Diaz & Ass., Monday [10/19].

[died8yearsago]

How was it that business was nice and slow and practically adjacent to non-existent up until the moment you got back from a vacation, and then, all of a sudden, everything seemed to land in your inbox and voicemails all at once?

Thankfully, most of what was waiting for Rosa when she got back to the office was too stupid or irrelevant to actually consider and could be easily dismissed. The whole problem was having to sort through the mess for anything that might actually be worthy of her attention.

Sort of like digging through the bowls of candy that kept showing up on her desk, which, apparently, you had to be vigilent about, because the moment her grazing became even remotely absent-minded? Boom. Black licorice.

It was practically insidious.

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[what_the_shock]

Miguel strolled in the door and plopped down in a chair. The requisite paper bag of lunch and large cup of coffee got plunked down on the desk as Miguel opened his own cup. "How bad is it?"

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"Not...too bad," Rosa admitted, though she didn't sound too terribly convinced, as she glanced at the bag, reached for the coffee, and passed something that might have been a grin if you knew how to find it at Tightpants. "I think I figured out a good system. I just delete every ten emails and see what's left over."

How she suddenly had enough emails all of a sudden to have to be able to employ this to any effective result was beyond her, but...there you had it.

[what_the_shock]

"Do a second pass, delete anyone that starts 'please'," Miguel suggested.

He nudged the bag her way. "Your quiche'll get cold."

Because sometimes he was a troll.

[died8yearsago]

"Quiche, huh?" asked Rosa, helping that nudge by pulling the bag in next and digging out the contents. "Wouldn't want that. I guess I could take a break from emails..."

Her eyes drifted toward the bowl on the desk.

"And candy."

[what_the_shock]

Miguel shrugged and grabbed a handful of candy. "If you want."

Lunch was not quiche. Lunch was a burger and fries, because sometimes you had to go classic.

[died8yearsago]

Hey, quiche would have been fine. It's not like it was soup.

But a burger was way better, and Rosa just sort of gave Tightpants a look that seemed to wonder if he thought he was funny once she did dig out what was in the bag.

[what_the_shock]

Miguel knew for a fact he was hilarious, thank you.

And working his way through the candy, not even pausing at the black licorice.

"So did Baltimore fall apart without you? Anybody need extra punching?" What? She wasn't the only one bored sometimes.

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It was a damn good thing you looked good in tight pants, O'Hara.

"There's always someone that needs extra punching," Rosa pointed out, "and I'm honestly surpise that place holds itself together at all."

[what_the_shock]

"Well, it has you to look after it now," Miguel said, grinning. "Punching as necessary."