Alexander Samuel Bailey (water_works) wrote in genome_project, @ 2010-10-22 21:14:00 |
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Entry tags: | october 2010 |
Who: Alex and Bast.
What: Alex and Bast get stuck in an elevator together.
Where: Court house.
When: Friday morning.
Rating: PG-13.
Taking time off from work was always great. Except when the reason for taking off time was to run tedious errands that just couldn’t be put off for much longer. And it wasn’t like Alex was going to be having any sort of fun at all while running these errands. Heck. How much fun could one have at a court house anyway? He had been sitting inside the court room, watching criminal after criminal walk by and have his or her case heard. Okay, they weren’t exactly criminals, just poor, miserable people who’d run red lights and let their parking meter expire or something. All in a day’s work, Alex expected.
Finally, after about two hours of sitting there and waiting, his case came up. Apparently, he’d been driving around with a busted tail light and hadn’t even noticed until recently when he was pulled over and given a ticket for it. It was a waste of money and time in his opinion, but now, all he wanted was for this to be over with. He was already bored stiff as the judge looked over his record as well as the police report. It wasn’t long until the judge threw down the gavel. Alex was expecting 30 to life for his most terrible indiscretion, but apparently, the brilliant cop who had given him the ticket had written the wrong citation.
A technicality. He’d gotten off on a technicality. Such was his luck. And it was likely the reason why he had on a bright smile as he entered the elevator on that Monday morning with several other people. It was great. He’d still have to get that tail light fixed, but at least he didn’t have to worry about the ticket any more. As the elevator descended, more and more people got out at different floors. Alex was busy paging through the sports section of today’s paper and didn’t notice that there was one other person left with him on the elevator when suddenly...
Everything went black, and the elevator lurched to a stop. Alex blinked for a moment to get his eyes used to the darkness when the emergency lights came on. He looked up at the blank panel on the elevator that once contained numbers that lit up. Nothing. There was a total and complete outage except for the emergency lights. Calmly as ever, Alex folded up his paper, tucked it under his shirt and sighed.
“Fantastic.”