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connor was sure he could bottle up his exhaustion and sell it as a product with the way it seemed currently to be running in concentrated amounts throughout his body. there really was no explanation for it; he’d been working as normal, felicity was fine, he couldn’t think of any reason why he might be expending more energy than usual. perhaps juggling two full-time careers - as a father, and as a scientist, in order of priority - had finally caught up with him.
he had a think about it, and came to the conclusion that he hadn’t had a proper holiday in, oh, several years. that was rather sad. perhaps at the end of this year, he’d whisk felicity off to some nearby country. the spanish coast might be nice, or italy.
as he deliberated holiday options, connor raised his styrofoam cup to his lips, blowing the steam away. his attention was suddenly captured by a tap-tap-tapping to his left, and he turned to see SKY behind a transparent wall. raising a hand in acknowledgement, connor made to enter the room, then stood by the desk at which she was sitting.
❛ you look about as tired as i feel, ❜ he said by way of greeting. ❛ i would have brought you a coffee, had i’d known you were here. ❜
She rolled her eyes slightly at the comment. “ First Ophelia now you. I’ll sleep later, but I have something more important.”
Sky gave the other a smile as she tapped the chair beside her. “I only have so long before Dr. Smith figures out that I am in fact not ‘resting’. You’d think I was on my death bed.” She snorted at the idea, partly because even though moments before she was tired she was too excited to be now.
“Remember the project I was working on. I got some headway which I think you might want to see. I obviously can’t publish it, but It’s going to be useful.” She looked over her shoulder slightly and seeing that no one was around turned her computer to him and put on her paper.
“Also are you feeling any better?” She didn’t want to outright bring up the fact that he had acted strangely before, but also knew that she should probably talk about the other finding as well.











