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The Arms Hotel Lobby, Tuesday

Mary was relaxed from a quick weekend trip to Las Vegas, though it still felt odd to be one of those people who went to Vegas for just a weekend.

But all good things must come to an end, and when Mary arrived for work, she discovered that Gunther had fired his sous chef. He insisted that he could manage the kitchen on his own. Mary didn't think so, which is why she started placing loads of fake room service orders to see how well Gunther could keep up.

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Who is waiting to see how long it takes before Gunther flips out.

Price himself was out for a walk when he decided to drop in on the hotel and see if Mary was in.

"Well, good, you are around," he greeted.

"Did you think I ran away for good?" asked Mary with a smirk.

"Well, you never know when people are actually working," Price said. "The town doesn't believe in normal work weeks, you see."

"Sometimes, the island doesn't believe in having time pass at a normal rate while people are away, either," added Mary. "Fortunately, I wasn't so unlucky."

"I don't think I've heard that one," Price said. "What, like, people leave for a week and come back and it's been a year on the island?"

"Or you get the opposite," said Mary. "You can't reach anyone at home for a year, and then you find that it's only been a few days for them. That happened to me when I first got to Fandom, actually."

Price blinked a few times. He suddenly felt a very strong urge to get a hold of Nikolai and Soap.

"Well if that don't take the biscuit," he said. "But I assume you're alluding to the fact you recently visited back home?"

"I did. It seemed like a good opportunity to check on my friends and family, and make sure that they were still there," said Mary. "And they were there, and everyone is doing just fine."

"Very good to hear," Price said. "Glad to see you with a smile on your face, darling." He smiled at her in return. "Family's important. Or so I'm told."

"It still feels odd to realize that I have family to check up on," said Mary. "But they have become very important. I just wish they weren't so far away."

"Not thinking of leaving us, I hope," Price said. "As I think I'd be sad if you became so far away, yourself."

"No, I'm quite content to stay in Fandom," said Mary. "I can't imagine how I lived for so long in Las Vegas without getting burned out."

"Only so many all-you-can-eat buffets and showgirls you can take, eh?" Price said with a chuckle.

"I can handle the buffets, but the bar scene is another story," said Mary.

"Alcohol probably at every turn," Price said. "And am I recalling correctly when thinking you've become a teetotaler?"

"That's correct. I quit drinking right around the same time I left Vegas and came to Fandom," said Mary. "There was one small hiccup when my wedding got called off and I made a fool of myself at Caritas with a bottle of tequila, but that just means I can never look Tino in the eye again."

"I can't look him in the eye normally," Price said with a chuckle. "Gives me the creeps."

"But it does make it easier to stay out of trouble while I'm in Fandom," said Mary. "In Las Vegas, I could anonymously drift out of one bar and into another, as long as no one there knew my friend Danny."

"I find it hard to believe a lady like yourself could maintain that sort of anonymity. Then again, I've never been to Vegas," Price.

"Yeah, that can be an issue. It's tough to stay anonymous when the red hair really stands out," said Mary.

"Not to mention the pretty face," Price said, casually. "Don't think I could ever really like a place like Vegas. Too busy for me."

"Actually, it gets really quiet once you get away from the city. There's no activity in the desert surrounding Las Vegas. It can be pretty peaceful, if you don't mind the vultures," said Mary.

"Not much for desert, either," Price said. "Luckily I didn't have too many ops in the Middle East."

"You really have to grow up there to appreciate it, I suppose," said Mary. "I'd never even left Nevada until a few years ago."

"Britain isn't exactly a desert island," Price said with a smile. "But I have had the pleasure of seeing a lot of the world. What did you think, first time you got to leave your state?"

"I got to go to Santa Monica and walk on the beach. It was amazing!" said Mary, grinning. "I'm rather glad that I've settled on an island and have that ocean view outside my window every morning."

"It is a lovely place," Price said. "And definitely a view I'm getting used to. It beats the frigid parts of Russia, that's for sure."

"It's a shame you weren't around when the island traveled to Antarctica," said Mary, smiling. "It was a little strange to see the normal view of island landmarks with glaciers behind them. I'm sure it was just as cold, too."

"The island traveled to Antarctica?" Price repeated, a baffled look on his face. That was a new one.

Mary was amused by Price's reaction. Smiling broadly, she continued, "The island has some sort of machinery that allowed it to move from place to place a few years ago. We went to Greece, France, some place in the Caribbean, Antarctica... and there's probably another couple of places I'm forgetting."

"Well that's something I'd not heard before," Price said. "Learn something new every day, I suppose."

"Glad I could help," said Mary. "You never know when Fandom's past will show up again."

"Let's just hope we steer clear of Russia," Price said with a chuckle. "I don't have many friends there."

"What a shame. I've always wanted to visit Russia and see it for myself," said Mary with a smirk.

"Well I suppose now I'm not quite an enemy of the state," Price mused. "It's not quite 2011."

"I'm not going to ask what you did to make the Russians angry, though," said Mary.

Should you want to avoid the drama at the front desk.

I miss my show. It's so weird to see Josh Duhamel playing Alex Russo's uncle...

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