Not so Candid Camera - Tag 45825243-t78-a

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She tried to convince herself that she could report to the higher ups about Amy's situation without the use of the cameras the other woman had agreed to have installed in her office. Liz knew it was humiliating from her own experiance and did nothing to make Amy feel like she wasn't being 'babysat', but there was no choice. Amy had already been

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Logan had put the camera incident behind him the moment he'd chopped the last one in half. Sure, he should have talked to Liz about it. And part of him had wanted to. But the conversation wouldn't have been pleasant, or the least bit constructive, and Logan had decided to ignore the problem for now - unless and until it came back

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Liz noticed a Black Suit trying to mount a new camera when she walked past Amy's office. She paused before sending up one of her little fireballs to melt the device. The suit nearly fell from the ladder, but Liz just shook her head. She had to admit, it did feel kinda good destroying those things.

She paused near Logan's door, unsure what 'face' to put on. She knew the 'bosslady' act didn't earn her a lot of respect from him and she didn't like being that persona anyway. Same went for the bitchface, the sadface or any of the aspects of her personality Liz she wrestled with each day. Liz decided to just wing it. That used to work very well with Logan. Honesty, just talking without thinking. Maybe it would again.

"Hey." She tapped hard enough on the door and spoke loudly enough he could hear. "Logan, you busy?"

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Glaring at the door, Logan exhaled smoke through his nose like an angry bull, even if he was more surly than angry. Because it was Liz. Because it was anybody. Rather than answering like a normal person, he waited the long length of the exhale before getting up and walking over to the door to open it.

"What?" Still more moody than angry, not unlike a teenager who knows he's done something wrong, but refuses to admit that it was wrong. Preemptively defensive about anything she might throw at him, no matter how reasonable. He really wasn't in the mood for this...

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"Hi." She looks him over cautiously, gauging the mood. Liz seems to remember there were times, years ago, when Logan was happy. Or perhaps she's just romanticizing the times he was 'not cranky'. Either way, she hates adding more negativity to his mood, to anyone's really.

"Uh... just wanted to ...uh...keep you informed about the Amy situation." Liz looks away from Logan's eyes. "Someone damaged the cameras we had to set up to monitor Amy, and the replacement just...well...spontaneously overheated." Her use of the word we isn't meant to lump Logan in with her. Far from it. It's more a round about way of telling him she didn't have much of a choice