Monday Morning

I keep staring at myself in the mirror, my black slacks are perfectly pressed with a burnt orange silk button down top tucked in. I put my hair up in a messy bun today to show off the green grenade earrings that finally arrived from Amazon two days after Jeanist started keeping Katsuki and I apart. I pick up my thin green belt and pull it though each loop, trying to calm my breathing when there's a knock at the bathroom door. "Hey Teddy Bear, we gotta get going." I nod at myself to shake off my nerves and open the door to see him staring at me with interest wearing his hero costume. Now that I've seen what he hides under those pants I understand why they are so baggy, but damn if he doesn't show off everything from the waist up with that tight ass top, and now that the weather is warmer the sleeves are gone and I have to remind myself not to drool even more. "You've seen me naked and you still look at me like that." He chuckles at me. When I look up his eyes are on my chest "Like you have any room to talk." He pulls me in close kissing my lips then gently biting them. "I'm a man, we never get sick of looking at boobs. I like to watch your ass when you walk too ya know." I shove him playfully. "We both need to get it together if we want to convince Jeanist to let us keep working together." He pulls his eyes up to my face. "When did you get those?" He taps at the earrings. "Not long after Good Morning Japan, they were supposed to be here before then." He doesn't respond instead taking me by the hand walking over to the front door where we put on our shoes before heading out.

The entire ride we didn't talk, instead I sat thinking about what's to come, terrified of the outcome. Whenever I would really start to panic he would reach over and place his hand on my leg for a moment, his touch is so reassuring. This is the right decision, being with him is so natural, I don't think we could have fought it for too long. When we walk into the building it feels like everything gets quiet and we're being stared at. I take a deep breath and look over at Katsuki, his scowl at everyone scaring them back into going on about their morning. We make our way to Jeanist office ignoring the whispers, acting as though nothing has changed between us at all. Before I can even Knock on the door it swings open. "Come on in." I follow Katsuki through the door and stand next to him in front of Jeanist desk. "Alright then, since you've arrived together I'm assuming you've talked it over and came to an agreement about what to do moving forward. So Miss L/N, enlighten me." I take in a deep breath, I want to be anywhere but here right now. "We are officially a couple, we would like to request an opportunity to show we can still work together and be professional at work despite this change in our personal relationship." His eyes rise to look at Katsuki "I'm supposed to believe Mr. tell the world I'm in love over here can maintain a professional air around you at all times?" The two stare at one another for a moment before Katsuki finally speaks "I shouldn't have done that sir, I won't allow another lapse like that again." He speaks the words through his teeth, holding his temper back.

"At any rate, I anticipated this outcome, have a seat and look over the paperwork I had HR draw up." I sit taking a packet from the desk and begin looking it over, it seems like he's going to allow us to work together and not fight the relationship. Just as I was starting to get to parts where we we're being forbidden from PDA Katsuki flies to his feet and starts yelling. "What the hell, this is a little far don't you think? You might have a right to demand how we behave and speak at work, but to tell us what we can and cannot do outside of work? If I want to take my girlfriend out for dinner that is my right and at our discretion, not yours." Jeanist gestures for him to retake his seat calmly waiting as he sits in a huff crossing his arms. "This isn't the final draft, you aren't signing until we fine tune it, but neither of you are leaving this building until it's complete so keep that in mind." He skims the paperwork and stops when he seemingly comes to wherever Katsuki left off at and I wish I could read Japanese faster. "They didn't word this how I wanted them to. I am simply suggesting you refrain from going out on a date in public if it happens to coincide with a public appearance. For instance, the Hero Billboards are coming up in a few weeks, you'll be there working together if you want to spend time together on a date after I'd prefer you do so in a different city or have a private date behind closed doors. This is to show the world your private and work relationship are indeed entirely separate." Katsuki relaxes in his seat "Sorry." I smile over at him before going back to my own paperwork. In the end there wasn't anything unreasonable being asked, just outlines of what would be considered acceptable behavior with work most of which we already planned not to do. No PDA, use professional names, no dates during work hours things like that. "Alright, I'll send these down for revisions, I'm calling a conference meeting to take place in 20 minutes, make sure you're both there 5 minutes early."

Standing alone in the conference room I started to feel a little nervous. "What do you suppose this is about?" Katsuki looked up at me with a smile "Jeanist doesn't like rumors, he always addresses them once he gets to the bottom of it. We're being outed as a couple." I feel myself both relax and tense at this, I don't want to be the center of attention, even if I share it with Katsuki. But I'm glad it's just informing our coworkers about the facts because I was a little afraid all the paperwork was a ruse and we were about to rework everything contrary to what was agreed. I can see it in his eyes, he wishes he could comfort me. I flash a smile at him to put him at ease, but he sees through it. "It's going to be ok. Just so you know I'm keeping a tally of just how many reassuring hugs and kisses I need to give you later." I chuckle as the first person walks in and immediately try to stifle it, I recognize his face but can't remember his name, he's the department head for the assistants. Soon after pretty much the rest of the office files in, Katsuki and I sitting at the table as if we aren't about to be the subject of the meeting. When Jeanist walks in all eyes land on him, he walks to the podium "Join me up here you two." His eyes land on us individually and my mouth goes dry as I stand to walk to the front, how is this more nerve wracking than going on TV was? "As all of you know this idiot Bakugo went and confessed his love for Miss L/N on live television. I sent them away to sort the matter on their own and this morning I have been informed that they have decided they want to be together despite not knowing if this decision may cause a change for them at work. They have promised to be purely professional at work from here on out. You may now all cease whatever speculations you've been making as you're now aware of the truth. Oh and this wasn't in the paperwork originally and I just thought about it, but you may behave as a couple at private work parties." He looks at us and I swear he's smiling under that denim. "You're all dismissed."