Office Hours [Open]

[governmentninja]

Sometimes it was one thing after another with this crew. Other times, it was several things at once, as evidenced by the most recent series of events.

But Leon had to handle all of it. He was in the big chair now, literally in this case. He was in the Captain's Office, located just off the main bridge. It was fairly sparsely decorated, but had one hell of a view of the Bleed.

Not that Leon was taking too much time to enjoy it, he had a lot of work to do.

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[letmelive]

"Uh-huh," she replied flatly, smirking a little and raising her eyebrows. Honestly, she doubted any of the other captains had put in as many hours as Leon did.

"You think it's maybe time to take a breather?" She poses the question like she's actually going to give him a choice.

[governmentninja]

None of the other Captain's probably did, but that was still no excuse for Leon not to. But, then again, the other Captains weren't trained by a government who used the life of an innocent little girl as leverage so they could beat him into shape to work a 48-72 hour shift.

He didn't answer for a second, finally finishing up what he was working on, and clearing out of the screen. He leaned back in his chair, looking for the moment that he was actually thinking about how to answer that question.

The answer was obviously going to be 'yes,' Claire & Sherry > Work any day of the week. But...

"What if I answered with 'no?' What would you do then?" ...he did like to tease her some every once in a while.

[letmelive]

She sighed, rolling her head to the side, still resting on her hand. She shrugged one shoulder, pressing her mouth into a thoughtful frown for half a second before she was smirking again. She kept her eyebrows raised in an attempt to feign innocence, but that probably only would've worked if she were able to stop smirking at him.

"Well, then I'd just have to make it extremely difficult for you to continue working."

[governmentninja]

"Really, now?" His grin widened, almost despite himself.

"And how would you do that?" Granted, she had his full attention by now, as she normally did whenever she was around him. He couldn't get back to work now if he wanted to, and he definitely didn't want to.

[letmelive]

"Well I could just break the datapad you're using," she replied a little off-handedly, before rolling her shoulders back and straightening up. "But that's not really what I had in mind. Today, anyway."

She didn't stop smiling as she stood up and made her way around the desk, fingers trailing along the surface until she reached Leon. For all her general cluelessness about dating, at times, she'd gotten very good at flirting. With Leon, anyway. It was practically effortless. Without waiting for an invite she straddled his legs and sat down, leaning forward to kiss him.

[governmentninja]

Well, that was definitely an effective way of distracting him. Though, while kissing her, he reached for something at his desk. It wasn't anything work related, however, just a button that would let him lock the door from there.

This was one of those times he didn't want to be interrupted for a while.

[letmelive]

Claire felt him reaching, which obviously caused her to break away and look back over her shoulder at what he was doing. She half frowned, looking back at him, not really able to get a good look at what he was reaching for from her current position.

"What're you doing?"

[governmentninja]

"Locking the door," he told her, then kissed that little frown of hers. "Unless you want to risk being interrupted by more work...?"

[letmelive]

Her frown disappeared when he kissed her, and she smiled again.

"Definitely not," she replied, leaning in to kiss him again briefly. "Although, what makes you think something is going to happen that requires locked doors?" Now who's the one getting teased?

[governmentninja]

He grinned at her, the kind of grin that said 'You are an evil, evil woman, Claire.'

"Let's just call it a hunch," he told her, tightening his arms around her, and kissing her again. "Us cop types tend to have those."