A/N: Happy New Year Guys!

Firstly, I'd like to address regarding the 50 Shades of Grey Novel. To be really honest, I don't know about this novel until u guys mentioned it, so I googled it and I can say that this fic is not adapting from that novel but is written base on one personal experience, in short, this fic is about my personal experience especially the conflict of the main characters. I hope this clarified all the confusion. Anyway I also change the summary of the fic to avoid any future confusion :)

Again, all the characters in this fic owned by SE, I own only a little plot of the fic.

Finally, please pardon my spelling and grammar mistake.

Enjoy.

After a brief meeting with the department manager or so she was told, Lightning followed her instructor to her work station. They had a brief walk then Ignis pulled open another door to the next room, revealed a hall with 3 rows of work cabinets, each rows started a few steps from the door across the room and ended near the clear glass window of the building. Everyone seemed to not notice the new presences in the room; they kept their focus on whatever task they were doing. Lightning noticed, almost everyone there had their eyes fixed on the screen monitor and glancing here and there across the paper in hand, reconciling with data on the screen. Some of the staffs had the shoulder gripped phone to their ear, having the conservation with the other side, noting something on the paper or searching for the file to assist in exchanging information.

The new intern observed her new work place, noted to herself about the way things flow, so she would find the key point to understand and adapt in swiftly. Losing in her thought, Lightning and her instructor finally came to stop in front of a cabinet; she assumed that one was hers and as anticipated, Ignis professionally presented to her :"Ms. Farron, this is your station. Please make yourself at home. I'll be back in an hour to brief you about your tasks, in the meantime feel free to browse." Lightning bowed a little and thank her instructor, "Thank you so much Mr. Scientia."

"You're welcome." He smiled, turned around and left the new intern on her own device, for now. "Time to get thing started." Lightning muttered to herself. She started with the files on her counter, opened it and started scanning the content inside, absorbing all the knowledge she could find from the file. She smartly took note of parts that she couldn't understand, so she would raise the questions if after hearing Ignis's guidance, she still couldn't figure out.

Just to clarify, Lightning was doing her internship in Finance Department of the Corporation, it was also the subject she was pursuing at Bodhum University. This major seems to be a perfect match with her personality, Lightning was ruthless, blunt and pretty straight forward in everything, just like they said the number doesn't lie anything. Our older Farron didn't like to deal to with people but she enjoys dealing, fighting with paper works and numbers. To her 8 hours with financing tasks was just like a blink of eyes, she really put all her concentration into the job at hands. To be really honest, Lightning was really proud of herself that all the hard work in studying at the university was finally paid off, though she didn't have any experience related to Caelum Corporation's business, she could read through the files and pin pointed the scope of her tasks. Lightning was pretty sure she already knew what was her tasks gonna be.

...

Our new intern already showed her workaholic attribute in just her first hour at the station. If not for her instructor, Ignis, who brought Lightning back to real world by his speech, she wouldn't have aware there someone was standing next to her and 2 hours had passed already. Yeah, Ignis Scientia was late; he was occupied by other tasks and couldn't make it back in time as promised. But he could tell Ms. Claire Farron wasn't disappointed or maybe remembered that he was coming back, his intern had her eyes glued on the file in front her and sometime has swayed here and there contemplating something inside her head. As an executive, Ignis could tell that she was a good seed which could produce quality fruit with just a bit of fertilize.

"I see. You started things without me."

"O-Oh! I was just reading the file and see things around while you gone. Nothing much actually." Lightning's reply was kinda stutter as surprise by Ignis's sudden appearance.

"It's alright. So let's start."

Ignis settled down on the chair next to the cabinet, started to explain the basic stuffs about the job that he about to hand over to Lightning, who sat there and listened intensely. He started with the foundation and the business of the company, who was the owner, what was the main business, how the work flow, in charged person of each departments etc. By the end of the tale, Lightning learned about what she has to do and some information of this company.

Ignis outlined her daily duties and responsibilities which were pretty basic, Lightning need to be at office form 9am to 4:30pm. She has to check and verify the documents which would be placed on her counter or through email, confirm verified then submit to the person in charge for approval and post it into the system. By the end of each week, summary report of all the transactions in that week has to be submitting to department manager on time. Lightning was really confident that she would give a standout performance for the role.

However, these were also challenging tasks the new intern had to conquer. As per Ignis, 3 months internship period was a provision to evaluate the performance whether Lightning was good enough for a permanent role. Nonetheless, if your performance good enough, regardless you completed 3 months or not, you might be hire as permanent staffs. That was the exception part that the instructor pointed out.

