𝐈𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 | Levi Ackerman X Reader

| #16: Don't be unprepared for a product pitch |

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You sighed and sat up, getting straight to the point. "There's a lot of things I want to discuss, but first things first, I'm sure you three have heard what's happened to the stocks of the company just overnight. I'm going to ask everyone else this, too, but have you done anything to minimize the impact it had?" You asked, and once you asked that, the three of them looked at each other, and you looked at them expectantly. You noticed that to this, they had a different reaction. You were expecting good news. Any kind of updates, really.

It was silent for a couple seconds, until you heard Jean clear his throat and raise his hand. You nodded at him for permission and he sent you a nervous smile. "Well, I have personally been making calls to our investors. I'm aware we lost a lot of our stocks so I made calls to reassure them on our position on the issue, and that everything was under control. I received a lot of the calls, but I made some myself as well," Jean explained. You nodded along.

That was certainly relieving. It gave you a bit more time to get things under control since your partners now had the promise that it would all go back to normal. Though, it did make the pressure rise to make sure Karina does her part so that everything went back to how it used to be, at least for the most part, but you would make sure that she did. No matter what. What she did took a hit that would never allow for things to go back to how they were right away, only part of the way. Which was the most frustrating part about it. It's like you took several steps back on years of hard work,

"That's good. Thank you, Jean. Anyone else?" You said, and you almost laughed at the way that his shoulders sank and his head fell forward. You looked at Connie and Sasha, who were having some sort of staring contest as to who would go first.

You looked back at Hange for a second and saw that they were on the verge of bursting out laughing, but were fighting demons to stay professional. They turned their head to the side to hide their face and you turned back to look at your employee's.

You saw that between the two of them, it seems that the duo decided that Connie would speak first, after much debate. You saw the way he fiddled with his fingers and avoided eye contact, but his eyes finally met yours when he began to speak. They were all so nervous from the moment you came into the office and since they walked into the conference room.

"When I heard the news, since I'm usually in charge of our company's public relations, I started receiving emails from companies who were thinking of collaborating with us. I did respond to those emails and reassured them that everything was going to be resolved soon, but me and Sasha have also been constantly releasing rebuttal articles to soften the blow of the original one," Connie reassured and you nodded along. Sure, these were small efforts in comparison to the damage that the first article caused, and it would take a while for these efforts to overthrow the effects of Karina's article, but it was better than nothing. You took them into consideration.

Feeling a little bit more confident, and a little less intimidated to say what she had been working on previously, you turned your eyes to look at Sasha who was showing body language that indicated that she wanted to say something too. You knew her as being part of the legal team, while Connie was in charge of public relations, and Jean worked in the sales and marketing side of the company, along with other employee's that were just outside. They were just the heads of each of their departments.

"Me and Historia decided to start taking legal actions against articles and companies that were spreading rumors and fake news about the incident, and hateful comments as well that tarnish our reputation unfairly," Sasha said, and you crossed your arms in front of you as you nodded.

They all did their own efforts in each of their departments to somehow lessen the blow of the damage that was done. You knew that this wasn't a situation that could be waited out and it would fade away in time, because you were sure that even if you got your company back from this, future and current investors would always remember. Everything about this was incredibly frustrating.