A/N: Comes from an anonymous request when someone unloaded a bunch of them on me and I hate that I never got to it! Requested as "Daily Skype chats from Season 6." So here are a few of the ones that I came up with and thought were fun.
Anyways, if you want to send in requests or anything you can always do that on tumblr.
"Can you just-"
"No," she interrupted Larry immediately.
"I just need-"
"No," again, she didn't let him finish.
"This is my computer-"
"Doesn't matter," she stopped him with a glare when he started walking behind her.
Whatever he was doing, and it didn't look important, April's computer was taken by IT. She, however, wasn't going to be missing a Skype call. Sure she could use her phone, but then that wouldn't let her torment Larry. Where was the fun in that? That was the one thing she had nowadays at work - making fun of his life. His wife. His kids, all of it, it was all obviously stupid. April hated that Larry didn't have to go to a lonely home.
"All right, just tell Andy I said hello," he requested, smiling.
"Or I could tell him you fell into a river," she turned to look back at the monitor, "and you don't know how to swim."
"Actually, I was on my college-"
"Stop," she quickly chastised him. "Andy's picking up, I don't want him to have to hear your stupid voi- hey babe."
The low-framerate of Andy's video was filled with a big smile and a wave. The older man slumped his head and moved to the central table where April could ignore him from a better angle. At least there he would eat his sandwich and not make April even angrier at him. Why did he get to go home to his family and she didn't?
"Woah, the courtyard looks really different," Andy looked like he was scanning behind her. "Did they do something to it?"
"It's been a week, and no," she laughed, "stupid Larry wouldn't let me use his computer even though mine's not here."
She shouted his name and the older man nearly spit out his food. Walking out of the department altogether to eat elsewhere, April was content with her ability to scare him away. At least there was that, she noted. Turning back to Andy, she smiled and pretended that seeing him through a video chat wasn't making her lonelier and angrier by the second.
April's head was ringing from the moment she stepped out of City Hall to the second she stepped foot in her house. Pounding like a hammer against the back of her skull, coinciding nicely with every woeful task and all the paperwork. The very word made her shudder. It was impossible - work was impossible - and she just wanted to get ten orders from the Chinese place they always called, drink as many of those hard lemonades she bought as she could as quickly as she could, and then pass out for at least three days.
Thankfully she thought better and only got one order, but she did take the whole case of the sickly sweet drinks out, and sat in front of her laptop. Getting out of work early was nice, especially when Leslie became a whirlwind of energy and could handle everything herself, so she managed to get a call in at home for once.
When Andy answered he was looking around her and smiling.
"Got off early? Cool," even his voice was making her brains do somersaults in agony.
"Yeah, something like that," she grumbled, picking up the plastic fork and slamming it into the rice. "This sucks, Andy."
"I know, but I don't... it's only been a few weeks," he shrugged like he wanted to get away but simply couldn't, "and I think I might be able to do this."
April pulled out the soggy clump that she'd impaled with the fork and bit down. Chewing, she shook her head. Now she was being the obnoxious, clingy one and that simply couldn't stand. On the other hand she really needed to blow off steam from the earlier day.
"I know you can," she reassured, changing tactic and giving him a smile through the camera. "I know you can do it, babe."
"Thanks honey, you're the best," he returned the smile. "I gotta go to sleep though... early morning or something."
"That sounds awful," she grimaced.
"Yeah, right? It's pretty much the worst," he sighed. "Love you."
"Love you too," she got closer to the webcam instinctively. "I miss you."
"Yeah, me too," he replied before looking down and biting his cheek. "I'll talk to you later honey."
"Bye," she managed to get out before hanging up.
If she didn't hang up then he would have to, and that would mean the call never ending. Either because Andy forgot to hang up or, more likely, April kept him up for another two hours so she could just talk with him. That was one thing she missed, and it was weird to think about because that wasn't what April immediately thought of when it came to their relationship. But, as it turned out, without Andy around she didn't have much of a reason to speak at all.
Things were dull without him, and it was starting to get on her nerves.
There were only a few more weeks before Andy was back, but April was starting to lose her mind with the distance. Boring didn't even begin to describe the days without her favorite manchild, and talking to him through a webcam just wasn't the same. Where were the pillow forts? Where were the empty pizza boxes piling to the ceiling?
April turned over in bed and looked at her phone - it was only two in the morning, so Andy would probably just be waking up. She couldn't get to sleep and it was getting irritating, like a big, sweaty chunk of her life was just pulled away.
The spinning dots and continuous tone told her that Skype wasn't going to work, so she tried calling him.
"Yeah?" there was running water in the background and he sounded tired.
"When's work?" she asked, ignoring her own yawns.
"In an hour," he answered flatly. "I'm gonna take a real shower today, don't worry."
"Wish I could be there," she said with a small smile on her face.
"Me too," he laughed. "What's up?"
"Can't get to sleep," she explained. "It kinda sucks not having you here, y'know."
"Oh, I know," she heard him close the bathroom door on the other end. "I know and, yeah, it sucks babe."
"Hey, you know... y'know it's been a while since I heard you sing," she muttered.
There was a short moment of silence from Andy after she said that. All she could hear was the running shower and, to be honest, that might have put her to sleep if she focused on it instead. Eventually she heard him chuckle, and she tried not to think about how childish this was. Sleeping was the best time of the day, and here she was unable to even enjoy that, but then she heard him clear his throat.
"April," he said slowly like he was trying to catch her attention.
"Andy," she responded.
"Y'know what, whatever," he laughed again, loudly this time, "what do you want?"
"I don't care," she was still grinning to no one but at that quiet hour, dark, it was fine. "Though that dumb one you always sing in the shower..."
"Nothing on Vitalogy is dumb," he reprimanded her immediately, but was still laughing.
"Whatever dude, just sing for me," she mumbled, rolling her head in the pillow and putting the phone down next to her.
She couldn't remember the name of it, but she did like the way Andy sang it. The lyrics weren't particularly pleasant, and she wondered why he would usually sing this one, and why hearing his voice get a little weaker when the line about how bold she was comes up. April can't think much more about it - though she really wants to - because her eyes drooped closed and she fell asleep quickly after Andy had started.
