Trooper Station- Friday

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

Audrey had spent the very beginning of her day in DC, so she'd missed a good portion of the morning by the time she got back to the trooper station. So she had no idea why she heard music coming from there before she even stepped inside.

Nor did she understand why the troopers were dancing.

Any other place, she would have told them to stop and get back to work, but here she never knew if anything was due to some sort of temporary weirdness or a gremlin bite and you know what, she was just going to grab a file from her desk and have work outside for a while.

[Blame Fry.]

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[shagthis.livejournal.com]

Jake still couldn't get used to the fact that he actually held some sort of position of authority in Fandom.

Sometimes, the pure ridiculousness of the fact that, of all the things Fandom had done to him, that was the one he found the strangest occured to him. And then he tried not to think about it too much more.

"Audrey," he greeted her with a grin. "They fumigating or something inside?"

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

"No, but they are getting down and/or funky in there," she said, looking up from where she was sitting. "I'm not sure which one they were aiming for."

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

"...In that case, I think you had the right idea, because I'm not sure either option is something I'd want to see. Ever."

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

"I had no idea some of them could move like that," she admitted.

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

"This is why I make them run in circles," Jake advised. "Gets rid of all that excess energy."

They were Troopers, Jake. Not puppies.

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

"I'd say they're definitely getting rid of that now," Audrey said.

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

"In a way that's exiled you to the outdoors," Jake replied.

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

"It's mainly due to worry that whatever that is is contagious." She was all about helping people, but if she ended up breaking out into the Trash Compactor, no one won. "Or that they're running out a mass gremlin bite."

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

"So...quarantine, basically," Jake mused.

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

"For their own good and my sanity," she agreed.

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

"Wouldn't the coffee shop have been more comfortable?" Jake wondered. Well, Caritas would've been his first choice, but for some reason they didn't open till evening.

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

"When I hear the music stop I know it's probably safe to go back in." See, she had her reasons.

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

"Unless they're trying to lure you into a false sense of security."

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

"Then I'd beat them with this file till they stop," she grinned. She was totally joking.

Because she'd shoot them instead.

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

"A woman after my own heart." Jake... wasn't joking. He'd found slapping people upside the head a valid motivational tool.

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

"Had to slap a lot of people with files, have you?" she asked.

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

"Or whatever else is handy," Jake said with a nod.

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

"Well now I have to ask," Audrey said, looking interested. "What kinds of things have you hit people with?"

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

"Newspapers, remote controls, the back of my hand, handcuffs... lately it hasn't even had to get that far, though," Jake sounded almost disappointed about that. "Alls I gotta do is just kinda growl and they more or less do what I want."

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

Near-disappointment noted. "And that's a bad thing?"

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

"Most people would say it's not, I guess." Jake was used to a bit more confrontation in his daily life, though.

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

"So you just miss hitting people," she teased.

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

"Well, yes," he admitted. "Though I have to say the upside to not hitting people is I don't get hit nearly as much myself."

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

She nodded, as if pretending to consider this. "That does look a little bit like a silver lining there..."

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

Jake's brain cells (the ones he hadn't killed by drinking, anyway) certainly agreed.

"There's only so much paperwork a man can do, though." And we were back to rainclouds, apparently.

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

"It's okay," Audrey assured him. "I'm sure everyone will go crazy again soon and there'll be people to arrest and throw in jail till they're normal."

Which was what she told herself because she missed going out and doing things, too.

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

"Promise?" Jake looked at her wide-eyed.

[also-audrey.livejournal.com]

"I can almost even guarantee it." Because this town. Seriously.