Zatanna and nothing else.

She lived in a large townhouse, in a quite good part of town. I noted down the address and kept moving, kept searching and found nothing else. I wasted a lot of time, but I also made sure that everything was set up for Peyton’s release, which was coming up. Getting the burner and getting it put in place was simple enough, but it made me feel like I had accomplished something before I went home. Everyone else was busy.

Well, that probably wasn’t true, I only checked with Asa and Diamond. I could have called someone else over, or visited them, but in the end, it wasn’t worth it. I wanted a quiet night with someone who knew what was going on And if I couldn’t have that, then I was going to just have a quiet night. Which I did, though my stupid dick didn’t get the message and despite being drained an incredible amount recently, I still woke up hard the next morning, despite not having a carpool, I was almost late to work, as I hadn’t set an alarm, because I didn’t have the carpool.

Funny the things you can do to yourself. But I made it on time and got to work. Some last minute security concerns for Jinx’s arrival, but nothing major, then off to the library, where it was mostly a normal day, except that it was Peyton’s last visit to the library, as she was getting out tomorrow. I told her quietly that everything was set up on my end and she nodded. “Last order from the boss, you can’t get sent back here, so no breaking the rules or law.”

She nodded, but that only got me +1 SP (Peyton: +97). I tried to push for a few additional points, but nothing came of it, just more general agreement. I was pretty sure, given what she’d done and said, that only directly confronting her illness, or her loyalty to ‘Scarface’ would get me those last points.

And I wasn’t doing either while she was on the inside, or from a distance and I should only be seeing her occasionally on the outside. Though, I was going to arrange introductions, maybe Diamond could use her influence during that period...

Regardless, besides Peyton, the day was fairly quiet and I was able to do some more reshelving and everything seemed to be going fine, until I got called in to see Rapetoy. Officially.

I headed down with some concern, but when I saw what she was wearing, my jaw dropped.

I recovered barely fast enough to get a smartass remark out after closing the door, “I swear to god, boss,” just in case anyone was listening, “if you’re about to tell me that I have to lead a team of guards in a football game against a team made up of patients, than I’m resigning right now.”

She actually laughed, and explained that--

Author’s Note: Sorry folks, the muse on this one ran out a while ago, we’ve been burning through backlog. I hoped it would come back, but it hasn’t. If anyone wants to continue it, they can, but I’m done here. Updated the first one so folks know that it’s on indefinite hiatus coming in.