Jon's late
Tim looked to the clock, mildly uneasy. In the entire time he’d known Jon, Tim had never seen Jon late to anything. Jon was always first in, and last out. But it was 9:18 and no sign of Jon. He couldn’t figure out why it put him off so much, but last time Tim didn’t trust his gut...
“Think boss’s got cold feet for his first day?” Tim walked to Sasha’s desk. He needed to get outa his head. He was just being paranoid.
“He never seemed like the type for it. Though, can’t say I ever noticed him radiating confidence. This does seem a bit off for him not to be on time, regardless the reasons.” She looked up to the clock to notice the time. “Think maybe he stopped in to talk with Elias before heading down? Elias does like to hear his own voice.” They both let out a snicker at that. Elias was quite the long winded sort.
“That seems more likely.” Tim grabbed hold of a solved rubix cube from Sasha's desk and started to mess it up. “Think he would-” Tim was cut off by Jon entering, who was looking a little bit off from his normal Jon-ness. “Oh hey, check it out, Boss man is in.”
To anyone that didn’t know what normal Jon-ness would entail, it would be hard to notice. Jon was in his normal clothes, but they appeared to have wrinkles in the undershirt. Jon’s hair wasn’t as tame as he normally wore it. Disheveled wouldn’t have been the right word for it. Jon looked together, but not his normal together look.
Jon smiled nervously. Tim. Sasha. The real Sasha had - has - such a great smile. “G-good morning Tim. Sasha. Where’s Martin? I’d like to go over some things in regards to,” Jon looked around and with a very sudden look of disgust, “this mess I’ve inherited. Was it really this bad?” The archives in their raw, just out of Gertrude’s hands, were far worse than he remembered, especially now that he can Know just by looking. It almost made him sick.
Tim and Sasha looked at each other, exchanging wordlessly that they agreed something was off, when Tim responded. “I mean, yeah? This place has been chaos for years? Not like we’ve gone and messed it up more in 25 minutes we've been here. Martin’s in the break room. I can get him.”
Jon nodded. “Thank you. No need to rush him. Once he is done I’d like to see the three of you in my office. I’ll start setting up.” Jon seemed more sheepish than normal as he hurried to his office and left the door open slightly. Maybe the shift to boss was harder on Jon, Tim mused.
Sasha looked over to Tim with a raised eyebrow. “Jitters looks like?”
Tim nodded as he set down the rubix cube he was messing with. “Yup. Looks like it.”
“Dude, Tim! Fix it if you are gunna play with that.”
“No can do. I tried. Made it worse.” Tim grinned as Sasha punched his arm playfully.