Reuben: "Uh. Hi Boss. You called for me?"
The Boss: "Yes. I need you to do something for me."
Reuben: -nervous shuffling- "Anything, right away, Sir."
The Boss: "Go get Artie."
Reuben: "Uh Boss. How do I do that? He has a flower and it's not his time."
The Boss: "I don't mean go reap him. I mean go get him. I just want him to come for a visit."
Reuben. "Oh. Right. Right away." -relieved sigh-
Artie: "What are you doing in my bedroom!"
Reuben: "Boss wants to see you."
Artie: "The boss knows I'm busy." -mumble "sorda"-
Reuben: "That's not my problem. I'm just doing what the boss wants."
Artie: "It's going to be your problem when I kick your butt from here to Stoney Falls. Get out of my house and don't come back until we've got another dead paparazzi."
Reuben: "Artie.. man. You're making this harder than it has to be." -grabs him by the caveman … shirt?-
Reuben: -thoughts- "So glad it's not me the boss wants."
Artie: -thoughts- "Oh great. Just great."
Reuben: "Here ya go, sir."
The Boss: "So. The dynasty non believer returns."
Artie: "Well I obviously believe now so what can I do for you, Boss?"
The Boss: "Reuben - you can go now. Deidre has your next assignment."
Reuben: "Ok Boss. Yes sir. Bye Artie."
Artie: -mumbles- "Coward."
The Boss & Reuben: "What did you say?"
Artie: "I said I can't believe you kept my cowplant." -fake honored sniffle-
The Boss: "Reuben. Go Now or I'll have to think of a new assignment for you."
Reuben: -poof-
Artie: "Oh wait. That's not my cowplant. Mine was blue."
The Boss: "I know you've been having problems lately. Can't seem to stay connected to your thoughts. Your watcher has been absent or cursing when she is nearby. You feel like you're reliving the same moments over and over in time."
Artie: "It's all part of the life. You learn to deal with these oddities. And as for that watcher, she's useless in trying to get some of the problems fixed."
The Boss: "Well I think it's time for you to start over. "
Artie: "Wait. Repeat that. I'm not sure I heard you right."
The Boss: "I want you to start over. Begin Again. Redo the past."
Artie: "Can you repeat that one more time? Talk slower like Mr. Hand here. Sloooooweerrrrrrr."
The Boss: "You know sometimes employing the insane is such a trial. You're going to start over, Artie. New wife, new kids, new home."
Artie: "Now you wait just a minute. We're doing just fine as we are now. I don't need to start over."
The Boss: -turns the chair around and glares up at him- "You will start over because I say so and because I have the souls of your wife, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren in my hands as we speak. You will do this because you have no choice. Do I make myself clear?"
Artie: "Why?"
The Boss: -growl- "Because I said so! Doesn't that mean anything to you?!"
Artie: "Not really, no."
The Boss: "You're going to start over and now because I feel like it, you're going to start over in a town you've never been to before!"
Artie: "Wait. Wha?"
The Boss: "Just go before I change my mind and make you into a Halloween ornament."
Artie: "No. No. No. No. Where in hades in my standing now?!"
Mr. Bigglesworth: "Hidden Springs."
Artie: "Who the heck are you!?"
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