So I think its safe to say, that I am a big fan of the random crack pairing generator. It provides me with hours and hours and HOURS of fun... sad as it is.

After "Hide and Seek" I started this story as a way to break out of my more structured stories - I don't have a chapter story with changing themes, and so I decided, that I must make one. And here it is!

Every story will be a new chapter about the Caduceus crew and random events. I have the first nearly five planned out, but if you see one you think is hilarious, leave me a PM or something, and maybe it'll go in here! (keep in mind I don't write slash)

So, here is the first one... subject matter..? You'll see :)

Enjoy!

TC Characters (c) Atlus.

Angie giggled as she took a sip of her water bottle. During long patient-less shifts, it was very common for her and Derek to converse while trying to catch up on paperwork. This particular afternoon, though her better judgment told her that it wasn't funny, Angie was laughing as Derek made fun of an old patient of theirs.

She raised her water bottle to her mouth and took a small shaky sip, just as Derek started to impersonate the women's high pitched annoying voice once more. Instead of spitting out her water like she wanted to, Angie choked it down laughing.

"Hey, I was drinking!"

"Exactly, that's why I did it!"

Derek and Angie traded a laugh as Angie coughed to try to get the pain of swallowing water the wrong way to subside. Suddenly, a small squeak escaped itself from Angie's lips, so cute and high-pitched that Derek couldn't help but laugh at her. She covered her mouth in surprise as her green eyes widened, watching Derek chuckle at her from his desk.

"Shut up!" she squeaked.

"What WAS that?!" Derek asked, still laughing.

Angie sighed, rubbing her face silently as another squeak let itself loose – fueling Derek's laughter.

"I can't even remember the last time I had hiccups!" she said, giggling.

If there was anything that Angie knew about her experience with hiccups, it's that they wouldn't last very long.

Angie also learned that day, she didn't know her body as well as she thought.

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Four hours later, Angie was still hiccupping like crazy, much to every one of her coworker's dismay. Her short squeak of a hiccup had filled the air at Caduceus, pushing everyone to the point of annoyance… especially Victor, who seemingly hated everyone and everything to begin with.

Late in the afternoon, Angie walked back towards hers and Derek's office from her bathroom break, holding her sore chest as the hiccups continued. Trying to help her, Derek crouched behind the door and waited for her to come through, hoping to scare the hiccups out of her. Unfortunately…

"Derek, you're an awful hider…" she said, walking through the door and paying no attention to the disgruntled surgeon.

"Well then, fine. Come on.." he said, grabbing her by the arm as he pulled her down the hall and to the break room.

Victor's lab was just next to Caduceus's break room, which he tried to have changed every spare minute he had in the day. All day he had to listen to those bumbling idiots walk in and out of the room, conversing, laughing, joking, instead of being productive human beings like he was. He grumbled as he heard Angie walk with Derek into the room, her hiccups still coming in full force, just like they had been all day.

"If I can't move the lab, they should at least soundproof the damn thing…" he grumbled, focusing on another experiment.

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Leslie, Tyler, Dr. Clarks, and Sidney were already in the break room discussing some things when Angie and Derek walked in, Angie's squeak of a hiccup accompanying their entrance.

"So I see no luck with the hiccups, eh?" Dr. Clarks said, smiling as he grabbed a cup of water from the sink.

"No!" she replied, flopping down on the couch as she started to whine. "My chest hurts too, this is getting ridiculous!"

"Okay, okay…" Dr. Clarks said, handing her the Styrofoam cup full of water. "Try this.."

He instructed her to stand up and stick her chin in the glass, bending over as she drank the water upside down.

"I guess I'll try anything once…" she said, standing up and bending over. In a few seconds she was done, and threw out the cup, smiling as she turned around. But before she could say "They're gone!", another hiccup forced itself loose. Everyone in the room collectively sighed, before Tyler stepped forward to have a go.

"Okay, this is ridiculous…" he said, throwing up his hands.

