[Thread] Everything is banal and jejune.

[lazyish]

Who: Shikamaru, Light, Adachi; OPEN to cops.
Where: The Terra police station, break room.
When: Noon on Saturday.
Summary: Lunchtime with the guys, just another day.
Rating: G?
Other: One of these is not like the other.

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[cabbagecop]

"Hey, Shikamaru!" As he did every day, Adachi headed over to the other's table with a grin on his face, brown paper lunch bag in hand. "Heh, working hard as usual today? Bet you're going to get promoted before I do, at this rate!"

With a laugh he slid into his usual seat, unpacking his lunch - a can of coke and what appeared to be nearly half of a head of cabbage sandwiched in between slices of bread. "So, how've things been? How's the chief doing?" He started to unwrap the cellophane on the cabbage-thing, which was presumably a sandwich of some kind.

[vigilancy]

Light followed not far behind Adachi into the break room, suppressing the impulse to roll his eyes at the sound of the other detective's voice. If he would just not talk at least some of the time ... Light deviated from the path to the table, heading instead toward the microwave on the other side of the room.

File neatly tucked under his arm, Light popped the lid off his container of soup, placed it in the microwave, and punched the buttons for the appropriate length of time. He watched the plastic container circle round and round inside the microwave, concentrating on the noise from the machine in an attempt to drown out Adachi's noisy rambling.

[lazyish]

"Oh yeah, real hard," Shikamaru replied sarcastically. "But I don't think they promote interns." He straightened his posture a bit, having been half-slumped out of the uncomfortable folding chair he was occupying. He took a bite of his sandwich and raised one eyebrow at the other's meal but didn't comment on it. Blandest food ever, but Tohru just freaking loved cabbage.

"Dad's in a bad mood lately, watch out," he replied with a shrug. "Maybe it's just me. But I'm doing okay. My ribs are really healing up fast." Or... completely, but he couldn't exactly tell people his sensei had healed broken bones with his bare hands.

Light stalked in and Shikamaru glanced over. He didn't seem to be in the best of moods either, but Shikamaru greeted him anyway, "Hey, Light."

[cabbagecop]

"They should! It'd help to have you working with me, y'know? Might get your dad's wrath off me, especially if he's in a bad mood." Adachi laughed and took a bite of the sandwich with obvious gusto, leaving a slight smear of peanut butter on his lip.

"It's good to hear about your ribs! Don't want anything lasting happening to the star intern." Another chuckle. "I think your dad would kill us all if anything lasting happened to you, after all."

Shikamaru's greeting drew Adachi's attention over, and he waved excitedly over at Light. "Hey, partner! Good to see you!"