#8, I have written something exactly like that already as part of a larger story; but it's short and stands on its own and it's that exact premise, so I'm just going to copy the relevant bit here for you.
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Erik met Charles about a hundred times before they ever talked to each other. At 23, Charles was already ABD on a doctorate from fucking Oxford when he accepted whatever crazy deal Stanton threw at him to come and do a research fellowship in genetics, and Erik was hip-deep wading through his Master's and trying to deal with the fact that just about every other physics grad student was a starchild space cadet
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Erik met Charles about a hundred times before they ever talked to each other. At 23, Charles was already ABD on a doctorate from fucking Oxford when he accepted whatever crazy deal Stanton threw at him to come and do a research fellowship in genetics, and Erik was hip-deep wading through his Master's and trying to deal with the fact that just about every other physics grad student was a starchild space cadet ( ... )
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