Talk Business, but flirt with her

"Sounds like a good idea." You chase the statement with another gulp of whiskey.

Katherine leans forward, her voice conspiratory, her eyes flicking around the room.

"I have top level clearance, I can get into any room in the building."

"That's good," you reply, "but it's going to look suspicious if you're letting me creep around the inside of the place. How are you with computers?"

"Good," she leans back slightly, her dark hair falling over her left eye, "I can code on the fly with a level four proficiency in nine different terminal languages."

You raise an eyebrow and smile.

"Impressive. It's not often I meet a woman as beautiful and as smart as you are." The dimness of the bar hides much of her reaction, but you think you see her blush. "We are talking about a high level security AI though, that's going to take a pre-written script."

"W-what sort of script?" Katherine asks, seemingly regaining her train of thought.

"Something to mask the irregularaties the technicians have been picking up, something to cut off security sensors and Orchid's core storage facility."

"I don't know, you're talking about serious security on the lab section and the core storage room." Katherine brushes her hair from her face.

"I can get the script we need, but you need to install it directly into the mainframe. This sort of breech cannot be made totally undetectable though, high level security sweeps will find the bad code. We need to time this to coincide with the next sweep."

"They do one every three hours," Katherine explains.

You place your hand on Katherine's.

"This is going to be difficult and dangerous," you lean your face closer to hers and she nods in reply. "I will give you the scripts two days from now, a self-erasing ROM. Time their installation to immediately after a sweep."

"What about you?" She says, her face flushed slightly with ****.

"I'm not going to tell you, but after my next testing session I want you to meet me here. Leave as soon as we complete our debriefing."

"I can't, they expect-"

"You have to. If you stay any longer you will be caught."

"O-okay, this is-," Katherine interrupts herself by finishing off the whiskey in her glass.

"It will work out, I've done this sort of thing before," you move your hand slowly up to cup her cheek.

"This is," she pushes her cheek slightly against your palm, "I don't go that way. I, I like girls."

Undeterred you push your foot across the booth under the table so that it touches hers. This time you see Katherine blush, her face softening into a shy smile. You think things are going well but Katherine abruptly stands up.

"Really, I need to go. I-"

You grasp her wrist, firmly but not menacingly, and look up at her.