Editing Lab Rat (section)

====[[String Theory]]====
He maintained a complicated rivalry<ref name=rivalry>“What are you making?” String Theory asked, sticking her head between his elbow and his body.<br/><br/>He dug his elbow into her back, hard, and she squirmed her way out.<br/>[...]<br/><br/><br/>Now he was out, all of those notes in his head, and with a hundred ideas to pick from, he had no ideas.<br/><br/>Not that he’d tell this grinning runt of a woman.<br/><br/>“Better seen than heard.”<br/><br/>She smirked, and it was a ''really'' punchable smirk.  She slouched and rather than straighten up to smile at him, she twisted her head so her chin craned up, looking up at him with overlarge glasses and a forced smile on her face.<br/><br/>Somehow more irritating than if she’d been looking down at him.  Not that he would punch that punchable face.  ''Maybe'' in the right situation, he could do something more creative.  Take the right formula, the right form, and claw that face off.<br/>[...]<br/>He was thinking small and he hated that she was right almost as much as he hated her guts in general.  Yet however much he hated her and however much she claimed to detest him, they ended up together, over and over again.<br/><br/>This- it had been her saying goodbye. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/12/11/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 10.y II]]</ref> of sorts with his fellow cell block leader.<ref name=darling/> Their relationship left a lasting impression on [[Cryptid|his successor]].