Office hours- Monday

[solo_sword]

Jaina would have never figured that her first real office would be the one she had as a teacher at Fandom High. Nothing about it made any sense to her. Yet here she was.

She figured no one would be coming in on a holiday, so she wasn't too hard on herself for coming in later than planned when her training ran long. (Trust her, there were reasons for training to run long this morning.) Leaving the door open, she sat behind the desk, trying to get everything set up the way she wanted it.

You don't want to know how long it took her to get her chair to the right height. It was a little embarrassing.

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[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Mine moved," he shared, tilting his head at how tall she seemed in that chair. "You're the first on my list of suspects." She was the last, too. He didn't care enough to have a real list.

[solo_sword]

"Your nameplate moved," she repeated. Nope, definitely hadn't considered this on the list of potential conversations for the day. He was probably just looking for a reason to talk to her. "Any why exactly am I a suspect?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Because you're in your office," he pointed out logically. "It's like you were waiting for me to show up after class." See how he his brain could work?

[solo_sword]

"It's like you read my mind," she deadpanned. "You do realize I don't know when or how often you ever go to your office, right?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"So you claim," John replied, crossing his arms. "What are you doing in here if not waiting to see if your plot worked?"

[solo_sword]

"Setting up my office?" she said, trying not to look too amused. "Plot? My plots involve things like doublecrosses in wartime and psychological warfare. I don't think I'd put my alleged stealing of your nameplate in that category."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Never took you for one so interested in the placement of staplers," he remarked, equally amused. "And there was no theft, simply movement."

[solo_sword]

"Aha. So where did it move to?" she asked. And just because, she totally picked up her stapler and moved it to a new spot on her desk more to her liking.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Across the hall," John answered. "From number eleven to twelve." Weird.

"Seriously, did you just move your stapler to spite me?" It seemed to him someone was being contrary and yet he found it flirtatious. There was something wrong.

[solo_sword]

"I'm interested in its placement," Jaina explained. Stop almost smirking, Jaina. "So let me get this straight. You think I moved your nameplate... to what, the office next door?" Totally an excuse to talk to her.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"You're a bad liar," John told her. "And when you put it like that it sounds a lot dumber than reality, but I had...things to do in there. Or okay, nothing to do, but that was the point. I was looking forward to that nothing."

[solo_sword]

"You can't do nothing in twelve as well as you can eleven?" she wondered. She considered the stapler, and set it down on its side.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

Oh now that was just going to bother him. "My chair where I like to sit and do nothing seems to be missing," he added, crossing over to her desk to right the stapler.

[solo_sword]

Jaina watched him, then looked up at him with her eyebrows raised and her feet still not reaching the floor. "Did you just fix my stapler placement?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

Please, like she hadn't been trying to start something with that. "There's a bottom for a reason."

[solo_sword]

"But I like it this way," she said, putting the stapler back the way it was. She had absolutely no preference as to where the stapler went. She couldn't fathom why she'd even be using a stapler.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John's gaze narrowed on her. "You don't."

[solo_sword]

"Why else would I move it?" she asked, narrowing her eyes right back.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Because I made the mistake of showing you it bothered me," he answered, just a little self importantly.

[solo_sword]

"Or maybe I moved it back because you took it upon yourself to move it," she pointed out. Were they really having this conversation?

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

Just for that, John reached out to right the stapler again.

[solo_sword]

"I believe you're touching my things again," she pointed out helpfully.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"When I leave you can fix your things," he suggested.

[solo_sword]

"So I should leave my things the way you like them until you go?" she checked.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"It sounds bad when you say it," he complained, knocking the stapler back over and leaning his hip against her desk in defeat.