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*...sighs* Ugh...why was it *always* you...? She hadn't slept in lord knows how long now; not that she *needed* to sleep, per se...but a recharge sure would have been better than the millionth cup of coffee would have. Pinching the bridge of her nose between a finger and her thumb, she sighed. The last test she was running wasn't going so smoothly, and she just *knew* she'd have to scrap it sooner than later. Hours upon *hours* of work, lost; entire month's worth of dedication, down the drain. And it wasn't as if she could just *re-create* the whole thing all over again...quantum entanglement....didn't work like that. Her ears pricked up by the sound of timid footsteps approaching her lab; she turned, seeing the door creak open and a familiar face peeking out from behind the clear panelli…