There was a girl at Adam's table. He stopped when he saw her, pausing just outside the print lab to do a double take. Fair skin, brown hair. High cheekbones and the hint of curves from beneath the crisp white lab coat. She was pretty, not gorgeous, but pretty. Single too, maybe. Adam summoned his courage, straightened his own coat and swept into the print lab.
"Hi," he said. "You must be the new girl?"
"Yeah," Charlie said. She glanced up from the worktable, the word hipster popping into her head when looked at Adam. "This must be your station."
"Yeah—no, well yes." The woman's eyes were strange, a cool shade of blue so washed out they looked grey. "Adam Ross," he said as he offered his hand.
Charlie peeled off a glove and shook it. "Charlie. Sorry about this, I just needed to run some prints."
"No, it's alright. I mean my lab is your lab, right," Adam laughed a little, and Charlie rewarded him with a small smile.
"Thanks, I appreciate that." Charlie peeled off her second glove and picked up the copy of the print she'd pulled off the window frame. "Would you mind showing me how your lab goes about running prints?"
"Yeah, sure, of course." Adam signed in on the computer at the end of the table and pulled up the print database. Charlie placed the print in the computer's scanner while Adam turned the machine on. He started the scan, and Charlie pulled up a stool to sit next to Adam while the computer searched for a match.
"So where are you—?"
"Florida. You?"
Adam looked at Charlie in surprise, and she cut him off when he opened his mouth to ask another question.
"I'm a Jedi." She smiled again, her eyes flicking from the screen to Adam and back again.
"Well, I'm honored," Adam said. He tried not to stare at Charlie. The woman was almost as strange as her eyes, and he couldn't help but like her for it.
"How about you?" Charlie asked.
"Oh, I'm from Phoenix."
"No I meant are you a—"
"Jedi," Mac said from behind them. Adam turned with a start, but Charlie appeared unruffled. On the desk, the computer beeped and chimed.
"Oh hey boss, we were just running the prints from the scene," Adam said, his face turning red.
"Any luck yet?" Mac asked.
"Looks like it," Charlie said. Adam clicked on the profile of the matched prints, and a criminal record popped up on the screen.
Mac nodded at Charlie, "Let's pay him a visit."
"Nice meeting you," she said to Adam as she pulled off the lab coat and followed Mac towards the elevators.
Adam called after her. "May the force—"
"And with you," Charlie said.
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