A/N: Missing moment from "Pawnee Rangers."

With the combined Goddess and Ranger troops, April was getting more and more frustrated at all the annoying little people that would ask her stupid questions. Somehow she had ended up taking over for Leslie when she left to go speak with Ron, and it was just about the grossest thing the woman had ever asked her to do. Except that she hadn't exactly asked.

It was more like forced conscription.

So, sitting down at the crafts table, she was forced to make sure no one hurt themselves with hot glue or scissors. How they were supposed to have fun without doing either of those things to each other was beyond April, but at least Andy seemed to be enjoying himself. He was helping a girl with her small candy badge while he worked on his own deformed sugary project.

"Do you think we should put the Skittles like a frame around this?" the girl, April knew she had no clue what her name was, asked him seriously.

"Or... you could just eat them," he suggested.

"Yeah, but wouldn't it look better if I didn't?" she returned, confused.

"Why would I want you to win?" he laughed, putting one of the small candies in his mouth. "That means you should probably do it, then."

The girl shook her head and gave Andy a strange look before going back to her little candy accessory. Meanwhile, Andy looked back at his own which to April just looked like a pile of different snacks thrown on top of each other. Maybe that was the point, she thought, but then again maybe Andy just had no idea what he was doing.

"What's that supposed to be?" April asked, interrupting Andy's clearly deep thought.

"Well, it was going to be a Starburst house until someone," he jerked his head towards a young boy who was busy laughing and eating candy, "ruined it so I gotta start over."

"Andy?" a quiet voice came from beside April.

Another girl had walked up to him - and suddenly April realized that Andy was the center of this whole thing with the kids either seated close to him or presenting different projects to him - and was showing him the little figure she had made. It had little wooden popsicle sticks for structure but was slowly getting molded over with chocolate and glued on pieces of other treats, even with a purple sash like the Goddesses' uniforms. The girl's station, April noticed, was further away from the rest of the kids by Ann.

April turned and watched Andy take the candy-person gingerly, appraising it.

"Dude, this looks awesome!" he exclaimed suddenly, smiling.

"It's not done yet, but I was gonna make Ms. Knope out of stuff," she said, looking everywhere but at Andy or April.

"I can see it," April added, nodding and pretending that she could see anything other than Dots for eyes and wanting to eat them.

"Yeah, it's already cool," Andy said, handing back the little candy Leslie, "can't wait to see what it looks like when it's done."

April turned and watched the girl head over to sit by Ann. While the latter busied herself grumbling and half paying attention to what was going on, the younger one was working at the caricature with intense focus. Andy had apparently given up on his own, looking around at the others. Every few minutes he would laugh when someone showed him theirs, telling them it looked great, and then staring at his own like he was disappointed. Eventually he gave up and walked away from his seat.

Initially it looked like he was simply walking around to look at everyone's work, he made it to the other side where April sat and pulled a chair up beside her.

"I don't know why you say this place sucks all the time," he chuckled.

"Everyone's having fun here," she sighed, "so of course it's dumb."

"Yeah, they get to do a bunch of awesome stuff. I wish I had been a Goddess this whole time," Andy turned before getting called over by someone.

Moments later, April saw Leslie walking towards the cabin. When she made it inside, everyone took turns having their projects checked on by her, leading to them going excitedly back to work. Leslie herself was busying herself preparing for the rest of the evening - dinner and then more hot chocolate than April had ever seen in one place - so April took her chance to talk with her.

It was strange that she felt so comfortable talking with Leslie about, well, anything. Not that she didn't like her at all, or love her, but that April felt instinctively that she was a confidant - someone with as much energy and passion as Leslie - was a surprise. Still, it was better than talking to Ann and Ron would either not even be here by this point or totally unwilling to listen to what she had to talk about.

"Hey," April called out when she had gotten close to the preparations.

"Oh, April, just in time," Leslie lit up and that worried April, "can you go get the rest of the cocoa from my car? It's just in the trunk."

"The rest?" she inquired, looking over at the two small baskets filled with packets.

"What, you think 12 pounds is enough?" Leslie laughed. "And there should be a few cans of whipped cream back there as well. I couldn't carry everything in."

"I carried myself and my own sleeping bag, so I don't know what you want from me," April shrugged, smiling. "But can I ask you something quick?"

"Sure," she replied, nodding. "Just don't forget that chocolate, or the cream, because it is vitally impor-"

"Leslie, stop," April pleaded. "I get it, I'll go in a second. I just wanted to ask... do you trust Andy with all these kids? Like, to watch them? I mean, Ann's here but she's weirdly focused on getting that badge."

"Yeah, I think Ann's having a really tough time. I'm thinking maybe-"

"Please stop talking about Ann," April interrupted.

"But you brought her up...? Anyways, yeah I guess I do," she shrugged. "I mean no one's gotten hurt. If anyone gets hurt I'd imagine it would be him, not them, and besides they love him."

April turned around and watched him judging three different projects at once. One of them was the girl that had sat by Ann, joined by a boy and another of the original Goddesses, and Andy was pointing fervently to the little Knope while saying something to the three of them. It was actually kind of sweet April noted before trying to wipe that thought away unsuccessfully. When April turned around Leslie's eyes were wide and she noticed that her own face was turned up in a smile. Hastily she returned to a bland, stoic face while Leslie nodded.

April shook her head, to which Leslie kept nodding.

"April, really?" Leslie asked, but it wasn't with that same level of incredulity that came out when they had a surprise wedding. "I mean-"

"No, not really," April grimaced, trying to push her excitement over a stray thought away. "What'd you think, that I was seriously considering kids? Jeez Leslie, I thought you were smarter than that. Way to disappoint me."

Walking away, and out of the cabin to go get the Diabetes-waiting-to-happen, Leslie gave her a disappointed look. April, meanwhile, had to seriously push that thought away. It was stupid anyways, but when she got back in she couldn't get the image of Andy helping all those stupid little kids with their pointless candy art out of her head. Mostly because he was still doing that - walking around, giving them compliments, and generally eating at least half of the extra candy that was sitting around.

Then April looked over to Leslie who was on the brink of one of those contagious cackles. That thought would have to wait, however, because there was a loud shout and, turning around, April saw that Andy had put something in his mouth that had hot glue stuck to one end. Maybe that thought would have to wait quite a while, she figured, but it was definitely there and April could be okay with the possibility remaining stuck in her head.

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