Henry Foss (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} computer_geek) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} colligo_threads,@ 2011-05-22 02:03:00 |
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| Entry tags: | henry foss, kate tesla |
WHO: Henry Foss and Kate Freelander
WHAT: Awkwardness and computer-geekery
WHEN: Not long after this.
WHERE: Henry's lab in the Sanctuary
RATING: TBD
STATUS: Closed, Incomplete
Henry hated awkward. He wasn't a fan of social situations as a whole and he really wasn't good at awkward. He tended to talk complete crap and babble on and make stupid jokes that didn't really make sense and he was just really, really bad at it. What he liked, he decided as he closed down the window he was working on, was computers. Computers and software and people who were really a very long way away and didn't decide to start a frankly weird relationship and upset the social balance. Social balance was important. It should be maintained and given more respect.
Henry sighed to himself, dragging a hand down one side of his face before pulling a second laptop over the desk and opening up the Sanctuary system. He'd send the readings he'd taken from the shield over to Magnus' workspace so she had them once she was done talking to the others. A few clicks later and he was waiting for the file to load, absently running his fingers over his stubbled chin, his face bathed in the blue light from the monitor.
It wasn't that he was completely against the Kate and Tesla thing, he thought, watching the bar creep across the screen. It was just... weird. It was so weird. He was a hundred and fifty year old Vampire he'd grown up hearing and knowing about, and Kate was Kate. It was... well, weird. But he wanted her to be happy. Say what you wanted about Henry, but he never wished a bad thing on anyone, and he felt guilty for feeling like he did at the moment. But he was also a creature of habit.
He was just finishing off, typing a quick message to Magnus, firing off a text to Dyson, when someone wandered in. Henry didn't have to look up to check who it was. Kate had said she was coming, and there was only one person who marched into the room with that much loud, stubborn confidence. Henry held up a hand vaguely, clicking once more before pushing himself away from the desk. "Done," he announced, before finally looking at her. "So... you come grovelling for my geeky expertise?"
Henry sighed to himself, dragging a hand down one side of his face before pulling a second laptop over the desk and opening up the Sanctuary system. He'd send the readings he'd taken from the shield over to Magnus' workspace so she had them once she was done talking to the others. A few clicks later and he was waiting for the file to load, absently running his fingers over his stubbled chin, his face bathed in the blue light from the monitor.
It wasn't that he was completely against the Kate and Tesla thing, he thought, watching the bar creep across the screen. It was just... weird. It was so weird. He was a hundred and fifty year old Vampire he'd grown up hearing and knowing about, and Kate was Kate. It was... well, weird. But he wanted her to be happy. Say what you wanted about Henry, but he never wished a bad thing on anyone, and he felt guilty for feeling like he did at the moment. But he was also a creature of habit.
He was just finishing off, typing a quick message to Magnus, firing off a text to Dyson, when someone wandered in. Henry didn't have to look up to check who it was. Kate had said she was coming, and there was only one person who marched into the room with that much loud, stubborn confidence. Henry held up a hand vaguely, clicking once more before pushing himself away from the desk. "Done," he announced, before finally looking at her. "So... you come grovelling for my geeky expertise?"