Tina definitely has an unhealthy way of idolizing positive male role models in her life. It’s evident in the way that she’s found herself under Bruce’s wing for the past few months, bordering on a year. They work day and night together, and she rose in the ranks as a lab tech rapidly out of the fear of letting Bruce down. Her work ethic is toxic but it breeds innovation. She’s an excellent engineer and chemist but her need to please is the real reason she’s so much more advanced than her other colleagues. (That and the genes of a certain genius playboy, though no one needs to know that crucial detail just yet.) Despite their talk months ago, she still pushes her sleep clock as far as it can take, and it’s evident today. She’s nodded off a solid three times already at her desk, the blue light beaming into her face by some miracle lulling her to sleep.
She feels her eyes droop for a third time then snaps up straight, smacking herself softly with a swear. Realizing that might have disrupted the comfortable silence her and Bruce are known for working in, she offers an apologetic smile.
“Sorry. Late night, early morning- you know how it goes...”
With a breath she turns her dry eyes down to her monitor again before putting it to sleep. Bruce isn’t snoopy- he isn’t the type to rifle through her things, she’s become comfortable enough around him as to not lock down her ‘top secret’ files constantly. It’s exhausting.
“I think I’m gonna go get a coffee...you want me to grab you a tea Doc?”
She calls as she rifles for her wallet and steps out from behind her desk, unknowingly nudging her elbow into the mouse and effectively waking up her monitor. Caffeine elevates his heart rate, an elevated heart rate for him could lead to a code green- so tea or cocoa it is. Tina offers him one of her usual good natured grins before heading off on her coffee run, unknowingly leaving the second to most damning secret of hers open and proud on her desktop.
@universeofmuses
