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Post by Hadrian Beaumont on Sept 25, 2008 18:17:38 GMT
He saluted with his still baggy sleeve, "Aye aye ma'am." He decalred with a grin before rolling said sleeves up and rooting through her bag for the new kettle, the milk and other such amenities, it would go faster if he did it himself. Getting out the equipment and setting them on a steady looking pile of stuff he dove into a pile of papers looking for a power-socket to plug in the kettle.
"Jesus, where's the plug sockets around here?" He asked surfacing and shaking several sheets from his hair.
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Post by Nicholas Wright on Sept 25, 2008 22:05:19 GMT
Wright rolled his eyes.
"No, no, no, you're all doing it wrong. You can't fight the station. You have to work with it. Feel it." He explained, having set up the station kettle with no problem. Wright did, after all, live in the station all the time.
"If you try to fight it then it'll never give you anything." It was another way of saying 'I can't bloody find anything either, unless I'm not looking', but it sounded better. "You've gotta work with it. It's practically alive, this place."
"Y'know, how, when a place is a bit run down, they say 'it has character'?" He tried to explain. "Well, I think this place got so run down it ended up with so much character it came to life, so now you have to be kind to it to find what you want."
He paused.
"Unless it's a phone. At which point I can't help you."
He managed to remain deadpan, just so that nobody could tell if he was lying or really beleived what he was saying. Mostly he just wanted to see the other two try and 'communicate' with the station. He had a feeling it would be hilarious.
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Post by Eleri Mortymer on Sept 26, 2008 22:57:38 GMT
Eleri looked up again, gave both Wright and Hadrain a Look which said 'look, I'm trying to bloody clean here, so either stop making it worse, do something useful and make me some tea or sit still and stop touching things.' She added an extra Look for Wright which reminded him it was his fault she was dealing with such a mess in the first place.
Cleaning put her in a bad mood at the best of times, and this was certainly not the best of times.
She held the look for at least a minute and went back to the task at hand. She'd made a bit of progress at least - you could actually see part of the floor now.
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Post by Nicholas Wright on Sept 27, 2008 17:34:28 GMT
Wright, meanwhile, had abandoned his tea making efforts and decided to solve the problem his way. He knew how to clean, after all. It was his station.
He marched to a big pile of papers, dug down into them, and pulled out what appeared to be an industrial size fan.
"Look, you need to learn something about solving problems the easy way." He explained to Eleri, and turned the fan on.
All the papers blew out of their piles...
...and into bigger ones across the room. Making a massive mess.
Wright knew Eleri would be furious, but it was priceless.
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Post by Hadrian Beaumont on Sept 27, 2008 20:01:46 GMT
Hadrian stared silently at the captain before gently placing a hand on his shoulder, an oddly serious and somber look on his face.
"You're a dead man sir. I'll read something nice at your funeral. Something poetic with nice imagry." He assured the older man before practically fleeing from the room to go and set the kettle up in one of the backrooms where he knew he'd seen a plug socket amongst the junk. And a Tap as well.
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Post by Eleri Mortymer on Sept 28, 2008 12:03:43 GMT
Eleri knelt in silence for a minute, watching the fan blow paper past her. Then she stood up and Looked at Wright with more force than she'd ever Looked at anybody.
"Tell Hadrian there are mugs in the bag. I'll be outside." Her voice was level, but only just. She was resisting the urge to slap Wright silly and send him to his room.
She turned abruptly on her heel and walked out of the station, murder in her eyes.
Once outside, she leant against the wall or the station and slid down it to sit on the floor.
That man is possibly the most infuriating person I've ever met. She thought. A good policeman, no doubt, a good captain when he puts his mind to it, but infuriating.
She closed her eyes, rested her head against the wall and waited for Hadrian to bring her tea out.
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Post by Nicholas Wright on Sept 28, 2008 16:06:02 GMT
Well, she was on to the calm anger stage. It was always good to see how a new recruit would react if you drove them crazy. Wright wasn't just having a laugh, he was also seeing how Eleri reacted to that kind of pressure.
Or at least, that was his attempted justification for, basically, having a laugh.
