somethingwithturquoise: (flattery will get you everywhere)
Summer Smith ([personal profile] somethingwithturquoise) wrote in [personal profile] badassprodigy 2020-12-27 09:48 am (UTC)

When Barry pulled out multiple boxes, when there had already been multiple boxes, Summer managed to pull off another reproachful look, though it didn't last long before the pleased, eager grin took it over. It was obviously way too much, but who was she to, like, totally get in the way of his generosity, or whatever?

"You," she decided firmly. "Because I have so been slacking and you haven't gotten anything yet. Here." She handed over what was easily the largest of the three, maybe half the size of a bread box. How she managed to actually hide it in her suitcase was anyone's guess "Start with this one, but be careful with it."

And opening it, he would see why, because inside was a little microcosm of a terrarium with brightly colored and subtly alien flora inside.

"It's from Venzenulon 9," she was quick to explain. "I felt your workstation could use a little pop of decor."

One that, in the rare event that Barry actually bothered noticing it in the middle of working on something, had a good chance of reminding him of her and that first date, but, you know, whatever.

"Or, alternately, you could just use it to get samples to figure out what properties allow it to withstand such dramatic shifts in temperature; I'm sure you could eventually use that somehow."

And that take seemed much more likely, anyway.

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