[ Athos himself is stuck at work until at least late afternoon, and he isn't entirely pleased about it. For one because he's not actually doing anything that feels useful, even if he knows intellectually that this kind of cross-checking data work is precisely what helps other cops get the information they need in what is typically a time-sensitive manner. Paperwork having been filed incorrectly, late, or simply having not been transcribed yet from paper to pixels has been a burr in his side more times than he can recall. This is useful, this is what gets bad guys.
It's just hard to feel that while he's two-cheeks-deep in his desk chair all day long. But he can't complain too much - the only reason he has the time for this is because they don't currently have any open cases to be working on, and his cold cases are still just that: cold. He doesn't have anything else to do, and so it's time to do the things that are literally the lowest of the low on his list of priorities.
It helps that the Captain has actually told all three of them that if they don't get their paperwork at least up-to-date-as-of-a-month-ago then they can watch any new interesting cases go to Marsac's squad, and none of them particularly want to see that happen.
But he does finish up (mostly - part of it is just Treville coming out of his office and telling them all to go home because he's tired of seeing Aramis mope around the office) eventually, and he packs his things back up and makes the journey home.
He's not precisely expecting to find Charles with his face squarely buried in a pillow when he arrives. He carefully sets his things down, watching the other man, before he decides to venture a guess. ]
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It's just hard to feel that while he's two-cheeks-deep in his desk chair all day long. But he can't complain too much - the only reason he has the time for this is because they don't currently have any open cases to be working on, and his cold cases are still just that: cold. He doesn't have anything else to do, and so it's time to do the things that are literally the lowest of the low on his list of priorities.
It helps that the Captain has actually told all three of them that if they don't get their paperwork at least up-to-date-as-of-a-month-ago then they can watch any new interesting cases go to Marsac's squad, and none of them particularly want to see that happen.
But he does finish up (mostly - part of it is just Treville coming out of his office and telling them all to go home because he's tired of seeing Aramis mope around the office) eventually, and he packs his things back up and makes the journey home.
He's not precisely expecting to find Charles with his face squarely buried in a pillow when he arrives. He carefully sets his things down, watching the other man, before he decides to venture a guess. ]
Poor day?