AN: Standalone. Arguably canon-compliant, assuming that Bozer can take leave from the Phoenix to look after Mac and/or is ordered to do so because Mac is a terrible patient/does not look after himself when ill.

For readers of Just Another Patriotic Guy, this is set after A Long Way From Where We Began.


Movie-Magician-n-Waffle Wizard:

So my roomie caught a really, really bad cold/flu, so I've spent the last few days playing nurse to him (more Florence Nightingale than Nurse Ratched, of course), which is why I haven't really been around. (He's a terrible, terrible patient. Kept trying to go to work despite the fact that he couldn't get himself out of bed and was running a temperature and was so congested he could barely speak. And despite the fact that his pretty-scary boss lady told him to STAY HOME and REST.)

I gave him some cold/flu medication (a different brand than usual since I couldn't find our usual), and it had some interesting effects…

So you know how I've told you that my roomie makes these trinkets/talismans/charms/symbols out of paperclips?

Well, this medication had some really, really weird effects on him…

Here's a list of some of the things that he made while hopped up on this stuff:

- A hexagon (he says it's a benzene ring)

- The letter i (he insists it's an imaginary number?!)

- A bathtub (WTH?)

- A flying saucer (might be my fault, I showed him the final cut of my latest movie which has a monster from outer space in it)

- A couple of fairies (I don't even know…)

- Some Pokemon (I blame the old man; he called him a Geekachu and started off a whole spiral into the world of Pokemon- my roomie's got an insane imagination and a ludicrous curiosity…)

- Half a dozen other things I don't even recognize…

#paperclips #my roomie is crazy #my roomie is a terrible patient #but I love him


AN: Yes, I made a meta joke about my own fanfic. (I have a couple of running gags, because I like to try and be funny and clever!)