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Prompt #35: Conversation - Before she came to OSP, he'd only had technology to keep him company. But now, he can talk to someone other than Hetty.
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It used to be that Eric Beale was alone for the majority of a case. Sitting up in Ops, he'd toil away on his lonesome keyboard in his lonesome corner.
Not that he felt alone. Nah, he just didn't work well with others. He'd tried.
So Hetty, rather than force him to work with an irritating person who'd only harp on him for his lack of dress code conformity and his obsession with Facebook and Twitter, let him commandeer the mighty techie fortress that was Ops.
And it was a good thing. Eric liked being alone in there. With all those screens and server space, he could literally run an op while updating his Facebook and even squeeze in a little Tweet here and there. When Hetty wasn't there, of course.
That all changed when Nell came on board.
Suddenly, he had another person in the room to think about. A partner who took up the empty console next to his and had her own agenda. After being alone for so long, it took Eric some time to re-acclimate.
Not that she made it easy.
But after the initial rocky start, Eric began to talk to her more. Conversation had been a big miss of his days; with the team always out in the field, he was usually left to his own devices. Computers don't need to hear about your day.
But a partner finds it interesting. A partner can ask about it, question you, even laugh at something. Computers can't.
Eric Beale had liked being alone in his tech fortress before.
But when Nell Jones burst onto the scene, he found himself liking what he had now much better.
Just a little drabble about Eric. Nice, right?
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