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Prompt: "I just smacked myself in the face picking up the phone, so that's how my afternoon is going."
Jacoba was having one of those afternoons. She had woken up late this morning and, while making good time as she had gotten ready, still ended up getting to the hanger later than she had wanted to. All because she couldn't find her darn keys. Eventually, she had finally found them under Gunnar's cat's food dish. Well, their cat but that wasn't the point. Stig was just really good at that.
Back to the matter at hand. The team would be going out on a mission in the morning and it was Jacoba's turn to prep and load the "death trap," as she affectionately called Barney's plane. It seemed like everyone's shit was all around the hanger, no two things in the same place. As she ran around looking for everything they could possibly need, Jacoba could hear her phone ringing from it's spot on the desk that she'd gotten Barney to put in the backroom. Quickly putting the container with Caesar's gun gently under his usual spot on the plane, she raced back to grab her phone. As she grabbed at it, it flew up and hit her directly in the middle of her forehead with one of the corners. Groaning and rubbing the spot with one hand, she answered, "Yeah?"
She heard a chuckle from the other end of the line. "Hello to you too, doll."
"Sorry, Gun. Hello, how's your afternoon going?"
Cue another chuckle. "Wishin' you were still layin' here next to me. And you, doll?"
Jacoba groaned. "Well, I just smacked myself in the face picking up the phone, so that's how my afternoon is going. So, yeah, I wish I was back with you, too."
"When you going to be able to come back?"
She sighed. "I'm almost done. Then I'll be back home and you can deal with your cat the whole day."
"What did Stig do now?" He sighed.
Jacoba chuckled as she put the phone on speaker and continued to work as she talked to her lover. "Well, let me tell you all about today's Stig Saga." And she proceeded to detail everything to the man she loved, making the time she still had left to go run faster.
