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Prompt: 2 A.M
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Eight o'clock at night and he was working again.
The only light in the room came from the computer screen, and everything was illuminated in an almost eerie, greenish glow. The blue eyes behind the black rimmed glasses were obscured by the glare caused by the light.
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"Are you sure you shouldn't be sleeping right now, Jeremie?" asked Aelita, looking on with concern. Humans weren't nocturnal creatures by nature, after all.
"It's only ten," came the distracted reply as the blond haired boy genius paused in his rapid fire typing to squint at some notes. "I'll go to bed after I wrap up this part of the program."
"If you say so, Jeremie."
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Midnight, and he still wasn't asleep. The pink clad AI propped her head up on her arm. "Jeremie, you don't need to finish the whole thing tonight. I've been in Lyoko for ten years; I can wait another day."
"I know, I know. I just need to fix this one part…"
She sighed and blinked off of his screen.
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One AM.
She came back to see her carbon based friend still in his computer chair. Aelita scowled and propped her hands up on her hips.
"Jeremie!"
"I'm almost done, I swear!"
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Two AM. She peered out at him from her window behind his enlarged coding window.
"JEREMIE BELPOIS!"
"AAAGH!"
"You've barely had eight hours of sleep this entire week!"
"But-"
"No buts! Now save your work and go to sleep!"
"But-"
"Didn't I just say no buts? You. Bed. Now."
"But-"
"Ah?"
"Yes ma'am."