"Angie…" he started, crossing his arms and looking into her confused green eyes. "I will give you twenty bucks, if you can hiccup right now!"

Everyone turned their gaze to her as she stared back at Tyler, hands hung down by her sides.

"Right now!" he said, impatiently, beginning to push her. "I'm not going to wait around, do it right now, and you can have twenty bucks."

Her eyebrows raised, she began to realize that this was working – that trying to force her to do it was making it damn near impossible.

"Five, four, three…" he counted down.

Before he could reach two, Angie's squeaky hiccup struck once again.

Tyler's eyes bugged nearly out of his head as he stared at her, a weak smile forming on her lips. He reached angrily into his wallet and slapped a twenty into her outstretched hand, before stomping back over to Leslie who consoled him.

"Okay…" said Derek, rising to stand next to her. "Let's try this…"

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Still working on his experiment, Victor seethed internally as he listened to the staff try to cure Angie's annoying as hell hiccups. Each of them went around trying something, and every time, it failed, leaving her in the same position as when she started.

As soon as his solution in the test tube had stopped boiling, he turned off the Bunson Burner underneath it and waited a few seconds, listening to the idiots next door converse. With his heavy duty gloves on, Victor grabbed the test tube out of its holder and carried it over to his other lab bench to mix it with another solution which rested in a flask.

Suddenly, a smirk crept across his face as he heard quiet coming from the next room, followed by Tyler saying, "Finally! They're gone!". He was now less inclined to feel like murdering them all, because hopefully now they would all go back and do whatever it is that they do when they're not next door ruining his life.

Crouching down, Victor put himself eye level with his experiment, ready to take notes on the reaction. He carefully positioned the test tube over the flask and got ready to pour, when…

"DAMMIT!"

Angie's hiccups came back once more and she swore outwardly, leaving Victor to jump and his test tube to crash to the floor. It had taken an hour to prepare the sample, leaving him so furiously pissed off that he was ready to pummel all of them. Staring at the wasted sample on the floor, he ripped off his gloves and stormed towards the door of the lab.

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Angie kicked herself down from the handstand that she held, now standing a few feet from the back wall.

"It's hopeless!" she cried, hiccupping once more. Derek laughed at the hiccup again and she glowered at him, before all of them were surprised.

A loud bang resounded through the break room as Victor slammed the door open with his outstretched hand, unadulterated rage pulsing through his body. The six occupants in the room jumped slightly at his entrance, their expressions concerned as Victor's dark eyes scanned the room, eventually falling on Angie, who took a slight step back.

He paced forward angrily towards her, hands hung down by his sides, watching as the look on her face grew more and more nervous.

When he reached her, Victor grabbed her face with both of his hands and walked her backwards until her back hit the wall. Before she could do anything he pressed his lips firmly against hers, leaving her eyes to shoot open in surprise. The warmth of his body crept through her own as he held her there in that suspended position, bodies pressed together and shoved up against the back wall.

After a few seconds, he pulled back and dropped his hands from her face, the slightest hint of red on his cheeks as he looked at her bewildered expression. As Victor turned to look at everyone else, he noticed they were all silent – Derek, Tyler, and Dr. Clarks' mouths were wide open, Leslie was giggling, and Sidney was shaking his head back and forth, a hand over his mouth in surprise.

Victor glared at them all and then back at Angie, before he turned on his heel and stormed from the room.

Gently, Angie reached up and touched her lips with the tips of her fingers, gaze still focused on the door from which Victor had just left.

"What, was that?" Derek asked, breaking the silence as he walked over to Angie nervously. She picked her head up and turned towards him, everyone in the room silently waiting for her reaction.

"…They're gone." was all she could say as she stared at her doctor, his expression lightening.

And back in the lab, Victor laughed to himself as he enjoyed basking in the awkwardly created silence.

So in case you haven't guessed yet, the people were Angie and Victor, and the subject was hiccups. I could honestly see Victor going to such lengths just to get a little peace and quiet!

Okay, get ready for a very, uh... interesting, next chapter... haha. See you then!