Hello my darlings! Hope you're having an awesome day!
"Hey man!" there was that blond genius he adored so much, "You look like you need a coffee…"
Jack couldn't argue with that, so he nodded. "Yeah, don't think I got enough of it back home this morning."
Actually, coffee hadn't even been a part of this morning yet.
"I'm headed over to the coffee shop across the street, you want me to bring you back something? Coffee? Black?" Mac asked with a smile.
"Kid, honestly. You don't have to…"
"I'm going there either way. Riley wanted a cappuccino, Bozer wanted latte…" Mac shrugged, "Matty and I are getting a regular coffees. And you do look like you need one."
"I can just take some from the…"
"The coffee machine went belly-up yesterday…" Mac shrugged, "And the company said it would take a few days before the part we needed would arrive."
"And you haven't just fixed it yet?"
Mac shook his head, "No, figured I should leave it be, since it isn't an emergency and since the warranty won't cover anything if I tamper with it… So… Coffee?"
Jack nodded, "Need me to help carry anything?"
Mac shook his head, "No… Think I'll manage just fine. But thanks for asking!"
Jack nodded, "Yeah, no problem."
"But Matty's looking for you. Said it was kinda important."
He managed to stop the grimace from displaying all over his face. This couldn't be good. This… He was fired, for sure. For some reason or another, Matty had finally found enough crap to fire him. It was the only explanation.
Could this day get any crappier?
Probably not…
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"There you are Dalton." Matty nodded with a blank face when he entered the war room. This couldn't be good.
"Yeah, here I am…" ready to get fired.
"Sit down, you're much easier to talk to when you're not so damned tall…" Matty said, then waited a couple of seconds for Jack to do just that. "I meant to call or something, but I didn't want to disturb you while you were back home with your family. Like you said, you don't see them nearly enough, so I figured it would be impolite of me to bother you while you were in Texas."
I'm getting fired. I'm getting fired. I'm getting fired. She didn't want to call, in case I broke down in front of my family. Maybe I should have told them all that I cancelled the trip? No. That would lead to questions. Questions I don't want to answer. Better just act as I had an awesome time… Yeah, I'll do that.
"Yeah, what's on your mind?"
"Just needed to say that I'm having the team over to my place this Friday. Bring your bathing suit, preferably not a speedo." Matty informed with a smile.
"Yes ma'am. No speedos." Jack nodded, "Anything else?"
Matty shrugged, "No, not really. But I've got a fun challenge for all of us."
"Oh?"
"Yeah, thought we'd check how long we would manage to go without talking about work… So… No work talk on Friday either. Bring some other topics to talk about."
"No speedos. No work talk. Got it." Jack nodded again.
"And probably trim that roadkill you've got covering half of your face. We don't wanna scare the neighbors either."
"Thought you didn't have any neighbors…"
"Well, no… But still, you need to shave. How did you even get through airport security?"
Jack shrugged and ran a hand over his beard, he couldn't exactly argue with her.
Just then Mac, Bozer and Riley entered the room. Each of them carrying their respective hot beverage in one hand. Mac also balanced a cardboard tray with two cups, one for Jack and one for Matty, and had a bag of bakery treats trapped between his fingers and his cup of coffee.
"Coffee's here! Oh what a beautiful morning! Oh, what a beautiful day!" Bozer grinned and basically danced over to the chair he planned on sitting in.
Jack smiled as Mac handed him his coffee cup, tried to refuse a cinnamon bun, but ended up taking one either way.
Okay, so… Here you have this chapter… Hope you enjoyed.