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Really. It shouldn't take someone fifteen minutes to take out the trash... really. It shouldn't.

"I know. I know. I'm trying. I had the same problems back home."

And he knows that's how it is. But knowing and acting on it aren't always the same thing.

"It's just sometimes things come out before I realize I was thinking about saying them."

"I know. And believe me, I know how it is. Sometimes we all say things we shouldn't."

Her included. Definitely her included. Especially when she'd been Alec's age.

"I just tend to do it a bit more often than it's healthy." He laughs softly. "I'm sure if I get beat in the head enough it'll stick."

"Or someone'll beat all the sense out of you altogether."

If you get hit in the head enough, Alec, you do tend to start losing some intelligence.

"That's assuming I have sense to begin with."

True enough. And he certainly hopes it doesn't ever come to that.

"You've got some, or I wouldn't've hired you."

Please. She doesn't work with idiots entirely.

"Well, thank you. That's the nicest thing someone's said to me in a long while."

"Yeah, don't get too used to it."

She grins at him, anyway.

"Now get back to work, kid."

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