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"Hey…" Theo whispered softly as he guided them toward the chair, sitting down and placing her on his lap, hugging her close to his chest, he softly stroked her hair in long soothing motions as she continued sob into his coat.

Her sobs started to die down a short while later, his warm embrace easing her sadness. "I'm sorry… Theo… your coat's got a huge wet patch now…" she stated sadly, before looking up at him giving him a weak smile

He tenderly wiped the tears from her face with his thumb "it doesn't matter it'll dry… I'm more worried about you. Are you okay, my love?"

"Yea" she sighed "Thank you" she added before shifting in his arms (mainly to get out of the wet patch she created) and resting her head on his shoulder, taking in his scent.

"You're welcome" he whispered giving her a light squeeze and rubbing her arm

"I should have been expecting it, the way she reacted I mean, after all I have the rep of being the office's heartless bitch queen… so I guess I probably would seem like I was making fun of her when I was trying to be sympathetic…" Ivory mused thoughtfully as she played with the plait in his hair "Mix that with the grief of losing someone you've been married to for centuries, it makes a very volatile combination…"

"Grief makes us do and say a lot of things that we often regret later on, blame is always far easier then acceptance, you just happened to be in the firing line, it doesn't mean that you deserved it. You mustn't blame yourself Ivory, there was nothing you could do, you tried your best to offer your condolences and console her, but it was obviously too soon for her to be able to accept them. That doesn't put either of you in the wrong, and you shouldn't take what she said to heart, my love." Theo replied warmly, showing some of his well hidden wisdom

"Wow, who knew there was wisdom hiding under all that fuzz?" Ivory smiled

"Hey. I'll have you know I'm an extremely deep and wise man, thank you very much!" he exclaimed sounding rather wounded

"It's just so well hidden, like a coffin in a pitch black room, you'd never know it was there unless you literally fell over it" Ivory laughed before turning to face him, letting her laughter die away "but in all seriousness, you really are a most intriguing person, my love, just when I think I start to understand what's going on in your head you pull out something new and even more interesting. I adore that about you…" she admitted as she caressed his cheek with the back of her hand

Theo rested a hand on the back of her head, tenderly kissing her lips, taking the opportunity to savour the sweetness of her lips, acting like ever kiss was their last, for if there was something he learned was that you can never know what was going to happen next… they broke apart slowly, both rather reluctant to lose the contact.

"Ivory, you really do make me feel like I'm the luckiest man around, just to be loved by you" he whispered as rubbed the tip of his nose on the outer shell of her ear

Ivory blushed lightly "I must be the luckiest woman to have been saved by such a warm and loving man" she replied softly before offering a sweet kiss before resting her head on against his collar bone "I sorry about earlier…" she breathed

"There's no need to apologise, it was just a silly little argument" he replied taking her hand and pressing it to his lips, then to his cheek causing her blush to deepen  at his warm, tender actions."Now, there is something I want to complain about" he stated with a mock serious expression "My work space is lacking in something of the utmost importance to me"

"And that would be?"

"You, of course~ I want to work in here with you~" he chuckled

Ivory simply laughed as she rolled her eyes,  

"Come on please~" he whined before giving her the puppy dog eyes, and a lip quiver

"Fine…" she grumbled "I'll have another desk brought in here"

"Why? We can just share yours~" he grinned "there's plenty space right here"

"I'm going to need it, I need to decide on a new supervisor and Mirage doesn't like having her space invaded" Ivory reasoned

"Who's Mirage?"

Ivory turned, so her side was pressed against his chest again, before leaning forward picked up the little fox, who was currently curled up in one of her drawers "This little bugger is Mirage, she's a fire fox" she stated placing the fox on her lap, who opened her eyes and stuck her tongue out at Ivory

"She's so adorable~" Theo giggled, as he petted her head, in return Mirage rubbed her head round and lightly licked his hand.

"Wow, she really does like you; I've not seen her do that to anyone apart from myself and Ebony" smiled Ivory

"Well I'm glad" he chuckled just as Mirage stood up, stretched and jumped up on his shoulder and started licking his face "I think I've got a friend" he giggled

"That brings you up to a grand total of two, doesn't it?"

