Cosima had wanted to wear her red jacket. It was her favorite jacket,. Felix however, had insisted that she could not show up to her first day of work wearing clothes covered in stains. The outfit Felix had picked instead was much colder. When Cosima had mentioned this the night before Felix simply replied with, "a hoe is never cold, Cosima, a hoe is never cold."

But there she was, shivering in front of the DYAD institute, staring at the doors as if they would magically open and invite her in. After a good ten seconds of staring at the building, Cosima drew in a shaky breath and walked over to the doors, pushing them open with fake confidence.

"Ah, Cosima, I was wondering when you would get here," Leekie said, moving towards Cosima before the door had even closed behind her.

"Yeah sorry, I don't think I'm actually that late though," Cosima said awkwardly.

"Oh, not to worry. At DYAD we're very flexible, as long as you're not hours late, we understand. Would you like a tour?"

"Oh yeah, definitely, show me your crib," Cosima said chuckling.

Leekie responded with a chilling chuckle of his own and led Cosima down the hallway, showing her various meeting rooms and fancy laboratories as she tried to contain her excitement. After the tour was over Leekie led her to his office, asking her to take a seat.

"So, I have some important things to talk to you about, regarding the work you'll be doing here at DYAD. You will need to first sign a confidentiality agreement. however."

He slid a paper over his desk on towards Cosima, who looked at it suspiciously. She considered demanding time to thoroughly read through it, but realized that failure to comply with DYAD would result in an assassination from Rachel. She grabbed the pen Leekie handed her and signed it quickly.

"So what's this top secret stuff I'll be working on?" she asked, her lips quirking up into a toothy smile.

"Drugs," Leekie replied matter-of-factly.

"Well obviously I'll be working with drugs, this is a pharmaceutical development facility," Cosima sayed, knowing Leekie would see past her attempt to play dumb.

Leekie chuckled and shook his head, "you're a cheeky one, aren't you?" he asked, earning a wider smirk from Cosima.

"You'll be working on developing drugs for recreational purposes, drugs that haven't exactly been approved by the FDA."

"When do I start?" Cosima asked, the pitch of her voice raising in excitement.

Cosima had been given her own fancy labcoat, custom embroidered to say 'Niehaus' on the pocket (she was sure she'd ruin the expensive article of clothing rather quickly, but hopefully they had backups) and led to her new lab, where she was introduced to the scientist she would be working with.

"Hi! My name is Scott," he said, shaking her hand enthusiastically, a dorky smile plastered on his face.

"I'm Cosima! Looks like we're gonna be working together, hope you don't mind I'm a little rusty on, well, everything," Cosima said, grinning sheepishly.

"Oh I'll show you around, you'll get the hang of it," he said. He seemed nice, but geeky, Cosima thought, just the kind of people she most liked to be friends with.

Leekie left the two of them to get to work, and Scott began filling her in on the project they would be working on. Their job was to design a drug for "heightened intelligence", the idea of which Cosima found absolutely fascinating.

They talked excitedly for hours, Scott telling her all about the promising drug trials he and his previous partner, Carlos, had conducted on sets of lab rats, before Carlos had quit to study some strange town, and they brainstormed solutions to the problems they had been facing. By the end of the day, they were surrounded with papers, each covered with various equations and diagrams, stomachs grumbling as they had blown right through lunch. Cosima's face hurt from smiling by the time they realized it was past time to call it a day.

"This is awesome, your ideas are fantastic, it's great to get a fresh set of eyes on this," Scott said as they packed their things to head out for the day.

"Yeah, this is like, totally fascinating, I'm so excited to be working on this," Cosima replied. "So I'll see you tomorrow then?"

"You betchya, see ya Cosima," Scott said, waving as he walked out the door to their lab.

Cosima finished putting her things in her bag about a minute later, hands stumbling from all the excitement induced adrenaline running through her veins. As she headed out of the building, a skip in her step and a glow on her face, she saw her. She was inside Leekie's office, standing with her back to Cosima, who stood completely frozen behind her. It was Delphine, there was no doubt about it, she would recognize that hair anywhere. When she turned around, however, she saw a face she did not immediately recognize.

Delphine's face was narrow and gaunt, her eyes sunken in and her skin clinging too close to her skull. She looked like she had been through hell, and her glum expression made it appear as though she was still there. The blonde began walking towards Cosima, but looking gloomily at the ground, not noticing her.

"Cosima? What are you doing here? You should have left an hour ago," Leekie asked, annoyance tinting his voice only slightly.

At the name 'Cosima', Delphine's gaze lifted, her sad face showing the slightest hint of happiness when she spotted her. The happiness was gone as quickly as it came, however.

"Oh uh, we just got really excited, lost track of time," Cosima replied, trying to act nonchalant, she added, "uh, hey Delphine, haven't seen you in awhile, you're looking, uh…" her voice trailed off as she realized she had no way to finish that sentence.

"Cosima, how, how have you been?" she asked, her eyes furrowing in what seemed like actual concern, which surprised Cosima as it seemed Delphine was the one to be concerned about.

"You two know each other?" Leekie asked before Cosima could reply, his voice tinged with suspicion in place of his previous annoyment.

"Cosima and I, we went to college together. We were uh, close friends," Delphine said, noticeably pausing before choosing the last words of her statement.

"Yeah, until I, ya know, got kicked out and everything," Cosima said, with an awkward chuckle. Her shakiness from earlier seemed to be getting worse as she stared at Delphine's haunted face, wondering what happened to her.

"Well, isn't that nice," Leekie said, the tone of his voice starkly contradicting his words. "we should really get going though,"

Leekie grabbed Delphine's hand, and that's when Cosima noticed the rings on both of their fingers. Her eyes bulged at the sight of them, and she sputterd out "A- are you two. like- are you… together?"

Delphine turned her eyes to the ground quickly, while Leekie gave a sinister smile. "Yes, we've been married for a little over a year now," he said, only Cosima noticing how uncomfortable Delphine was at the moment.

"Like said though, we really must be going,"

Cosima stood frozen as they started to leave, only coming to her senses when they had almost reached the door. She ran after them, with a panicked look in her eye. "Delphine! Wait!"

Delphine turned around, looking at Cosima with sad eyes.

"I'll us, see you around right? Maybe we could catch up sometime," Cosima said, her cheeky grin doing little to hide the worried look in her eyes.

"Actually, Delphine doesn't come here very often anymore, she has, other, work she's focusing on, I doubt you two will be seeing much of each other," Leekie said, still trying to walk Delphine out the door.

Delphine resisted for a moment however, and looking at Cosima with a hint of shy happiness in her eyes "maybe I'll see you around though," she said, before she disappeared with Leekie through the door, leaving Cosima practically paralyzed by all the conflicting emotions she was feeling.