Its Glee, Right Pandect?

Who: Amy, Pandect and Jamie
When: Morning
Where: Just A Bakery

Jamie was pretty sure he was a big mess. He hadn't looked at a mirror lately, but having spent the past day painting and getting dripped on... He wasn't a detective, but he had a high enough skill in deduction to figure it out. But ah, who said you had to be paintless to bake? It's not like paint was going into the food...

Ooo. Food coloring! He had to save that one for later...

So after a full day of painting, and a full morning of baking, he sat back down behind the front counter, his head slumped on the desk as he took a break.

Pandect climbed out of his truck and headed for the door, he had a lot on his mind, a lot to think about. And he honestly almost forgot about Amy sitting on the passenger side taking an extra second to do something to her hair until she hopped out and made an irritated sound at him. "You have to wait for me!"

"For what?" Pandect said.

Amy rolled her eyes at him and hooked onto his arm with a steel grip, "You have to go with me!"

Pandect sighed and let Amy drag him in to the bakery. And then she sighed. What was she sighing about? The man was scruffy and covered with paint and looked half asleep. She sidled up to the counter and cleared her throat delicately while Pandect went over to check out the muffins.

Hearing the front door open, Jamie looked up at the customers, giving a small wave to Pandect and Amy.

"'morning," he yawned.

"Hi Jamie," Amy said. "How are you this morning?"

Pandect just kind of backed off, now that he was free of Amy's steel grip he wanted to stay out of range.

"I'm alright," he smiled sleepily in response. "And you?" Glancing behind her briefly at Pandect and nodding to greet him.

Pandect nodded while Amy kind of sighed, "I'm good, its, um, nice to see you."

"Can I have some of those orange muffins?" Pandect said resolutely.

Amy shot Pandect a look, but he was too far out of range for her to grab hold of his arm.

Jamie merely smiled at her statement, as he looked over to Pandect when he was speaking... and... back at Amy when she shot him the look, then back at Pandect... Yeah, his powers of deduction weren't good enough yet, so he just got up, "Yeah, sure," and started to pack the muffins.

"Did you like the ones yesterday?"

"They were delightful, some of the best," Pandect said with a smile. "And half a dozen cookies if you please, the fish ones."

"I liked the muffins too," Amy said, pulling on a lock of hair. "They were awesome."

Nodding, Jamie placed the order in the box, smiling softly, "That's good. M'glad you liked it."

Amy was starting to look discouraged, which had Pandect feeling conflicted, which had him distracted, which allowed Amy to get in close enough range to snag him with one arm and pull him in so she could (once again) treat him like her security blanket. "I like that cake!" she said quickly, so it almost sounded like, 'Ilikethatcake!' "It's pretty."

"Oh?" He looked over at the cake which he'd baked earlier... somewhere in the back of his mind, he went, 'hey, I should make more cakes.' Also: frosting up the cake was fun too. It was like painting! ...with food!

Crazy!

He'd been feeling... landscape-y, just finished painting a sky, so now... how about green fields! Or... field of purple.

Purple was a good color.

"Yeah," she said shyly. "Purple's a good color. Isn't purple a good color Pandect?"

"Sure," Pandect said. "Its a fine color."

Jamie crossed his arms over the desk top and rested his against them, "Yeah, purple was your second favorite color, right?"

Apparently, the fact that the baker remembered this was the most exciting thing that had happened to Amy in her entire life, Pandect would have to pop his shoulder back into place later. He tried to remain dignified through the affair, but his place was only secondary in this drama, like a Greek Chorus. "Yes! It is! Isn't it Pandect?"

"Of course Amy," he said

"So, um, Pandect says you're new in town, didn't you say that Pandect?"

"I seem to recall that, yes," Pandect said.

"You probably haven't had much of a chance to look around town yet," Amy was looking positively gleeful. She was going in for the kill, Pandect resolutely began to study the ceiling.

Jamie just smiled amusedly at the interaction of the two. It was like ping pong, how it bounced back and forth... How would she be without Pandect there to reassure her?

"Not really, yeah." And the times he had wandered... he'd been half asleep, and everything was a blur in his mind. Or it just wasn't there. Mm, sleepiness, it was like a drug. Except without the vivid hallucinations (sometimes).

"I know my way around town," Amy said excitedly. "Don't -"

"Yes Amy," Pandect said preemptively and got a poke in the ribs for his trouble.

"Maybe I could show you around sometime?" she finished, this time all on her lonesome (thank heaven).

Mentally chuckling at the preemptive strike, Jamie gave a slight nod at her offer. "Sure. That'd be cool."

Bracing himself for Amy's 'squee' (as he believed they were called) Pandect tilted his head away, but was surprised when she made no such noise. He could feel though, even with his eyes closed and tilting away to try and protect his hearing, the force of her smile. He opened his eyes slowly to get a look at her. It was like someone had stuck a sun in her mouth. She was beaming. She must really like the baker, well Jamie had to like her as well to agree to go on a date with her. Pandect gave the baker a critical look (he wasn't sure what it was about the ruffled up and dreamy faced baker that got Amy all sunshiny, but then who really understood women? Sometimes he got the feeling that women didn't really understand women) he couldn't be that oblivious not to get the girl had just asked him out.

Amy miraculously unhooked herself from Pandect's arm and rested her chin on her blue and white mittens, like if she didn't hold in the glee it would spill all over the bakery floor, "Some time tonight?"

Wow... She looked really happy, and... maybe, just maybe some of it was getting through his skull. Maybe. ...But not quite yet. Maybe she was just happy to help people around town? There were people like that... people who just liked to help. Yeah.

"Sure thing," he smiled.

"Okay, okay," she beamed at him. "Do you want to meet somewhere? I'd give you my address, but my apartment isn't really fit for company right now. How about sometime around four?"

Pandect felt bad for the poor girl's house getting burglarized, but she'd take his truck over and meet the glass replacement guy there and it's be all neat and pretty in no time.

"Four sounds good. We can meet here, if you want?" Jamie shrugged, offering. It's not like he's booming with business, or like he has any actual... work. Schedule.

"That sounds great!" Amy bounced a couple times on the balls of her feet and latched onto Pandect again, nearly making him drop his muffins in her excitement. "See you later then? Around four?" She started to try and drag him away but he resisted.

"I haven't paid yet Amy."

She clucked at him and pushed him with both mittened hands up to the counter, "My goodness Pandect. What are you waiting for?"

Pandect sighed as he was propelled to the counter and handed Jamie a twenty hidden under a couple of smaller bills, he wasn't going to take no for an answer this time. Jamie deserved to get paid. Hopefully the baker's sleepy eyed obliviousness would hide the fact he had just been paid ten bucks a muffin (not counting the cookies of course, if Pandect kept up this cookie habit he was going to get soft). "No change."

Luckily Pandect was able to exact his escape at the hands of an effervescent Amy who was practically skipping down the sidewalk. Pandect sighed and dropped his keys into her hand. He could deal with the demon, he just didn't want Amy to, he didn't want Amy anywhere near Reiz. "You're sure you can drive shift?"

"Of course," she rolled her eyes and tossed the keys in one mittened hand.

"It runs like butter, so no kicking or jostling or yelling at it," Pandect's eyes were already across the street toward the diner.

"I won't, we'll be fine, both the truck and me."

Pandect just nodded and watched her pull away. Feeling a stiff tingle, inside where his wings where hiding.