Pick Your Poison, Thursday

[witchoftheflesh]

For over a week now, there had been a pot of lovely, glossy black hollyhocks. They had been fed and watered by the kindness of their boss, they had enjoyed the sunshine when it reached them, they had existed in the not-time of plants, so separate from the bustling world of Animalia. It was a soft, warm, easy existence.

Sadly, it could not last. Which was why, roughly two hours after his shift was normally scheduled to begin, the stand of hollyhocks shivered, shimmered, and suddenly there was a naked man perched on the counter where a flowerpot once sat.

"...Well, this is going to be a time."

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[joan_of_bark]

"Adrian," greeted his boss, with excellent sense of timing and a mug of coffee in hand. "I was starting to think you didn't want to come back."

[witchoftheflesh]

Adrian quickly placed his hands over his lap, but otherwise seemed unfazed by his nudity. "I have to say, being a plant is very relaxing," he said. "...Or so it seems, I don't actually remember any of it. How long was I a flower for?"

[joan_of_bark]

"About two weeks," said Pam, whose eyes had been on his face the entire time with a maddening kind of calm. "I'll get you some pants," she added. "After I lock the door."

She half-turned to go do that.

[witchoftheflesh]

"Really earning that Number One Boss mug I've been planning to get you for Christmas!" Adrian called after her.

[joan_of_bark]

"Please don't!" Pam called back.

She vanished for a couple of minutes, into the upstairs. When she returned, she had some unisex sweatpants and a t-shirt in her arms. "That should at least get you to your grove without freezing," she said, holding them out for him.

[witchoftheflesh]

"And out of the danger zone for HR," Adrian said, taking the clothing with gratitude. The sweatpants went over his lap while he pulled the t-shirt on. "Not sure what the rules are for nakedness in the workplace, but I'm fairly certain they can be summed up as 'Don't.'"

[joan_of_bark]

"I won't tattle if you don't," Pam said, amused. "I'm going to put on some coffee, and then I'll catch you up on the week."

The coffee meant she could leave the room and let him get dressed in peace, so she went to do that.