section7mfu | Admiration Society

Prompts: Wink, Purple
Word count: 438

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A trio of young women were gathered around a water cooler in the secretarial pool’s large office space. Twenty cubicles echoed with the whir of electric typewriters and the soft clicking as nimble fingers wrote the stories of affairs across the globe. This was the real center of activity in UNCLE Headquarters.

The three women had one thing to talk about on this morning, and water wasn’t the central theme.

“Just a wink and a smile and I’m a happy girl. That man makes me melt into my shoes.” Jenny Piper was a pretty girl with strong Southern roots, her strawberry blond hair cut into a pixie similar to the one worn by Twiggy, the British model. People told her she looked like the mod icon, something the girl from Alabama was quick to accept.

“Well, that’s all well and good, but how about a date at the Purple Unicorn… ‘ Peggy Miles let that hang in the air just a little while the other two gave her expressions intended to ask…

“Yep, he’s taking me there on Saturday night. That is if he doesn’t get called back into work.”

Two long sighs accompanied the news. It was a real coup to get a date with this man, this gorgeous man.

“So, how did he ask you out? I mean, did he just… ask?” Nancy Perkins was a petite version of Sophia Loren. Shaped like an hour glass and blessed with the best of her mother’s Italian heritage, she had been dreaming of this man for as long as she could remember. Well, for as long as she’d been part of the U.N.C.L.E. office staff.

Peggy just smiled. She wouldn’t admit that she had practically stalked the man. But when she wanted something, she usually got it. And she had wanted a date with…

“George is such a nice guy, I’m surprised more of the girls don’t just swarm all over him. Everyone’s after Solo and Kuryakin, but for me… it’s all about George Dennell.”

The other two agreed with Nancy. Maybe they were all alone in their admiration of the bookish young man, but now the rest of the week would be in anticipation of the big date, and the report on what happened.

Napoleon Solo saw the three women deep in conversation. He had his eye on Nancy, she was a stunning young woman, and he saw the dreamy look on her face as she glanced at him.

As he mistakenly assumed himself to be the object of her dreams, he was congratulating himself on his continuing popularity among the ladies at HQ.