They really needed to figure out a better schedule with the two little beasts that were currently at Octavia’s heels trying to keep up. One would stop to sniff something one second and then the other would start wandering off wanting to make friends with a random bird on the street. She tugged on the dog’s leashes and kept walking towards the base where she was set to meet Becker so he could take over dog duty. They were fine back at the apartment, but after a couch incident that left stuffing across the entire room, she didn’t want to deal with cleaning that up again for a while. Besides, sometimes they actually did a decent job in keeping her company during slow days when she wanted to throw the mountain of mission reports out a window.
“Alright, boys, up we go,” Octavia said to the two cocker spaniels, Loufa and Buka, and took the stairs rather than the elevator. Their little legs could use the exercise, and she just preferred the stairs to the elevator anyway.
Once on their floor, she ignored any weird looks from people passing by as she walked towards the offices. She dropped a folder off in her own office and then stopped next door to Becker’s. The door was closed, so she knocked and waited a second with no answer. He normally always answered, so opened up the door to make sure and sure enough the office was empty. Octavia sighed and looked down at the two mutts with a shake of her head. They’d already forced their way through the cracked door and made themselves at home by running in circles after each other around and underneath the desk.
“He’ll kill me if I just leave you guys in here alone,” she said to herself. For a brief moment, she actually considered it as retribution for not being here to take them, but quickly decided against it. There was no telling the amount of terror they’d cause by themselves while shut up inside an office.
While trying to figure out what to do with them, Octavia yawned and stretched out her arms. She was all of a sudden very tired. Having a good mind to shut the door so the pups couldn’t escape, she ended up laying down on the floor in front of Becker’s desk on her side. It only took her a moment to fall asleep and didn’t even feel the dogs jumping on and over her until they too decided it was time for a nap with one curled up at her feet and the other laying across her side like a furry blanket.
Shit it was a long day. The teams were off into space doing their spacey type things, a fucking ship was discovered in space and had vanished, Becker had left the team in charge of handling long enough to remember to get a birthday gift for Sharon which was why he wasn’t in his office at the time of Octavia showing up with the monster furballs.
Juggling the stupid amount of paperwork, the gift he’d gotten Sharon and a few other odds and ends he opened his door with a sigh. He was looking forward to some peace and…
WOOF!Crash. Loufa sounded off jumping up and spinning around as Buka sat up quickly shaking off sleep, the two puppies ran towards him with tails wagging all the while all the crap in his arms went flying out of his hands and onto the floor, hell half the papers looked to cover up a sleeping body on the floor. “Blood-” he started but stopped mid curse.
“BLAKE!” His voice low and demanding as he frantically tried to keep the puppies in the office and pick up the crap he’d just dropped.
She was in the middle of a dream in that she was having a full-on conversation with her horse when she felt something jab into her ribs and the sound of her name loud in her ear. Octavia’s eyes shot open and she winced again when one of the dogs stepped on her stomach this time. “What the…” Sitting up, she realized she had just been asleep on the floor. Of an office. Becker's office.
Shit, she thought to herself and started helping him pick up some of the papers that had flown all over the floor. She blinked her eyes a few times trying to force herself to properly wake up, but being jolted awake hadn’t helped. She didn’t embarrass easily, but fuck if she wasn’t a little embarrassed for having been asleep right in the middle of the floor of his damn office.
Grabbing hold of one of the dogs before he made a dash for the door, she held Buka like a football under her arm as she stood up. “I…, yeah. I don’t even know. I don't remember falling asleep.” Or laying down in the middle of the floor. “Sorry.”
It was comical and Becker knew he shouldn’t want to laugh but man was he close to breaking and cracking up at the look of Octavia on the floor looking confused with all the papers he’d dropped. She looked kind of, well, that wasn’t something he was willing to think.
“You don’t remember falling asleep.” It wasn’t a question it was a statement as he started to cross his arms. “With the dogs.” He added after a long pause. “On the floor of my office.” He added again after a pause.
“Well? Are you planning on going back to bed?” He asked.
“No,” she said with a shake of her head. “I came to drop off the dogs and when you weren’t here, and well…” Octavia motioned to the floor. “You saw what happened.” She couldn’t tell if he was annoyed, amused, or just aghast at where he’d found her. If it had been the other way around she probably would have just been surprised and also probably a little amused. Okay, a lot amused.
She gave him a deadpan look. “No, I’m not going to go back to bed.” Even though she probably could go back to sleep. She’d been jolted awake, and her heart was still beating fast, but she also had that tired feeling from being woken up in the middle of a deep sleep. One that involved talking horses, apparently.
“Not unless you add a mattress and some pillows then maybe we’d be in business.”
"I saw the aftermath of what happened, not exactly what happened," he corrected trying really hard not to smirk but keep a flat look on his face.
Nodding as she insisted she wasn't going to go back to bed until the mattress comment he shrugged. "Doesn't everyone keep a spare mattress and pillows in their offices around here?" He said completely seriously. Looking away from her he moved around the side starting to pick up some of the papers he'd dropped when surprised by the dogs. "I thought they were regulation."
“If they're regulation then I got left out of that office upgrade. Maybe I should sneak in here more often.” she said. Sometimes she couldn't always tell if he was kidding, but she knew him well enough to know that he probably wasn't serious with that comment. For all she knew there could be some secret button in the office that transformed the offices into a master suite, but she highly doubted it even if that would be something Atlantis might do.
Octavia put the dog back on the floor and helped him pick up some of the papers he'd dropped. Once everything was off the floor, she stood up and glanced at her phone to check the time. “Well, since the meeting I was supposed to be in is ten minutes from being over, I guess that one's a wash.”
"Send a request in." He remarked but let it drop. He wasn't serious but he did everything in his power to look and act as though it was a perfectly normal option in the offices. As he thought about it thought it wasn't such a bad idea given that sometimes he spent the night in the office because of whatever the hell was going on.
Looking at everything on his desk he wasn't looking forward to going through it all. Paperwork was the worst.
"Which meeting was it?" He asked glancing over at her.
“Not a mattress, but I might consider putting in a request for a couch that would work just as good.” This time it wasn’t quite sure if she was the one who was serious or not. It would fit just right on the side of her office.
“Just a run-down of some of the team changes with the latest arrivals and departures. I’ll get the list and send it over to you, but most of it we probably already know anyway.” Octavia watched the dogs run around a bit more and end up rolling around between the two of them as they pounced at each other with their paws and played together.
“Do you need me to help you with anything? Unless you’re worried I might end up passed out on the floor again.”
Nodding, Becker hated the coming and going of people and how it messed with teams and people. It wasn’t easy when they were constantly switching.
“I don’t need anything else, I’ll take these two for a walk and get them a little tired, you go catch up on everything you missed, and don’t fall asleep again.” Becker laughed shaking his head.
Bending down he hooked each dog on its leash before nodding towards the door. Hell a walk might be a good distraction for him too.
“Ha, ha,” she said with a roll of her eyes. She followed him out the door and headed the short ways down the hall to her office. She planned to get some notes together from someone who had actually been to the meeting she’d missed, but as soon as she sat down at her desk, she wasn’t so sure if she would make it or not. Instead of getting straight to work, she decided to go for a coffee run. A very strong coffee run to help keep her eyes open for the rest of the afternoon.