Captivation: Want Nothing But You

Rachel was stuck in the archive room all night long.

When the clock struck nine the next morning, a group of people including Ivy thundered into the room.

Ivy put her hands on her waist as she said, "Time is up.I need those materials right now!"

The smug smile on her face showed that she was sure Rachel wouldn’t have completed her task.Rachel stifled a yawn and pointed to the nearest corner.

"They’re right there," she said in a flat tone.

Ivy turned to look at the corner and saw two middle-sized cartons.

As they were not sealed yet, she could see they were full to the brim.

The smile froze on Ivy’s face.

This couldn’t be! That kind of workload would take three people a week to finish.

How could Rachel tackle it in such a short time? She glared at Rachel.

"That’s impossible! How did you finish all that so quickly?"

Rachel leaned back and crossed her arms.She looked at Ivy with one eyebrow raised.

"So you are aware that the task you assigned me was too much for such a short deadline?"

Her voice was light, as if they were having a friendly conversation.

Ivy looked stunned for a moment and just a little bit guilty.

She snapped out of it quickly though and retorted, her voice raised as if that could make her seem more confident.

"Nonsense.It was just a figure of speech.Anyway, you’re not fooling anyone.Do you think you can just stuff random documents into the boxes? I will check them all, one by one.If I find anything amiss, I will report you to Mr.Sullivan! Then you can kiss your job goodbye!"

"Be my guest," Rachel replied, shrugging and waving her hand towards the boxes.

Seeing Rachel so calm and composed, Ivy was on high alert.She had endured the disdain and contempt of the upstairs employees too long.

It wasn’t easy to get out of this depressing, underground archive room and finally have the authority to order someone- Rachel, that is – around, just like everyone else had done to her before.

‘Rachel should just be a good dog and do as I say!’ Ivy thought, fuming.She gritted her teeth and barked an order to the people behind her.

stacked on a nearby desk and every single

"This is outrageous,"

looking a tad

decided to rest her eyes a bit as Ivy and the others

complaining under her breath, though, she smiled and opened

too incapable of doing something

was looking ready to burst from anger.She gave Rachel a look

high heels on the tiled floor became

this impossible task, Rachel hadn’t

spent twenty-two hours straight sorting documents and writing

organization skills had been honed during the three years she had spent

lot of practice sorting out all kinds of documents during her incarceration,

have been able to finish all that work in just

heavier by the minute, so, unsurprisingly, she ended up falling asleep

that followed, to say that Rachel was busy in the archive would be

bright side was that Ivy didn’t show up again, as she had failed spectacularly in her attempt

company needed

a certain department, another one would come

the documents they asked for had been stored in that room for many, many

working so hard that in the past week, she had only been back to the Bennet family’s house once and stayed

Knock, knock, knock.

voice, "There is a list on that basket over there.Write down

times this week that it came out as

"Miss Bennet…"

she noticed that Rachel seemed like she had lost a lot of weight in just the few days they hadn’t seen each

stung by the tears threatening to spill at

stopped sorting documents and looked

are you doing

walked in carrying a lunch

though, her eyes

was really

been thin, one of those lucky people that had

a week and she looked tired to the

and the dark circles under her eyes were

been home for two days

visit Rachel at work, she had no

Bennet family,

wasn’t cut out for