Ok, so yea sure I've seen a bunch of aura's and things normal people can't see, even sometimes Spirits but I've never heard them talk! They've never come up to me just flew by, but now here I am sitting down while talking to a spirit or rather dead guy, he says his name is Koga and that when he had died the reapers told him he wasn't supposed to die yet. So they allowed him to stay on earth as a spirit and make his choices that would end up affecting him just as his choices when he was alive would affect him. Right now my head is like ice in a blender,
"Wait, so whatever you do right now still determines where you'll go when the actual time you were supposed to have died happens, at which point they will come get you again?" I ask rubbing my temples, he nods, "but then, what did they mean by choices?" I ask, he sighs,
"Well you see there is a lot going on in the Spiritual side of the world, there are those who push back their time of death." he states rubbing his head, I raise an eyebrow and cross my arms feeling the jet lag,
"Ok you know what I think that this Spirit world has nothing to do with me since I'm still alive so I'm going to go to bed." I say standing up,
"Hey wait, spirits don't sleep what am I supposed to do with you asleep now that I know I can actually talk to someone." he states flouting behind me, "does this mean you're going to ignore me?" he asks I can hear a slight desperation in his voice so I turn and smile at him reassuringly,
"Of course not, I'll still talk to you, just when I'm alone and not at work." I say lying down, he smiles for a second then crosses his arms and nod approvingly, "you're not going to watch me sleep are you?" I ask staring at him, I can see a faint blush appear as he turns away,
"No!" he shouts then flies away, I smirk while closing my eyes.
The next morning I wake up with a knock on my door, I groan while turning over and pull the covers over my head,
"Go Away!" I shout to my intruder, but they come in and I hear a sigh. I ignore them while trying to go back to sleep, I hear the curtains open and hiss at the bright light coming thru my blankets,
"Miss, you need to get up and go to work, it's your first day." she states, I sigh then sit up and glare at her, "Miss. Rina made sure I was aware of your hatred of mornings." she adds putting my breakfast on the coffee table, "I got you your coffee as well, two cups as Rina said." she explains placing my creamer and sugar beside the two cups, "What would you like to wear today?" she asks going over to my closest, I rub my eyes standing up,
"I don't know, maybe just some black slacks with a dress shirt and open toed shoes please." I grumble in reply while sitting down and picking my plate up, she nods while going to get them, "Did my father say how long I have to be there today?" I ask then notice a black laptop on the coffee table beside my breakfast,
"No, but this was in the mail today, with a note saying that it has your work already downloaded." I hear her yell from my closest, I glare at the computer then open it an icon starts blinking then a cell phone icon pops up. I accept and my father's face appears, I yelp throwing my cinnamon toast in the air,
"Well at least I know what that's for now." I say glaring at him, I hear his deep heart felt laugh through the computer,
"I see you're in a good mood today." he says sarcasm dripping from his voice, "I'm sure Angelique has told you about work. It's only introductions today, a tour and description of what you'll be doing two hours tops, in the same package as this computer should have a debit card and new ID. after work you can get anything you need however you might want to hurry up since you have to be at work at eight o'clock and it's already seven, twenty minutes to get there." he says then the screen goes black I pale feeling the blood drain from my face then stuff my face and chug my coffee, Angi comes out of my closest with my outfit. I don't even look at it just grab and change into it I run or well hop down the hall as I get on my open toed shoes but fall flat on my face,
"Angi! Car?" I question,
"To the left of the house in the garage, keys are on the right side as you open the door!" I hear her yell down the hall. I jump up running down the stairs trying not to fall again, suddenly Koga appears,
"Morning trouble?" he asks snickering, "by the way you missed a button." he states pointing at my lop sided shirt, I growl thankful I have a white tank top on under the light red dress shirt, it's half length sleeves that fold once and barely come to my pants line, the black slacks open up a bit more at the bottom and barely touch the ground to my open toed black pumps. I glare at him fixing the shirt then try to tie my hair into a ponytail coming to the first floor,
"Anything you need before you leave for the day Miss?" one of the butlers ask,
"Yea and express elevator." I joke but thank him anyways going into the garage I see a 2016 Chevrolet Volt that is electric blue in the closest spot and grab the remote marked "Volt" on the key hook not bothering to look at the other two spots. Koga phazes in next to me and leans back as I drive away safely but as fast as I can, "darn morning!" I say following the gps that is already programmed for my work,
"Hey don't blame time for your lack of responsibility." he scoffs, I growl,
"If you're just going to criticize me then get out!" I yell making a turn, I can see his smirk from my side vision looking at the clock I see that it's seven fifty five and I still have five minutes to get to work. At least I'll make it to the building on time,
"You know I think that this is one thing I don't miss about being alive, always having to be somewhere." I hear Koga say, I feel a vein pop in my head and swerve around a corner throwing him out of the car once I'm at the building I see a spot with my name and pull into it. I rush into the building immediately being greeted by a resepsinoustest,
"Good morning Miss Katherine!" he says standing up, I meet his eyes and nod, "I'm Derek." he says bowing, I return his greeting and he starts showing me around, "These lower levels are all packaging and sending off packages, however the upper level is for the office, meetings, and all the computer work." he explains, the lower levels are all open with no walls besides the bathroom and outer walls which is all white with a blue strip in the middle, the equipment is making louds sounds as it carries boxes down from trucks while the workers sort. "This level is for bringing stuff in the upper level is export and an exilator louds everything in the trucks or air plan that way nothing is mixed up." he explain quickly, I continue nodding while following him, once we get to the third floor I notice it's the same coloring as my father's office back home, I sigh feeling as if everyone could hear me, all that can be heard throughout the office is computer typing. He leads me into an office that is all black with a glass deck and leather chair, "This is your office." he states opening the door, I note the high tech computer and completely glass wall between my office and the rest of the third floor. No privacy, so always keep my head behind computer if Koga decided to visit, which speaking of him he flies down next to me and starts screaming about how rude and mean I was for throwing him out of the car. I ignore him and focus on Derek who is telling me that he's the manager while I'm away and will be giving me reports everyday.
