Zoe's Office - May 29

[bigdamnprincipal]

Zoe had calmed down somewhat after the catharsis of her rant from the previous day. For the moment, letting go of some of her anger and worry allowed her focus on the more important tasks at hand: organizing all of her paperwork for the new students, and dealing with the feeling of being about twenty months pregnant.

"You can come out any time you want now," she murmured, rubbing her hand over her belly. "You don't have to make me wait two more months. Your daddy and I won't mind, I promise."

[Open, if you dare. *g*]

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[ismyhairout.livejournal.com]

"Zoe, boss, pal, incredibly pregnant woman with good aim," Hades said, sweeping into the room without knocking. "It's been too long. Nice rant there yesterday. Wanna bet they got all indignant? Not that I care," he added, examining a random object on her desk, "but you know, it's hard to break out of the business. I like deaths to be on a schedule. If I wanted to be an on-call kind of guy, I'd be the god of, I don't know, medicine or internet role-playing games."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean was happy to find Zoe's door open as that meant he didn't have to juggle the basket he was carrying and knocking.

He ducked his head around the doorjamb. "Is it okay to come in?"

[bigdamnprincipal]

Zoe glanced up and smirked when she saw Dean. "You're safe, don't worry," she said.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean shot her a quick grin and came in, setting the basket down on her desk. It was full of fresh apple pastries he'd handwavily picked up before heading here.

"Conside this an apology for worrying you?"

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

Perhaps he was taking his life in his hands but he'd heard the rant the previous day and well, doctory instincts were just buggers to completely squash.

Thus as he was wandering about, Wilson found himself up by Zoe's door, knocking politely on the frame.

[bigdamnprincipal]

"You didn't have to do this," Zoe said. "Not that I don't appreciate the effort," she added, pulling the basket towards her. "But still. Did you have a chance to tell me what was going on, and chose to not do it?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Truthfully? It never occurred to me."

[bigdamnprincipal]

"Hi there," Zoe said as she glanced up. Since Wilson wasn't a student, he was free from Zoe's recent wrath, so he got a bit of a smile out of her. "What brings you by?"

[bigdamnprincipal]

"Hrm. That wasn't the answer I was looking for," Zoe replied, taking a bite of pastry. "Why not?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"The number one rule we had growing up was 'we do what we do and shut up about it,'" Dean explained. "And that went double for any kind of authority."

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

Stepping into the office, he leaned his shoulder against the doorframe and smiled back.

"I lay full claim to doctory busybodiness," he admitted without shame, the smile growing.

"I know I'm not your doctor doctor but I just wanted to check in and see how you were feeling." In the wake of swatting stubborn students over the head with a clue.

[bigdamnprincipal]

"You're a doctor. That counts for something," Zoe replied. "And I'm feeling all right. I'm well on my way to being completely ready to not be pregnant anymore, that's for sure."

[bigdamnprincipal]

Zoe frowned softly. "I have a feeling that you aren't the only one with that philosophy around here, unfortunately. I don't think I come off as unapproachable. Most of the time, at least."

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

"I imagine," Wilson agreed with a sympathetic smile.

"I think I know better than to suggest keeping off your feet but you make sure to get John to give you foot and ankle rubs at the end of the day, tell him it's totally doctor's orders."

Okay there might have been a twinkle of impishness in his eyes as he made that suggestion.

[bigdamnprincipal]

"I bet more than a few of them got indignant at the idea of us interfering with their precious heroism," she said, rolling her eyes. "I'm glad you enjoyed the rant. Sometimes, the PA system must be abused for personal use."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"You're not so bad," Dean said, then grinned. "And Dad at least didn't find you unapproachable."

[bigdamnprincipal]

"I'll take 'not so bad' as a compliment, thank you," Zoe said, smirking. "Are you recovering from the weekend all right?"

[bigdamnprincipal]

Zoe laughed. "John has been wonderfully attentive. I'll have to be sure to add foot rubs to my list of personal requests. We'll see what he says about that."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean nodded. "Yeah. It's still sore, but a lot better than when it happened. But the sling is going to get old fast. Although..." Here he grinned conspiratorialy, "Sammy did my laundry last night. I might see if I can get him to detail the Impala before I get rid of this thing."

[bigdamnprincipal]

"Is that one of the perks of being the older brother? Getting to con your younger siblings into doing things for you?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Payback for all the times Sammy used those puppy eyes of his to make me cave growing up," Dean said.

[bigdamnprincipal]

"What are you going to do if Grace has that same ability?" Zoe asked, on the verge of laughing. "You might have two people making you cave then."

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

Drawn by something she didn't quite understand, Inara had decided to drop by Principal Washburn's office. She was carrying a full teapot and had two mugs in her bag.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"I've built some resistance over the last 15 years," Dean said, completely deluding himself.

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

"And don't forget the hand delivered bowls of cheesecake ooo or cake batter ice cream," Wilson suggested helpfully, grinning like a fiend.