Elf Yourself by LordRandallsLady [Christmas Challenge]
Title: Elf Yourself
Author: LordRandallsLady
Theme: Merry & Bright (Christmas Challenge)
Genre: AU, romance
Rating: K
Word Count: 809
Warnings: None (except maybe for me, because the demon is gonna kill me. Please say nice things at my funeral.)
Summary: Kagome should have listened to herself.
A/N: Part two in my Christmas series for our favorite couple, Heart of Mine.
Kagome knew better. She really, really knew better, but she just couldn’t help herself.
‘Aw, what the hell,’ she thought. It was almost Christmas and no one wanted to work anyway, so why not have a little fun during her break? Her boss was scheduled to be gone to a meeting all afternoon and what he didn’t know wouldn’t hurt her. Besides, deep down, she knew he had to have a sense of humor… well maybe…
Kagome’s mouth turned down in a frown, brow furrowed as she imagined what his reaction would be if he caught her. The image was quickly brushed aside as her need for a bit of humor won out.
Heedless of the voice of reason screaming in her head, Kagome clicked on the web link and started her hunt for pictures of her boss.
xxx
Peals of laughter reached Sesshoumaru’s ears as he stepped off the elevator into the hallway, returning to the office earlier than he had expected. A small crowd of people was gathered around the desk outside his office, clearly looking at something on his assistant’s computer.
“Who would have guessed he had it in him?!” exclaimed one person.
“Kags, you have to send this to me!” insisted another.
So engrossed was the group that they failed to notice the approach of their boss until the clearing of his throat carried over their guffaws, immediately silencing the merriment. The half-dozen or so employees gathered froze. One by one, eyes filled with dread turned his way. Silence pervaded the area, broken only by the sound of a familiar Christmas classic coming from Kagome’s speakers.
Sesshoumaru met their eyes raising a single, elegant brow. The group quickly scattered, abandoning Kagome for the relative safety of their own desks. His assistant, however, had nowhere to which she could escape and so remained motionless, her back to him, as she awaited the inevitable doom she knew was about to befall her.
Approaching close, Sesshoumaru leaned so that both hands were on her desk, effectively caging Kagome between his arms, his torso pressed against her back so that he could feel the hammering of her heart.
“Do play it again, my dear Kagome,” he intoned, his voice dropping even lower than usual, tone bordering on deadly.
Sesshoumaru heard the click of her mouse, watching, his face a mask of indifference, as a likeness of himself and Kagome appeared on the screen. Morphed into two Christmas elves, the pair danced across the monitor among brightly flashing lights to a discofied rendition of “We Wish you a Merry Christmas.” He felt Kagome flinch several times as his “elf self” performed some rather groovy moves. His emotionless façade nearly cracked, however, at the image of the two of them bumping butts.
“Higurashi,” Sesshoumaru murmured, standing to his full height when the video finished. “Come with me.”
He did not look at her as he seated himself behind the mahogany desk, instead sorting through the contents of his inbox which had piled up in his absence
“I trust you have the year-end reports finished for me to review?” he asked.
“S-Sir?” she stammered, confused by his question.
“The reports? The ones I asked you to have for me today?”
“I… uh… yes, they’re in that blue portfolio.” Kagome paused uncertainly, still confused why she wasn’t being read the riot act. “Umm… Sir?”
“Yes, Higurashi?” he asked as he flipped through the pages of the report setting it aside to scrutinized more closely later. When she did not answer, he looked up at her, quirking that eyebrow at her. “Was there something else?”
Kagome just stared at him for a moment in disbelief before answering. “Um, no… I guess not.”
She only received Sesshoumaru’s usual “Hn” in response as he turned back to the various messages and memos awaiting his response. Spinning on her heel, Kagome hurried from his office. The unspoken message in his golden eyes had been clear: he would forget the incident ever happened if she promised never to mention his disco prowess.
Leaning heavily on the door after closing it, Kagome breathed a sigh of relief. She didn’t know exactly why she was granted a reprieve, but she wasn’t about to look a gift horse in the mouth. Walking back to her desk, she plopped down and stared at the monitor.
“Download your video for only $4.99,” it read.
‘Don’t even think about it, Kagome,’ she thought, mentally smacking herself. Hadn’t she just narrowly escaped certain death?
‘But, it’s too funny to just trash,’ a devilish little voice whispered to her. Kagome knew she shouldn’t… really shouldn’t…
Throwing a cautionary glace at her boss’s closed door, she reached for her purse.
‘This is gonna come back to bite me in the ass one day,’ she thought as she plugged in her personal flash drive and clicked the button anyway.
~~
End Note: Click here, if you dare, to see the video Kagome made. Thanks, LC, for hosting the vid!
