❛ i assure you, i won’t get in your way, ❜ orochimaru remarks, one amused eyebrow raised as sasori leafed through his qualifications. ❛ and yes, to answer your question— they did say something of the sort. though one might argue that people like us don’t ever really stop working on things, do we? it’s not as if we spend years of our short lives on projects only to close the book on that train of thought entirely once we run out of paper. ❜
he observes quietly as sasori goes about their way, failing to suppress a smirk when they hit the coffee machine. a type A sort of person, he supposes, likely competitive to a fault and impatient with their lab assistants. probably high blood pressure and a caffeine addiction, too.
well. orochimaru always did like a challenge.
he helps himself to a small espresso once sasori’s done, and settles into his seat, sipping at the bitter liquid delicately
❛ my. no rest for the wicked, i see. ❜ orochimaru can’t help but chuckle at his new partner’s choice of words— expiration date! how refreshing. in his last lab they’d practically suffocated their researchers with sensitivity seminars. ❛ so? what are we looking at here? i take it production’s been frozen and recalled until we finish the investigation. ❜
“ Paper? How old fashioned. I put my thoughts in my phone. ”
Loathe though they were to admit it, Sasori...appreciated the interest in their professional endeavors. Their poor ‘bedside manner’, as it were, made their work unpopular, too.
“ Orochimaru, was it? With hebi in the middle? ”
The acknowledgement of the other’s name, and of how Orochimaru had observed their own name, was Sasori’s way of extending the proverbial olive branch. For now, they could play at being civil. Glancing over their shoulder, the thin scientist leaned their hip against the desk and quietly observed how Orochimaru occupied the space they were used to filling alone. The other was, undoubtably, a much larger presence.
“ Mmm. Yes-- it’s a cancer drug. The public got hopeful after one child survived an experimental drug for a blood infection, and now...here we are. I believe the body count was only up to three before they caught it. ”
Sasori spoke with the tone of one that had memorized a case file. They were visibly uninterested in this public relations fiasco-- but, a paycheck was a paycheck.
“ It never made it to clinical trials. I presume you know how to use a blood analyzer-- I’d like to move straight to that stage, soon as the paperwork is filed. ”
Here, Sasori crossed the room to slump back into their office chair. Their eyes flicked up, regarding Orochimaru from over the lip of the mug clasped in both hands. They hoped the reputation that had preceded the curiosity before them was some variety of truthful.
“ There’s more money to be made in expedited results. ”
theartofmadeline
dailybridgerton
discoholicmusic
jimmyeatworldofficial
2087
germansingergirl
vaporwave
gamechangershow
