Drabble:47
POV:Third Person
"Liss, go see Chris.", Rose ordered, closing the file in Lissa's hand. "You guys have hardly spent any time together this week, and I don't mean just quality time."
"I'd love to, Rose.", Lissa sighed, leaning in her chair and stretching lightly. "But there's so much paper work. I don't think I'll be done in the next 200 years."
"Paperwork later, Christian now.", Rose instructed. "He's been moping around."
"Moping?", Lissa asked skeptically.
"Uh-huh,", Rose nodded emphatically. "Dimitri said so."
"Right, Dimitri said he's moping.", Lissa said, a small smile playing on her face.
"Fine, it might have been more along the lines of 'he seems miserable'.", Rose admitted, rolling her eyes. "But I saw him today, and he didn't even try to insult me! So, you know, something's really wrong with him."
"Rose." Lissa shook her head, covering her smile behind her hand. The rest of the Royal Guards, who were standing against the walls of the room, chuckled at their colleague's petulant confession.
"Thank you, thank you.", Rose exclaimed, bowing in the direction of the guardians before turning back to her best friend. "But seriously, Liss. Go, now."
"I still have to sign this stack of papers for tomorrow."
"Just sign? I mean you've read through them?", Rose asked, eyeing the 30 or so manila files on Lissa's desk.
"Yeah, why?", Lissa asked, a little suspiciously.
"Liss, I can do your signature blindfolded. I'll finish up here, you go home.", Rose ordered, already moving around Lissa's huge, ornate mahogany work-table.
"Rose, you can't do that.", Lissa said with a surreptitious glance at her guardians.
"It's okay, your majesty". Norman, the leader of the Royal Guard, said good-naturedly. "It'll be our little secret."
"You heard the man, Liss.", Rose said cheerily, almost dragging Lissa off her chair. "Now go on before I change my mind."
"What about Dimitri?", Lissa asked in a last-ditch attempt.
"He can survive one night without me", Rose brushed off her query, settling comfortably into the chair. "And by you spending time with Sparky, if Christian comes off his PMSing mood, Dimitri's life will become much easier. So it's a win-win"
"Rose", Lissa groaned, laughing along with her guardians now. Rose poked her tongue out at Lissa in reply.
"What would I ever do without you, Rose?", Lissa asked rhetorically, but her guardian and best friend answered anyways.
"Hopefully, you'll never have to find out. Now scoot!"
"Goodnight, Rosie!", Lissa called out with a smile, picking up her briefcase and jacket.
"Yeah, goodnight Rosie!", teased Ritchie, one of the 5 guards, who were to accompany Lissa back to her suite. Rose promptly showed him the middle-finger.
"You too, Liss.", Rose answered, pulling up her legs and grabbing a couple folders. She looked up as Lissa was about to exit the room. "And Liss?", Rose called out, making her best friend turn around. "Have fun making little Dragomirs."
I don't know if any of you follow the international news, but my country (Bangladesh) just suffered a rather horrific tragedy pretty recently. So if you could spare one moment, please pray for the injured people and survivors of the Savar-incident. Thank you.
And as always, thank you for reading. And as many of you want the continuation of the last drabble, I'll try to conjure something and put it up ASAP. In the meantime, do review.