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Dex left his adviser’s office with a newly hatched plan for how to manage to ace his exams, finish his investigative project, not lose his job, and f**k Nick into the mattress at every available opportunity, all at the same time. He hadn’t shared the plan with his adviser, obviously. His adviser hadn’t had much new to say on the topic of Dex’s final project apart from, “Not much time left, Dexter. You’re on the right path, and what you’ve got is very good, I admit, but it is not yet enough. Vigorous study, young man. Only a handful of weeks left.”
Dex hadn’t needed that reminder, but he admitted it had been a fair one.
What he needed was a reward system.
He explained it to Nick over curry that night. “So if you were to work in the study room next to the lab—you can do that, right?—w