Author: LordRandallsLady
Theme: Merry & Bright (Christmas Challenge)
Genre: AU, romance
Rating: K
Word Count: 809
Warnings: None (except maybe for me, because the demon is gonna kill me. Please say nice things at my funeral.)
Summary: Kagome should have listened to herself.
A/N: Part two in my Christmas series for our favorite couple, Heart of Mine.
Kagome knew better. She really, really knew better, but she just couldn’t help herself.
‘Aw, what the hell,’ she thought. It was almost Christmas and no one wanted to work anyway, so why not have a little fun during her break? Her boss was scheduled to be gone to a meeting all afternoon and what he didn’t know wouldn’t hurt her. Besides, deep down, she knew he had to have a sense of humor… well maybe…
Kagome’s mouth turned down in a frown, brow furrowed as she imagined what his reaction would be if he caught her. The image was quickly brushed aside as her need for a bit of humor won out.
Heedless of the voice of reason screaming in her head, Kagome clicked on the web link and started her hunt for pictures of her boss.
xxx
Peals of laughter reached Sesshoumaru’s ears as he stepped off the elevator into the hallway, returning to the office earlier than he had expected. A small crowd of people was gathered around the desk outside his office, clearly looking at something on his assistant’s computer.
“Who would have guessed he had it in him?!” exclaimed one person.
“Kags, you have to send this to me!” insisted another.
So engrossed was the group that they failed to notice the approach of their boss until the clearing of his throat carried over their guffaws, immediately silencing the merriment. The half-dozen or so employees gathered froze. One by one, eyes filled with dread turned his way. Silence pervaded the area, broken only by the sound of a familiar Christmas classic coming from Kagome’s speakers.
Sesshoumaru met their eyes raising a single, elegant brow. The group quickly scattered, abandoning Kagome for the relative safety of their own desks. His assistant, however, had nowhere to which she could escape and so remained motionless, her back to him, as she awaited the inevitable doom she knew was about to befall her.
Approaching close, Sesshoumaru leaned so that both hands were on her desk, effectively caging Kagome between his arms, his torso pressed against her back so that he could feel the hammering of her heart.
“Do play it again, my dear Kagome,” he intoned, his voice dropping even lower than usual, tone bordering on deadly.
Sesshoumaru heard the click of her mouse, watching, his face a mask of indifference, as a likeness of himself and Kagome appeared on the screen. Morphed into two Christmas elves, the pair danced across the monitor among brightly flashing lights to a discofied rendition of “We Wish you a Merry Christmas.” He felt Kagome flinch several times as his “elf self” performed some rather groovy moves. His emotionless façade nearly cracked, however, at the image of the two of them bumping butts.
“Higurashi,” Sesshoumaru murmured, standing to his full height when the video finished. “Come with me.”
He did not look at her as he seated himself behind the mahogany desk, instead sorting through the contents of his inbox which had piled up in his absence
“I trust you have the year-end reports finished for me to review?” he asked.
“S-Sir?” she stammered, confused by his question.
“The reports? The ones I asked you to have for me today?”
“I… uh… yes, they’re in that blue portfolio.” Kagome paused uncertainly, still confused why she wasn’t being read the riot act. “Umm… Sir?”
“Yes, Higurashi?” he asked as he flipped through the pages of the report setting it aside to scrutinized more closely later. When she did not answer, he looked up at her, quirking that eyebrow at her. “Was there something else?”
Kagome just stared at him for a moment in disbelief before answering. “Um, no… I guess not.”
She only received Sesshoumaru’s usual “Hn” in response as he turned back to the various messages and memos awaiting his response. Spinning on her heel, Kagome hurried from his office. The unspoken message in his golden eyes had been clear: he would forget the incident ever happened if she promised never to mention his disco prowess.
Leaning heavily on the door after closing it, Kagome breathed a sigh of relief. She didn’t know exactly why she was granted a reprieve, but she wasn’t about to look a gift horse in the mouth. Walking back to her desk, she plopped down and stared at the monitor.
“Download your video for only $4.99,” it read.
‘Don’t even think about it, Kagome,’ she thought, mentally smacking herself. Hadn’t she just narrowly escaped certain death?
‘But, it’s too funny to just trash,’ a devilish little voice whispered to her. Kagome knew she shouldn’t… really shouldn’t…
Throwing a cautionary glace at her boss’s closed door, she reached for her purse.
‘This is gonna come back to bite me in the ass one day,’ she thought as she plugged in her personal flash drive and clicked the button anyway.
~~
End Note: Click here, if you dare, to see the video Kagome made. Thanks, LC, for hosting the vid!