Restlessly, you tap your fingers against your keyboard and take a bit of solace in the click-click-clickety-click sound your fingertips make as they fall along the keys. From beneath your hands, the keys glow bright and translucent. You told your providers that you didn't mind using an older model of a laptop, but now was the time, in a room completely blackened save for the glow of your computer, where you certainly DID mind. Whose idea was it to make a clear keyboard with lights so blinding that you needed sun goggles to even so much as glance at them? You can't even fathom a person's reasoning for this kind of-
You're distracted.
You shake your head to clear irrelevant thoughts of luminous keyboards and anything else that could possibly seep into your mind and throw you off focus. Inhaling, you turn at your laptop screen once more and begin to scan your previous work with tired, fuchsia eyes. You feel slightly angry with yourself for not paying more attention to those times Sollux had attempted to teach you how coding worked. Coding, you're finding out, is quite difficult. How does one arrange a series of numbers and letters and symbols together in just the right way so that you could get your job done? It's some kind of art, you decide.
From behind you, your ears pick up on a pair of footsteps coming within your proximity. You mentally pat yourself on the back as you immediately identify them. They're slow, as if the person making them is very sleepy, and they slap against the floor, indicating the feet are bare. Contributing to the fact that there is only one person still left at the lab, you recognize these footsteps as belonging to none other than Jade Harley.
You spin around in your seat to meet her, giggling as a your chair squeaks out a metallic protest. She's dressed in a long, black nightdress, doted with a starry pattern that shimmers and twitches as it fluctuates between bright nebulae and series of bold, pixelated coding. Jade is cleaning off her rounded, wraparound spectacles on part of the dress she has bunched up in her hand. She places them back on to her face and rubs under her eyes before starting towards you. You hold out your arms, and she slumps into them ungracefully.
"Tired?" you giggle, patting her back.
She nods into you. "You think you're anywhere close to cracking this?"
You smile sheepishly, grateful that she can't see it while her head is buried into your shoulder.
"No, not really. This case is proving to be quite a tough one!" you admit. "I'm having problems figuring out how to hack into the corporation's main system..."
"I could help! Can I help you, Feferi?" Jade is right in front of you now, and although her eyes present heavy bags of sleepiness just underneath them, they're alight with what can only be classified as sheer excitement.
You stretch forward to plant a kiss on the tip of her nose. "I don't want you to overexert yourself..."
"But it's important," she starts. "This case needs cracking! Because that's what we do here. We crack cases and catch the baddies and other stuff like that."
You grin at her. "I know, I know! But are sure you want to waste precious time you could be sleeping on something like this? It's really tedious."
Vigorously, she nods again.
"Alright." you sigh. "You're better than me at coding, anyway."
After an hour of typing code after countless code, you have little to no progress. You and Jade managed to breach one of the systems for a few seconds, only to be shut down by an angry counter-hack that Jade just barely deflected. Otherwise, neither of you have made very much success at all. However, you don't allow yourself to feel disheartened by it. You and Jade strive forward in these endeavors of hacking into systems and putting forth complicated codes, not pausing for an instant.
You glance at the clock idly. It reads as 4:30am. You heave a sigh and return to your screen, lazily entering another code or two. Within seconds, you're staring at an unfamiliar desktop with files and applications scattered around at random. Your eyes go wide in realization.
"Jade! Jade! We did it! We got into one of the main computers of this troublemaking corporation! We can-"
Jade is asleep on her keyboard beside you, head resting in arms.
You giggle softly and lean forward to kiss her forehead.
"Sweet dreams, Jade." you tell her with a smile of satisfaction plastered across your face. Turning back to the computer, you double click on a folder and rest your chin in your hand. You're uncovering secrets, and you are going to crack this case.
FILL: TEAM DAVE<3KARKAT
You're distracted.
You shake your head to clear irrelevant thoughts of luminous keyboards and anything else that could possibly seep into your mind and throw you off focus. Inhaling, you turn at your laptop screen once more and begin to scan your previous work with tired, fuchsia eyes. You feel slightly angry with yourself for not paying more attention to those times Sollux had attempted to teach you how coding worked. Coding, you're finding out, is quite difficult. How does one arrange a series of numbers and letters and symbols together in just the right way so that you could get your job done? It's some kind of art, you decide.
From behind you, your ears pick up on a pair of footsteps coming within your proximity. You mentally pat yourself on the back as you immediately identify them. They're slow, as if the person making them is very sleepy, and they slap against the floor, indicating the feet are bare. Contributing to the fact that there is only one person still left at the lab, you recognize these footsteps as belonging to none other than Jade Harley.
You spin around in your seat to meet her, giggling as a your chair squeaks out a metallic protest. She's dressed in a long, black nightdress, doted with a starry pattern that shimmers and twitches as it fluctuates between bright nebulae and series of bold, pixelated coding. Jade is cleaning off her rounded, wraparound spectacles on part of the dress she has bunched up in her hand. She places them back on to her face and rubs under her eyes before starting towards you. You hold out your arms, and she slumps into them ungracefully.
"Tired?" you giggle, patting her back.
She nods into you. "You think you're anywhere close to cracking this?"
You smile sheepishly, grateful that she can't see it while her head is buried into your shoulder.
"No, not really. This case is proving to be quite a tough one!" you admit. "I'm having problems figuring out how to hack into the corporation's main system..."
"I could help! Can I help you, Feferi?" Jade is right in front of you now, and although her eyes present heavy bags of sleepiness just underneath them, they're alight with what can only be classified as sheer excitement.
You stretch forward to plant a kiss on the tip of her nose. "I don't want you to overexert yourself..."
"But it's important," she starts. "This case needs cracking! Because that's what we do here. We crack cases and catch the baddies and other stuff like that."
You grin at her. "I know, I know! But are sure you want to waste precious time you could be sleeping on something like this? It's really tedious."
Vigorously, she nods again.
"Alright." you sigh. "You're better than me at coding, anyway."
After an hour of typing code after countless code, you have little to no progress. You and Jade managed to breach one of the systems for a few seconds, only to be shut down by an angry counter-hack that Jade just barely deflected. Otherwise, neither of you have made very much success at all. However, you don't allow yourself to feel disheartened by it. You and Jade strive forward in these endeavors of hacking into systems and putting forth complicated codes, not pausing for an instant.
You glance at the clock idly. It reads as 4:30am. You heave a sigh and return to your screen, lazily entering another code or two. Within seconds, you're staring at an unfamiliar desktop with files and applications scattered around at random. Your eyes go wide in realization.
"Jade! Jade! We did it! We got into one of the main computers of this troublemaking corporation! We can-"
Jade is asleep on her keyboard beside you, head resting in arms.
You giggle softly and lean forward to kiss her forehead.
"Sweet dreams, Jade." you tell her with a smile of satisfaction plastered across your face. Turning back to the computer, you double click on a folder and rest your chin in your hand. You're uncovering secrets, and you are going to crack this case.