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[a_time_slip]

Do you like your current job?

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[slender_man]

[The freakishly tall figure says nothing, only stands there with a blank stare which makes him even creepier because he has no face.]

[alwaysagit]

Not in the least. But it's better than being dead, I suppose.

[Let's hear it for AU second lives.]

[a_time_slip]

...I'll take that as a no? Maybe you should. Find a face- er. Another job. Um.

[Janie backs away]

[a_time_slip]

Well, yeah, unless your afterlife was mega happy. Can't you find another job?

[Snape :D]

[slender_man]

[He tilts his head, devoid of hair and continues to watch her. His footsteps reverberate as he walks towards her in an unnatural stride with every step backwards she took. He is doing his job. One extremely longer finger points at her, a simple gesture but cryptic all the same.]

[doesthedishes]

I have a love/hate relationship with the office coffee. Apart from that, I’ve no complaints.

[a_time_slip]

No, not me! It was It was the other guy and please don't do that! It's creepy.

[She stops when she gets to a wall, and is scared, obviously.]

What do you want?

[a_time_slip]

Is the coffee terrible?

[doesthedishes]

On a terrible scale it is about 10.

That's a on a good day.

[a_time_slip]

I'm sorry to hear that. Well, you said a love/hate relationship, so I guess deep down you're okay with bad coffee. What kind of job is it?

[doesthedishes]

The type of job that needs good coffee to keep motivated.
What about you, what’s your job like to you?

[a_time_slip]

Do you make your own coffee?

My job is incredibly boring most of the time. I need coffee just to stay awake.

[slender_man]

[His arm is still extended, pointing at her without moving in a very passive but nonetheless malevolent fashion. Long fingers continue to reach for her as tentacles appear from its back, black and long strands of shadowy appendages.

It wants you, it will continue to follow you if you escape. You can run, you can hide but eventually it take you after its ready to end the chase. Do you fear the inevitable?]

[alwaysagit]

Not very likely either.

Familiarity tends to give a false impression of comfort.

[Complacency, as well.]

[doesthedishes]

Now there’s a thought I should try out.

Most of the time is better than all of the time, right?

[a_time_slip]

[Janie has a fear of tentacles, and will just wait, frozen with fear]

...At least make it a nice killing?

[a_time_slip]

It's never too late to try something new. What kind of work would you like, if you could choose anything?

[a_time_slip]

It's easy! I've been making my own coffee since 1984. Not really, but I've been making it for a while. I once had a job where I had to keep like 10 pots on at a time and had to refresh them every couple of hours.

Yes! If I was bored all of the time I'd find something else, or take up a life of crime.

[slender_man]

[When it seems as if he is going to close the last of the distance between them. One blink later he has disappeared but do not feel relieved. He will always follow you.

You have been marked.]

[doesthedishes]

[Laughs.] I think my boss has dibs on making coffee, I don’t want to tangle with him. What kind of job was that?

Ah-uh. I suppose now be a bad time to mention I’m a cop?

[a_time_slip]

That was the overnight shift at a truck stop. Basically I made coffee and sold cigarettes, jerky and lottery tickets.

...A cop. And the life of crime? Totally not criminal crimes, just um. Fashion crimes? And you're not a fashion cop. My cop-dar is off, sorry.

[doesthedishes]

Did you sell a lottery ticket to yourself, won, and moved onto better things?

You look pretty stylish to pull off a fashion crime. Me, on the other hand, wouldn’t make a good fashion cop. I don’t even know who the current 'it' fashion designer is lately.

[a_time_slip]

No, I um. Ran off with a trucker. I don't always make the best choices... Not that I really liked that job anyway.

I do? Thanks! You don't look bad, so I'd never know.

[laugh_and_protect]

A lot actually.

[doesthedishes]

C’mon, true love beats running away for riches.

Ah-uh. What job do you actually do?

[a_time_slip]

That's great!

[a_time_slip]

Too bad that finding a rich true love would probably make me look like a gold digger. Not that I'm a gold digger.

I run a small contracting business... which is pretty dead recently. Hence, the boring.

[doesthedishes]

Who knew money couldn’t give you happiness.

What is it you are contracting?

[laugh_and_protect]

It is, even when she outsmarts me. [He laughs.]

You like your own job?

[alwaysagit]

[He snorts a little.] Something where I would only be answerable to myself.

[He's looking at you, Dumbledore.]

Hiii! :D

[ofdrumsthesound]

Don't have one.

Hi :)

[a_time_slip]

Do you want one?

[a_time_slip]

Would you discipline yourself if you did something wrong?

[a_time_slip]

I'm sure there's a song or a TV movie about it. There's always a song or a TV movie.

...Right now I just do secretarial work for people... Eventually I want to start getting defense contracts. I can do that kind of work.

[a_time_slip]

Yes, even when it almost puts me to sleep.

...Your job is a she?

[ofdrumsthesound]

Depends on the job, I suppose.

[a_time_slip]

If you could do anything, what would it be? Other than eat, that is.

[ofdrumsthesound]

Kill people.

[alwaysagit]

In a punitive fashion? No. [Does he look like a House Elf?]

[doesthedishes]

I wish you luck with that.
It’s nice to meet you, I’m Josh.

[a_time_slip]

Thanks! I'm realistic and realize that the closest I'll get to it is filing papers for a general somewhere, but a girl can dream, can't she? I'm Janie. It's nice to meet you too, Josh.

[a_time_slip]

I don't like killing people, so you can do that for me if you ever want to!

[ofdrumsthesound]

Well then, is there anyone you'd pay to lose?

[a_time_slip]

Well, if you're the self motivated type, you might just be successful.

[doesthedishes]

Dreams are good, not just for girls either.