The mountains of paperwork made her wish for the return of her superspeed, as if she didn't miss it every second of every day.

The ledgers were kept in books, filled with row upon row of Sand's neat, cramped handwriting. Jesse computerized the whole thing.

The Despero disaster had required a new collection of museum exhibits and the update was only half-done. Jesse finished it.

The membership records were spotty from the time Black Adam had taken off with Atom-Smasher to the recent losses. Jesse updated them.

No one had planned for the Christmas season. So Jesse assigned everyone tasks and supervised the entire operation herself.

"Busy?"

"Rick!" Jesse turned around, letting her clipboard fall to her side. "Aren't you supposed to be in the kitchen?"

"I had a flash," Rick Tyler told her, leaning against the doorframe.

"Oh, no." Jesse closed her eyes and collapsed against the doorframe next to him. "What did you see?"

"About an hour ago," he said, looking down at her fondly. "I saw you. Under the mistletoe."

Author's Note: Jesse Quick lost her powers lending her speed to Wally at the end of... I think it was the Ignition storyline in Flash. Jay Garrick brought her in to be the office manager for the JSA. The Despero incident is in JLA/JSA Virtue and Vice. Black Adam and Atom-Smasher took off at the beginning of the Princes of Darkness arc (I think). Eclipso (Alex Montez) went off to join them at the end of the arc and Sand, whose inheritence was funding the JSA, sacrificed himself to save the earth in JSA #50, but there's no reason to think he won't be back. (Especially as Geoff Johns told me he would.) Rick Tyler is Hourman, son of the original Hourman, with the power to amp up his strength, speed, and invulnerability for an hour a day and the power to see random "flashes" of things that will happen an hour in the future. Jesse had a crush on Rick in a previous JSA series and he finally seems to have caught on.

Dude, the notes are longer than the fic.