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take your time
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"Green, Red wants to talk to you." Yellow pokes her head through the door frame, threading her the fingers of her left hand into her ponytail. Green is busy, like always. Today, he is writing a paper frantically, it seems.
Yellow's curiosity overcomes her, since Green has not responded to her inquiry. "What is your paper about?" she asks, taking a few steps further into the lab.
Green's intelligent eyes never leave the computer screen as he answers, "I read the most turtwig-brained thesis yesterday, from some new professor in Unova. I'm proving her wrong, since I studied the subject much more extensively." He scans a magazine and then a chart, fingers dancing over the keyboard.
Yellow steps closer – cautiously, as though Green is a wild pokemon and she might catch rabies – and looks over his shoulder. Unfortunately, the language both bores and confuses her, so she gives up trying to read the technical jargon and backs away slowly.
"Oh… okay. Well, take your time," she says, not mentioning how overwhelmed she feels whenever she sees signs of how much better than her he is.
And she leaves much the same as she arrived, silently.
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Author's Note: This piece is the sixth part of the ten-portioned series 'Boxes of Chocolates'. Each encounter is a private love note, and each of the separately–published stories will cover a different shipping. Each chapter is a different drabble about the shipping; I'll do five per story, possibly more.
The full list: SpecialShipping (Ambiguous), AgencyShipping (Menial), FranticShipping (Tenacious), ChosenShipping (Exploitable), PanderShipping (Retrospective), CommonerShipping (Parametric), FeelingShipping (Harmonic), OldRivalShipping (Stoic), MangaQuestShipping (Vivacious), and HaughtyShipping (Loquacious). I'm perfectly well aware that the publishing format I ended up deciding on is annoying, but I figured that dividing it up by shipping would be the best way for everyone involved to pick and choose which ones they would like to read, without being 'exposed' to opposing shippings.
Please take a look at the others, if you like this one, and enjoy. (For the record, they won't be published until I actually finish writing the first drabble for each of them. I didn't want to spam the forum completely, so… just keep an eye open, I guess. They'll be in the order above.)
Also, I should mention that these aren't necessarily sequential. I write what I can, based on the theme I'm given.