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WHO: Bennett and Boyd
WHERE: Bennett's super secret lab at Rossum HQ!
WHEN: Sunday afternoon
WARNINGS: I...don't think there will be any.
SUMMARY: Boyd needs a back-up of himself made and Bennett is just girl to do the job!
FORMAT: Quick-para

After getting the call from Boyd that he had time for that brain scan, Bennett hurried around her lab to get things ready as quickly as possible. It was kind of rather sad that she didn't have anything better to be doing on her Sunday than to be messing around with work things but that was life. It really didn't take her much time to get the needed things out, especially with Bingley's help.

When he came down, Boyd would find Bennett sitting at her computer, putting some final tweaks on that important imprint for Sierra. The pig was sitting contentedly in her lap, actually behaving himself.

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"Of course, sir. I'll get started on that as soon as I can," She said as she typed in the parameters for the back-up scan and then pressed enter. She actually turned away then, not wanting to watch. Usually, things like this didn't bother her one bit (she usually enjoyed seeing people and Actives in pain) but it was different when the one in pain was a friend. And though Boyd was her boss, she did consider him a friend too.

Boyd flinched and squeezed the ball tighter as the machine did it's work. It was still as excruciating as ever. Still, he was able to block out some of the pain. Not much, but enough for him to notice that she'd turned her back. He made note of it, and planned to ponder why later, when his mind wasn't being pick apart in detail.

She pretended to be doing something while the scan completed. Checking her computers, her comm for any messages from Topher (she had been a little obsessed lately, not that she'd ever admit it) and bent down to pat Bingley on the head and shoo him off.

When it was done, Bennett offered Boyd a glass of water.

"Shall I bore you with the standard post-back-up procedure lecture or shall I consider it said and move on?" She asked, a tiny bit of her sense of humor poking through there.

He gratefully took the water and drank some of it before he answered her. "No, that's alright. I'm going to go home and rest. Was the copy clean?"

"That would be for the best," Bennett said as she pulled the copy up on her hologram system to double check it was clean. It was.

"Mhmm," She nodded, "Looks fine. I'll give you this one," She pulled out the smaller wedge and handed it to him to do with what he wanted, "And I suppose I'll just keep this one? Transfer it and keep it down here? Certainly wouldn't hurt to have an extra back-up hidden somewhere."

Boyd took the small wedge and pocketed it. He then stood up slowly and took a couple of steps. Everything still worked alright so no damage from the procedure. Not that he expected any less of Halverson. "I think that's a good idea. I also want you to encode it and make sure that it will delete itself if anyone unauthorized tries to access it. Understood?"

"Unauthorized. Does that include Ms. Whiskey and Topher?" Bennett inquired, wondering just how much encoding she'd need to do to make the imprint inaccessible. She was certainly capable of making it inaccessible, even to Topher, but it'd take a while to put that much encoding on it.

"Yes, it does. Will that be a problem?" Boyd watched her face carefully as he waited for her reply. If she was willing to do this than he knew his trust in her was not misplaced.

"Oh, no. Not at all," She replied, smiling and laughing a little, "Just needed some kind of gauge of how strong I would need to make the encoding. Not...exactly easy to make something impossible for Topher to hack."

"I'll settle for you just making it extremely difficult for him. I know Topher is clever enough that you can't account for everything he might try." It was actually a very good thing Mr. Brink was so easy to distract. If he was inclined to be curious there was a lot he could have already found out about Boyd and Rossum.

"But I can make it impossible. Even for him," Giving her such a challenge like that was a bad idea, Boyd. Now she was going to be obsessed with encrypting that data however she could to make sure Topher couldn't access the data. If Topher wasn't supposed to see, he wasn't supposed to see.

"Just give me some time and watch. I'll make it impossible for him to hack," no one could ever say she wasn't determined.

You might think he had thought of that, but he couldn't possibly comment. Clearly he had made a mistake by not testing them against each other earlier. There was so much they could have accomplished. "Take as much time as you need. I have faith you won't let me down."

"I most certainly won't, Mr. Langton," She said, sitting down and wrestling her glasses on her face so she could get to work. After a second, she remembered Boyd was still there and turned back to him.

"You should go home and rest. If anything out of the ordinary happens, call me."

"Don't worry I will, but I don't think there will be any problems." He smiled at her and then turned and left. "Have a good evening Ms. Halverson. Don't overwork yourself."

"I won't. And you too," Bennett said, though it was really kind of a lie. Bennett was notorious for overworking herself. She'd likely be here until she passed out on her desk from exhaustion. She probably wouldn't even get up to eat anything either.

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