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[not_british]

The door opens, and Chase enters the space, a deep-blue coloured file (tox screen tests) in his hand. There is a slightly contemplative (maybe even preoccupied) expression on his face as though he's thinking about something that is taking up quite a bit of his attention span, but once he recognizes his surroundings, he accepts where he is and makes

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[callitavesper]

"Penny for your thoughts?" ask another man at the bar. This man, it should be said, is actually British.

[not_british]

Chase comes out of his zone -- only partially -- and turns to him.

"Oh," he says for lack of anything better. "Yeah."

[callitavesper]

"Long day?"

[not_british]

He nods, reaching for his coffee.

"Yeah -- more like long week, actually."

Long, strange week.

[callitavesper]

"Not long enough to drink," he notes, eying the other man's coffee.

[not_british]

That is true.

"I don't think it'd help me if I was drunk," he says with a wry smile and a slight shrug.

[callitavesper]

"Have something important to do?" Because otherwise, if he'd had a long day he'd at least get something to drink. Not get drunk. Drunkenness isn't his bag.

[not_british]

Chase opens his mouth, then closes it, eyes going to the tox-screen file. "Time stops here, right? So I suppose not," he says.

He puts down his coffee and pauses. "You ever been in a situation where you know it's bad for you, but you do it anyway?"

[callitavesper]

He grins wryly. "Yes."

[not_british]

"And how'd you get out of it?" he asks.

[callitavesper]

He shrugs. "I made the situation better."

[not_british]

Well, that's awfully vague.

Chase resists the urge to sulk, and instead picks up his coffee, taking a sip. "Better," he repeats, frowning a bit. "Yeah."

[callitavesper]

"What sort of situation are you in?"

[not_british]

"Hmm...an odd one," he replies, clearing his throat a bit. "My co-worker and I are being chastised for...having a healthy sex life, I suppose. To put it bluntly."

He shrugs. There is more to that, of course, but he doesn't much like to think about it.

[callitavesper]

He chuckles. He certainly knows that one.

"And your superiors don't think having a healthy sex life is good for your line of work."

[not_british]

"Well, not when we're..." He clears his throat again, "...supposed to be working."

He blames it on Cameron, of course.