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[finewithhalf]

If you're looking for me, I'm out. Drop me a message, and I'll get back to you when I feel like it.

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[catchacold]

I'm with you. Never really want to.

[He pulls his hand back and puts it on the ground instead, leaning back.]

Point is, when Mick and I got together, it was illegal. We just didn't care. But the circumstances are different than Riley and you. You don't gotta see yourself in either of us. You got your own life.

[finewithhalf]

I know that. You don't think I know that?

[The sulking continues.]

[catchacold]

[Well.

Honestly?]

Comes and goes.

[finewithhalf]

[Her eyes raise just long enough to dart him a dirty look.]

What's that supposed to mean?

[catchacold]

You like to relate things to yourself. Not the worst thing. I see a lot of myself in you.

Just ain't gonna blind me to the differences. That's a lesson to learn too.

[finewithhalf]

You trying to say I'm selfish?

[catchacold]

Nah, not at all. Self-centred. Most people are.

[Especially teenagers, but he wisely refrains from pointing that out.]

I'm not trying to be insulting. You can tell me if I'm completely wrong. You don't think you can be?

[finewithhalf]

I most certainly am not. It's just that everything happens to coincide with my life's current issues.

[Doesn't that happen to everyone?]

[catchacold]

Oh yeah?

[What does one even say to that?]

What are your issues right now, princess?

[finewithhalf]

[She shrugs.]

Start thinking some stuff about what it means when you get zapped to some other part of space and twenty minutes later your best friend shows up. If Matthews was here, he'd be saying something about history while I take a nap.

[catchacold]

My partner showed up six months later. Anyway.

[He pauses and lifts an eyebrow.]

Your issues right now?

[finewithhalf]

I pay attention.

[Crud, has it been six months already?]

My issues right now aren't Lenny-appropriate, actually.

[catchacold]

Rarely. And never for long.

[Oh, now there's a reason to smile.]

About that boy?

[finewithhalf]

What?? No.

[Her face turns three shades darker.]

[catchacold]

For future reference, princess, if I hadn't already known there was a boy?

Now I'd know.

[finewithhalf]

's not a secret or anything.

[catchacold]

Then tell me. He seems nice.

That's a pleasant surprise, honestly.

[finewithhalf]

He can throw a punch if he's gotta.

[There are very specific things that attract Maya to people, and that's a big one.]

[catchacold]

So can you.

He treating you right?

[finewithhalf]

More scared of me than I am of him.

[But she smiles, because he'd better be.]

[catchacold]

Good. Smart boy.

[Hey, he has his priorities sorted.]

He blushes easy.

[finewithhalf]

You talked to him?

Lenny, what did you do.

[catchacold]

That was back in Hell.

[What a place they live in where that is a normal sentence to say.]

I was just trying to see if I should scare him.

[finewithhalf]

I mean, if I couldn't scare him off, I don't think you'd have a lot of luck even if I wanted you to.

[catchacold]

Probably not.

If I could, he wouldn't deserve you.

[Which brings up a different topic.]

Is that why you tried to scare him off or...?