The Smallest Park with the Biggest Time Loop 1/4
Title: The Smallest Park with the Biggest Time Loop (or 23 Times Leslie Knope Woke Up Alone and One Time She Didn't) 1/4
Pairing: Leslie/Ben
Rating: R (for not super-explicit, but still sexy times in Part 3)
Timeline: Takes place during Smallest Park.
Summary: Leslie is stuck in a time loop and it's quickly turning into the worst day of her life--her best friend keeps telling her she's an enormous steamroller (even though it sounds more like a bulldozer), Ben keeps leaving her, and Jerry continues to be a huge klutz.
It's sort of a Smallest Park meets Groundhog Day thing. More notes at the end.
Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
This is How it Starts
The first time it happens, he walks away from her. Or rather, she lets him go.
Leslie says she understands that he doesn't want to have anymore contact with her--that she finally gets it. And even though Ben tells her that he doesn't actually want it to be that way, that it's for the best regardless.
They both agree and then she wraps her red wool coat tightly around herself to try and keep out the fall chill on this cold, clear night and watches him walk away from her, from their Smallest Park, from everything.
After he rounds the corner and she can no longer see Ben, she gets in her own car, drives to Ann's house, and cries.
When her clock radio wakes her up the next morning at six, Crazy Ira and the Douche are doing the same exact bit they had done Thursday morning, which is weird, but not truly alarming. No, that's later when she gets to work and Councilman Howser once again drops his binder right as he crosses by Leslie in front of the Parks office, Tom is wearing the same exact outfit that he had worn the previous day (she's never seen him wear the same thing twice in a row), and Jerry trips on his way to the copier and spills his coffee down his shirt, at the same exact time as yesterday--9:35 AM.
Oh and also her computer and her phone both say that it's November 17th.
Again.
Part 2 -->
Pairing: Leslie/Ben
Rating: R (for not super-explicit, but still sexy times in Part 3)
Timeline: Takes place during Smallest Park.
Summary: Leslie is stuck in a time loop and it's quickly turning into the worst day of her life--her best friend keeps telling her she's an enormous steamroller (even though it sounds more like a bulldozer), Ben keeps leaving her, and Jerry continues to be a huge klutz.
It's sort of a Smallest Park meets Groundhog Day thing. More notes at the end.
Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
This is How it Starts
The first time it happens, he walks away from her. Or rather, she lets him go.
Leslie says she understands that he doesn't want to have anymore contact with her--that she finally gets it. And even though Ben tells her that he doesn't actually want it to be that way, that it's for the best regardless.
They both agree and then she wraps her red wool coat tightly around herself to try and keep out the fall chill on this cold, clear night and watches him walk away from her, from their Smallest Park, from everything.
After he rounds the corner and she can no longer see Ben, she gets in her own car, drives to Ann's house, and cries.
When her clock radio wakes her up the next morning at six, Crazy Ira and the Douche are doing the same exact bit they had done Thursday morning, which is weird, but not truly alarming. No, that's later when she gets to work and Councilman Howser once again drops his binder right as he crosses by Leslie in front of the Parks office, Tom is wearing the same exact outfit that he had worn the previous day (she's never seen him wear the same thing twice in a row), and Jerry trips on his way to the copier and spills his coffee down his shirt, at the same exact time as yesterday--9:35 AM.
Oh and also her computer and her phone both say that it's November 17th.
Again.
Part 2 -->