#while weird gifs rained down around you. like literally poured down the screen

[somethinginthewayiam]

What happens in New York... Part 2 - Rainy City

Pairing: Sebastian Stan x Anna (OFC)

Warnings: language, (smut in future chapters)

Words: 2577

Summary: Anna’s event planning is getting out of hand, heading from one crisis to the next. First, the rain surprises her then her phone break and then she runs into Sebastian out of all people...

a/n: For everybody who read The universe can be a bitch, in this chapter we have a little flashback to see what happened after Anna woke up in Sebastian’s bed the next morning

Previous chapters: Part 1

“Thank you for nothing, asshole”, Anna mumbled to herself as she walked down the stairs of the office building where she just had the 8th business meeting of today. Her event was just a little under a week away and that infamous napkin problem did not seem to go away. That’s why she had just met with the vendor who had gotten the order wrong in the first place but did not seem to be able to fix his own mistake.

Anna took out her phone and scrolled through her contacts. It rung a few times before someone picked up. “Mr. Baxter? Hello, this is Anna from Perrisher-Event-Planning. I’m afraid I have to ask for a big, big favor”, she said as she walked down the last steps and through a door into the lobby.

“Can you provide me with white and black linen napkins, 300 each until the 13th?”, Anna asked and internally prayed that her back-up vendor would not let her down like the original one. “I know what I’m asking of you but you would save my ass, if I’m allowed to say so”, Anna toned down her voice for the last part of the sentence.

She walked up to the glass doors, but before she could walk out, got stopped by the sight of heavy raining outside. Of course she didn’t have an umbrella with her, let alone a jacket. It had been hot and sunny the whole day, no sign of an upcoming weather storm.

With a silent sigh, she walked back into the lobby while she listened to Mr. Baxter ranting on about how difficult her order would be on such short notice, but he would try what he could, but, but, but…

Anna figured she could wait in the lobby for the storm to pass and use the time to seduce Mr. Baxter to literally save her ass. “I know, it’s short notice, but if this works out, I owe you. How about I talk to my boss about making you our main supplier for future events?”, she suggested and hoped Mr. Baxter will fall for her words. Clarice would probably never say yes to this, but Anna could at least tell him that she had tried.

“Yes! Thank you so much, Mr. Baxter. I can’t wait to hear from you, thank you so, so much”, Anna said and had to control her voice since the doorman kept shooting her some weird looks. She couldn’t control the big smile that spread across her face. Maybe her career wasn’t about to end because of some stupid red napkins.

Her phone rang again and it was Sandra from the office. “Hey, Sandra. What’s up?”, Anna asked with a cheerful voice. “Wow, you sound happy”, Sandra noticed. “It’s because I am. I think I just solved the napkin crisis”, she explained. “Hey, that’s great. Let’s hope you’re on a roll”, Sandra said and Anna’s smile disappeared immediately. “What happened now?”, Anna asked with an annoyed sigh and shifted her weight from one leg to the other. “It’s the caterer. She said that she has problems with her shrimp supplier and they can’t withhold the delivery window, so there will probably be no shrimps at all”, Sandra explained. “Come on”, Anna whined and covered her eyes with her free hand.

“I’ll call her”, Anna said and took a deep breath. “She’s not in today, it was her assistant that had called me before”, Sandra warned her. “You gotta be kidding me? Who drops a bomb like this and then just stays home like a little bitch?”, Anna almost yelled and the doorman gave her a strange look again, combined with an alert cough. “Sorry”, she mouthed towards him and held her hand up in an apologetic gesture. “Wait a minute, the doorman is about to throw me out”, Anna said and walked towards the glass doors. It was still heavily pouring outside but she had no choice but to leave the building.

She pulled out an old newspaper she still had in her purse and held it upon her head as stepped out on the sidewalk. It has gotten colder too and she immediately looked around for a free cab. “I’m on my way to the office, try to find out the caterers private number or somewhere else I can reach her. Try her assistant first. I try to be there as fast as I…”, Anna rose her voice to drown the sound of traffic and the rain.