So be it. Never back down from anything was Lightning's trademark and fighting for what she wants was not questionable, so obviously she aimed to get that possible spot, potentially in a time frame of a month or two. Securing that mean, she secured the good income for the household and wouldn't have to worry about any unexpected occurrences.

However, everything can't be completely smooth, can it? When her role didn't seem to pose much difficulty for Lightning, the Company details part bothered her. Caelum Corporation was found by Regis Caelum, a really powerful business man in the city. What Ms. Farron heard of this Regis Caelum was a really strict person and want things to be as close as possible to what called flawless and the only son of him, Noctis Caelum was the head of, main part of the company, Finance Department, so it mean Lightning has to work for this Corporation's heir.

Great! Just great! Lightning sighed inside her head. Now she has to put up with a spoiled rich kid. Seriously, rich people are annoying; they always want to be treated differently and discriminated who were not in their league. Moreover, kids who born with silver spoon in their mouth are the worst. They can have whatever they want without much effort, everyone strive to please them even in wrong way. So the pink hair intern sure as hell that rich people are unreasonable and she preferred to avoid any interaction as much as possible. Anyway, that not the option for her in the current case, she couldn't possibly give up her income source when she desperately need it, just because it collided with her personal preference. No, she has to endure it; she must put up with whatever comes to her. Anyway, the earlier encounter with this so called Noctis Caelum whom appeared to be 2 or 3 years older than her, reassured her a bit as the said guy's behavior shown to be mature and responsible. Nonetheless, the way he dressed and styled was absolutely stand out and Light knew why already. His hair style was not professional at all, it was chocobo's butt styled, of all styles around, with messy bang framed his face. Well, Lightning found Ignis's hair funny but at least it looked proper for office environment, unlike Noctis's, the manager. To be really honest that chocobo's butt hair was more for playboy at the club rather than a high ranked professional but whatever, who care, her manager was a rich kid after all. All those traits aside, surprisingly, Noctis Caelum was police and carried himself well in such a professional manner, during their little interaction. Lightning gave him that but still she knew, she has to be ready for any possible difficulty ahead as rich people are still rich people.

...

The pink headed spent half of her day on the job, she almost forgot about the lunch time if not for people in the hall started to move abruptly. Lightning bookmarked the page she was working on, closed the cover and placed it carefully on her desk. She then gathered her stuffs making her way for lunch. Lightning decided to eat her lunch at a coffee shop 5 minute walk from the corporation building. Settled down on a table for two next to the side of walk of the road, she read the menu, contemplating on the order when suddenly the chair in front of her was pulled unexpectedly, prompted Claire Farron to automatically look for the source of this intrusion with a hostile gaze. Ms. Farron's eyes landed upon a tall mall figure with black hair and grey eyes, standing next to her table with his right hand on the chair that just been moved. Judging on the outfit he was wearing, Lightning could tell that he must be an employee around here.

"May I?" The man asked with gentle voice.

The pink hair intern was dumbfounded for a few second, she was pretty sure this man was not anybody she has met or known before, so he was here and would like to join her was beyond current comprehension. Though without her reply, it didn't stop the man from settle down. So why the hell did he ask in the first place?

"I'm sorry but I think there some misunderstanding here-"

"We work for the same company so I think I should introduce myself." The stranger cut her off calmly.

"We do?...but why?" Lightning replied dryly.

"My name is Cid Raines, marketing manager of Caelum Corporation. Nice to meet you" Cid introduced and offered for a handshake.

Lightning was definitely not happy to have this stranger intruding her alone time especially with this kind of attitude, however; as a new comer she was not in any position to decline or ignore any colleague introduction either, let alone a department manager. So even she not happy about it but comply was an absolute choice here.

"Claire Farron. Pleasure to meet you Mr. Raines." She reluctantly accepted his hand and slyly bowed.

"Call me Cid. I'd love to join you for lunch but unfortunately I have something urgent to do so I hope you have a great one and I'll see you around at the office." With that, cid smiled, stood up and taking his leave.

"Yes, thank you." The pinkette politely stood up sending him off.

Seriously, what the hell was that? Was the first thing that came to our Farron's mind when the man gone. It didn't make sense to her but at the moment there was no point to bother and wasting her break time. Lightning could careless on people's odd behavior and stuffs as long as it wouldn't cause any problem to her. They were working for the same company so pieces would eventually come together at some point, it was better to forget it and deal with the tasks at hand first.

...

