Both this and the printer chapter happen all to often, no matter where I've volunteered or worked. It's the same as the printers and copiers at my school.

I may have to do one on terrible internet connection too.

Every Friday

It was common knowledge in the Shinra building that all the copy machines would be malfunctioning by Friday, especially if you had a deadline that weekend. So everyone worked hard to get their copying done on Thursday. And this, in turn, broke all the copiers just in time for Friday.

Kael knew this, but he wasn't in a hurry, and this particular project didn't have a set deadline, so… He had held out hope there would be one machine still working that Friday. And, if it was anywhere, it would be in engineering.

Laying the papers flet on the feeding tray he typed in the desired number of double-sided pages and waited. The machine read the sheets one by one, then spit them out into the return feeding tray. It hummed to life, and…

The screen flashed red, paper jam, before bringing up a map marking 13 different problem locations.

Kael sighed and pulled open the front of the copier, pulling out a shelf and beginning on the first roller in an attempt to get the paper out. Then he reached in up to his elbow to where the second sheet was wedged in behind.

"Oh," a voice spoke from behind him, "It isn't working then?" Kael pulled out the wrinkled mass or paper before turning to the blue-clad newcomer.

"Nah," he replied turning back with a shrug, "It's jammed pretty badly just now, but it's an alignment error overall. They'll need to repair it, then give it a week and it'll break again."

Reeve sighed, glancing at his own small pile of papers, "Not that I don't appreciate the excuse to put this off, but that machine's too new to be breaking like that."

Kael hummed in agreement as he twisted a few more nobbs. Reeve watched as he teased out the next few pieces of paper, fascinated by the machine much more than his paperwork.

"There has to be a better to put this together," Kael muttered as he flipped a lever so a roller could finally grip the trapped sheet.

Reeve blinked, "I have my tools in my office…"

Kael looked up at him in surprise, then smiled, "You get them and I'll move this into the middle of the room."

Sephiroth decided to stop by the engineering floor on his way back from a briefing, figuring the copier there was more likely to be functioning than the one in the SOLDIER lounge.

He stepped into the room and froze. The copier in question had been dragged into the middle of the floor and was now strewn across the room in pieces. Behind it he could hear voices and stop the occasional hand as Tuesti and another man handed tools to one another.

He stood there for a few moments as engineering jargon flew over his head. Then he turned and left.

Maybe he'd have more luck in the SOLDIER lounge after all.