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Portalocity Office | 13 Griffin Way | Thursday

Aug 01, 2013 07:11

The air-conditioning at Portalocity was on the fritz today, leaving the office quite a bit hotter than the temperature outside. Sam fiddled with the machinery after a while -- it was hot, and her uniform was rather heavy and made it even hotter -- but it didn't seem to budge. Naturally, she called a technician, who would apparently be here... at ( Read more... )

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Re: Talk to Sam brat_inslayage August 1 2013, 15:41:15 UTC

Right. So. There'd been an incident a couple of weeks ago where a magical teleportation attempt had gone badly and left half Kennedy's squad so violently nauseated they'd been badly off their game in the fight and sustained some pretty nasty injuries. Plus it had disintegrated one of her favorite swords (not the one Zack gave her forever ago, luckily) in the process, which added a little extra whipped-cream topping of crankiness onto her guilt at letting her girls get hurt. It hadn't been Willow's fault; she'd been working with a couple of other witches, and there was something about them not all being properly attuned to each other that threw the monkey wrench into the whole deal, and she felt guilty about it despite Kennedy's insistence that she wasn't to blame. Still, ever since then Kennedy had opted for using Portalocity instead, trying to take advantage of the discount she'd wrangled out of them after the Nothing incident. And Willow wasn't thrilled about that, for reasons that were beyond Kennedy since every time she ( ... )

Re: Talk to Sam playsforkepesh August 1 2013, 16:53:02 UTC

Sam sat up straight as soon as Kennedy charged in, feeling that she had best be as professional as possible if she was going to be getting yelled at. (Which meant no appreciating the view, sigh.) "I'm very sorry you've been having a hard time, ma'am," she said politely, switching on the display on her omni-tool. "Though we do our best to provide service that is as efficient, convenient and reliable as possible, multidimensional travel is not without its difficulties, as I'm sure you're well aware."

That was a... paraphrased version of the script she'd been told to memorize for customer service interactions on her first day here. It was much nicer than the official script.

"What's been the trouble?"

Re: Talk to Sam brat_inslayage August 1 2013, 17:12:43 UTC

"New spin on the standard spiel? Heard it," Kennedy said with a brief smile that was only partly sarcastic. Of course she'd heard it; she'd spent a lot of time on the phone yelling at Portalocity reps. Was her lesbi-dar (she was never going to be able to stop calling it that now, thanks a lot, Will) pinging? Yeah, she was pretty sure it was. Well then.

She dropped her voice to a lower, slightly... friendlier tone and leaned forward just a tiny bit. "See," she said, confidingly, "here's the thing. You know that whole deal a couple of years ago, giant multiversal crisis, worlds getting cut off and all that? Mine got cut off for way longer. Months afterward. When I finally got through, the rep I talked to said they'd make sure I got properly compensated for the hassle. But you know, when I get stranded in some gross floating tin can for a couple of days and have to Major Tom it 'cause my portal got cancelled on me? Not really feeling the compensation ( ... )

Re: Talk to Sam playsforkepesh August 1 2013, 17:58:24 UTC

The look of shock that flitted across Sam's face at the mention of what had happened with the Nothing was genuine -- her own universe had been unaffected, as she'd had no reason to use Portalocity portal service back then, so this was the first she'd heard of entire worlds getting cut off from one another. It certainly wouldn't fly in a universe where space travel was as essential as it was in Sam's.

"Well, I'll see what I can do about that," Sam said, already indignant on Kennedy's behalf. "When and where would you like to go?"

Re: Talk to Sam brat_inslayage August 1 2013, 18:26:26 UTC

"Seriously, right now? I just want to get home. No layovers, just a direct portal from here to Sao Paulo, 2003, ASAP." Kennedy raised one eyebrow deliberately. "Can you do that for me? Just for starters, since, y'know, I've been screwed over a lot here..."

She should probably behave herself, but it'd been a while, and it was fun.

Re: Talk to Sam playsforkepesh August 1 2013, 21:38:38 UTC

"I'll see what I can do," Sam promised, not looking up from her omni-tool -- until she did, because wait, Kennedy's tone sounded more conversational than she'd been expecting.

Oh. She blinked. Oh.

God, she really was out of practice, wasn't she?

"Now that you mention it, I should have guessed that you were going somewhere tropical," Sam noted, sounding a little more... familiar now. "You obviously get a lot of sun. No wonder the 'floating tin can' was so unpleasant for you."

Re: Talk to Sam brat_inslayage August 1 2013, 21:50:19 UTC

Kennedy allowed herself a faint smirk. She so still had the skills, huh?

