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Jason keeps wanting to sit them down for a talk, but Clive keeps avoiding it. He even starts telling Belinda to lead Jason in what to do in the lab- he starts respecting the hierarchy where the PhDs and postdocs are supposed to be guiding him.
I feel like Jason sets up a trap (poorly conceived plan) where he sets up a giant dinner. Gets candles and makes all of Clive’s favorite foods. He prints out his old text conversations with Farrah about liking him.
Farrah is adamant against this plan, but Jason gets Belinda to send Clive home early one day.
A modern day AU where Clive is a lonely researcher and Jason works part time at a dumpling soup shop and at an office supply store.
Clive only goes out for three things - food, office supplies, and basic necessities. Somehow he runs into Jason doing all three of these. And somehow, the chef/server who will let Clive rant about his research, coworkers, the university (all while looking very interested), remembers his name and says hi to him every time they see each other.