Fandom Trooper Station, Wednesday

[hatesparadise]

Well, the weekend was once again A Thing. One that had him and Steve giving each other a little, you know, space.

But that wasn't important to Danny right now. Right now, he was focusing on the fact that his desk was broken because of everything. "What do you mean we don't have a hammer around?"

Because apparently, they had gotten rid of it when Ralph had been full of rage.

Which was fair.

"Fine, I'll figure it out."

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[defenderofdesmoines]

An Annie sighting at the trooper station? On a weekday?

Guilt made people do funny things.

Which was why Annie was holding a box of doughnuts (which were all, of course, St. Patrick's Day-themed) as she made her way in. She was also wearing a pair of shamrock antennae, but that had very little to do with residual weekend guilt.

"No one fixed it yet?" she asked in greeting, looking in dismay at Danny's desk.

[hatesparadise]

"I'm working on it," Danny said, taking in the whole outfit with amusement. "Oh right, I forgot this week was St. Patrick's day."

Because he didn't need to help with crowd control or drunk and disorderly patrols.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"It sure is. Brought you a bunch of green-frosted doughnuts for it! And also 'cause that's kind of my fault," Annie noted with a slightly-sheepish smile, nodding slightly to the desk.

There was no kind of about it.

[hatesparadise]

"This one of the weekend things?" Danny asked, brushing his hands off on his pants to grab a donut before the troopers descended on them like locust.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Were your moods all over the place?" Annie asked, "'cause, yeah, I think it was a weekend thing. I kept trying to pick fights with people on Saturday and your desk unfortunately was kind of a target."

A pause, and then in an attempt to make herself look better, she added, "And Diego ate cookies off the floor." Off this floor. So gross.

[hatesparadise]

"I'm pretty sure Diego does that normally too," Danny replied. "But yes. I had some... strange days."

Unfortunately.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"He does not," Annie decided, because that had been just a momentary lapse thanks to the weekend (or at least it had better have been or else what kind of weird germs had she been potentially picking up via kisses this whole time????) "But yes, your desk was kind of a casualty. I can help fix it?"

She was actually sort of handy! Granted, there apparently wasn't a hammer so she was probably SOL, but it was the thought that counted.

[hatesparadise]

"Help would be appreciated," he granted her. "Though the donuts were a pretty good apology considering this place."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"I was maybe not that nice to them, either, so I figured I'd bring enough to share with everyone," Annie added, giving the troopers a somewhat-embarrassed wave. "I think I just yanked the drawer off the tracks, so hopefully it's not, like, too catastrophically damaged?"

[hatesparadise]

"Oh good, I was worried I'd have to write up a damage to equipment report," Danny replied with a quick grin. "Feelin' better now?"

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Much. Downright festive, even," Annie assured him, bobbling her shamrock antennae at him as she went to set the box of doughnuts down. "I don't know if being irrationally angry for a whole day is as bad as spending Halloween as a bat, but I'm gonna say it's pretty high on the list of my least-favorite ways the island's messed with me."

A pause, and then, "Yeah, the bat thing is totally still the worst one." And it had happened to her so early!

[hatesparadise]

"Don't jinx us here," he warned.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Annie dutifully knocked lightly against the nearest wooden surface. "We're due for something nice, at least? Maybe we'll get a random rainbow or find a pot of gold today."

Because Fandom loved itself a theme.

[grenadesandohana]

Did "space" mean "Steve basically ran away most of Tuesday?"

Because sorry, Danny.

He was there with an apology coffee that was in no way good for you, if that helps?

[hatesparadise]

Hey, Danny wasn't even gonna hold it against him. Monday had been weird enough.

"That have butter in it?"

[grenadesandohana]

"No," Steve said, smiling. "You don't like it."

[hatesparadise]

"Appreciated," Danny said with a gracious nod. "Annie brought in donuts to apologize for breaking my desk."

They were violently green.

[grenadesandohana]

"She broke your desk?" Steve asked. "Did you lock the snack drawer or something?"

[hatesparadise]

"No, but apparently she got one of the more aggressive moods this past weekend, and can bench press a truck, I think." Don't get ideas, you idiot. "So."

[grenadesandohana]

"So she bench pressed your desk?" Steve asked, blinking hard. "Why didn't she use Diego's?"

[hatesparadise]

"She wanted the snacks I keep in there." You know. The ones both Steve and Diego stole.

[grenadesandohana]

"And she got really hangry?" Steve asked, laughing and reaching into his desk for his stash of protein bars.

And blinked. "Did you eat my protein bar? The good kind?"

[hatesparadise]

"I didn't touch your protein bars because I value my tastebuds," Danny called after him.

[grenadesandohana]

"My tastebuds are fine," Steve told him wrongly. "Did you...drop cereal? Calvin, did you'd drop cereal?"

Because there was a trail of weirdly shaped cereal leading away from his desk.

[hatesparadise]

"Why would I drop cereal, Steven?" Danny asked, frowning as he got up to investigate.