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]

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.