"Open up!" Elle yelled as she stalked back and forth in front of the door to the medical lab. "X, I know you're in there! Open this door right now!! We have to talk!!"
X shook his head as he looked at the door again. She had been yelling for five minutes already. He had done his best to ignore her, hoping she would go away, but he just couldn't take it any longer. He stood and hurried over to the door, opening it so she could come in.
"Why did you just open that door?" Zeeltor asked curiously.
"To let Agent Elle in," X muttered. Why not tell the truth? Everyone already thought he was crazy anyway. He idly wondered what the beds were like in the mental ward. They had to be better than his couch. "So, did you need something or did you just want to make sure that I'm locked up?"
"We have a serious problem! Have they decided you're insane yet? We should probably go back to your rooms to talk," Elle said.
"Fine. Am I free to go?" X asked Zeeltor.
"Of course, Run along, Agent X," Zeeltor said with a smile as he took a rubber stamp out and quickly applied the word "INSANE" to X's hand in bright red letters.
"I can't believe this," X grumbled as he stalked down the hall staring at the mark on his hand while Elle followed behind him. "I'm green! This looks terrible on me!"
"Oh, X, stop complaining!" Elle said as they entered his room. "We have much worse problems! I was just in Zed's office and I found out that they're planning to break us up!"
"Couldn't they have done that three days ago? Then we wouldn't be in this mess," X said as he headed for the bathroom. Maybe he could wash the annoying stamp off. "So, which one of us is going to be stuck with Agent U?"
"Neither one of us! You're being shipped back home and I'm being sent back to the lab!" Elle grumbled. "I know you might not have a problem with that but I worked too hard to become a field agent to go back to the lab now!"
"They're sending me home?" X said as he darted out of the bathroom, the stamp on his hand forgotten.
"You don't have to act so thrilled," Elle muttered as she flopped down onto his bed.
"Uh, there's something that you don't know," X muttered. He really didn't want anyone to find out about this. "It's about my job back home."
"You were suspended six times. I already know that," Elle said.
"I was a little more than suspended the last time," X mumbled. "Try fired."
"Fired? You were fired?" Elle cried as she sat up. She hadn't expected to hear this!
"Sort of. I believe that they had a giant party to celebrate when I got on the transport to leave the planet!" X muttered as he sat down on the bed beside her. "At least you'll still have a job. I'll probably have to move in with my mother!"