The entire second half of the day has gone so fast for the pink hair intern. After Lightning Farron finished her lunch she immediately got herself back to the tasks that Ignis has given to her. She drowned herself in the paper work, calculation, files for approval and get to know the database she using. By the end of the day, the Ms. Farron has finished the first file of the 3 in total. She pretty much contented with her accomplishment, anyway, it was the time for her to get back home already. So she decided to put down the file into the cabinet locked it and sort out any mess on her table such as pencil, calculator; put them back to its place neatly before getting her handbag and headed home. Lightning was a clean freak; she couldn't stand any mess around her. Everything she usually interacts with must be clean and in order, all the thing of her house, room and work station included. She enjoy doing cleaning and she good at it, while her sister Sarah loves cooking, so they both completed each other perfectly for the housework.

After making sure all stuffs were back in place Ms. Farron finally made her way out her office. She came to stop in front of the elevator door of her current floor. Lightning was waiting patiently for elevator to come when she heard foot step echoed quietly toward her. Turning her head to source of the sound, the pink headed came face to face with her manager, heir of the company, Noctis Caelum. He had his left hand inside his pocket, walking casually toward the elevator. He stopped a few step from the intern, smiled and nodded courteously while she regarded him the same. The silent stretched for a few good second until finally the manager decided to start the conversation.

"So, how was the first day?" He asked.

"It was good. I really enjoy the role."

Ping

The elevator has arrived, Lightning then walked in while Noctis did the same afterward, door closed and the room started to move down to the floor that its passengers have instructed.

Eyes were staring at the electronic number indicate that keep chaning, the spiky hair man praised shortly: "Good." Then silent again fill the room for the rest of the ride but it wasn't awkward or anything as both manager and intern seemed to enjoy the wordless atmosphere.

The elevator finally came to stop when it reached the ground floor and both passengers made their way out but before they went on their separate next destination, Noctis talked to the pink hair woman who was about to leave, prompted her to faced him again.

"See you tomorrow Ms. Farron. We'll have a lot to go through together, so let do our best for the months to come." He said and presented her with a charming smile.

"Yes, sir. I'll do my best." Lightning bowed politely in respect.

This is just the beginning...

...

Time flow so fast, it's already been 3 months since Lightning has started working for Caelum Corporation. And everything went smoothly at her work place, she gets along well with the colleague, done a good job, became acquaintance with few new high ranked people, got hired permanently. Yes! Ms. Farron made it. Also Sarah graduation was in the next two weeks anyway, Lighting had prepared everything ready for sister enrolling for her nurse college. So they all set. Talking about school, the older Farron was struggling a bit with her study since she started working. She changed her study to night shift for part time, as she has to spare the weekend for her sister and herself to relax. But going to school after worked full time wasn't easy; Claire couldn't concentrate properly as she sometime was too exhausted, stressed or moody from office, so inevitably her grades drop. It wasn't too bad but having grades drop isn't a good sign for student, still Lightning couldn't do anything about it.

The strawberry pink woman has busy weeks await her. Aside from full time work and school, this upcoming weekend the Farron sisters were invited to have lunch with Fang and Vanille. There was no particular occasion for this gathering but Vanille said she wants them to meet with someone. So the schedules of Monday to Saturday were full and Sunday's schedule was automatically going to be full of cleaning and laundry for the pink headed sibling. The week after that was about Sarah graduation, college enrollment and yeah another party.

...

Alarm clock on the top of the bed started to ring annoyingly and a few second later, sound of person shift in bed was heard. Lightning blindly got up to stop the alarm then dragged herself to the bathroom, getting ready for work, while at the kitchen, the younger Farron, Sarah was preparing the breakfast ready to start their new day. After 20 minutes, Lightning got dressed and done her hair, made her way down to the kitchen. She was greeted by yummy aroma of pancake and green tea, as expected, there on the dining table, a cub of green tea was sitting ready for her to consume and in the background her sister was cunningly cooking the pancake in the pan. The older Farron blew the steam of the tea and sipped it a bit before greeting her younger sister.

"Morning Sarah."

"Good morning sis, sleep well?" Sarah responded while still doing her task.

"It was okay, but I'm still tired."

"It's alright sis, have this breakfast and you will be good as new." The younger Farron chirped, preparing the dish and put in front of her sister. She couldn't help but noticed the hair of her sister. Lightning had her hair in a single ponytail with the bang framed her forehead and some longer part drop as curtain on both sides of her face. It looked oddly different and beautiful, it not like Lightning's usual hair style wasn't good but it just this one stood out more.

"Light, you look so nice today." Sarah praised.

"What are you talking about?" Lightning cut her pancake, ate it then gave her sister a skeptical look.

"I mean your hair. It looks nice today."

"Nah, I just thought it's more neatly this way."

Sarah hummed in agreement then sat down and started eating her share too.

"Okay Sarah, thank you. I'm going now, see ya in the evening." Lightning stood up and picked up her plate, put in the sink then getting her stuffs heading to work.

"Alright sis, Good day."

