A/N: Mega short, I know! However, I had a fun idea that's more of an outside-looking-in approach to Andy/April. Also, this is probably one of the only times I'll include the doc crew because I just don't like writing in this style that often. Kind of like a little missing moment between the end of 3x09 and the after-credits scene of the episode.
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April was staring at an email from Leslie and the little attachment icon next to it. They were only a day into their 'honeymoon' when she started getting emails every single day asking questions ranging from work-related to excited jumbles of consonants. She loved Leslie, but there were days when that was tested to the extreme. She clicked open the attachment and smiled when it brought up her video player, and the email just had one little phrase:
Cut footage
"If you ask me," Leslie said, looking into the camera, "this is the dumbest thing these two could have done. I mean, this is one of the biggest decisions they could ever make and they did it all on a whim."
She took a moment to take a drink from the cup in her hand, and behind her the sounds of a party continued. The lighting was such that you couldn't really tell where she was being filmed save for the incredibly loud music, and the sounds of Tom yelling in the background, so it had to be the Snakehole. From off screen a voice started shouting.
"It's so stupid!" the voice of a thoroughly hammered Ben echoed through the hallway.
"But, I can't do anything about it and they're happy," Leslie slurred in response to the shout. "Besides, we all do stupid things sometimes…"
Leslie turned away, looking somewhere outside of the periphery of the camera. Following her look, it focused briefly on Ben in a corner before being shooed away by Leslie's hand and drunken ranting.
The cameraman was running now, recording the ground moving quickly as he ran down a street. A few seconds passed before he realized the camera was on, and the image goes black again.
Someone's standing in front of the camera, talking to Ron and discussing something. After a few seconds of nodding from Ron, the guy moves to go behind the camera and picks it up. He asks something that ends up being too muffled to hear properly through the crappy laptop speakers, but Ron speaks up.
"I don't care," he answered.
There's a beat between this blunt answer and a stifled laugh from the cameraman. He asks another question that sort of sounds like a collection of words but the acoustics of the room weren't helping him.
"No, I really don't give a shit," he said flatly. "That's it. They can do whatever they want – they're both adults. Marriage is for the young and stupid anyways."
The cameraman asks a question and for a split second it sounds like he mentions someone named Tammy. Ron immediately frowns and stands up, turning around and leaving the small room. There's another beat before the screen goes black again.
"What are you watching, babe?" Andy interrupted her, walking inside.
"Leslie sent me this dumb video," she nodded to the screen, moving over on the small sofa to accommodate him, "and so far it's just people talking. It's kinda boring."
As she said that the camera came back to life and revealed another person sitting down. April groaned at the sight of Ann looking like she was actually excited to answer whatever stupid questions the crew had for her.
This time the audio from the crew seemed to be audible. Ann sat at attention on a stool and from the ambient noise it was clear that Ann was being interviewed just moments after Leslie. Throughout the exchange, cutting through the quieting club and the question and answer Leslie was shouting and laughing.
"So," a quiet voice asked from off screen, "Andy and April? What're your thoughts on it?"
Ann's only response at first is to shrug, and the cameraman laughs. She flashes him a brief smile before straightening her back and coughing. Resuming her previous calm she quickly starts speaking again.
"Well, in a weird way it's kind of perf-"
April doesn't let Ann finish what she's saying before the video is muted.
"Oh come on, that sounded nice," Andy complained, moving to go return the volume to normal before April grabbed his hand.
"Exactly," she said slowly, "and the last thing I want is Ann being nice to us."
For a second April thought she was going to vomit when she had to fight her way through the word 'nice' in any relation to that she-witch. Andy bit his lip but sat back in the couch, watching Ann mouth something excitedly before getting up to go towards the direction of where Leslie's voice originally came from in the beginning of the clip. Another brief moment of nothing on the screen and Tom's face appeared suddenly in the center of the shot.
"I'd never get married again," he explained to the camera.
"Because the first time was already too hard," a sympathetic voice said from behind the camera. "Right?"
"No, because next time someone divorces me they might actually want my money," he gave the camera an incredulous look before turning around and leaving. A muffled groan of disappointment came out of the cameraman before the video went black and a few muttered curses sent the clip out.
Afterwards, a short message scrolled across the screen:
There was supposed to be more footage here but then we had to interview Jerry.
We tried, but I'm pretty sure Jim fell asleep while he was talking so for a lot of the time the camera was pointed at the floor. Jerry didn't seem to notice, so he kept talking. None of it was important anyways, so we cut all of it then burned that SD card as per request.
"Oh God, can you imagine what he had to say?" Andy laughed.
"I don't want to," she replied, scrubbing through the runtime before finding another actual interview. "I'm sure it'd scar me for life."
Andy laughed again and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek before turning back to watch the video.
The camera pans up to see Chris jogging in place, pumping his hands as if he were actually running. The cameraman takes a few steps to get Chris in the shot without having to wobble around after it was clear that there was no way to get him to stop moving. After finding the right angle, he gives Chris a countdown before starting.
"What do you know about April and Andy?" the voice asks, "and what do you think of them getting married."
"Oh, they are quite possibly the best people I have ever met," he answered, huffing out his words with each exhale. "It was literally the most beautiful thing I'll ever see in my life, and I'm sure they'll make each other happy."
The cameraman grunts in agreement, sticking to the shot for a few more seconds before realizing that's all the man had to say. Beat, then black again.
"That man terrifies me," April admitted, closing the video player and her laptop.
"Is that it?" Andy asked, looking a little disappointed. "Was that all there was?"
"I dunno, but I'm going to go find somewhere nice and flat to lay down," she said slowly while standing up, turning around and setting the laptop down very pointedly on the table across from him. "You can join me… or you can email Leslie."
There wasn't any discussion unless you considered Andy grunting and jumping up, grabbing April and picking her up a discussion.