Anna walked with head ducked, her eyes on the pavement before her. Someone ran into her and bumped her shoulder hard enough just so her phone fell out of her slippery hands and on the ground. She just so managed not to step on it. “JERK!”, she yelled at the person who didn’t even care to say sorry or even turn around.

The call was disrupted and her screen had a pretty nasty crack. The water coming from above pattered on it and got into every little crack, soaking the phone through and through. Anna picked it up, the screen dark, not able to start it again. “Shit!”, she grunted and threw it in her purse.

She threw the newspaper in the nearest trash can since it was soaked as well and started to come apart. Anna held her hand up to stop a cab, her eyes squinted together because of the heavy rain. Her hair was almost completely drenched, strands sticking to her face. She didn’t even want to know what her make-up looked like right now. Cab after cab drove by, all lights off, no free one in sight. Anna wasn’t the only one waiting desperately to get one. She started to shake in her wet clothes as the wind started to blow stronger, her teeth chattering.

A cab finally signaled to stop at her position. Anna felt like she was about to cry, she felt so relieved. “Anna?”, she heard behind her and turned around just to see a man with a baseball cap pulled deep into his face and his shoulders scrunched up to shield himself from the rain. He was just a few feet away waving at her. Anna squinted her eyes to see if she knew that guy but couldn’t tell because she barely saw his face. She heard a car door slamming shut and as she turned around, noticed the backlights of her cab light up as it drove away. Someone had just stolen her cab! “Asshole!”, she yelled at the red lights getting smaller and smaller.

With clenching teeth she turned around to walk up the sidewalk to maybe be luckier at the next corner. The next thing she felt were the masses of water that were spilled all over her by the car that was going past her way too fast and driving right through a big puddle that had build up over the last 30 minutes of raining.

“Oh…my…god”, she breathed out, feeling the water run down her back, soaking through her already wet clothes. “Oh god, Anna, are you okay?”, the man asked, now standing next to her, his hand on her shoulder. As she looked up, she could finally see his face and instantly recognized him.

“Sebastian?”, she asked surprised at first, but then projected all the anger and frustration this day had brought her on him. “Thanks to you my cab got stolen”, she yelled at him and yanked her shoulder out of his grip. “And how is that?”, he asked surprised by her anger. “You distracted me!”, she kept yelling. People started looking at her but she didn’t care. “Now I have to find another one”, she said, turned around and started walking. She fished for her phone in her bag but remembered that is was broken and threw it back in.

“Anna, wait!”, Sebastian followed her and got hold of her wrist. Anna spun around and pulled it from his grip. “Leave me alone, Sebastian”, she said with an angry, shaky voice. She was still cold and the puddle shower from before was not helping. “Let me help you out. I’ll live right around the corner. I can dry your clothes and you can take a hot shower, wait out the weather storm. You must be freezing”, Sebastian offered and put his hands up to show he won’t touch her again without her permission. Anna just shot him a doubtful look. “No cab driver will take you like this”, he said and Anna knew he was right. That made her even madder.

“Come on now”, he said and nodded towards the next street corner. Anna rolled her eyes and let her shoulders hang in a defeated way as she started walking next to him. Sebastian took off his jacket and put it around her shoulders. Anna wanted to protest but she was really freezing and it was a really nice gesture.

“Thank you”, she said rueful and he probably didn’t hear it over the noise of traffic. She caught herself sniffing on the collar of the jacket for just a second and the familiar smell took her right back to hotel room in Philadelphia. This day was about to get even worse than it already was!

2 months ago...

Anna felt the warm body around her even before she was really awake. His arm was still wrapped around her waist, her head rested on his chest. Her eyes fluttered open. The room was filled with the light of dawn, just a hint of light.

Anna cautiously looked upwards to meet his face, his eyes still shut. Sebastian looked so peaceful when he was sleeping. She wanted this moment to never end but unfortunately this was not possible. Anna took in one last, deep breath of Sebastians wonderful scent and then carefully slipped out of his hug.

