Rec Room - Day 39 (Afternoon) - Finished

[notacactus]

For all the advances in technology, there were still some things that couldn't be done in an instant. Which left Jay with an hour and a half to kill before her cultures developed to the point where they were viable for testing. Rather than rattle aimlessly around the lab until then - and more importantly, rather than get too intimately acquainted

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[im_a_donnie]

Donnie didn't normally frequent the recreation room. But this wasn't a particularly normal day. In the labs, everyone was still talking obsessively about Lt. Uhura and Commander Spock. Donnie had gotten so sick of it that he left. He had absolutely no care of their relationship and there was no reason to care what each was going to do and what rumors were flying about who they were seeing either.

He found himself, by some happenstance of fate, in the rec room. It was quiet here. He passed another scientist, the one with the spiky head. He paused. He backtracked.

"There," he said, pointing to a card. "If you put that there you-you can move the whole line over."

[notacactus]

"Hmm?" Jay glanced up, and then back down at the cards. "Oh, thanks." She made the move and looked up at him again. "I know you, don't I? I think I've seen you at department meetings."

[im_a_donnie]

"I dunno," Donnie said quickly, almost defensively. He glanced at her. "Maybe." He glanced at her again and his eyes narrowed.

"You're a chemist," Donnie said finally and pointed at her. He sat down. "I've looked at your w-work. It's really interesting. I don't usually--I-I'm not usually intrigued by the organic sciences." He balled and unballed his fist several times while talking to her, looking at the table instead of her.

"You have some-uh-some unique ways of looking at things. M-maybe you can help me. I'm doing a double blind experiment. Maybe you can double check the molecular structure of--"

He was getting ahead of himself.

"Uhm. I'm Dr. Donnie Beck. Lieutenant. Donnie's fine. I work in the physics department. Quantum--and in the computer lab," Donnie said. He would admit that even he sounded particularly fractured to himself today. His mood had made focusing on a single thought near impossible.

[notacactus]

"Oh- thank you," Jay said, slightly surprised. She set the card she was holding aside - this showed every sign of being a conversation she was going to have to concentrate on. "Jda Zagri," she responded; "Call me Jay. What were you saying about an experiment...?"