Trooper Station, Friday

[firstofitskind]

Snowstorm or no, Liam did have a station to run, so here he was.

Making a minor concession to the cold in the fact that he didn't feel like waiting for water to boil for tea, and so was warming up with a cup of actual coffee (with a packet of hot chocolate mix dumped in, of course, but still).

"No," Liam sighed as the fifth Trooper came in to his office with a particular request. "There'll be no going outside to make snow angels until after your shift is over."

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[died8yearsago]

Yeah, Rosa came in...eventually. And the first thing she did when she came in was spend about five minutes just trying to shake the snow out of her hair.

"If the snow was a person," she announced to the station as a hole, "I'd punch it right in its stupid, snowy face."

Hey, maybe around here, the snow was a person, and, for once, this place's weirdness could work to her advantage for once.

[firstofitskind]

Somewhere over in the dorms, Bobby Drake was feeling vaguely threatened.

Not that he had anything to do with this particular incident, but he did have rather a special relationship with snow and ice, after all.

"There's coffee, if you need to warm up," Liam said mildly. There was always coffee. Today it wasn't even bad coffee, although maybe that was just because it was hot and outside was so cold.

[died8yearsago]

"Good," Rosa said, throwing her coat on her desk and making her way over to fill up her NYPD mug...all the while staring down Ralph (she thought it was Ralph, anyway), as if to say just look at all this coffee that'll wind up on any files you try to give, Ralph.

"If there wasn't," she added, "I'd punch it, too."

She liked punching things, okay?

[firstofitskind]

"But if you punched the coffee machine, you'd probably break it, and then there definitely wouldn't be any coffee," Liam pointed out reasonably.

[died8yearsago]

Rosa shrugged. "Then we buy a new one," she said. "I'd pay for it."

More than half of the 99th precinct's electronics had been "upgraded" this way.

[firstofitskind]

"Do you... do that kind of thing a lot?" Liam was guessing yes.

[died8yearsago]

Another shrug, and Rosa dropped into her chair, kicking her feet up on her desk, snowy boots and all.

"Only when I need to."

So....yes. Liam was correct in guessing yes.