"Well," she said, drawing out the word as long as possible, "thing is, it's winter in Brazil right now, but I don't usually let little things like that stop me if I'm..."

She paused and grinned, having decided it would be fun to play the old game of seeing if she could get someone to blush. Just for a few minutes. Look, it worked on Willow, but she never knew if that was just because of familiarity by now.

"Really into something, you know?"

Re: Talk to Sam playsforkepesh August 1 2013, 22:43:37 UTC

Sam blushed, yes. It was actually kind of adorable. Canon said so.

"Really now?" she said, leaning in more. "Well, you must be quite determined if you're finding sun in the dead of winter. I have to commend your dedication."

Her omni-tool lit up with a notification and Sam glanced down at it.

"Look at that," she said. "One complimentary first-class ticket to Sao Paulo."

Re: Talk to Sam brat_inslayage August 1 2013, 22:48:34 UTC

Kennedy? Totally mentally fistpumping, because yeah, it was adorable, and most likely there was someone across the street who thought so too but was less pleased about this situation. Damn, she was good.

"Just like that, huh? Color me impressed, you're good at what you do." She waggled her eyebrows again, and okay, maybe she'd better ease up on the flirting before she really got herself in trouble. "Any other future perks I can look forward to?"

...okay, now she'd better ease up, for real.

Re: Talk to Sam playsforkepesh August 1 2013, 23:01:19 UTC

"That depends," Sam said, swiping in some more top-secret Portalocity shortcuts. "Would you classify... an additional ticket voucher to the luxury destination of your choice as a perk?"

Okay, so she was showing off now. But look, she didn't get that many customers here who were pleasant when they were complaining, and she did have quite a few of these vouchers to give away. So why not?

Re: Talk to Sam brat_inslayage August 1 2013, 23:09:26 UTC

"The voucher, not so much. The destination? Yeah, that qualifies. Though you might have to make it two of those vouchers, yeah? 'cause that's not much fun by myself," Kennedy drawled, though to be fair she was thinking about her actual girlfriend now.

Also she still thought it was the least she ought to get.

"...god, if I'd known the service was gonna be so... pleasant, I'd have come here in the first place instead of bitching over the phone."

Kennedy. Stop it.

Re: Talk to Sam playsforkepesh August 1 2013, 23:18:48 UTC

"Well, I do strive to be a friendlier face than the gnome," Sam teased. Her eyes back on her omni-tool now, she added, "For the other voucher, I think I can pull just one last string to..."

Aha.

"Gotcha."

Yeah, she looked pretty triumphant, even pumping one fist a few inches into the air. "And you're welcome to it," she added playfully, "but I may have to make 'having a drink with me' a term of acceptance."

Re: Talk to Sam brat_inslayage August 1 2013, 23:33:41 UTC

...whoops.

"Tempting," Kennedy said, and she was genuinely apologetic about it even if she couldn't quite drop the flirtatious demeanor yet. "Really tempting, I gotta say, but..."

Why did she have a feeling that she'd be sleeping on the couch for a month at least if she accepted, even innocently? Because she was finally starting to figure out what about her extradimensional trips got under Willow's skin, that was why.

Kennedy sighed. "Full disclosure, I have a girlfriend. Who's... kinda waiting at home for me."

Re: Talk to Sam playsforkepesh August 2 2013, 00:12:08 UTC

"Ah." Well, that was disappointing, but Sam was nothing if not graceful. (She had to be. Most Shepards turned her down.) "No matter," Sam said, keying in the series of swipes that would have all three of Kennedy's hard-won vouchers printing from the printer in the back - not all Portalocity agents had omni-tools, after all. "Congratulations to the lucky woman," she added, faintly embarrassed. "I'm sure she'll be thrilled you're not just home from your layover, but with a vacation ticket in hand, too."

Re: Talk to Sam brat_inslayage August 2 2013, 01:13:04 UTC

...yeah, okay, Kennedy felt bad about it now.

"She'll appreciate it. I appreciate it. We, um, had a date planned, and then I got stuck on that space station," she said, more serious now. "Which, not the first time me and portals have given her a reason to freak out."

She paused, looked thoughtful, and conceded, "Not all of those freakouts are on you guys, though."

Re: Talk to Sam playsforkepesh August 2 2013, 02:44:35 UTC

"Don't tell me we've got an even more accident-prone competitor," Sam teased. She was able to turn off being flirtatious easily enough -- now she was back to just having a conversation. A conversation with a very attractive woman, granted, but still. "Exportlia, maybe?"

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