Lucky Coincidence // Stuart Twombly

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Stuart went back to the workplace where he and the team were still working on finding the bug.

"Yo-to-the-Yo, how's it going with the networking issue," Lyle asked Yo-Yo.

"Confirmed that there was no backup loss. Almost done working on seeing if the encryption had the wrong certificate," Yo-Yo said.

"I'm sorry, almost? You're either done or you're not. You can't be almost pregnant," Neha exclaimed.

"Yeah, guys, she would know," Stuart commented.

"Hey, why don't you Google asshole, asshole?" She shot back.

"She's right, get it together, Yo-Yo." Yo-Yo punished himself by ripping out a pluck of eyebrow hairs.

"What the fuck was that?" Neha retorted.

"That was punishing myself for my inferior performance." Yo-Yo pulled out some more hairs.

"Great, that's amazing," Stuart sighed deeply to himself. "We got crazy over here and crazy horny over there." He pointed at Neha after motioning to Yo-Yo.

"Oh, let me guess, big dick because little dick?" Neha shot back.

"Does your mind immediately go to a penis joke? Is that all you can think about?" He asked.

"Oh, I'm sorry, was that not witty enough for you? Because I'm too busy working." She motioned to her screen. "Or were you too busy fucking our boss?"

"What the fuck are you even talking about?" He shouted.

"I saw you going in there earlier." She aggressively pointed at Lara's closed office door.

"I brought her a coffee, 'cause you know, that's what a good boyfriend does, but I assume you don't know what that's like 'cause you only fuck those guys before you leave them. I bet you can't remember any of their names," He exclaimed, rising from his seat.

"Shut the fuck up, asshole, you don't know anything." Neha rose from her own chair before she stalked off.

Stuart threw his beanie on his desk and ran an exasperated hand through his dark hair, letting out a deep sigh.

*** 

"Stu, I'm home," Lara tiredly called out. She heard the gleeful taps of her husky's paws on the tiles as he approached her. She ran a hand through his fur. "Stuart?" She called again but received no response. 

She took out her phone and saw it was 00.41. Where could he be? 

Lara dropped her things in the kitchen and went upstairs after kicking off her heels and massaging her tired feet. She entered the bedroom but was taken aback to find a large bump in the bed. She saw that Stuart was vast asleep with his laptop on her side of the bed. 

Lara smiled softly to herself before she walked over, pressing a soft kiss to his messy hair. He shifted in his sleep before he opened his eyes. "Hey," He croaked. 

"Hey, sorry I woke you up," She whispered. 

"It's fine, I must've fallen asleep." He sat up slightly and rubbed his eyes, placing his glasses on the night stand. He patted the spot on the edge of the bed and she sat down, smoothing out a few creases in the sheets.

"How did it go after I left?" She asked. 

He sighed deeply. "Great." His voice was drenched with sarcasm. 

"Stu, if they're giving you a hard time, I can always-" 

"Nah, don't worry about it. I'll be fine," He cut her off. "I should go back to sleep, long day tomorrow."