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[doublefried]

[ ring a bell for an echidnabird ]

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[doublefried]

You fell for my exhausted charm and overworked swag.

[tothosewhobait]

You're hardworking and handsome and I enjoy your company...that's a rare combination. And when one finds their self presented with something rare and precious, it's rather hard to willingly let that go.

[doublefried]

And normally I'd be more coy, but you DID apparently have to wade through a big ol' pile of my like... what, thoughts? Feelings? Memories? and you weren't like... freaked out... so...

[tothosewhobait]

I wasn't "freaked out"....and it wasn't pity....but I found myself wanting to become a soft place for you, since you didn't seem to have one. If that makes sense.

[doublefried]

A soft place...

[ leans on a little. like experimentally. ]

... That's very sweet, you know? You're right, I never really had one.

[tothosewhobait]

[Slowly leans against him in return]

I might have guessed that...

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I know I'm not very terribly similar to the person you liked before. Is that all right?

[doublefried]

That's all right. It might be weird if you were too similar.

[tothosewhobait]

Maybe a little, yes.

[doublefried]

I like you as you anyway.

[tothosewhobait]

What a coincidence. I like you as you too.

[doublefried]

[ BLUSHES FOR SOME REASON ]

My prison stay is really full of surprises.

[tothosewhobait]

I have a question for you.

[doublefried]

Yeah?

[tothosewhobait]

I don’t expect you to kiss me on our first date, but I want to know… Have you been kissed before?

[doublefried]

[ thinks about it ]

On the cheek...?

[tothosewhobait]

On the mouth.

[doublefried]

Well, I was focusing on my career, so...

[tothosewhobait]

I suspected as much. That’s not a bad thing, for the record.

[doublefried]

Twenty-three isn't like, a WEIRD age to not have gotten into romance or anything.

[tothosewhobait]

Definitely not weird.

[Offers him a potato chip from the bag]

[doublefried]

[ nom ]

It wasn't like, not allowed for heroes to do it or anything. So I guess I could have been kissing people.

[tothosewhobait]

To be fair, when were you supposed to meet someone to kiss?

[Pops another chip in his mouth]

And considering how well known you are… it would be hard to know if someone was in it for the right reasons? And dating another hero sounds a bit like a nightmare as far as matching up schedules.

[doublefried]

Yeah. There was sort of a lot in the way of it.

[tothosewhobait]

And, like you said, twenty three is still very young. Somehow you seem older AND a younger than your age.

[doublefried]

Older AND younger...