"I'll have you know I have plenty of friends, and it's mean of you to suggest otherwise" he stated before sticking out his bottom lip, which was a mistake since Mirage decided to use it as a foot hold, along with his nose, to help her get onto the top of his head, where she curled up.

Ivory burst out laughing at that point, shaking as she laughed madly behind her hand as Theo grinned, chuckling at his new hat, "Well that is definitely improvement in the hat situation" she giggled giving Mirage a quick stroke, who shuffled round slightly letting her tail hang down onto his face right in front of his nose. Making Ivory break out in renewed laughter as he tried to stop Mirage's tail from tickling his nose, but Mirage was having none of it so she simply moved it back there every time.

"You really can't get hats that behave themselves nowadays" Theo mused with a chuckle,

"Mirage you heard him, behave or he'll go back to his other hat" Ivory stated, knowing that would make her pull up her tail, and she did, wrapping it back round her. "Good girl, now back to this office issue, not to burst your bubble but don't you think it would be more practical to have another desk brought in? So we're not in each others way all the time?"

"I guess… it would make sense…" he mumbled looking like a child that had been told he couldn't have a cookie…

"Alright then, I'll have get two reapers to bring you in a desk" Ivory bid as she get up, walking away, just to pause turn back and softly kiss him "Thank you for earlier, I really needed that" she smiled

"You're welcome, and like I mentioned earlier I'd gladly be the one you can lean on, my love, no matter what happens, I promise I'll be there for you whenever you need me." he reassured with a warm smile

"I love you Theo" she said pressing her hand to his face stroking his cheek with her fingertips

"I love you too honey" he replied leaning into her hand

"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go find you a desk" she bid before leaving the room, closing the door.

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Ivory went on the hurt for a desk for Theo, finding a spare one on the corner, getting one of the ordinary reapers who had failed to look busy to help her carry it into the office, positioning it vertically off the far end of hers.

"Thank you Patrick, that was most helpful"

"You're welcome Miss Summers, is there anything else I can be of help with?"

"No, that's it thank you"

"If you wish to be helpful, you could always assist me in bringing my paper work in here" Theo inquired as he stepped out from behind the door, making the poor kid jump of his skin

"Of course sir…" Patrick stuttered nervously upon realising who he was,

"Excellent, let's go then~" he grinned before striding out the door, expecting the kid to follow, which he did quickly rushing after him.

Ivory simply rolled her eyes before sitting down behind her desk, getting on with her work, as Helena finally returned with the paperwork on all the shinigami's who are qualified to be promoted to supervisor with her team of ordinary reapers.

"There are seven that are qualified and able, but not all of them are personally and emotionally equipped enough for the job" Helena explained as she walked over, "these are photocopies of the employee files, so feel free to make notes if you wish" she added as she placed the stack of files on Ivory's desk

"Thank you so much Helena, you've a great help" Ivory replied warmly with a smile "Did you have your tea break?"

"You're very welcome Ivory. Yes I spent it talking to our guest, he's quite the interesting guy… as you would know apparently" Helena stated, flashing her a knowing smile

"Let me guess he told you about us?"

"Yep, he totally spilled his guts about how he loves you… but don't worry, I won't tell a soul, I just want you to know I'm happy for you Ivory" Helena bid placing a warm hand on her shoulder

"Thanks Hel" Ivory replied with a smile "so you approve?"

"Definitely, if he wasn't so damn smitten on you, I would steal him off you at the first chance I got" Helena laughed before going back to her desk.
So here you have it finally~

another fluffy part~
I can't help it, writing them gives me a warm and fuzz feeling~

one question: where do you think would be good number of parts to end this at? 30, 35 or more?

hope you enjoy~
and comments and criticisms are always welcome :)

Part 21: [link]
Part 20: you are here silly~ :)
Part 19: [link]

Part 1: [link]

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more! more! More! MOre! MORe! MORE!!!!!!!!