"It's all fun and games until you binge, get sick, and don't want to eat another chocolate for a week," he replies in a vaguely warning tone, entirely joking. "Not that I would know. But you hear things."

He totally overdid it for his first couple weeks, but he's learned to scale it back since. On the other hand, he's not sure he can think of too many perks working in IT. Even the military IT crew got tired of the main unit's technical incompetence. What came so easy to them was actually pretty hard for a lot of the guys, but they seemed an endless spool of impatience, unraveling at each call. Come to think of it, Oliver seems a hell of a lot nicer and more patient than most of those others.

"Besides, you're obviously a lot smarter than I am. I barely do math and you're a computer genius."