Stepping into the unknown.

Mr Link.

My alarm was an unwelcome treat and yet even if that sucked it was second only to the desk that I was sentenced to daily. Paper always managed to find a way to my desk despite desperate attempts to beat all of the early birds they seemed to scout out the office until midnight as it was too early for me to see three folders on my desk. Three large folders on my desk.

"Right, you have a glow and you look tired. Someone got laid last night. Oh, and the high neckline. Little miss, I have rules." I smirked and shushed Luciana before pulling her to a conference room. Her face was one of smugness.

"I didn't have sex, I mean. I was on the phone to a certain Ezekiel all night, it got intense. Not personal but he and I have agreed to just not have a proper relationship. I'm not ready and he just ended a ten year engagement. She was postponing it because she was gay and her parents didn't agree with it as they are or were very traditional. We just mess around but no sex. This glow is from something else though I believe. But, I also need to tell you something. You will think I am crazy but just trust me. Please? I will try and get someone to prove it to you." Her hands moved to shift my collar down to show the mark and she went wide eyed. Confusion and then realisation hit me. She knew exactly what it was. The mark on my neck.

"Who?" I opened my mouth and then closed it as she looked at me with a pointed look. Anger and full on disbelief smothered her features. Then they filled mine.

"How do you know? You, you know. How long have you known?" She swallowed and the anger was lost like a child in a park.

"I just do. How long have you known?" I blinked and tears wanted to fall all over me.

"A little over a month. This was what I was about to tell you. I wanted to experience it with you and we could learn about this world together. Too late for that. How long have you known?" Her eyes moved to the wall and then to the floor. Her face was masking and suddenly she looked just like the people I always worked with.

"Don't bother lying to me. That will just dig an even bigger hole." I stormed out and let the door close just behind me before walking to my desk and opening up my work. The extra things I was doing for Lucy had to be done still and I did them quickly before I sent them off and left a comment for her to never asking for a favour again.

"Enyo. We need to discuss what you told me. I have a feeling that you have questions." I stood up lazily and walked to the office where Mr Link sat on the other side. He was calmer than he seemed to have been the day before as he was actually relaxed. It shone through every fibre of his being.

"I don't have any questions. I just want to know one thing. How many of you ohnes are in this office?" He sighed and I bit my tongue to stop from spilling any angry words out. I wasn't angry at him but I was a little more than angry at Luciana.

"Just two of us, well, three, four. I am assuming you found out about Matthew being a werewolf well, you would call it that. Really he is a..." Before he can even finish I complete it for him.

"Durchstreifen. And no, Lucy. And I am assuming she is a fairy or at least that is the thing she has the most in common with. I am assuming cows aren't a mythical thing otherwise I would call her that. And I will tell her this when I can bear to look at her." He stood so quickly that my mind struggled to even see it but I was also turning at the same time so that was expected really.

"I know how angry you were with me but please just hear her out. You two work so hard and do so much that the entire floor will suffer the wrath." I didn't even look back. He was looking at us like some sort of productivity package and that wasn't sitting well.

When I got back to my desk I blocked out Lucy as she spoke my name and mentally I got into a better sort of state before turning to Ambrose.
"Did you know about Luciana?" He didn't look at me as I quietly spoke but his hyper hearing picked it up and I knew not only did he hear but he wasn't giving me an answer for a reason.
"Matthew also knew. The four people I trusted in this office. Mr Belmont, I trusted you. I told you, I let you. Oh gosh, I might be sick." It felt odd to know that for the past few years I had been lied to and they knew it.

"Don't get annoyed. Please, just think about this in a logical way." I shook my head and stood up again as I prepared to walk into the hospital. To do my job and put a smile on.

"A lie is to keep something from someone. Just like the past few years. I thought that out of anyone here I could trust you four. Utter tosh." I walked with my bag and found the hospital floor that I needed to be on to reach the doctor that needed to be warned for her future.

"Sorry, Dr Candelario here?" A lively woman nodded as she walked with me to a room. A man and a child sat. Clearly they got along and so I smiled. It made me remember my parents and a sense of longing was thick in my chest but soon my head cleared and the doctor left the room. Looking at me.

Eyes as light as anything and hands so soft that as I shook her hand I felt like I was holding silk and also not. She was a little firm with her grip on me and for a split second I forgot why I was there. Then, I took her aside and spoke. Never a good talk when a fine doctor has to be warned but it was part of the job and I couldn't change that.

By the time I had finished it was lunch and although I rarely ever took it I decided to. The streets filled to the brim with cars waiting to get home from half days at work or busy lunch meetings with clients that they would be late for. It didn't matter though as I was passing them or they would pass me if they were moving. England always seemed to have some heavy traffic somewhere.

I passed my favourite small shop and walked some more until I found a park to walk through and slowly I did. A gush of wind running up me making me shake a little but I ignored it as the park filled and passed without much thought. Parents on their phones as kids messed about. One was sat in a dog poo and I smiled to myself but it didn't last long as I remembered my rules. Rules keep people safe from not only physical pain but also emotional pain and that was always the way.

It was quite a while before finally I decided to head back. The walk didn't feel like it was long enough but I felt like no walk would ever be long enough as I had to face people then and I felt outraged but also not surprised as the whole ohne looked to be so very good and yet the people sucked. They also all looked to be stunning. I would have a go with most of not all four of them.

Back in the office I found my work being done in a complete silence. Others spoke to me and if I had to a one word answer was given. I would help if it was needed but most of the time it was just the three on the floor that wanted me to talk. Matthew seemed to be quite shaken up by it as he was desperate to get me to talk. I was least annoyed by him but moments had passed filled with lies as he tried to escape telling me the truth.

When time to leave came I was straight in my car and home. My laptop had all work I could need but I didn't have much to do. It was the dry season for us so I didn't have to. Instead I read through some of the pages in a book. Something about what those who held magic could do and it fascinated me. I was so engrossed in it that I didn't notice the night falling or the clock ticking. My closing eyelids brought my night to an end and it wasn't until my alarm went off that I woke again. I had to change and face them. It wouldn't have been so bad but I had known Mr Link for two years, he trusted me and I trusted him and a thing like that was bad. Luciana and I had gone to uni together. We were so close. She once even had the audacity to not talk to me for a month after she found out that I had once smoked weed in school. One puff and I was done. Disgusting and nothing of it attracted me to it again and that included my few friends that were constantly high.

I walked slowly upstairs and changed. A tight black dress clung to me and a pair of heels were pulled on and my makeup removed. Unlike normal I didn't put more on or change it up. Instead I pulled my hair up into a messy bun and headed out. Work was bound to drag and it was also my fault but, I was due to get my promotion in a few weeks and so I wouldn't have to be close to the three often and Mr Link could be so easily avoided. I may want to jump him almost all the time but it didn't matter as he only played with emotions and me actually liking him would go up against my rules. I never back down from my rules.