Pre-RE 2. (for Sherry-Mun)
Life in the Birkin household should have been frought with peril.
Day by Day William and Annette dealt with things that would have driven any sane person mad and any mad person sane. He liked that analogy. It explained why he hadn't stuck a fork in his employer.
Oh it wasn't that he didn't enjoy the work. Between Mutant experimentation and actual work, it was rather tedious. No, some people flung words that managed still to sting, and when his co-workers questioned how someone like him could manage to head an entire facility...
It was through work. Hard work. Damaging work. Annette had gone to sleep hours ago and he stared, wide awake, at a computer screen listing his equations and organizing his notes.
He hated leaving things unfinished by nature. Not at such a critical stage. Outside his office window an owl hooted and a full moon shown bright...
He clacked his hands on the keys. Perhaps it'd be prudent to leave. Go back to the lab and finish there..
Day by Day William and Annette dealt with things that would have driven any sane person mad and any mad person sane. He liked that analogy. It explained why he hadn't stuck a fork in his employer.
Oh it wasn't that he didn't enjoy the work. Between Mutant experimentation and actual work, it was rather tedious. No, some people flung words that managed still to sting, and when his co-workers questioned how someone like him could manage to head an entire facility...
It was through work. Hard work. Damaging work. Annette had gone to sleep hours ago and he stared, wide awake, at a computer screen listing his equations and organizing his notes.
He hated leaving things unfinished by nature. Not at such a critical stage. Outside his office window an owl hooted and a full moon shown bright...
He clacked his hands on the keys. Perhaps it'd be prudent to leave. Go back to the lab and finish there..