5: 50 PM

"You can't just place the pieces wherever you feel like; you have to think about where to put them." Angie paused. "Why are you doing that with your face?"

Indeed, Derek's face was twisted in a mixture of a grimace and a smile. He rearranged his features hurriedly. "Um, yeah, anyway…"

Picking up a red piece of the puzzle and glancing at the colorless solution, Derek's mind whirled as he thought about where to put it. He set it down in one spot, and then picked up another piece. Angie watched him intently.

6: 00 PM, Ten minutes later…

"You really aren't good at puzzles, are you, Doctor?" Angie asked with a tone that sounded amused and stern at the same time.

Derek moved a red piece and put a blue one in its place. Then he moved the blue piece and put a yellow piece there instead. The red piece lay on the side of the puzzle, almost forgotten. A green colored piece was put on the left side of the yellow piece, while the blue piece was on the right.

6: 30 PM, Half an hour later…

"Hey, Derek, ready for some dinner...?"

Derek jumped as Tyler pulled up a stool beside him, grinning. His grin faded as he examined the progress that Derek had made, which was none.

"You're still working on that? I could just tell you the answer…"

"NO!" Derek shouted loudly, causing Victor to scowl and Tyler to fall off the stool.

Angie strode over to Victor's table and examined the frozen vomit mix. "What is this? A test for nuclear poisoning?" She asked, smirking.

Victor scowled even more deeply, and threw a cloth over the mixture. "Back off, and don't touch it."

6: 50 PM, Twenty minutes later…

"…" Derek was alone in the lab; everyone else had gone down to eat dinner. Tyler had come back first to ask him if he was going to stay all night and become Victor's apprentice. It was a beautiful moment, in Derek's opinion, when Angie overheard and slapped Tyler.

Derek had taken all the pieces off the puzzle and started over, making the puzzle progress zero.

"You could stop, I guess. Everyone else finished already." Victor was suddenly by Derek's side, looking at the puzzle disapprovingly. Derek said nothing, but continued to focus intently on the puzzle.

Like a bolt of lightning, inspiration suddenly hit him. He worked as fast as if his Healing Touch had activated, and in the span of ten seconds had almost all the pieces in the right place, with his forceps lingering over the last piece, before the last piece slipped smoothly into the last empty space of the puzzle. "FINALLY!" Derek shouted, standing up and stretching.

"You did it!" Angie said happily.

7: 10 PM

"Hmm…okay, thanks Stiles, I think I got it." Victor hurried off someplace else, no doubt to make the nanomachine.

"Great job, Dr. Stiles. I knew you could do it." Angie leaned against the surgeon's shoulder.

"I need food!" Derek whined, all but sprinting to the cafeteria, knocking over several nurses.

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(End chapter two. Wasn't that sweet? Tell me what you think and REVIEW!!!)

(This will actually be four chapters, one for each puzzle. Thank you for the reviews on the first chapter, everyone. I hope this chapter was to your liking. These chapters will probably be pretty short, sorry! But this one is longer!)

(See ya next chapter!)

(P.S. Did you know Angie and I have the same name? squee)