The Deck - Saturday Afternoon

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Chuck would be the first person to admit that he preferred winter weather infinitely more to summer weather, but that didn't mean he didn't enjoy the sudden bout of sun and warmth. He was heading back to New York tomorrow for break and he knew that it was going to be effing freezing there. So he was enjoying the nice weather while he could.

He was leaning back into one of the deck chairs wearing shorts and a button-down shirt. There was a book in his hand and a Screwdriver (the drink, not the tool) on the ground beside him.

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[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"Phones, for example, are very underrated pitfall-wise," Jeff confided, "Just starting with the fact that you never know who might be answering it."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Chuck nodded. "This is true."

"You know, in New York, a girl runs a website that tracks everything you're doing. She goes by Gossip Girl," Chuck said. Yeah, he might be aware of the fact that he might be making Jeff paranoid by sharing this. "She has spies that follow your every move and takes pictures on their phones. Then she sends out text messages to every one in the city telling them about your business."

Okay, so it was more like only the Upper East Side and Chuck himself has sent in stuff to Gossip Girl before. Still, he was merely trying to prove Jeff's point about phones and their danger.

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

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Jeff looked at him. "I always knew about the secret listeners," he said, his voice low and serious. "People told me I was mad, but there's been squirrels, and now there's secret spies around. I've known it since that incident with Mary Simmons and the answering machine. Well, alright, I've known it since my mother told me about the Captain. ...Perhaps he's dating Gossip Girl."

That made him nervous. Being Jeff, the difference wasn't really visible.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Chuck only understood about a third of that. "Regardless of who she is dating, I don't think you need to worry about her here. She's mostly based in New York. No, you only have to worry about the squirrels here. And they are easily bribed with nuts and rum."

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"I know, I used to do radio," he said, shrugging lightly. "I think the Captain is mostly based out of the UK. Maybe the squirrels are splitting the contracts."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"That's pretty smart business-wise," Chuck had to admit. "It's a pity they don't have much use for money. They could be make a lot if they wanted."

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"Well," Jeff said, thinking about it for a minute, "They do get an awful lot of nuts."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"But with money they could buy...I don't know, more stylish fedoras or something," Chuck said. And bow ties. Yes. Those squirrels needed bow ties.

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"I think fedoras might be more of a hazard if you're attempting to spy on people, though," Jeff said, wisely. "Besides, they might simply be trying to duck their taxes."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"I think if there's one thing a squirrel doesn't have to worry about, it's taxes," he said. Unless there was some sort of animal tax system he didn't know about.

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"How else do they get paid?" Jeff asked, "I know there's a pirate in charge, but even pirates have to pay taxes these days, you can't get rid of them."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Maybe he gets to write them off or some--" Chuck stopped in mid-sentence. "We're talking about squirrel taxes."

He wasn't really used to talking about weird things, even after being here for a few months.