This one goes for you two for making me ship this! @trustworthy-liar @nonbinaryeye

Some delicious Rosie/Tadeas for the heart, plus lonelyeyes too cause im a simple woman.

Rosie was not paid enough for what she has to deal with on a regular basis. Usually her job is fairly easy, receiving a few calls, answer some emails for her boss.

Simple stuff.

She can even ignore the pressing feeling of being observed as judged all over the institute that she gets! Shame it wasn’t a few years earlier when it could have saved her marriage. But well, life moves on.

No, its not that why she was in a bad mood.

Elias and his husband got into a fight again and they were being passive aggressive.

Again.

She has been receiving messages from the captain to tell her boss how annoying and insufferable he is.

It is the worst thing ever.

And it’s not the first time that it happens, she wonders why they don’t divorce for real, if they hate each other so much why not stay apart for real! Why go the length to do this charade!

Yet she has no answer, no moment that illuminates her tired and coffee deprived mind.

Only agony at having to bring her boss all the left messages from his husband.

She hates her job so much and if she didn’t want to know so badly what the hell is wrong with this place for real she would have quitted a long time ago.

Another day, another annoying morning, she was about to start preparing herself to the new wave of messages to deliver when-

“Hello?” A man approaches her with a tired look. A very handsome one mind you.

“Yes sir? Are you lost, do you help?” Despite being good looking, Rosie doesnt let it disturb her, instead she goes directly to her people managing voice.

“Oh! No, well yes, my boss sent me to deliver these messages by hand to his husband… they are having a bit of a strife right now. So is this Elias Bouchard office?”

Hus-?

Oh!

“You must work for Mr Lukas then! Yes, that is his office, I will let him know you are here Mr…?”

“Tadeas Dahl, pleasure to meet you…?”

“Rosie, Rosie Zampano. Just give me a second”

She imagines that would be the end of it, however the fight must be quite the thing, because Tadeas starts to come everyday, sometimes he delivers the messages and waits for Elias to call him in again to give him a note for Peter.

She feels like they were somehow stuck in school dealing with kids delivering their crushes notes.

Albeit these ones are probably curses.

Because of that she gets to talk with the man, he was… quiet, only answered if she asked him something first and it was a bit annoying she will admit. She craved answers from whatever was going on and this man surely must have something if he works for Mr Lukas and he trusts him enough to deliver messages.

Her staring must make him uncomfortable because he starts to ask her things to pass the time. Or maybe stop her from prying, and she hesitates, but there isn’t anything bad about the questions, they are innocuous at abest.

So she relents and talks about herself. She doesn’t catch on to how softly he kept looking at her and how his questions became more personal. Tadeas was also sharing about himself unprompted and it made her too excited to realize that sometimes he would flirt with her.

Her ex-husband was loud, his tone of voice would sometimes make her flinch a bit, Tadeas always had the same soft spoken tone, he had a little bit of a drawl in some words, it was… kind of charming.

One day Tadeas comes over with a bouquet of roses, she already pities them, Elias hates to recibe flowers, something about Peter mocking him.

She is unsure how he could mock him with such a nice gift. Her ex never bought her something so pretty.

“Shame about those”

“How come?” He gives her a hesitant look.

“Elias doesn’t like flowers from Peter” At that Tadeas face relaxes and he smiles down at her and oh-

Oh it was a lovely smile wasn’t it?

“Good luck then they aren’t for him Miss Rosie” She blinks uncomprehending for a few seconds when it catches up to her.

“Oh!”

“Yes… if you want them…?” And well, she does. Smiling a bit more coquettishly, she nods.

“Why I would love them Mr Dahl” Standing up a bit, she was still definitely shorter than him. Rosie was just a few inches shorter than Elias and Peter and Tadeas were around the same height.

“They are very beautiful”

“Not as much as the person receiving them” Her face burns bright and he chuckles a bit, again she is struck with how lovely it sounds. Not too loud but enough for her to listen and enjoy.

“Well, I feel bad now, I don’t have anything to give you back…”

“I wasn’t expecting you, i just… wanted to show my appreciation” Appreciation huh?

“Mm, well… Care to give me your hand?” Curiously he offers it, with a smile and an excitement she hasn’t felt since her days at college, she grabs a pen and writes her number on a piece of paper, offering it to him.

“I am afraid I can only offer that, if you want it…?” And miracles of miracles, the man’s face cracks and she sees a small blush on his cheeks.

“Well- how could i-” Her phone rings and she laughs nervously and picks it up, Elias says he is done and to let Mr Dahl come in to deliver his message of the day. Relying on the message to the man, he nods and leaves the flowers on her desk.

Ten minutes later he comes back and before leaving he asks for paper and a pen. He scribbles something and gives it to her.

“So you know im for real, would hate for you to think i'm… well not being serious” Her cheeks burn a bit and she smiles at him.

“In that case, may you lean down a bit?” He complies and she kisses his cheek.

“For the trip back” His face was priceless and Rosie had a hit of confidence.

Two days later he sends her a text asking if she is free to have dinner and finally talk for real instead of stealing moments between meetings.

Rosie grins and accepts the invitation.

They have a wonderful time.

“Told you I was right!”

“Oh yes of course you are, you are cupid incarnated you silly little man”

“I won the bet so hush” Peter kisses Elias cheek and spins them.

“I am already dancing aren’t i?”

“Mm yes you are” Elias is having so much fun, he didn’t originally intended for Rosie and Tadeas to get together. He and Peter were having fun just pretending to fight and sending each other little messages that were actually flirting.

Its when he realized that the lonely man was getting a crush on his secretary that he made a bet to get Peter to dance with him.

It ended up well for everyone involved at least.

“Really how did you even figure they would hit it off!!” His husband is so silly.

“The eye chases knowledge and the lonely tries to hide away. Don’t you think they match each other perfectly?” Peter dips him without warning and kisses his neck.

“And when we get too out of it you eye types see us into solidity again huh?” He mumbles against his throat making him shiver.

“Exactly”

“Mmm good” And they kiss.

And somewhere else Rosie kisses her own lonely man, who also likes to have a bossy little eye servant tell him what to do.

Everyone gets to enjoy themselves.