...

Claire really enjoy doing her work, it was one of those things she passionate about. And as a permanent staff, her responsibilities were bigger and more serious than what she's done during the provisional period. Aside from checking and posting, she also has authority to approve some of the paper works she handled. This part really motivated Lightning to work harder and striving to accomplish her job more effectively, by this she could gradually building the path to get into management level. But something bothered her a little too, since she took up this role, her works involved a lot around her manager. Lightning sometime had to spend 1 or 2 hours in manager's room to sort things, paper works or getting instruction. The weirdest thing was even the file for approval, the pink headed was told to go submit and pick it up by herself, She's always wanted to ask about this but questioning the superior is not something nice to do on miscellaneous things and this was the Corporation's heir we talking about. Nonetheless, all those things weren't the main issue here, the point was, the speech, weird gaze and smile that her manager sent toward her. It made Lightning Farron flustered.

...wait flustered? Why of all people, the mighty Lightning Farron flustered?

That the point which she herself couldn't figure out, however; Lightning refused to pay much attention to it, she kept pushing it to the back of her mind and told herself that she just thinking too much.

...

Ring Ring Ring

The phone on the desk started to ring, the pink hair employee's hand pick it up and put it on her ear while her eyes still fixed on the monitor screen.

"Claire Farron speaking. May I help you?" She greeted.

"Come to my office." With that, the line disconnected.

If Lightning was new, she wouldn't know which office she has to go. But this is Claire; she knew that this line came from no one other than her manager, Noctis Caelum. Putting down the phone back in place, Lightning picked herself up, heading to meet her manager. Reached the door, she knocked then opened it letting herself inside. "Yes, sir? You called?" She asked.

"Yeah.." The spiky black hair manager said then pulls his desk's middle drawer, took out a file and handing it to his employee. "Get this done by 3 o'clock tomorrow."

Lightning accepted the papers, acknowledged her task and took her leave.

Something was off, that was the first thing came to Lightning's head when she left the room. She could feel the black aura emitted from Noctis, his expression and behavior suggested that he was not in good mood at all and Lightning was sure, she's never seen him like this before, so she was kinda curious about it now. But that was none of her business and it not like her at all to curious about other's affair. So she brushed the thought aside, Lightning decided to browse the file instead, examine on the task she had to do.

"Okay, this can wait a little." She muttered to herself, making the way back to her station.

Clock ticked 3PM

Ring Ring Ring

"Claire Farron speaking, May I-"

"It's 3 o'clock so where's my file Claire?" Noctis voiced sternly.

"File? This morning file? but isn't it be readied to-"

"Enough! How come you can't finish that file in 4 hours?!"

Something inside Lightning snapped, she sighed exasperatedly to herself. How come she had him accusing her of not being able to complete the task?! Seriously that WASN'T her fault; Noctis Caelum said to get it done by tomorrow 3 o'clock and just what the hell is this?

"But sir, you said it has to be done by tom-" She was cut off again and this time Lightning was barely able to contend her anger.

"Stop! I take no excuse. Come to my office NOW!" The department manager pressed dangerously and cut the line off.

Lightning was desperately trying to calm herself down, she has to stay calm when standing face to face with him, or else she might did something she would regret. However this was stupid, she was sure she heard him clearly, his every single word, so why the hell was this shit happen? The strawberry pink was really angry, frustrated and annoyed; she takes no shit from anyone unless it her own mistake and this was just falling into that case.

Finally, made it to Noctis's office, Lightning took a few deep breathe then knocked on the door, when she about to opened and get inside, the door flung open and Ignis emerged with an exhausted expression. The two employees regarded each other silently by bowing then Ignis immediately took his leave while Lightning walked into the room and closed the door behind her. There, sat behind the fancy desk, Noctis Caelum, had his elbows propped on the table and his fingers crossed in front of his mouth, the posture indicated nothing but superiority. He eyed his employee with a displeased gaze, when Lightning eventually came to stand in front of him; he started:

"Listen Ms. Farron, listen well and clear, I take no excuse for anything. If the task given was too much just tell me, I'll do it myself, so I won't have to deal with the consequences like today. Do you how much time I've wasted because of your irresponsible attitude?"

"Well, I don't know but I am pretty sure I got fail information from you. Again, you-" Lightning made her reply firmly but was again cut off half way by her furious manager.

"I already told you, I take no excuse! So you better watch yourself and if you can't comply with that then pick up your stuffs and leave. Do I make myself clear?" His voice was full contempt.

"Yes, sir." Was all Lightning could say at that moment.

TBC

Thank guys for reading this anyway, please let me know what you think.

And just for the head up, interaction between main characters will be more detail from next chapter.

Thank you.