location: city hall

[assistanting]

[Everyone from your city hall's parks and recreation department has some Really Important Thing to do that isn't being in the office right now, leaving former-intern-now-paid-employee April Ludgate to handle all of your ridiculous complaints, questions, and concerns about the parks system in your city.

Joy.

Maybe no one will actually bother her in this entire block of time.]

Three hours, god, hurry up and go faster.

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[audits]

[Unlike April, Ben is actually making progress on his... Whatever it is. (There are numbers and ledgers, it probably matters, okay.) He chances a look over to her. She's alternately amusing and terrifying.]

You know, I've heard you can make the universe bend to your wishes if you talk to it enough. There was a mutant like that.

[Trouble is, he can never tell which one she's going to choose to be at any given moment.]

[assistanting]

Ann is still alive.

[but that's not the best way to get at ben. she has a better one:]

I don't remember any one like that from the Hugh Jackman movie.

[audits]

[Okay, she's settled on terrifying. That's... Cool. Or something.]

That movie's pretty bad. [He pauses, trying to articulate the proper amount of nerdrage without actually going into a tirade.] That movie's really bad.

[assistanting]

My favorite part was James Marsden.

[actually she hates him but the relative hatred is outbalanced by the need to get under Ben's skin.]

I don't know why he wasn't in the one with James McAvoy.