Nov 14, 2020 13:46:46 GMT -5
It wasn't often that Elena found herself with time off, given how good her job is at keeping her busy. But after finally wrapping up a particularly grueling and nasty case that she'd been working on, her higher-ups saw fit to give her a few days off to rest and recuperate from the whole ordeal; normally, she might be tempted to insist that she's just fine and could keep working, but in this instance, she wasn't going to argue with them. A few days off sounded like exactly what she needed, so she graciously accepted the offer. It almost felt strange, not having a dozen things that need to be taken care of all at once, but at the end of the day, the good detective wasn't really complaining. Besides, they'd be fine without her for at least a few days. Probably.
Either way, since it had been a while since she last got the chance to do so, she decided to stop at her father's restaurant, a charming little hole in the wall that offers a wide variety of Chinese food, both authentic and "Americanized". Since it was a slow day, she got to sit down and visit with her parents for a while, eager to catch up with them and pleased to see that business was otherwise going well. Weekdays were always a bit spotty on how many customers he got, but the weekends often made up for it and then some. Occasionally, when she had the spare time, Elena would help out by serving as a waitress, but the place was just small enough her parents were able to get by with just the two of them; her mother waiting tables and her father doing all of the cooking.
Regardless, after a pleasant four or five hours of catching up and telling fun stories about work, Elena looked at the clock and decided to call it a day and head home. Always fussing over his daughter, her father saw fit to send her home with a bag of about a dozen freshly-fried egg rolls. It was true that she really liked them; the pork and cabbage filling was to die for. But she couldn't handle this many. Needless to say, the sight of the detective walking down the sidewalk holding a grease-soaked paper bag filled with enough egg rolls to feed five or six people was quite the sight, though she was long past caring what others thought of her. That said, she was looking forward to getting home and digging in. She'll figure something out with the leftovers later.
