During lunch, Egon carefully sip the soup, and was able to finish the entire mug and ate one and half pieces of the toast.
After he and Jeanie finished their meals, she was about to get up and clear away her empty bowl and can, when Egon said,"Don't get up, I'll take care of it."
"Are you sure?" Jeanie asked.
"Yes, allow me."
Jeanie was surprised by Egon's offer as he picked up his mug and plate along with her items and headed upstairs with them and returned back down moments later.
"I need to move around to get my blood flowing, plus take some (cough) cough medicine and nasal spray" he said.
"Thank you for cleaning up," said Jeanie.
"You're welcome Jeanie."
The two then went back to work.
Jeanie was in the middle of typing, when a sound nearly made her jump from her chair.
"ACHOO! ACHOO!" sneezed Egon.
"Bless you," said Jeanie.
"Thank you, and I'm sorry if that scared you," said Egon.
"No that's OK.
It's that you haven't sneezed nor cough for awhile, which is a good thing, so it just made me jump a bit."
Egon was about to reach for a tissue, when he noticed the box on his desk was empty.
"Jeanie, do you mind if I steal one of your tissues?" he asked.
Jeanie handed him her own box and said,"Not at all Egon, help yourself."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, you need them more than me."
"Thank you."
Egon blew his nose and went back to his paperwork, when his pen suddenly ran out of ink.
He began to fish through his desk to find another one, but didn't have any luck.
"Need one of these?
Don't worry, I have plenty, being a receptionist, you can never have enough of them ," Jeanie asked as she handed him a pen from her desk drawer.
"Thank you," said Egon as he took the pen, who once again went back to work.
But something was getting to him.
"Uh Jeanie," he said.
"Yes Egon," she answered.
"Listen (coughs) I never really got a chance to say thank you for taking care of me yesterday."
"You're welcome Egon," said Jeanie.
"I mean it.
You take so much pressure and bull from the team by putting up with us.
And yet, you still stick around, even back when we started and Venkman was pushing your buttons.
But you do so much for us and many times we don't show it.
Hell, I never paid attention to you in the begining when you were being extra nice to me.
After all the times I have ignored you, I didn't think I deserved the way you treated me, let alone take care of me.
Let's face it Jeanie, you are what holds us together."
Jeanie blushed a bit a said,"Thank you Egon.
That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me."
Egon cleared his throat and asked,"Not that it's any of my business, but what about when you were with Louis?"
"He did, then he would ramble on making no sense about sale item clothes or cheap shampoo.
Not to mention he was a bit of a bragger.
During our trip to Florida he went on and on about winning 5th place in a spelling bee.
But yet, you saved the city of New York, even the world many times, and you don't go flashing it.
Maybe Venkman does on occasion, but not you.
You always have your emotions in place.
But now, you seem to open up with your feelings.
Since the team got back together, I've not only heard, but seen you cry,laugh and even smile."
"(coughs), It has been quite big steps for me."
"Egon, in the last five years after the ghostbusters split and you went back to working at the university, I don't mean to pry into your business, but did you date or see anyone?"
"I was married..ACHOO! ACHOO! to my career that is.
Worked all day into the night and beyond.
Not much of a life I must say.
Peter Ray and Winston basically had to drag me away from work on occasions.
"At least you still kept in touch with the guys."
"At times I forgot that they're the only family I have.
And it has taken me a long time to realize it.
There were even times I actually thought about you."
Jeanie was surprised to hear what came out of Egon's mouth.
"Really?" she asked, with still a look of shock to her face.
"Yes, Egon replied," I (coughs) actually thought about calling you a few times to see if you were OK, but I figured you would be angry at me after having loss your job and all.
Plus I would know what to say."
"Egon, just to hear your voice and check up on me knew you really do care.
I'm really touched."Suddenly, Jeanie began to sniffle.
"Are you alright?" Egon asked.
"I think my allergies are acting up," Jeanie answered in a slightly scratchy voice.
Egon handed her the box of tissues.
"Thank you," said Jeanie, as she helped herself to a tissue to wipe her eyes and blew her nose.
"Sorry, she went on, My eyes are watery, my nose is a bit stuffy, I have an itchiness in my throat and is it just me or is it chilly in here?"
Egon removed his button down shirt, revealing his black t-shirt and placed it around Jeanie's shoulders like a jacket.
"Thank you again," she told Egon.
"You're welcome Jeanie," he said.
Just then, Ecto-1 pulled back into the firehouse.
"Egon, Jeanie, we're back," Ray called out, as he climbed out of the driver's side of the car.
"How did the job go fellas?" asked Jeanie.
"Well, we unfortunately had to take a massive pay cut on this assignment, due to all the items that were damage during the bust," Winston replied.
"So, sorry Egon, since you didn't come with us, you're out a share," said Peter.
"Quite alright Venkman," said Egon, as he placed on a fresh change of gloves and went to help his fellow Ghostbusters empty the traps to the containment unit.
While that was going on, another call came to the firehouse.
But it was a telemarketer.
Afterwards, there were no more calls for the rest of the day.
This gave Egon a chance on catching up with the rest of the team on what he had been working on, while Jeanie finished her own paperwork.
