I'd like to take that intern position!

[drhorriblesblog]

When: Tuesday, February 24, 10:00 AM
Where: Dr. Horrible's home
Who: Dr. Horrible and Jane Davenport, and later Tex (CLOSED)
What: A job interview
Rating: M for Mad Science

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[imnurgeenz]

"You have the same guarantee I have that you won't steal my ideas and hold me for ransom in exchange for money and/or devious doomsday devices from my parents." Her bright smile never faltered, nor did her earnest gaze ever leave his face. "Which, as we both know, is none."

Mad scientists are a mistrustful lot for good reason; it's hard to be trusting of someone who has equal reasons as you for wanting to rule and / or destroy the world. Even her parents would undermine the other's work occasionally to make sure they remained on equal footing. But this internship was more to Jane than just learning the ropes of mad science. She could have stayed home for that. She needed to be close to this particular mad scientist for her own future.

A slight shift of weight cast a glare over her glasses. "Listen, you don't have to make a decision right now. How about you give me a trial period? Give me one month and if you don't like having an intern you can wipe my memory and send me on my oblivious way. That way I can't even steal your

[drhorriblesblog]

Fair. At least she hadn't tried to pretend innocence. Neither of them was a fool or a novice; they both knew what sort of ground an arrangement like this stood on.

"That sounds reasonable." He nodded, and extended his hand again. "A month. We'll see how things go." Until recently he would have been hesitant to try to wipe her memory, but back at New Years he'd gotten that device sorted.

Glancing around the entrance hall, he made a decision. "This is probably as good a time as any to show you my lab. Though I will have to introduce you to my housemate at some point so she doesn't shoot you. So none of them shoot you, I guess." With a roll of his eyes, he led her back to the door leading down to the basement. "I'm considering making other living arrangements. It was useful sharing housing with one person willing to shoot anyone who came around to bother me, but it's starting to get crowded now."

[imnurgeenz]

Just barely resisting the urge to jump and squeal, she settled for a brilliant smile and a firm handshake. "Yes, sir! I think you'll find I can bring a lot to your schemes."

"Really? Your lab? Already? Really? Doomsday devices and everything??" Seeing another mad scientists' lab was as exciting to Jane as shoe shopping with an unlimited credit card might be to another girl. It took a great deal of effort not to dance in place.

"If you're looking for another place to stay, my parents bought me a place a few houses down." She was already craning her neck around, wondering where the secret entrance to his lab might be. "I think it's at least as big as this place and it's just got me."

[drhorriblesblog]

When they reached the entrance, it was just a door. He grimaced, knowing full well what she would have expected. "Unfortunately there's no secret entrance here yet. We only moved a few weeks ago, I haven't had time." The secret entrance at the old place had been something to be proud of. A whole false back to the pantry, virtually undetectable

[freelancertexas]

Just at that moment, the sound of heavy boots was coming around the corner, and the six foot woman with short, sharply cut red hair and piercing green eyes, was coming around the corner. She was dressed casually in jeans, a long-sleeve t-shirt and a light coat.. what wasn't casual was the fact that she had a very large handgun strapped to her thigh, that was so big it ended up being almost as long as her thigh. She might have been looking to pass right through the room they were in, but once she saw the new girl, Tex came to an instant halt and just stared at her

[drhorriblesblog]

Of course Dr. Horrible had a monitoring system that would tell him where people were in the house at any given time. When it alerted him that Tex was home, he figured now was as good a time as any to introduce her to Jane. Locking up behind the two of them, he escorted the girl upstairs, closing the basement door behind them just as Tex entered.

He'd lived with Tex quite a while now, and wasn't intimidated by her stare. He folded his arms and stared back. Until the comment about getting himself a new girl, at which he blinked, then rolled his eyes. "Seriously, Tex? She's like twelve years old." Sixteen, but either way, way too young for Tex to be thinking that he'd be thinking of her like that. "This is Jane Davenport. I've accepted her as my new evil intern on a trial basis. She'll be working with me, so do me a kindness and don't shoot her without talking to me first. Jane, this is Tex."