Suggested song for the chapter: Gasoline- Halsey

*Call started*

Did you sign the papers, Terry?

-Yeah, sure…you are free to go with your bimbo super model lover, Alan…

-Please, cut the drama…you know our marriage was going down. Thank you for your cooperation…

-Can I return to my work now? I'm doing some real work here, not pretending…

-Good luck Terry…

*Call ended*

The woman stayed for a while looking to the ceiling, like waiting for something to come to her head.

She took a look to the papers on the desk and started the quantum computer. It was smaller than the previous models she created, but still bigger than a normal computer. The device made a light buzzing sound and then the login screen appeared in a minimalistic style.

-ok, here I go again…

She was totally obsessed with her new program. Combining the power of quantum physics and quantum computers, she wanted to achieve the time travel, at least in theory. Then build the operational machine, but there were some big troubles with her formulas yet. Some parts of the equations had taken months to resolve even with her small team of research working.

Gabriel, her youngest engineer and PhD candidate appeared in casual clothes in her office. She saw him by the window and made a sign to him enter the room

-Doctor Milk, can I go home? I'm going out with a friend…and it's quite late

-of course you can go Gabriel…you are a student, not my slave…go enjoy the night

-thanks! Are…you…staying again Doctor?-said the young man worried

-yes…I have some new ideas on the middle formulas I want to simulate now…-said the woman enthusiastic

-well, you are the doctor…-said the man smiling- here, have my mini chocolate- he added nicely

-thanks Gabriel, this would be perfect. I have a long night ahead…now go, go go!-said she joking

The young man left the room, still kind of worried about his boss always staying late at the laboratory.

Terry continued writing e possible combinations both in the papers and the digital white board. She was very inspired that night even with all the divorce fuzz her husband started a couple months ago.

She married Alan after college, when they were 27 years old. But her true love never was him, it was always been science and research. She spent so much time working that their relation eventually changed, and cracked like a damaged glass.

He wanted to have kids and spend time with her, but she avoided to be at home all she could, absorbed by her experiments and creations.

At 30, she got her PhD by creating the first functional quantum computer, making it more usable for students and companies, and created her own language: Aurum, which made possible to process bigger formulas with half resources and time.

Terry Milk was considered a genius by her colleagues and an inspiration for students, but her husband never forgave the attention she gave to success and fame, even when it wasn't her intention. She just wanted to build a better world, with affordable advanced technology at all costs, even her personal life.