Nate would have been glad to help. He'd spent half his life pulling things apart and putting them back together after all. If he couldn't help her figure out what went where, what sort of boy genius would he have been? But really, he'd been so absorbed in his own work that he hadn't noticed her enter the room. Though the fact that she'd been keeping away from everyone else had probably contributed to that fact.

When he heard Cassie's voice he turned and have her a bemused, raised eyebrow. Why was she laughing? "What's so funny?" Really he didn't mean to sound annoyed or anything, Cassie. But he had just had a fusion cell explode in his face after all.