Trooper Station; Monday [ 02/23 ].

[justice-beat.livejournal.com]

All was quiet on the Fandom front, as could probably be expected in the wake of a massive, temporary exodus of about half the island's population. Daisy already felt as if there just weren't enough people in this town; it was especially notable now.

And it was also pretty boring, too. She told herself not to let it get to her, because when you started to get bored was when things started to go wrong, but she was fighting off the urge to just start working at the computer to put together a program that could generate a limerick or some haikus for her.

[[ open station is open, although I'll be in transit for most of Monday proper ]]

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[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"It's so quiet, I feel kinda weird just breathing," Ray said, dumping his ass on a chair near her. Bored, boreder, boredest.

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Good morning, Ray!" Dale said cheerfully as he sipped his coffee. "How are you?"

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

Ray seemed to think about that one for a minute.

"Weird," he coughed up. "You?"

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Why I'm doing excellent this morning," Dale said happily. "And how exactly are you weird?"

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

Ray shrugged, giving his chair a spin. Not a full, uh, revolution. Just kinda swaying. "Feels like I'm working in a ghost town, sir."

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Enjoy the quiet while you can, Ray," Dale said cheerfully. "Never know when the next bout of weirdness will hit."

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"Enjoy the quiet, yeah," Ray said, manfully fighting off the urge to stare at Cooper like he was insane. "Wouldn't put it past the island to pull something with everybody gone."

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Dale chuckled looking amused. "Yes, it very well might do that. Anyone who ever said that a locale doesn't have a sense of humor obviously never went here."

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes you scare me, you know that?" Ray told him. "Way too cheery."

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Well, Ray it's a beautiful day and we have a quiet week to look forward to. Hopefully," Dale said sipping his coffee. "How can I not be cheery?"

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"'Cause there's nobody on the streets," Ray said, eying him, "It's spooky."

[justice-beat.livejournal.com]

"You could try stopping," offered Daisy, with a faint smile. "That would at least give us something to do."

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"Nah. I like breathing," Ray said, lifting his coffee at her. "Just feels like we got hit by a bomb or something."

[justice-beat.livejournal.com]

"A quiet bomb," mused Daisy. "It might get annoying after probably...the third day. This place is already too quiet as it is."

By her standards, that was, which were a little skewed, in all honesty.

[headkickpoet.livejournal.com]

"It kinda is."

As a Chicago guy, yeah, Ray had to agree. "So, uh, spooky. Think we should just hit up the mainland looking for bad guys to cope?" Damn juridistiction issues.

[justice-beat.livejournal.com]

Jurisdiction was exactly the word that came to Daisy's mind, too, and she gave Kowalski a little bit of a look, though tinged slightly with amusement.

"And, what? Going vigilante, are we?"

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Good morning, Daisy!" Dale said cheerfully almost bouncing over to the coffee station for his fifth cup of the morning.

Yes. Everything in the universe was now back to its normal order.

[justice-beat.livejournal.com]

"Morning, Coop," said Daisy, arching a slight eyebrow. She had a pretty good feeling that what she was about to ask next was wishful thinking. "Get past the hairy part of the detox, have you?"

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Well it turns out the detox didn't work like I thought it would," Dale said taking a gulp of coffee. "But everything seems to be in order today so it's back to the coffee."

[justice-beat.livejournal.com]

"Oh." Daisy's shoulders sagged a little and, try as she might, she couldn't help but let a small frown of disappointment slip past.

"Well," she added, in an attempt to seem not so disheartened, "I hear it can be pretty rough, detoxing."

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Well it turned out that I didn't need to detox at all," Dale assured her. "But I do appreciate all the tea and the moral support."

[justice-beat.livejournal.com]

"Didn't...need...?" Daisy blinked a little in confusion, because, if forced to be honest, she'd think that the one thing that Coop did need was some serious detox because the man could not even function without coffee, and the only things a person should need to function was air and blood pumping through their body and, really, if this place showed her anything, it would be that even those things were compromisable, too.

"...ta," she said, slowly, nodding. "Glad to help?"

[pieandcoffee.livejournal.com]

"It was much appreciated," Dale said giving her a thumbs up. "And the tea was quite tasty."

[justice-beat.livejournal.com]

"Tea," suggested Daisy, as subtly as she could, "is an excellent substitute, sir."