Mauvaise Chance Apartments - Early, Early, God Awful Early Saturday Morning

[hatesparadise]

It had been a normal, peaceful morning that was so early it was practically the night before still. If one wanted to be specific. Or if they were still constrained by the tyrant of time.

Then a piercing noise sounded throughout the building as a fire alarm went off.

Because why get a good night's sleep when you could be dragged out of bed to wait on the tiny, under-worked Fandom Fire Department to come make sure everything was fine?

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[weirderthanthou]

"Not safe enough," Jesse said dryly. "Trust me."

[hatesparadise]

Danny frowned slightly, giving her another once over. The pajamas sort of ruined the image of danger, but, you know. It was probably there still.

"Alright," he said, rubbing his eyes free of sleep. "We can all go back in once the fire department checks and shuts this alarm off."

And people could pretend they were able to go back to sleep.

[weirderthanthou]

Give it a little more time and Danny might be able to deduce her deal down to 'extremely awkward but capable Fed'.

"So does that mean there's an actual fire?" Jesse asked.

[hatesparadise]

He was getting there!

"Probably not," Danny grumbled. "But they gotta shut it off."

[weirderthanthou]

"You can't shut off your own fire alarm," Jesse said dubiously.

[hatesparadise]

"On the off chance that there is something wrong, no," Danny replied, giving her a sidelong look. "Welcome to the public sector. Better safe than sorry."

[weirderthanthou]

Jesse shrugged. "This stuff is usually above my paygrade," she said. Paused. "Was above my paygrade."

[hatesparadise]

Danny snorted at the correction, squinting at the building again. He just wanted to sleep. "Well, it could be worse, I guess. Could actually be on fire. Good to see how quickly people get out."

See, this was a drill that made sense. In the future, Steve would try to make him run nuclear drills and Danny would not be having it.

[weirderthanthou]

You snort, but three weeks ago she'd been quitting her job at the 7-Eleven.

Time seemed so slow when I first entered the Bureau. How is it going so fast now?

"I'm not seeing any smoke, at least," she volunteered. "So it can't be that bad."

[hatesparadise]

Because video game logic, okay? Because video game logic.

"Figures this would happen to a place I manage." Such was Danny's life!

[weirderthanthou]

Well, also because she'd been taking night jobs for years while she tried to figure out how to break into a secretive federal bureau, so...

"It probably happens to every landlord sometime," Jesse pointed out dryly.

[hatesparadise]

"Considering this place, it probably involves weird birds or something." Fandom was getting to him. Slowly, but surely.a

[weirderthanthou]

"Weird dangerous or weird funny?" Jesse asked, without missing a beat.

[hatesparadise]

"Both. I wanna say both," he said dryly.

[weirderthanthou]

"Does anyone ever tell you to relax?" Jesse asked dryly.

[hatesparadise]

"No, that's totally new," Danny replied in an equally dry tone.