Office Hours - August 6

[bigdamnprincipal]

It had been very tempting to stay at the house in relative safety with Dean and Grace together. But if Zoe had any chance of figuring out what the hell was happening, she needed to be in her office, at her computer. She'd made Dean promise to stay safe and not do anything stupid - as rare as it was for that command to actually work on a Winchester - and headed to the school with Grace and her shotgun. Grace was entirely too big for her baby carrier, but Zoe had it on anyway, and had no intention of taking it off until she was home again. If anything was going to come at her daughter, it would have to mess with Zoe too.

[Door and post are open!]

Comments

[sith_happened]

Anakin had slept in his office last night after discovering that the island had turned one-way on him between his arrival and Leia's departure.

"I fu--fully hate August," he amended as he saw Grace.

[bigdamnprincipal]

Zoe smirked a little at Anakin, adjusting Grace in her carrier as she glanced back at the computer screen. "It's really not my favorite time of year either," she said, before the full weight of Anakin's presence hit her. "You're still here. Can you get home?"

[sith_happened]

He shook his head. "But I could get in touch with Rory," he added. "My calls to Leia and Ben get me nowhere."

And this was as close to panicking as Anakin would allow himself to be.

[bigdamnprincipal]

If Zoe was talking to anyone else, she probably would have offered up a platitude about how everything would be all right. The nice thing about working with Anakin was that she didn't need to bother lying to him like that. "I know it's a bit selfish, but I'm glad you're here. I have a feeling we're going to need all the people with common sense we can find."

[sith_happened]

"We must really be running short if I'm considered sensible," he said with a wry smile. "The list of the missing on the radio was...extensive. All Winchesters still accounted for?"

[bigdamnprincipal]

"Yes, miraculously enough," Zoe said. "I never thought I'd be happy that John and Sam are elsewhere at the moment."

[sith_happened]

"We'll miss their firepower, though," Anakin said. "Well, assuming there's going to be something to shoot at."

[bigdamnprincipal]

"There's those big bugs," Zoe said. "Although they're easier to squash. On one hand, it would be nice to not have to fight anything, but on the other hand, I could really use something on which to take my annoyance and concern."

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded. "I was planning on doing a few laps around the island to see what was going on," and hopefully killing some things. Mmm. Catharsis.

[bigdamnprincipal]

"Be careful?" Zoe said, silly as it was to say that to someone like Anakin. "And let me know what you find. I'd like to know what's out there before I go out too far myself."

[sith_happened]

He reached into his pocket and pulled out his comlink and punched in Zoe's number to see if it worked.

"I wouldn't put it past this place to take out phone coverage," he explained.

[bigdamnprincipal]

Zoe shared Anakin's worry for a moment, before her phone began to ring. "Well, look at that. One thing working on our side. It's a crazy time miracle."

[sith_happened]

"I'll call you at the end of every circuit," Anakin promised, clicking his phone off.

[bigdamnprincipal]

"I would appreciate that very much, thank you," Zoe said, taking one of Grace's hands and waving it at him. "Say goodbye to Anakin, sweetie, and wish him luck killing all the bad things."

"Bye bye!" Grace said obediently. Someday, she'd be doing the killing of things, just you wait.

[sith_happened]

Anakin reached out to swiftly touch Grace on the head (he missed Juliet, okay, shhh) before heading back out the door.