Finally he tells me I will only have to come in three times a week for meetings as long as I keep up with work at home. Derek has shoulder length brown hair with brown eyes but pale skin and a small frame although he stands about a head taller than me, I turn looking at him then see his Aura it's black and glaring at me (why do I have to take orders from her! She's five years younger than me and the only reason she got this job was because her father owns the company) it shouts. I smile at him and I notice something odd it flashes blue and smiles back (maybe she's not so bad) it states but then turns black again. I look closer and try not to gasp at a second aura showing up however it's dripping with black drool and darkness coming off in a cloud with long claws and red eyes. I hear Koga become silent behind finishing his rant but then look at him casually to not alert Derek to see Koga going into a fighting stand. He and the second aura start fighting fazing through desks, trying to look at Derek and not the fighting behind him I smile again noticing the aura is mostly black with sparks of blue.
"Thank you Derek, I really appreciate you showing me around." I say going up to him, "So tell me when did you start working for this company, do you enjoy your work here?" I ask him while sitting down, he looks taken back but smiles, I snort as Koga throws the strange creature out of the building via the wall. Koga jumps after him shouting but of course I am the only one that can hear them.
"Um, four years and as much as one can enjoy work. By the way we have a large shipment of cars coming in, they demand you oversee the stock before it goes. Along with a few new customers that want to make a contract, they left a message, I'll send over the information. Although we're a new branch here many customers worked with the main branch or have heard of us so now that shipments will be cheaper with us already here many people are going to be coming in soon." Derek explains, I nod then login the the computer and open up the emails he sent me with his tablet, looking over then I nod, a few technology companies, and food industries,
"Schedule the meeting between eleven and four tomorrow, I'll be coming in then, as for this shipment I need to look over when is it coming in?" I ask typing reminders for myself on the computer, Koga the thrown into my office and phazes in front of me. The creature lands on top of him and tries to break his neck but Koga kicks it in the stomach then punches it in the face.
"Three days from now, excuse me I just got a notice, Susen one of our agents just got a call from from a Japanese tradition store who is asking is we can transport goods from their store to another location in the United States since our way would be cheaper than them doing it themselves." Derek says I nod,
"Isn't that what we're here for? Tell them yes and make a meeting for new week since I'll already be here three times this week please." I ask, he nods typing on his computer, "Make sure to send me notifications of all our transports, their status, when they go out and come in with all inventory count and information." I say continuing to type to see what all contracts we have at the moment, "Also I want a routine check updated on equipment and workers make it every two months for equipment and five of workers." I say pulling up files,
"Oh ok, Miss. I thought this was your first job." he states a bit surprised, I smile meeting his eyes finally, I hear an ear piercing screech behind me followed by the creature and Koga flying by,
"Officially yes but I used to help my father all the time back home." I reply then see Koga flying up,
"Dang it! He got away." he snaps standing beside me, Derek nods then excuses himself. I sigh pretending to continue my work,
"What was that?" I ask looking at Koga threw the corner of my eyes, he growls then sits on top of my deck looking at me,
"Part of a spirits trial, remember when I told you that some people try to extend their life as a spirit?" he questions, I nod, Koga scoffs then looks out my window, "That's one of them, that thing used to be a human until they decided to suck the life away from another living human to survive, refusing to go to spirit world in peace." Koga explains, a bunch of notification come on my computer and I groan then drop my head on my deck before sitting up and sorting thru. I make folders of all the different contracts and shipments coming thru,
"What will happen to Derek?" I ask while still working,
"If I can't find that thing and destroy it soon, he'll die." Koga states, I freeze up then hit the intercom for my receptionist, Derek comes in panting a bit, obviously he's scared of me at the moment,
"Derek? I thought you were manager not recepsonest." I say glaring at him slightly,
"We haven't found anyone yet Miss." he says his eyes dropping, I nod, "Is there anything you need?" he asks,
"No, I won't take you from your work, I'll get it myself when I'm done here, thank you." I say smiling at him, he nods slowly then backs out and goes into his office next to mine. Koga and I are silent for the remainder of my time there. When I'm finally finished Derek walks me out and to my car talking about my meeting tomorrow, I'm basically staying in the same room the entire time going from one meeting into another. They'll talk about all this nonsense about how their company came to be, what they stand for and how their products can help people then get down to the size and necessities of packaging, the cost of it and how much they'll pay us. I've been to a few and fell asleep to pass the time, guess I won't be doing that tomorrow. Once at my car I thank Derek again then we exchange a goodbye as I drive away,
"He only has until the blue sparks turn black." Koga says, "Where ever that thing is it has to come back to him, I'll come with you tomorrow see if I can't take it out then." Koga says sighing,
"So that's what you do, just fly around the city looking for those things?" I question, he nods,
"The reaper told me that I had three choices, one merely exist and follow humans around until my time came, two suck the life from humans to extend my time but that would rack up to evil so I'd probably go to Hell if I ever got to spirit world or three, defend humanity from these creatures by destroying them and sending them to spirit world even if it is early which racks up to good." Koga explains staring at my ceiling, I nod trying to take it all in, we sit in silence for a few minutes while I pull into a mall area,
"And how exactly do you fight them?' I ask getting out of my car, he laughs,
"That's a bit more complicated, but I'm not the only one, there are actually a bunch of ghosts hiding in the city, lots of kids see us so we stay hidden a lot. I don't know a lot about other spirits but when I died I got these powers."