A New Beginning

By Tvdfanpam

Chapter 1

Fate Steps In

Disclaimer: I don't own FSOG or get paid to write this story. I am just having fun with Ana and Christian.

Ana had been sitting in the coffee shop in downtown Seattle for a while now. She finished her morning interviews and was having lunch. Killing time before her two interviews that afternoon. She would graduate from college in a few weeks and needed an internship or entry level job or two very soon. She and her roommate Kate Kavanagh already had an apartment rented that they would move into after graduation. Kate's parents have already paid the first year's rent but she still had expenses to pay for herself. She couldn't allow Kate's parents to pay for everything!

Ana had a 1:30 pm appointment at Grey House and was anxiously awaiting it. Her major was English Literature with a minor in Business. She wanted to work a while then go back and get her Master's Degree. She was tired of school, she had crammed four years of college into three so she could graduate sooner and get to work faster. Her dad had been working two and three jobs sometimes to get her through college without any student loans. She wanted him to be able to go back to just working one job. He said he didn't mind and she knew that was true. He liked to stay busy and when he wasn't working, he worried. He worried about her studying too hard or not eating enough or weekends when she had her part time job. So, the busier he was, the better off they both were. He was the Police Chief in their small town and he also worked weekends at the local hospital as their Head of Security. In his spare(?) time, he would fish. Ana wanted him to have more time to fish and maybe even find a nice lady to go out with.

Ana's mom ran off with an over the road truck driver when she was eight years old. She always felt like an outcast in her small town because all the other girls' moms were stay at home moms or just worked part time jobs. She spent a lot of time with her neighbors because her dad worked a lot.

She heard from her mom occasionally. She married the truck driver after her divorce from Ray went through and traveled around the country with him. They have a small house in Georgia that they don't spend much time in.

Looking down at her phone she saw that her dad had sent her another text:

What time do you think you'll leave Seattle? She frowned. He didn't want her on the road late in the day. She texted back:

My last interview is at 3:30 so 4:30 or 5:00 pm. I'll leave for home right after. She texted him back and leaned back in her seat sighing really big.

"That's an awfully big sigh for such a little lady." Someone behind her said. She turned around and saw the most beautiful man she had ever seen sitting at the table behind her.

"Sorry to bother you sir." She said smiling.

"No bother. Is anything wrong?" He asked politely. He was very well dressed and had a nice smile.

"No sir." She said turning around fully to speak to him.

"Would you care to join me, Miss?" He asked. "I promise you, I'm perfectly harmless." He said when he saw that she was hesitating.

She looked at her phone for the time. "Sure, I'm here for a few more minutes." She moved her coffee cup over to the next table along with her big purse that doubled as a briefcase.

He looks her over from head to toe. "Let me guess? You're in town for the day and you have back to back interviews?" Ana gapes at him.

"Is it that obvious?"

He smiles. "No, not really. You dropped your resume earlier." He said handing it back to her. She smiles and he sees her relax.

"Two down, two to go." She said putting her resume back into the folder it must have slipped out of when she took it out to find her small laptop earlier.

"Have you been to any place yet that seems promising?" He asked.

"Not this morning, but I have two this afternoon that I am really excited about."

"Do tell." He said smiling and gesturing for her to continue.

"Well, the second interview this afternoon is a small publishing company. I would love to work there solely for the fact that it's a small independent publishing house. I have been interested in books my whole life. I love to read. I can imagine myself right into the stories sometimes. I hate when a really good book ends. It is kind of sad. I had to write a book in college for my senior Thesis. It was about my dad and what I imagined his life would have been like if he had been born in a different time period."

"Really?" Said the man. "What time period did you put him in?" He said leaning forward to catch every word she said.

"I put him at the turn of the Twentieth Century. He worked on the railroad as an engineer. Touring the country, meeting people from all over the place. He never has had time to travel or do anything but work. He has always had to work and take care of me. I wanted him to have an adventure, see the country, have new experiences." She said earnestly.

"So, did you ever publish that book?" He asked, looking into her eyes.

"Yes, I did. I also got an A on my Thesis and I graduate from WSU Vancouver in a few weeks, hence the job hunting." She said, gathering up her belongings and putting everything in her big purse. "It was nice chatting with you sir." She said holding out her hand to shake it as she left.

"The pleasure was all mine Miss." He said holding her hand a little bit longer. "Please allow me to walk you out." He said standing with her. "Where's your next appointment? I would love to give you a ride."

"That won't be necessary." She said blushing. "I can walk, plus I just met you. I don't even know your name."

He smiled at her then. "My name is Christian Grey." He said, holding the door open for her. She walked out in front of him.

"Nice to meet you Christian. I'm Ana Steele."

He points to his car and Taylor gets out and opens the door to the backseat. "My car's right here and my driver will take you wherever you need to go this afternoon." He said helping her in and going around to get in beside her. "Where to first?" He asked shutting the door and putting on his seatbelt.

She looked down at her list. "Grey House. I have an interview with Andrea Parker as her assistant. It's an entry level job, I was told. It is part time and so is the job at Seattle Independent Publishing. I'm hoping I can combine the two somehow." She said confidently.

Christian gives her a dazzling smile and thinks that his shitty day just got a whole lot better. "I'm sure you can do anything you set your mind to."

A/N: Thank you to everyone who read my other FSOG story: The Bookworm and the Billionaire. It had over 130,000 views and I still get alerts from followers or favorites. That inspired me to start another story. I hope you like this one too. I am going to have this set in the work place; I know that has been done before but I am fascinated by Christian Grey the businessman. I think Ana will be too!