Goose Chase!

[Danny McFlorry]

The soft rumble of someone snoring filled the small security post at the gate. He hadn't ment to fall asleep, it was his first time pulling the graveyard watch, and nothing was happening. He had started out pumped enough, but after an hour of nothing- his mind started to wander. The wrestling magazines were flipped through, and the shooter game on his cell phone was played until his phone battery finally gave out. He'd taken a trip to the cafeteria and gotten some coffee, along with a few sweet pasteries. That Betsy sure did treat him good, definitely his favorite of the cafeteria workers. It was with a belly full of sweets, and a mind full of sweet thoughts about Miss Betsy, that he'd fallen asleep.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Falling out of his snooze, and chair- he looks about frantically trying to figure out what the blazes that sudden noise was. It took a few moments but his eyes finally fell onto an alarm clock well hidden beneath the desk. Pulling it out, he looks down at a small note attached to the outside.

What did I tell you about sleeping on the job, Danny?

That was Boss, he knew Danny better than anyone else. Smiling, he turns the alarm off, and plops the little contraption down onto the top of the desk. Then lifting himself from the floor he grabs his night stick, and heads out to take a stroll about campus and check on things. It was still quiet, and he was still a little on the groggy side. So when a sudden cat leaps from the bushes and races across the lawn, it causes him to jump and cry out in surprise. Once he manages to calm himself down a bit, he waves his stick about in the air, with a hearty chuckle.

" You silly goose, g'thing nobody was around t'see that. "

As the words left his lips there was a sudden popping noise, and a white goose comes lumbering out of the bushes. Wings flapping, honking and making all sorts of a racket. Looking from the goose, and then back towards bushes he gets that all too familiar feeling... He'd done something, but wasn't quite sure what yet. Ignoring the goose for now, he goes over to the bushes and has a quick look-see. There he finds a backpack, along with a rumpled set of boys clothes. Groaning, he starts off running after the goose, calling loudly as he does.

" Oi! Get back 'ere, Boss'll kill me if I hav'ta wake him up! "

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Tagged: Rick "Boss" McIntyre

Notes: I know it's a swan in the picture.