A/N - just a drabble today. Inspired by MKS57. I do adore these two!

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Alisha stalked into the small basement office where Val was working. The programmer had a perfectly nice office on the second floor, complete with two windows and the most up-to-date equipment that money could buy. Yet she insisted on working here. A windowless closet where the ceiling barely cleared Alisha's head, the ceiling light flickered constantly, and everything smelled like mold. Val claimed that the office upstairs was too bright and they were too many people around for her to focus. But Alisha knew her well enough to realize this was Val's personal form of rebellion against "the man."

She tapped the manila folder that she was holding against her hand. "Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo? Really?"

Val jumped, evidently having been too involved in whatever she was doing - probably trolling the web - to notice her girlfriend arrive. She recovered quickly, batting her eyelashes at Alisha. "Too obvious?"

Alisha flipped open the folder to read the next set of names on the sheet she was holding. "John, Paul, George, and Ringo?"

"All solid, common names," Val avowed.

"Ringo?" Alisha challenged.

"Okay, so maybe not common here in the States but Wolf's got an accent," Val shrugged. "He could pull it off."

"Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny?"

"It is hard to imagine Azima as a ginger," Val mulled. "You should probably knock that one off the list."

"Samantha, Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda?" Alisha continued, running her finger down the page.

"I guess Green might have trouble passing as a woman. That beard is out of control." Val gave an exaggerated shudder. When Alisha did not respond, simply tapping her toe, Val pushed back in her chair and crossed her arms. "I don't know what you people want from me. I told you that I wouldn't be any good at coming up with cover names."

Alisha pursed her lips. "You aren't supposed to be coming up with cover names. You are supposed to be using a randomizer to generate commonly used name combinations that won't draw notice."

Val rolled her eyes. "But that's so boring. Who wants to be Ryan and Susan when you can be Rhett and Scarlett? Sasha would make an amazing Scarlett, by the way. Are you completely sure she's straight?"

"People who are going undercover do not want to be Rhett and Scarlett," Alisha replied, refusing to get distracted. "Are you trying to get them killed?"

Val scratched her chin as she considered the question. "Not Sasha or Azima. And Wolf's tolerable. I'm neutral on the whole keeping Green alive thing, to be honest."

But Alisha could see the smirk flickering across Val's face even in the dim lit room. She walked closer, running her fingers across the dirt on Val's desk. Seriously, this place was disgusting. "Where's the real list?"

Flashing her a grin, Val fished a file out of a stack from somewhere behind her and tossed it across the desk. She chuckled. "What gave it away?"

Alisha managed to keep a serious expression for only a minute before breaking into laughter. "Elsa, Anna, Hans and Olaf was too far, even for you."