right words", Blake exclaimed as he shook his hands, a large fanged grin on his face and a blush accompanying it.
"Oh no there goes his ego!", Belladonna said as she burst out laughing, earning a glare from Blake. Everyone chuckled at both of them as Grell turned over to Simon.
"Did you do anything Simon?", Grell asked watching as Simon had a very thin smile forming on his face.
"Let's just say that the asteroid wasn't the only thing that got rid of the dinosaurs…", Simon cooley said a dangerous edge to his voice, his glasses shining and concealing his shining eyes. Grell's own eyes widened, she knew of course that death existed ever since the first microbes appeared in water, but never had she heard of a living reaper who slayed the scaly beasts, the fact Simon had killed them recklessly and successfully wiped out a mass of species was something otherworldly.
"...However we should get back to the matter at hand", Simon put in as he stood from his seat, the other elder reapers following suit. Grell shot up from her seat, confused but willing to follow her elders to the end of the world. After all, they were so nice to her.
"Where are we going?", Grell asked as she followed all of them out of her office.
"Well you are to be our guide for the rest of our tour", Blake said with a smile on his face, his tail pointing at her direction. "Part of that is to show us how you operate in reapings."
"Yup, and who knows, we might teach each other something", Michael said as he walked backwards to address her.
"We are very interested in what capacity your skills will be at", Mary said as she walked forward, watching as belladonna took Grell's hand and pulled her ahead to walk with them.
"Come on, says here you have a reaping in 12 minutes", Belladonna said almost bouncing on the balls of her feet. "I can't wait to see your skills out in the field!"
"Neither can I", Simon said as they walked out the doors of the shinigami department building.
