#kat.002

“Were you serious about it?” Sam asked, glancing up from her food to study Kat with more anxiety in her expression than she was altogether used to feeling in any situation. It’d been an off-hand comment the last time they’d been able to hang out-- the fact that Kat would hire Sam so she could quit her job at the university and actually pursue the field work she was genuinely passionate about. She loved the research just as much and she could admit that, certainly but she missed the adrenaline rush of new discoveries and being in places she’d only ever read about until she was stepping into them. She wanted that again but she didn’t want to assume Kat had been totally firm on the offer when she’d made it. “Giving me a job, I mean-- letting me work with you. It’s mad but I haven’t been able to actually stop thinking about it and I guess I didn’t realize how much I missed really being able to get out there, y’know? So I was... wonderin’ if you were serious.”