As silently as possible, she got dressed, took her shoes in her hands, careful not to make any noises. A few times she froze in her movements because Sebastian was shifting in bed but didn’t wake up. Anna grabbed her keycard off the floor and walked towards the hotel room door to leave but she felt the urgent need to turn around and take one last look at Sebastian.

He looked so good, even asleep. She couldn’t help herself and tiptoed over to his side of the bed. Anna allowed herself a few seconds of second thoughts but then yanked her mind back to reality. She needed to leave this room for good and especially not get caught on her way back to hers.

Anna bent down to kiss him goodbye on his forehead and then tiptoed out of this fateful hotel room and back into the real world. With a heavy heart, she closed his door behind her and walked to the elevator. It seemed like ages until the doors slid open. She got in and pushed the button for her floor. Anna bit down on her lip to hold back the tears but as soon as she was able to close her own hotel room door behind her, she burst into tears.

It took her a few minutes to collect herself, just enough so she could take a shower and gladly wash away all the memories and remains of the last night. When she got out of the shower, she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror. Her eyes were red and swollen and she looked absolutely miserable. Her view fell down to her shoulder where she still had the bite mark from the day before and it immediately took her back to Susans office. She felt Sebastians presence, the warmth of his body and for a second she believed that she could smell him again.

Anna had to cover the mark with her hand to be able to look away and get on with dressing herself for the day. It was still early and she didn’t have to be at the convention center for another two hours, but she had to leave the hotel before she would run into him. This clean cut was the best possible version of all the scenarios she had thought of in her mind.

She packed her suitcase and had an early check-out at the hotel before she took a cab to the convention center and stored her luggage in Susans office again. Her flight back to New York would be right after the event. Just when she was about to leave and get on with her work, Susan came in.

“Hey, Anna. Hope you had a good night sleep. We had a fun night out, you should have come with us”, Susan said and actually looked a bit hung over. “Susan, I have to ask you for a HUGE favor and before you say anything, I need to tell you that I wouldn’t ask this if I didn’t really need your help, so please say yes”, Anna said and clung on to Susans arm which made her look at Anna with huge, scared eyes. “Anna, my god, what is going on?”, Susan asked her colleague and friend and put a hand on her shoulder in a helpless attempt to calm her down.

“You need to switch your clients with me. I’m begging you”, Anna said and she felt tears rushing to her eyes. “Anna, sweetie”, Susan said and looked slightly overwhelmed. “Please”, Anna whispered with a lump in her throat. “Of course, I’ll trade with you”, she said. “Thank you”, Anna breathed out and pulled her into a hug.

Just the next second, Anna took a step back, grabbed Susans schedule off her desk and rushed out of the office, leaving behind a totally confused woman. Anna went to the bathroom to dry her eyes and rescue what was possible of her make-up.

According to the schedule, she just had to survive 5 hours before she could finally leave for good and was able to fly back to her apartment in New York. In the last 24 hours she had felt things she had never felt with someone before and it was about to turn fatal for her and, most of all, her career. If someone ever found out that she had slept with a guest of an event she was working at, she was screwed, and not the good way like last night or the night before. Her contract actually forbid her to have any personal relations with a client or a guest at an event.

Anna took a deep breath, put her hair up in a tight bun and left the ladies room. She walked out of the staff area and across the venue to pick up the other Marvel gang like Hayley Atwell and Dominic Cooper. “Hello, I’m Anna. There’s been some changes with the assignment of the hostesses but don’t worry, I’m familiar with your schedule and everything will go smoothly”, Anna introduced herself to her new protégées who looked at her a bit confused, but put it aside with a shrug. “Please follow me to your dressing room. You have your first photo ops in just 15 minutes”, she said and led the way. Out of the corner of her eyes, she saw how Sebastian and Anthony arrived through the VIP entrance and sped up. She could and would not deal with him. This chapter was over and it could never happen again. She just couldn’t trust herself around him.