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Emma Miller ([personal profile] universal_translator) wrote in [community profile] glowfic2015-12-05 08:01 pm

business meeting

Emma's father gets the phone call just after lunch on a Saturday. The Indian company he's been trying to attract has a VP in town, and would he like to set up a meeting? (Yes. Yes, he would, yes please and thank you.) So he and Emma rush into his office, and Emma waits outside the lobby while her father scrambles to collect paperwork, contracts, whatever it is he needs for this deal.

Usually, it only takes him five minutes to do this kind of thing. But this deal is last minute, and after twenty minutes, Emma's restless. Jerhattan's gotten a lot of rain recently, and the bench by the door is too wet to sit on, so she's just leaning awkwardly against the wall while she waits. There isn't even anyone to talk to; the office is totally dead on weekends. So Emma dips a toe in a nearby puddle and starts drawing patterns on the ground. It's something to do, at least.
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[personal profile] hidebound 2015-12-11 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Emma's father frowns down at her. "English, please, Emma. You know the rules, it's not polite if you're not translating." He looks warily at Noel, but unfurls himself from around his daughter and stands to offer Noel a hand. "Thank you for your assistance, Mr. Duval." That will be all was unspoken but loud; his whole posture had tensed up.