Coffee over Conversation

Kim, a.k.a. Tempest, trained in close combat, medium and long-range kills, and more than two martial disciplines, worked at the as dubbed Cave where she planned solo missions for herself and others. She was often invited into meetings for her ability to see solutions, even if a finagle was required to make it plausible. When she ran across some Raiders in the field and figured out someone was trying to sabotage their unit from the inside, she called a meeting to inform those necessary she was taking mission planning for the Raiders, and that she and her girls would take on that task for the special forces units for each branch. When she went to handpick her Raider team, her whole focus was caught when she saw a man who was continuing to fight despite obvious fatigue, his team the only one intact when the drill ended. Kim chose Matthew, a.k.a Marine Raider Gabriel, to lead her Raiders, and two weeks later the bug she would use to communicate with him went into his ear, and he was given a pen that transmitted pulses directly into hers.

Fast forward ten years; the Alpha Angels had transitioned to civilian life as well as could be expected, forming the Alpha Sorority: Angels chapter, or ASAs. They built business and worked with charities to help their chosen hometown of Everywhere thrive, while covertly cleaning up the streets to make it a safe place for all in the community to call home. Kim opened Wordsmithing Inc. to assist others in putting thoughts on paper, and all was going exactly to plan. That was until she was told the company Matt worked for was buying one of the spaces she had had renovated, and that Matt was one of the leads assigned to Everywhere with Katy's Raider Eric. Letting the Fates decide what would happen was an easy call for her because Matt only dated women who looked like they were delivered from skeletons-are-us, and she certainly didn't fit that image.

Kim spent her days at her businesses, was the chosen legal guardian for a teenager, and had almost managed to go to sleep once without vocally telling him goodnight so she assumed missing him had started to become manageable. But now that it was possible to meet him, she also understood Eric's issued edict of no, the underlying message that she wasn't good enough for Matt well understood. It had hurt, but she stayed in her corner, grateful the other ASAs got to spend time with him and were watching over him for her, if jealous. Given that, what exactly was an Angel supposed to do if, while getting her morning coffee at Temptations, he growled at her...