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Darcy shrieked, waving her wooden stake around wildly from her place on top of the table.
“Darcy!” Jane shouted as she darted into the lab, moving with surprising speed. She came to a halt once she saw her intern, who appeared to be doing some strange kind of dance on top of her lab table. She raised her eyebrows.
“Uh… Darcy? What are you doing? Are you okay? I heard screaming...” she said.
“Jane!” Darcy cried. “There is a huge spider running around here. I think it’s trying to kill me,” she shouted, clearly quite distressed.
Jane on the other hand, was looking less worried by the second. In fact, she looked a bit annoyed. “Really, Darce? I was kind of in the middle of some pretty sensitive work.”
“You say that about all your work!” Darcy cut in. “This is serious, Jane! It’s seriously serious.”
Jane ignored her. “You’re a vampire slayer. What, you can handle the ‘forces of darkness’,” she said, complete with air quotes, “but not one tiny spider? You took out a nest of spider demons when we were in Chicago for that conference, didn’t you?”
Darcy’s eyes were darting around the room, trying to spot the eight-legged villain. “Okay, first of all, this spider is not tiny! Second of all, you promised not to mention the spider demons ever again. I still have nightmares about that, man, and it’s pretty much the reason I’m kinda terrified of all spiders now, like the one currently plotting my doom. And by ‘took them out,’ I think you mean ‘ran for my life and burned that abandoned hospital to the ground with zero regrets.’ I’m seriously considering doing the same thing here. Tony can build another tower-slash-sky-penis somewhere else for all I care.”
Jane rolled her eyes. “You’re ridiculous. And I- Oh wow. Okay, that is a really large spider,” she said, jumping back as it skittered by. “I’m going to go get Thor.”
“Good idea.”