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Aug. 11th, 2009 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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"Tessa."
Blinking owlishly, she looked up from the depths of her, euphemistically named, purse. "Hey, Bruce. Didn't know you were home. Shouldn't you be in..." Shaking her head, she said, "Not in town?"
"I wasn't. In town. But now I'm back."
She nodded slowly. "Yeah. Um, so...are you just getting in? Though you look pretty unrumpled for someone just getting in."
"Not just," he admitted. "I've been in my study."
"Explains it. I've been down in the basement looking at the servers. You're going to blow your motherboard on the primary server at the rate you're going. I suggest you--"
"Do it."
Contessa blinked.
"Whatever it is you think needs doing, do it. Look, I need a favor. Do you have a minute?"
"Um..." She glanced down at her watch. "Yeah, a few. Is this another one of those 'I don't want to be social. Please be my date,' kind of favors? Because I can only be available if it's not tonight or tomorrow."
"No, it's not that. Not exactly."
"Tessa."
Blinking owlishly, she looked up from the depths of her, euphemistically named, purse. "Hey, Bruce. Didn't know you were home. Shouldn't you be in..." Shaking her head, she said, "Not in town?"
"I wasn't. In town. But now I'm back."
She nodded slowly. "Yeah. Um, so...are you just getting in? Though you look pretty unrumpled for someone just getting in."
"Not just," he admitted. "I've been in my study."
"Explains it. I've been down in the basement looking at the servers. You're going to blow your motherboard on the primary server at the rate you're going. I suggest you--"
"Do it."
Contessa blinked.
"Whatever it is you think needs doing, do it. Look, I need a favor. Do you have a minute?"
"Um..." She glanced down at her watch. "Yeah, a few. Is this another one of those 'I don't want to be social. Please be my date,' kind of favors? Because I can only be available if it's not tonight or tomorrow."
"No, it's not that. Not exactly."