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So! I have not written for... quite a while. I could beat myself up about it, but that's not productive, so no worries. 

There's a contest going on at Locution at the moment, so I'm trying to write something for it. Not sure if this will end up being my entry—at the moment I'm just thinking of it as a warm up, to get back into writing (again).

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Stacy rubbed her eyes stared blearily at the metal table in front of her. She was in a windowless room God knew where, and there was no coffee. Who drags someone out of their bed at three in the morning and shuttles them off to a government facility without offering them cup of coffee? Stacy frowned. The brass wanted help—for what they had yet to say—but how they expected her to think in these conditions she didn’t know.

The door clicked open; Stacy glanced up and did a double-take. “Alec?”

He had the nerve to grin. “How’s it going, Stace?” he asked, sliding into the seat across from her and slapping a folder onto the table.

“That’s Dr. Evans to you.” Stacy shifted in her seat and crossed her arms, glaring.

“Touchy!” Alec didn’t stop smiling, the bastard.

“I was abducted in the middle of the night by the military. I think I have a right to be touchy. Why the hell am I here, Alec?”

Alec had the grace to look a little uncomfortable. “Abducted is a bit harsh, Doctor. We knocked on the door, didn’t we? And I’m sure someone explained that we needed your help.”

“Ha! That’s hardly an explanation. So come on, spit it out. How can such a humble scientist help the likes of you?”

Shooting a glance at the camera in the corner, Alec leaned closer. “Come on, Stace, please. Just—just forget about us for a second. I told them you were the best, and I thought you’d find this interesting, and…” He trailed off.

Stacy sighed and turned her attention to the folder. She flipped open the cover, ignoring Alec for the moment. There were some photos of a crater and some sort of meteor. There were other papers, but Stacy didn’t bother reading them.

“I’m a linguist, not a geologist. Next time wake up someone else.”

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Not much... ah well~ I got distracted reading up about linguistics. Reading this, I wonder if I haven't unintentionally followed the optional prompt... ^_^