AB Investigative Services [Monday]

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

Aiden is hungover and grumpy. The office squelches underfoot and smells worse than it did before. She also has a sneaking suspicion that something alive is still camping out under the carpet as the back right corner keeps jiggling. The courage to go and check it out has eluded her so far.

The door is open and she's all dressed up in waterproofs, brushing as much of the leftover water out of the front door and away as she can with a lot of muttered cursing.

[ooc: Open, but SP for the next hour or so while I finish playing with radioactive things!]

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[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

Leo, procrastinating about cleaning his own place of business came upon Aiden in the midst of her cleaning.

"Woah, so you got flooded to huh man?"

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

Aiden harrumphed one last time, brushing a wave of muddy water forward. "Yeah," she replied. "Seems t'me like this place just loves to see me cleaning stuff."

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

"You need any help?"

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

"Doncha have your own flood damage control?" Aiden asked. "Not that I don' appreciate the offer, 'cause I do. Just... " she shrugged.

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

Leo sighed. "Oh yeah man." he said. "I'm just puttin' it off you know?"

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

Aiden nodded. "I get that," she said. "Was like it myself after the damn trolls." After a couple of seconds she gestured to the interior of the office. "If you want to help out, you can," she offered. "In the spirit of delaying the enevitable an' all."

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

Leo smiled and headed inside. "Hey the carpet's movin' over here man."

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

Aiden wrinkled her nose, and nodded slightly. "Yeah, noticed that," she said. "Didn't think that disturbin' whatever it is was necessarily the best idea knowin' what was hanging around this weekend."

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

Leo looked at the spot thoughtfully.

"Hey you find any mysteries yet man?"

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

"Got a few little cases goin' on the mainland," Aiden replied. "Nothin' groundbreaking. S'pose that's normal, though. Never all about the drama. I kinda like it that way."

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

"Peace, quiet, and parties." Leo nodded. "No need for drama."

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

"Not that a big-ass flood like this wasn't pretty drama full," Aiden amended. "'Cause much as I wish floods didn't equal drama, generally, when a place is laid siege on by Poseidon that's what'cha get."

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

"Oh the water folks were great." Leo grinned. "I taught this one chick to play Battleship, and a lot of 'em wanted their pictures taken with me."

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

Aiden raised an eyebrow. "Then you found a better side o' the weekends crazy than I did," she remarked. "I jus' found an office full of water and somethin' slimy takin' up residence under my rug."

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

ooc: do you know what's under the rug?

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

"Maybe it isn't slimy," she allowed after a moment." Aiden shrugged. "Could be scaly, or... shelled, I s'pose. Haven't exactly seen it."

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

Leo decided to check. Maybe it was something cool.

He pulled back the wiggling corner of the rug to reveal...

ooc: hmm, crab? baby sea turtle? something less cute?

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

Mostly a large amount of soggy seaweed with a wibbling and not very attractive looking jellyfish in the middle of it. That was probably what was making the place smell so bad.

Oh... and there was the crab that scuttled out when Leo moved the carpet. Probably what was making the whole thing so squiggly.

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

Leo jumped back at the sudden movement of the crab. "Woah!"

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

Aiden inhaled a sharp breath, she wasn't really expecting that either.

"That is so not what I want in my office," she said, quickly regaining her composure and stepping out the way of the crustacean rapidly moving towards her. Good thing she's a CSI, and so it takes a fair amount to really shock her.

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

Leo watched the crab scuttle out the front door, then turned back to the jellyfish. "You don't belong here man."

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

"You any good with sea life?" Aiden asked hopefully.

Corpses she can deal with. blood and gore? Just fine. Jellyfish, she's not really a fan. Weird the way these things work.

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

Leo vaugely remembered that you didn't want to touch these things with your bare hands.

He remembered this after he touched it.

"Youch!"

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

Aiden winced, she hadn't really expected him just to go for it, bare hands and all. "Geez," she muttered. "You okay?" she asked, moving forwards to check on him.

Guess that answered her question. Not so good with the aquatic creatures.

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

"Yeah I'm okay man. It's like a bee sting I think. You got any gloves?"

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

"Latex ones," Aiden said. They possibly weren't going to do the job here. She paused for a moment, "I might have something better upstairs."

"One minute," she said heading off towards the apartment above the office.

She jogged back down a few minutes later with one marigold washing up glove, and a slightly grimy looking gardening glove. Well, at least it was something.

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

"Cool man." he said, donning the gloves and carefully picking up the jellyfish and the seaweed.

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

"You think maybe we can... rehabilitate 'im or something?" Aiden asked, peering closer at it.

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

"You got a tank or something?"

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

"I don't think so," Aiden replied... "Although, there's quite a lot of junk I haven't gone through up there." She jerked a thumb at the ceiling, "So you never know."

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

Leo frowned. "Maybe we should just try to get him back to the water."

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

"Don't think he'd like it much in my office," Aiden said with a frown. "Back to the water's probably best."

After a moment she continued with, "Might be able t'find a tank or somethin' for the crab. If I can find it again..."

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

Leo looked around for the crab but couldn't find it.

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

Aiden looked, but not very hard. "Uh, you want to put that somewhere?" she asked, gesturing at the jellyfish. He couldn't be comfortable just holding it like that, right?

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

"Yeah." he nodded.

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

"Uhh," Aiden quickly made her way over to the open door. "Nearest seashore is that way... Want me to help you or anything?" she doesn't look keen on doing anything that involves touching the slimy thing, though.

[mr-hippie.livejournal.com]

"I think I got it man." Leo said, heading out the door.

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

"Thanks, Leo," she called after him. "I owe you one."