What he'd discovered was that she didn't explode at him, or shout at him, or try to kill him, as you might expect, but that she'd go for a breather and try to calm down. Handy in a line of work where you always had to keep the moral high ground.
Well, when you were expected to, Wright considered, observing the fan and bottles of drink.
Oh well, he'd pissed her off. Now to impress her. He marched down, flung open all the doors and windows, and turned the fan on again.
This time, he blew all of the old papers out of the windows and out of the door, and into the street. Except, not directly into the street, but into a line of dumpsters that sat across from the station. Long ago Wright had discovered he'd need to clean the station at least once a decade, and this was the best way of doing it...
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Post by Eleri Mortymer on Sept 29, 2008 7:04:43 GMT
Eleri heard the door and windows open and opened her eyes in time to see the mass of paper emerge from the station and get blown across the street.
How convenient... She thought, wondering if he'd put them there on purpose, or just made use of their position.
She sat watching until the last of the paper had been blown out of the door and then stood up and re-entered the station.
"Well." She said calmly. "That's one way of doing it. At least you can see the floor now..." She said, looking at it. She winced. That needed a good scrubbing at the very least.
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Post by Nicholas Wright on Sept 29, 2008 20:18:57 GMT
Wright sensed Eleri's feelings about the floor, and frowned. Nobody touched his floor. There were stains on there from when the station was first opened! It hadn't been cleaned in, well, ever! The occasional removal of paper made the place liveable (although Wright's 'bed' pile of papers had remained, he was careful to preserve that), but nobody touched his floor.
Still, maybe she'd be satisfied for a while now.
"That's not just one way of doing it. That's the way of doing it." He insisted, proud of his achievment.
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Post by Eleri Mortymer on Sept 30, 2008 6:48:17 GMT
Eleri sighed and decided to let it go. She'd be fighting a losing battle if she argued and frankly, she couldn't be bothered any more.
She took note of the frown, too.
Well... at least you can walk across the floor now. She thought. It'll do for the moment.
With a sigh, she sat back down on one of the chairs and told Wright as much.
"It'll do for now, but you know I'm not finished, don't you?" She smiled wearily. "How're those cuts doing?"
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Post by Nicholas Wright on Sept 30, 2008 7:17:27 GMT
"What cuts?" Wright asked innocently. He felt the best path to avoiding any more Eleri treatements was the usual approach of total and complete denial.
He winced at 'but you know I'm not finished', but hoped it was the last attempt to cling to pride of a defeated individual. Kind of like a 'I'll get you next time!' from an evil overlord.
He was fairly confident he could mess up the station faster than she could clean it anyway. By the next morning, it would be looking like it had already again...
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Post by Eleri Mortymer on Sept 30, 2008 7:57:25 GMT
Eleri raised an eyebrow but said nothing. She had a feeling that Wright was going to try and mess the station up again, but then, he'd never dealt with Eleri Mortymer in Mother Mode before. She'd just clean it again.
She noticed the large pile of paper still in one corner of the room.
"What about that?" She asked. "Why's that still here?"
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Post by Nicholas Wright on Sept 30, 2008 17:20:16 GMT
"Important paperwork." Wright replied in his best Captain voice. "Can't be disposed of or tampered with. For Captain's eyes only."
Plus he liked to have something to fall unconcious drunk onto, but he decided not to admit that. Even he could figure that was a good way to get Looked at.
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Post by Eleri Mortymer on Oct 1, 2008 17:58:04 GMT
"Ah." Replied Eleri dubiously. Mentally, she added 'Find out where the Captain sleeps and probably buy him a proper bed' to her list of things to do.
"So now that the station is..." She paused and raised an eyebrow. "...tidy, I suppose I'll get the uniforms sorted out."
She looked about for a moment before asking: "Uhm... phone plug?"
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Post by Nicholas Wright on Oct 2, 2008 7:29:13 GMT
Wright looked around the station, which still managed to look like the site of some ancient battlefield, and certainly still was winner of 'messiest building in the Town of the Dead' award, which was a very tricky one to get, given the nature of the town.
He shrugged helplessly.
"Mobile?" He suggested with a feeble attempt at a smile.
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