⏳CLOCKWORK⌛️ - timekeeper/croissant x reader

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       After a few months of working at the TBD, you had made friends with plenty of cookies, including Croissant Cookie herself. You got into the engineering department just as you'd hoped, and seemed to learn more and more about the place every day, including the mysterious and reclusive nature of the Director.

       Rumor has it the Director is too busy traversing time to actually be present, and nobody is allowed to have the key to their office besides the Director themself. It got you thinking—who was this mysterious cookie? Why do they spend so long traveling through time, rather than at their own organization, with their own workers? What would happen if someone did enter their offi—

       "[Y/N!] Hey, are you daydreaming again?"

       It was Croissant Cookie, who had noticed you staring idly into the distance, lost in your train of thought.

       "Uhm- no, I was just... thinking..." you replied, drifting off near your last few words.

       "Thinking? About what? I'm all ears, why don't we think together?" She sat down in the seat next to you, sitting pretty casually and smiling at you. Her ponytail leaned to one side as she tilted her head slightly, reclining in the seat and looking off in the direction you were looking before, but found nothing of interest, so looked back towards you.

       "I was just thinking about the Director. Wondering why they're never here, and nobody here even knows what they look like. Do you know anything?" You assumed a similar pose to hers without thinking, leaning back in your chair slightly as if her doing so was an invitation for you to do the same.

       "Oh, the Director... No, I don't know. I wish I did, but I don't think anyone here knows where they could possibly even be... I can't remember the last time I saw the lights on in their office." She looked up towards the ceiling at a large, half gear-shaped window in the wall fairly high up. Now that you look closer, you realize that the wall the window is placed on sticks out from the rest, indicating that there is indeed a room behind it, rather than a window to outside.

       "I never even noticed that... Maybe we'll find out who it is one day. I should probably take my mind off of it, or it'll never stop bothering me, eheh..." You laughed with your last couple words, already trying to forget about it.

       "Yeah, seriously! I think everyone tries to avoid thinking about it, because then it only leads to curiosity... I'm not sure if any of us will ever see the Director," she replied, standing up from her seat now, waving at you and saying one more thing before she left back to her own work area, which was bigger than all the rest. "Anyways, I'll get back to work! the day ends in not too long, maybe we can talk again after that!"

       "Y-yeah! See you then!" You internally facepalmed at your stutter, turning away to go back to your own work, now mostly in an attempt to avoid the embarrassment.