Trooper Station | Saturday

[knife_bender]

This slow ass week was turning into a slow ass weekend. The troopers were not appreciative of the extra long run they had to go on but at least it killed some time before Diego had to settle down at his desk and pretend to do paperwork instead of focusing on how he missed Annie.

Why did he steal all the food out of Danny's desk last week, he could use the snacks now.

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[grenadesandohana]

Here, have a text from Hawai'i!

What tacky gift would you hate more? Steve wrote. Plastic hula girl or can of macadamia nuts that really has a fake snake in it?

[knife_bender]

Are you going to go with the opposite of whatever I prefer?

He knew how this worked.

[grenadesandohana]

Of course!

This was totally how friendship worked, right?

[knife_bender]

Well now it was entirely possible Steve would know Diego picked the opposite of what he'd prefer and then pick the opposite of that.

This was confusing.

Macadamia nuts. I could use it to torture someone else.

[grenadesandohana]

Like the Troopers who steal snacks! I'd keep an eye on Ralph especially.

[knife_bender]

Yes. It was the troopers that stole snacks. Definitely them.

I'm keeping an eye on them anyway, I made them run longer than usual to work off Thanksgiving. They might kill me.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve laughed at his phone. Aww, a little exercise never killed anyone. Tell them to suck it up.

This right here was why they didn't like you, Steve. This. Right. Here.

[knife_bender]

I will tell them and say it was from you.

And then Steve could deal with those consequences.

[grenadesandohana]

Maybe I won't bring you a present at all! Steve threatened.

[defenderofdesmoines]

And here came a text from Iowa:

scale of 1-10 how boring is work today?

Considering she didn't think anyone was a pony or a child, she was guessing it was a paper football kind of day at the trooper station. (Though if he had indeed turned into a turkey, Annie was very hopeful someone with thumbs was around to provide photographic evidence for her.)

[knife_bender]

Diego couldn't help but smile when he saw he got a text from Annie. The sappy dork.

It's somewhere in the negatives. If I make the troopers run some more they might mutiny.

[defenderofdesmoines]

do anything fun to Danny's desk yet?

Annie was meanwhile smiling like an idiot in the middle of a Target, and had to unconvincingly pretend she was thinking of something funny when her mom noticed.

[knife_bender]

I'm tempted to break into it again to see if he restocked his snack drawer since last weekend

When he had also broken into it.

[defenderofdesmoines]

you'd be teaching him a valuable lesson about security.

Annie probably shouldn't be encouraging this.

[knife_bender]

It's true. He should look at it as a training exercise.

One that was never requested.

[defenderofdesmoines]

and good practice for you!! who knows when/if you might need to bust open someone's desk to do important police work.

See, it was a net positive for everyone.

[knife_bender]

I'll let you explain that to Danny when he complains. It'd sound better coming from her.

[defenderofdesmoines]

oh no. I wouldn't want to take anything away from you.

Plus Annie was liable to actually start laughing halfway through the explanation.

[knife_bender]

That's so very kind of you.

He hoped the sarcasm came across.

Two more days right?

[defenderofdesmoines]

Sarcasm came in loud and clear, and it actually kind of made her miss him more.

yup. back on Monday to heroically rescue you from boredom.

And she was basically counting the hours, at this point.

[knife_bender]

Good. Not the same without you around.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Annie was lucky her mom had wandered off to look at some deal they had on twinsets, since there was no way she'd be able to come up with a convincing story about why she was smiling at her phone like that.

I miss you too.

Followed shortly by: think I might get to watch a fight over a blu-ray in the middle of Target here, so that's helping a little.

There was apparently only one copy left of the exclusive edition of Homelander: Blackest Night, from what Annie had overheard. Real Black Friday Weekend problems.

[knife_bender]

Well now I'm just jealous.

There was nothing like crazy people fighting in Target to score a deal.

[defenderofdesmoines]

there's only one copy of the Homelander movie special edition, apparently. I'll take video if anything good happens.

She'd step in if anything beyond a pair of Karens acting like toddlers happened, but Annie was kind of hoping she would get to just watch.

[knife_bender]

People are INSANE. The real crazy ones are at Wal-Mart.

That is where you'd have to step in, those people were likely to be armed.

[defenderofdesmoines]

that's why we drove the 45 minutes to Target, and yet.

Traffic had been light.

it's not even a good movie, I've seen it

[knife_bender]

In general no blu-ray is worth fighting over.

Certainly not a superhero movie. Not that Diego had any clue what said movie was about.

I've gotten into fights over some petty shit but never a movie.

[defenderofdesmoines]

what kind of petty shit?

It took Annie three tries to get around autocorrect there, because she swore a lot more verbally than she did in text.

[knife_bender]

I mean Luther and I would fight over everything. We once almost got in a fist fight over who ate the last Oreo.

In the end it turned out to be neither of them.

And Allison would use her powers to get to use the shower first which would really piss me off.

Annie was so lucky she was an only child.

[defenderofdesmoines]

idk, if I had your sister's powers and six siblings, I would probably do the same thing.

Very grateful to be an only child at the moment, yes.

that oreo thing sounds pretty serious, though.

[knife_bender]

Oh it was. If it had been Mom's cookies then it would have definitely come to blows.

Androids made the best cookies, who knew?

[defenderofdesmoines]

what kind of cookies are we talking, here?

Annie had a serious sweet tooth - she just worked out like a maniac to counteract her doughnut habit - so she was pretty interested.

[knife_bender]

Pretty much the best chocolate chip in existence.

That was at least one thing everybody in the house could agree on.

[defenderofdesmoines]

definitely worth fighting over, then. now I'm jealous.

Especially since she really wanted a cookie now and would have no chance of getting near one until at least Monday.