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[Diego is sitting calmly in the corner table near the window at Common Grounds, a classy little coffee house not far from the government offices where he works. There are seven empty cups of coffee on the table and one more full one in his hand

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[Someone looks pretty damn pissed about what's going on in that coffee shop.]

Five minutes and I'll be there. I'll bring an ambulance.

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I assumed you drank coffee because you liked it.

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I do. That's all. [He just likes it enough to drink 30 some odd cups a day.]

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Would you say you're addicted to it?

[She smiles briefly.]

Not that it's a particularly bad addiction. I'm just asking.

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Nooo. [He just grins at her.]

Addicts are out of control with their behavior. I simply choose my rate of consumption.

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[She laughs quietly.]

You've built a tolerance to it.

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Since college. [The only time he ever notices the caffeine in his coffee is when he can't taste it in his decaf, or when he drinks a little too much decaf.]

There were a lot of dark nights made brighter by the warm embrace of Lady Java.

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[She tries not to laugh.]

Don't you sound like the romantic.

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I thought that would have been the first thing you noticed about me.

[He rests his elbow on the car door, taking a deep breath.] I suppose this was an instance where my dormant powers weren't all that bad.

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I figured you were something of a philosopher with all the coffee metaphors you have.

[She smiles at him.]

Helpful too. Thank you.

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About time it starts to do me some good. [Well, here and back during the AGI trial when someone tried to drug him personally. He hasn't brought up the possibility that this might have been a personal attack on him, mostly because he doesn't really want to consider it.]

I could have had eye lasers, and they stick me with an iron stomach.

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It keeps you from suffering from anything you happen to eat, at least.

[She glances over at him.]

...You would have wanted eye lasers?

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At least. [Too bad it's a little late for that in some respects.]

Ha...! Well now, if I was able to choose, I would have wanted something a little more exciting than hypermetabolism. What little boy sits in his room playing with action figures and imagining they can swallow a jug of drain cleaner in a single bound?

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Who the hell would try drain cleaner, of all things?

[She shakes her head, pausing to turn a corner down the side street.]

It's useful, though, even if there are probably some things that will still get to you.

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[He just clears his throat slightly at that.]

It's tolerant of my medications so long as the dosage is precise. A little too much of this or that and it'll be a repeat of last year when it wiped out my pH prescription.

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[Re-l sighs briefly, reaching over to put her hand on his.]

I didn't mean your medications. [Though now she can worry some more, thanks.] I meant... You know, things like drugs or poisons being slipped into your system.