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I need to work on these "not writing things" skills
Remember 48 hours ago, when I was absolutely, definitely, in no way shape or form writing a Panic at the Disco Quantum Leap AU?
Spencer slams his fist against the wall as soon as the Imaging Chamber door shuts behind him. "Fuck!" He hits it again for good measure.
"That great, huh?" Jon's leaning over the lab table across the room.
Spencer swings around and lets his head fall back against the wall, harder than necessary. "Sarah's there."
"Sorry, come again?"
"Sarah. Orzechowski. It's 2006 in there and Brendon is her college literature professor."
"And there's a 73% chance that without your intervention, by the end of the week, Brendon will be married to her!" Ryan pipes in cheerfully.
"Thanks, Ryan, that's exactly what I wanted to hear." He pulls off his Project Starbright pin and throws it against the floor. "That's exactly what this week fucking needed. Beckett is trying to take over the project, we're one slip up away from losing funding entirely, so naturally Brendon FUCKING Urie and his swiss-cheese memory picked this week to fall back in love with Sarah 'Runaway Bride' Orzechowski."
"Your concern is entirely for the Project, of course?" Jon asks. "This has nothing to do with your own complex situation re: Dr. Urie?"
"Of course it has to do with my 'complex situation', but it's about more than that. If Beckett gets any inkling that Brendon might be screwing with his own past in there, he owns us. We'd might as well pack up and go home tomorrow."
Ryan blinks the handunit a few times to get his attention. "Look, I care about the happiness of my gay dads just as much as the next supercomputer, but honestly, we could use another physicist of Dr. Orzechowski's caliber on the Project. If we'd had her around six months ago we might not even need to be worrying about Bill Beckett and the Finance Committee right now."
And it's not as if Ryan's wrong. He's a fucking supercomputer, he doesn't do wrong. But even if Sarah's technical know-how (and her grant-writing skills) (and, if Spencer's really going to admit it, her ability to wrap bureaucrats like Beckett around her little finger) would be handy, she'd be a personnel risk in any timeline. When she stood Brendon up at the alter, she shattered his wee genius heart into a billion pieces. Pieces that, incidentally, Spencer had put back together. He's not giving her another chance, even in 2006.
Spencer slams his fist against the wall as soon as the Imaging Chamber door shuts behind him. "Fuck!" He hits it again for good measure.
"That great, huh?" Jon's leaning over the lab table across the room.
Spencer swings around and lets his head fall back against the wall, harder than necessary. "Sarah's there."
"Sorry, come again?"
"Sarah. Orzechowski. It's 2006 in there and Brendon is her college literature professor."
"And there's a 73% chance that without your intervention, by the end of the week, Brendon will be married to her!" Ryan pipes in cheerfully.
"Thanks, Ryan, that's exactly what I wanted to hear." He pulls off his Project Starbright pin and throws it against the floor. "That's exactly what this week fucking needed. Beckett is trying to take over the project, we're one slip up away from losing funding entirely, so naturally Brendon FUCKING Urie and his swiss-cheese memory picked this week to fall back in love with Sarah 'Runaway Bride' Orzechowski."
"Your concern is entirely for the Project, of course?" Jon asks. "This has nothing to do with your own complex situation re: Dr. Urie?"
"Of course it has to do with my 'complex situation', but it's about more than that. If Beckett gets any inkling that Brendon might be screwing with his own past in there, he owns us. We'd might as well pack up and go home tomorrow."
Ryan blinks the handunit a few times to get his attention. "Look, I care about the happiness of my gay dads just as much as the next supercomputer, but honestly, we could use another physicist of Dr. Orzechowski's caliber on the Project. If we'd had her around six months ago we might not even need to be worrying about Bill Beckett and the Finance Committee right now."
And it's not as if Ryan's wrong. He's a fucking supercomputer, he doesn't do wrong. But even if Sarah's technical know-how (and her grant-writing skills) (and, if Spencer's really going to admit it, her ability to wrap bureaucrats like Beckett around her little finger) would be handy, she'd be a personnel risk in any timeline. When she stood Brendon up at the alter, she shattered his wee genius heart into a billion pieces. Pieces that, incidentally, Spencer had put back together. He's not giving her another chance, even in 2006.