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| imjuzakyd |
 Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:06 am |
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Late Night Meetings
“Working late, as always.”
He looked up from the pile of paperwork he was analyzing and was met by a sweet, charming smile. It took all of his energy not to smile back as happily as he would wish, lest he wanted her to realize what he had been thinking moments ago. Instead, he offered a small, sincere smirk and turned back to his work.
“Really Adam, you’re overworking yourself,” she continued, crossing her arms and remaining rooted in the entrance of the lab. “Don’t you have better things to do?”
“Like what?” he inquired, not daring to look at her lest she noticed the quivering of his voice.
“Like sleep, for example?” she answered, shaking her head in exasperation. “Or eat, for that matter. I mean, come on, even world geniuses eat once in a while you know.”
He shook his head and looked up. She was getting the best of him without her even knowing. “All right, all right. Tell you what, I’ll just finish this folder, and then I’ll get myself a cup of coffee.”
He saw her frown, blue orbs disappearing from squinted eyes, and five more seconds she was standing beside him, pulling him up and leading him to the kitchen.
“Emma I’m fine, really…”
“Hush. One more word and I’ll psy-blast you to make you eat a decent meal.”
He protested no more and allowed her to sit him on a vacant chair, and he watched her open the fridge and take out the leftover dinner they had four hours ago. She headed for the stove and reheated the fried noodles she cooked for the team, glancing back occasionally to make sure that the scientist hadn’t escaped her and headed back to his lab.
He thanked her when she gave her his plate. “Another specialty, I assume?”
“Heh,” she smirked, walking over the counter to get a glass of water. She placed the glass in front of him and smiled kindly. “After that you go to bed okay? No more work for tonight. Not unless you want me sneaking up on you again and blasting you to thy kingdom come.”
He was about to protest but before he could, she was already out the door. He shook his head and picked up his chopsticks, admiring the smell of the food laid in front of him. He wished she had stayed a little longer, chat with him for a while. But he knew that she was tired as well. Saving the world was one occupation that could really extract one’s energy and strength. So he didn’t blame her, nor any one in the team, if they were all beaten up by the end of the day.
Shaking his head and smiling to himself he took a bite out of the noodles and almost immediately grabbed the glass of water in front of him.
“Emma!!!” he growled, realizing too late that the telempath had put too much spices in his food.
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| PsiGen |
| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:00 pm |
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She laughed, running away as he mock chased her - giving up after a few moments as he realised how silly it made him look.
She was half his age for christ's sake, and a member of his team. Thoughts of anything else... were just that. Thoughts.
And with Emma being a telempath even thoughts could be dangerous, he didnt want to upset her or embarass her or worse... encourage her.
Now there was a thought....
Noodles forgotten, Adam idly played with the algorithm he'd been preparing, not seeing the computer screen a half hour later.
He fell asleep at his terminal, waking early the next morning in need of a shower.
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| imjuzakyd |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:40 am |
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He finished showering half an hour later, and realized that two bites from the spicy fried noodles didn't do much to satisfy his hunger. Against his better judgement he headed towards the kitchen and stopped dead on his tracks when he spotted two figures near the counter.
"Smells good," he heard Jesse say, the molecular's right arm wrapped around Emma's small waist and his chin resting on her left shoulder. Emma was chuckling, allowing the molecular to stay close and savor the smell of her famous pancakes. "If you keep on sniffing that, we'd all end up with no breakfast," she kidded him. As a response Jesse bit her shoulder playfully, and received a light slap on the arm as a response. "Jesse! Stop acting like a..." Emma was about to say when she saw Adam in the doorway. She offered a comical smile. "Sorry, were we too noisy or something?" she asked innocently.
Adam snapped out of his trance and smiled in return. "No, I was just going to make myself a cup of coffee." "Oh, there's a fresh one in the pot, made it earlier so you won't have to bother yourself too much," the psionic replied, her cheerful voice never fading, and turned back to what she was preparing. Jesse remained by her side, playfully picking on her hair and teasing her about trying blue hair dye next time.
Adam watched the playful banter between the two younger members of the team for a couple more minutes, and he slowly felt a light tugging in his heart, forcing him out of the kitchen and not responding to Emma's call that breakfast would be ready in five minutes. |
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| PsiGen |
| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:48 pm |
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Emma frowned at his abrupt departure, letting herself 'skim' the outermost edges of his mind.
What was wrong? |
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