cop_an_attitude | 01 | [Voice/Action]

[For a moment, nothing happens. The camera is focused on a patch of grass. There are rustling sounds and a woman's voice mutters indistinguishably to herself, and eventually the journal is righted so that the camera focuses on Sally's face. There is a leaf in her hair. She does not look happy.]

Right, I think I've worked out what this thing does, and I just want to say that if this is someone's idea of a joke, I'm not laughing. See this? [She lifts up a police badge containing her ID.] This is a police badge. It's my police badge, yeah? It says I'm Sergeant Sally Donovan of London PD, which means that when I find out who's responsible for this, for...this [She gestures down the length of her body, at the dress that isn't hers] and for this [She turns the journal to take in the unfamiliar surroundings] and I don't even know how to start about this [She jerks her thumb over her shoulder at the pair of dark brown wings that definitely aren't supposed to be there] that person or persons are in a world of trouble.

My advice to you, whoever you are, is to come forward immediately. That's less trouble on my part and a lighter sentence for you, so it's in everyone's best interest. Do not make me find you.

[Sally fumes silently for a moment, and when she decides her point has been made, the recording ends.]

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There are laws against smoking?

[He is so horrified. Can you hear it in his voice? So horrified.]

[She can hear it. And she's very amused.]

Of course. For public health and safety.

How does that follow?

Secondhand smoke is bad for the lungs of people who have to be around smokers, and a lot of people don't like the smell and find it disruptive.

Tch. Good thing I can control my smoke just fine then.

As long as you stay out of London, I don't think it'll be an issue.

Remind me never go... there... [Trails off. Who else does he know from London? Grell and Elizabeth? Hn. Well... still never going there. They ban smoking, so he will shun them forever.]

In any case between healing magic and whatever else around here, I don't think you need to worry about the health aspects of it.

I don't worry about it, really - well, not my health, but there are other repercussions. For example, when my boss quit, everyone's workload mysteriously doubled. It turns even ordinarily nice people into raving lunatics.

That's because he quit.

See, quitting is the bad thing.

Yes, and now his lungs will hold up until retirement. I'll take the paperwork, thanks.

You're a braver soul than I am.

Don't get me wrong; I really do hate paperwork. It's about as fun and rewarding as dental surgery with a rusty knife.

You just like your boss that much?

...First of all, I'll take on paperwork if it means potentially saving a human life - though I wouldn't be that dramatic about it - no matter whose, and I don't think that's unreasonable.

And second, he remakes the break room coffee after he takes the last cup, so yes, I like him.

"Remakes"?

[He ignores the first part. He took it for granted for any detective or cop, but he was speaking in hyperbole anyway.]

...When you take the last of the coffee, you make more. It's office etiquette.

That's your only requirement for a good boss?

I was making a joke. Do they have those where you come from? Jokes?

[Yes but his sense of humor is off. Also this is sarcasm.]

No, my world is a desolate boring place with no cheer.

[She pretty much believes it. :|]

Right. So what do you do here, then?

Another soulless joyless existence. I stack rocks. For fun.

[Everyone believes it of Smoker... he can joke around... it's just really bad puns. To be fair though... he really does stack rocks so that pretty much says something too.]

[Sally just thinks he's making fun, and laughs for awhile.]

Well. I guess everyone needs a hobby.

Especially in this place.

But it's a good exercise in patience. Supposedly.

[Oh. He was serious. She stifles another laugh.]

My exercise in patience is performing most of my job. "Hurry up and wait" is sort of the maxim of police work. That and waiting for a shepherd's pie to heat in the microwave after a double shift sustained only by five cups of coffee and the uneaten third of your friend's tuna sandwich.

"Microwave?"

And yeah, the job is why they keep insisting I need more patience, since apparently I can't get less idiots in my life.

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