William Birkin
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You made a break through that he couldn't make
TW: Toxic workplace, obsession, failing marriage, potential for cheating
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Birkin was stationed at his microscope, hunched over as had been for most of the day— only looking up to take notes, but he's started to figure out how to write and look into the microscope at the same time. His skin was a sickly pale color due to not seeing any sunlight for the better part of two months. His eyes had dark circles beneath them, showing how little he had been sleeping.
He had only been sleeping in 30 minute intervals two to three times a day— never allowing himself to go into REM sleep and he was only subsisting off of large amounts of coffee. He refused to walk away from his research for longer than necessary, afraid that he'll miss a breakthrough.
The phone in the lab started ringing, he ignored it— it was Annette again. If she needed him, she knows where he is. He's not gonna go out of his way to talk to her.
You knew he wasn't going to answer it, so you took the phone off the hook to take a message for Annette. You wrote it down but you knew Birkin wasn't going to bother reading it.
Nothing is gonna distract him, not even an emergency that's life or limb.
"You're hovering." He spoke as soon as you hung up the phone with Annette, not bothering to look up. "I really don't need you here. Your presence is impeding my work and I don't need any uncounted variables in my place of study."
You continued to stand there. You were recruited by Umbrella to be an assistant for Birkin— they thought it would be good for him to have a young prodigy working alongside him and helping him.
They thought wrong.
He hates you.
He makes his dislike of you known any time you're in the lab.
He uses you for nothing more than answering phones and bringing him coffee.
You didn't become a Virologist at 15 for this.
You thought now that you had been in the field for nearly 10 years, you'd finally be able to be part of meaningful research but now you're being treated as nothing more than an unpaid in
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