Trooper Station; Monday Morning [ 08/03 ].

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Although talking with Mina was usually nice, the topic of their conversation last night hardly was, especially piggy-backed on the fact that she'd spent an entire week investigating a ball of twine, and actually felt good about it because it really was doing a small piece, even if it was microscopic. She wanted to say that it was nice to be back in the station again, but, as she settled in to make the most out of her morning and catch up on what she could before she needed to head to the school for her class, she knew she'd much rather be trying to do something, even if it was ridiculous, than just sitting behind a desk with all this paperwork.

So there was a lot of coffee and a full-speed ahead attitude toward getting the radios transcribed for the records, and a great deal of relief that she'd decided to switch her classes around and hit up meditation today.


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Reese entered the station with her coffee and made straight for her desk. Last week was... really strange.

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And, really, one didn't need to be an astute detective to figure out that she must be the latest newbie, and Daisy was feeling it was a terrible shame that she actually hadn't gotten meet her yet up until just now but last week, she wasn't even around. She tilted her head, smiling over to the other desk.

"Detective Reese, I presume?" said Daisy, figuring that, really, with her accent, that was the best way to put it.

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Reese turned her head and smiled briefly. "Yeah, I'm Detective Reese," Reese tilted her head, "You're Detective Constable Day."

There was only one other woman in the FPD after all.

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Yeah, it did rather narrow it down a bit, and Daisy smiled a little, nodding. "That's right; it's nice to finally meet you."

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"Same here," Reese said, standing. "Good to see another woman in the force."

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"Good to see," said Daisy with a slight smirk, "another woman who can handle stuff. Ralph was telling me earlier about how you were busting balls a bit on Friday."

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"Which of 'em is Ralph?" Reese asked, staring at the Troopers, they stared back at her blankly. "They all look the same."

She smirked too, "Well, I wouldn't be bustin' balls if some of 'em weren't standing around like it was leisure park Sunday."

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Daisy had to take a moment, because her first response was to tell Detective Reese that Ralph was the one with the cute bum, but that was hardly a professionally appropriate response. "You...get to start to tell little differences in them if you work with them a lot," she offered instead, with a faint smile, knowing full well that no one else really bothered.

And that...actually reminded her of something else she was wondering. "And how are you with computers, Detective?"

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"Huh," Reese looked at the troopers again, she looked at them so intensely one of the Troopers started to fidget.

"Computers?" Reese shrugged, then sat on the edge of her table, "I'm good with them, I guess. Good as anyone who could use 'em. Don't ask me to do anything fancier than googling though."

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"They won't...explode or anything just from you touching them, then?" asked Daisy.

It was a legitimate concern. She felt close to a heart attack whenever Gibbs got near one and don't even get her started about Sergeant Kowalski.

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Reese stared at her. "Hasn't happened to me, why?" She looked at her computer warily, "Do they explode?"

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"I've been told," said Daisy, "that the hands of Special Agent Gibbs is where computers go to die. No explosions here, although I'm well trained to deal with those if there is one. Actually, the start of last weekend involved having to head back over to London because my dad blew up an Atari unit again."

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At the mention of 'Special Agent' Reese's brow creased into a deep frown and resisted to say something like: 'He's a fed, that's what happens'

"Atari unit?" Reese repeated, "Been a while since I heard that, isn't all playstation or Nintendo crap now?"

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Bloody hell, why couldn't they all just get along?

"Every so often," shrugged Daisy, "they like to take apart all the really old stuff and see what sorts of bombs and bugs they can make with it. It's a good example of why I'm very glad I'm far from retirement."

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"...your dad makes bombs?" Maybe having a corrupt father isn't all that bad. No, who was she kidding? Its worse.

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"They used to be Freedom Fighters," said Daisy. "They quit when I was born, though. I rather like to think of it as I was stopping crime straight up out of the womb."

And the smile on Daisy's face showed that she was actually incredibly sincere about that, too.

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"Stopping crime straight from the womb," Reese repeated, then added after a while. "Nice."

Look, if she weren't a cop, she'd probably find the prospect of making things go boom cool.

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The fact that Reese didn't just stare at her a lot like she would have expected out of Kowalski or DiNozzo or even Ralph on occasion (Coop, on the other hand, would probably very enthusiastically appreciate it) made Daisy smile.

"Ta," she said. "And so where is it you're joining us from, Detective Reese?"

Of course Daisy knew, but it was just polite to ask.

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It probably wasn't all that apparent, being partnered with someone as weird as Crews but Reese was just a little bit twisted too. It's just not that apparent.

Reese did not say she was from the United States of Los Angeles, that was Tidwell's schtick. Although she did feel Los Angeles was superior to, well, just about any where else.

"Los Angeles," Reese said, then raised an eyebrow, "thought that'd be makin' the rounds by now." She turned a pointed look at the Troopers around the water cooler. Although she hoped her substance abuse was still something kept under wraps.

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Daisy glanced over toward the troopers. "It's Monday," she said, "and, usually, if there's anything worth making rounds for, we'll all know about it by now and be out there with guns a'blazing. From what I can tell by the radio over the past week, something just hit, too, so there's likely to be a bit of a lull for a while. And an influx of paperwork."

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"Yeah, sleeping sickness," Reese said with a nod. She didn't mention the footrace against Aphrodite, that was just stupid. She sighed. "Paperwork's better if there's a real case behind it."

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"'Real case' tends to be a phrase of...anomaly around here, unfortunately," said Daisy with a sigh. "Since I transferred here last October, I can really only site two that I'd consider real cases through FPD. It's a...bit of a rough,"--by which she meant boring--"transition from a metropolitan force."

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Reese winced. "No murders? No robberies? No flash mobs we can beat to-- uh, arrest?"

She missed Los Angeles.

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"Flash mobs of random things attacking on occasion," Daisy offered, "but outside of those and the random weird things that happen, this is a very quiet town when it comes to crime."

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"People love to protest in LA," Reese said, trying, really trying not to sound mournful.