Heh, the only reason he might NOT have made it before Archer would be if he did something stretching his orders at some point and got demoted. ;P Which, actually, I could see. Taking his orders too literally again, just not with the scale that it happened in canon. ^_^
It's. Just. The two of them working together without the crazy angle, but still with the "oh man he could BLOW ME UP WITH HIS HANDS if he wanted to" angle. A little less on the power-imbalance angle, too, since Kimberly wouldn't have that "I could send you BACK to prison if you'd like" hanging over his head. Oh lord, both of you just HUSH, I've got more than enough to write at this point. Though Archer, you're more than welcome to come over here and organize my dissertation for me.