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She took the docu it casually into a nearby in-box "I’m sure he’ll look at it when he has time"

That was the last straw If I didn’t still have the remnants of a killer headache, I’d have been up for an all-out hair-pulling and face-clawing catfight Before I realized what I was doing, I’d snatched the plan back out of the in-box "Look, I don’t knohat delusions of grandeur you have going on, but you’re just filling in for ain Until you’ve been a big part of stopping the latest evil sche et over yourself"

She was struck speechless, which was rather satisfying It would have been evenif her elbow had bumped the tall Starbucks cup next to her co latte into her laptop’s keyboard, but I couldn’t ask for everything While she was still trying to coive this to Trix to give to Mr Mervyn" Then while I stood there watching, the coffee cup tipped over, seely of its own accord It took her a second to realize as happening, and then she shrieked as she grabbed the cup and then tried to mop up the coffee

In spite of her frantic reaction, the results were less than spectacular A minor explosion, or at least some sparks and noise, would have beenkeys and sparks everywhere Ah, that was ht "It looks like you’re too busy to deal with this at the moe control

"That one well," Trix remarked as I returned to her desk "Usually you look frustrated instead of satisfied when you get away fro you wish for really happen? Iwould happen, and then it does?"

"Of course I have I can doit happen Istill on the freeway, and you think it would be terrific if there was a state trooper with a radar gun around the next bend, and then when you get around the next bend you see a state trooper with that guy pulled over It gives you faith that there is some justice in the universe"

"I take it Kiot pulled over?"

"In a way She had a cup of coffee next to her computer, and her elbofully close to it while she did her superior act with me I couldn’t help but think that it would be funny if while she was playing power games with me, her elbow hit that cup and knocked it over onto her keyboard And then the cup fell over, just like that She’s still in there trying to salvage the co it blew up"

She sighed wistfully "Oh, I wish I’d been there to see that Too bad you couldn’t get it on video, but I have a happy picture in h the rest of the day"

"While you’re daydreaes fro I owe you for giving me my daily dose of motivation"

On ave me an appreciative leer "Oh, drop dead," IAsound behindand sputtering while his face turned redder and redder A bag of cheddar popcorn lay spilled on the ground in front of hiht not have liked the way he’d looked at me, but I couldn’t leave him to die I ran over, stood behind hi, so I wrapped my arms around hi normally

I let myself breathe more normally, as well, once the disaster was averted Then I looked up and saw that a crowd had gathered While the women rushed to check on the choker, the men all studied me intently I overheard one whisper to another, "Well, she did act like she wanted to wrap herself around hinored it and turned away to head back to Owen’s lab, then almost choked, myself, when I heard another one mutter, "You know, she’s not nearly as cute out of costuuess I’d still do her if she threw herself at onna compete for her Pal her after all that?"

Another one snorted, "Yeah, our resident boy scout isn’t going to be into that stuff"