A-Z Drabble Meme

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1. Pick a letter.
2. Pick a prompt that starts with that letter (ex. K is for Keyhole)
3. Pick a fandom and a character or pairing.
4. Comment, and I'll write you a drabble!

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It was a sad fact that Cecile was usually the only woman in her classes, and almost as commonly, the youngest person in her classes. She had always been the one girl at the playground who sketched out sakuradite processors in her looseleaf binders, and she had resigned herself to this fate. Earl Asplund had told her sagely that genius was a lonely path to walk; and Cecile, widowed at 22, found herself coming close to agreeing. She was at something at a loss to go back to her cheerful life as a social creature. After a long time of suffering, she told herself that if one reclusive, spidery man with an inordinate love of pudding was to be her sole confidant, then so be it.

But as it turned out, she couldn't live like that. So when she saw the Indian woman smoking casually at the back of her thermostatic engineering practicum, she couldn't help but be excited.

She turned to Lloyd when the professor instructed them to form research teams and whispered, "Oh please, let's ask Rakshata Chawla! She just got here from the Militarized Zone of India, she could probably use the encouragement, don't you think?"

Lloyd's expression immediately soured. "Why would I want to add more strangers to our research group? I don't even like listening to my existing partner."

That would be Cecile, who was as good as furniture for all that he thought of her as an actual human being. She said stubbornly, "It's the right thing to do. Look, no one is going over to he-"

"Right and wrong are not scientific concepts and have no place in a classroom," Lloyd muttered. "This is thermostatic engineering. Please go find the ethics class if you're concerned with right actions."

But he muttered it into his textbook, where he was already sketching out the core design components. As far as Cecile was concerned, tacit allowance that he didn't feel strongly either way. She got to her feet with a bright smile and crossed to introduce herself to her new, young, female classmate.

Lloyd finally looked up as they returned, somewhat wary. Cecile opened her mouth to introduce them when Rakshata drawled, "That's your component? It looks inefficient and overpowered."

Cecile looked down at the sketch with some surprise; Lloyd's eyebrow twitched. "Is it still the right thing to do if the reason she has no partner is because she is disagreeable?" he wanted to know.

Cecile smiled a bit apologetically. "I'll leave that to the ethicists..."