[ From Bambietta/@obsidiennes ]
Although the morning of Shaoling's birthday had gone largely as usual besides a fancier breakfast, later in the day Bambietta had prepared several gifts and presents, all waiting within her lovely Captain's quarters: there was a German chocolate cake in the shape of a kitty's paw, a fancy torsion pendulum clock for her desk at work, an assortment of crystal cat figurines for the same, some toys for Yū… and a racy set of lingerie in black for her darling girlfriend, lovingly wrapped.
When everything was ready just so, Bambietta would put her plans into motion by sending her birthday girl a candid photo of herself wearing a matching outfit in white, with text added to it reading, "Happy birthday, Shaoling! I got you some cake! Wish you were here~"
Though the day had started well enough, Soifon was soon bombarded by strainious amounts of work, not even field work just piles and piles of dull paperwork. Although, she did have the occasional break and rest when visitors came by to address other matters or offer their own gifts for the day. Overall, it seemed like her actual work had been triplied.
The hours were not passing swiftly either. They dragged on and on. Seconds felt like minutes, and minutes, like hours. All in all, it made the day all the more tedious. By lunch, she had already considered just leaving for the day, spending it under the covers of her bedsheets or the warmth of her kotatsu, but all that would do was ensure an even larger workload tommorrow. It was far better to just get through the slag of today than add onto the next.
That was the plan anyways. It wasn't too awfully long before dinner time when Soifon recieved a text. Her eyes casting a cursory glance to her phone, enough to catch Bambietta's name, lovingly denoted with an image of a deer, pop up. That alone ripped her away from the piles of paper on her desk. She grasped the phone, clicking through several buttons till she came upon their name again, opening the text and….
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She slammed the phone screen down, her fingers still lingering, cusped tight along the edges. She covered her face with her other hand, though ink-stained, she didn't care nor notice it. After a minute, she shot up out of her chair and promptly shoved her phone into her coat, marching out of the office after without so much a word to her Lieutenant.