Work about two months ago [Fic]
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hostile_experienceWhatever front Elenore puts on, whatever she's wrapped around herself like a shell, until she believed it was so much a part of her she would die without it, part of her is better. Part of her figured out not only how to find the contractors to modify and build the inorganic components of her lab, but also learned how to make them feel debt to her that is so great they never spoke of the specs even under intense pressure. She's worked with half a dozen plus lab assistants before ever hiring a friend. Their fingerprints are all over her lab, small tweaks she never would have thought of without them. At some point, she magnified her own isolation. At some point, she broke too much. Sometimes of the cost of being razor sharp is to become incredibly brittle.
When she watches Alexander, she beings to remember. He surrounds himself with the best he can find, and there was a time when her assistants qualified. Brilliant kids who needed jobs and someone who didn't take their shit. Each leaving with a better understanding of their field and a decent severance package. More than that if she was willing to pay more attention to their emotional interactions. Whatever progress she's making, she's not ready to get there. This is a big enough step to admit that people could help. She's no where near ready to trust the people who should owe her some kind of emotional connection.
After all, that's part of why she's marrying Alexander.
But she starts making phone calls. The same awareness of her community of scientists that allowed her to make the beginnings of her fortune in investments lets her know a number of brilliant minds are unhappily employed. For some, it's the offer of a bump in pay they could never get in academics. For others, it's the degree of autonomy and respect for what they do. By the end of the first day, she's getting phone calls from people she would have never guessed wanted to escape to the right kind of private sector.
Two days, and she has to let people down with more tact than she knew she possessed. Everything necessary to shift from a one woman fixer to a more complicated and less mercenary set of associated labs was already underway, but too much too fast would put everything to risk. Her goal isn't to get into manufacture or production, but sheer innovation and invention to be farmed out to other companies that absorb the other eventual costs. Too many people, and it could be misconstrued. For once in her life, Nore doesn't want to burn any bridges.
When she watches Alexander, she beings to remember. He surrounds himself with the best he can find, and there was a time when her assistants qualified. Brilliant kids who needed jobs and someone who didn't take their shit. Each leaving with a better understanding of their field and a decent severance package. More than that if she was willing to pay more attention to their emotional interactions. Whatever progress she's making, she's not ready to get there. This is a big enough step to admit that people could help. She's no where near ready to trust the people who should owe her some kind of emotional connection.
After all, that's part of why she's marrying Alexander.
But she starts making phone calls. The same awareness of her community of scientists that allowed her to make the beginnings of her fortune in investments lets her know a number of brilliant minds are unhappily employed. For some, it's the offer of a bump in pay they could never get in academics. For others, it's the degree of autonomy and respect for what they do. By the end of the first day, she's getting phone calls from people she would have never guessed wanted to escape to the right kind of private sector.
Two days, and she has to let people down with more tact than she knew she possessed. Everything necessary to shift from a one woman fixer to a more complicated and less mercenary set of associated labs was already underway, but too much too fast would put everything to risk. Her goal isn't to get into manufacture or production, but sheer innovation and invention to be farmed out to other companies that absorb the other eventual costs. Too many people, and it could be misconstrued. For once in her life, Nore doesn't want to burn any bridges.
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