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01. i'll have a whole suitcase of emergency bacon with me obviously.
02. did you take pictures of the fish tank at the sheriff station or did you let me down?
03. i think matching sweaters would make us look approachable!
04. why is hotel staff asking about the blood in our room?

3. ....and possibly others to come

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I agree. Approachable to the unwashed masses who want ask, for the dozenth time, if we're brothers.

[ wildly varying ethnicities totally outweighed by two men who display even an iota of visible affection for one another, you see. ]

c:

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[ what a curious world they live in. ]

i like to try to take it as a weird kind of compliment??
there's nothing wrong with the idea that i have at least a fraction of your maddening attractiveness.

but uh
is that a no to the sweaters?

the question is: have either of those actually happened

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Fft. Get your own maddening attractiveness. Ignorance is not a compliment, and you shouldn't encourage it.

That's

[ ughhhhhh he doesn't want to agree to this, but. compromise, that's a thing he's trying to do. ]

A last resort. Okay? Matching sweaters are a last resort, like wearing a bald wig, or pretending to speak Bulgarian

i mean yes

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does it count as encouragement if i take some small pleasure from their ignorance and then watch while you tear them to pieces?
remember the last time? what did you say?? [ a brief pause while he laughs to himself. ]
you almost made that man cry.

well, you'll be happy to know that i have now purchased matching sweaters for when we're in need of a last resort.
they're seafoam green. with embroidered pineapples.

1/2

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[ ... sebastian is about to answer all of this thoroughly, with such details as how schadenfreude is really hot on zetes, but then-- ]

Why. Why do they have embroidered pineapples.

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Did I kick your puppy in a past life?
Do you love me even a little?

1. i said there might be more

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Packing emergency bacon means there is no way you can veto snowshoes.

does a happy dance

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snowshoes take up way more space than bacon.

twirls u!!

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Bacon will not get us back to civilization intact.

dips!!!

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snowshoes don't provide sustenance, sebastian.

[ intentionally misses the point. he's not a troll, what are you talking about. ]

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Neither does bacon, unless you're bringing a cooking stove or want intestinal parasites.

[ sebastian refuses to dignify this trolling with anything but seriousness!!!!!! ]

4. THAT'S RIGHT (1/2)

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Shit

They're going to put that on the bill, aren't they?

2/2; several minutes later

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[ ...... oh right ]

I'm fine, don't start worrying.

1/???

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you should lead with "i'm fine" next time, please.

[ it's only fair, especially since zetes thinks he can remember a time when sebastian had to tell him the same. ]

2/4 i think

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what happened???

3/4

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also yeah i think they have the right.

I'M DONE

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but HEY
i might have enough toothpaste to get it out?

1/some number

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[ ...damn it, this is one of those times he has to concern himself with the actual feelings of other people, isn't it. or. well, person. whose feelings he cares about very much! fuck. >C

is it time for actual sincerity oh yes, that's right.]

I'll lead with that next time. On the off-chance there is a next time

[ be realistic, sebastian, there will be a next time ]

Yeah. I'll do that. Got it.

2

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Hey--I'm sorry I worried you. I just did that thing where I forgot to think before I hit send; you know how it goes when you have the emotional sophistication of lint.

[ lint that periodically fails to remember someone else cares about his safety and well-being now, really. damn it!!! ]

It's really fine, promise. There was a slight altercation with a wall.

OKAY I TOO AM DONE

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?? Do you use toothpaste on bloodstains? It would beat spitting on it I guess.

1/3

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next time. don't forget.

[ there will definitely be a next time.

but he gets it!!! he does. sebastian has lived a life in which very few people were texting him on a regular basis to make sure he was okay. which is horribly unfair, but that's another discussion entirely. for now, some reassurance is in order. ]

i know it's hard for you. i mean, as a very cute piece of lint that i have imagined carrying around in my pocket on more than one occasion.
just know that i appreciate knowing that you're not bleeding out somewhere.

2/3

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and on another serious note i'm sure i've warned you about walls in the past.
they can be pretty aggressive.
gotta keep your eyes on those walls.

[ 'serious,' he says. ]

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toothpaste or meat tenderizer, yeah! 'course i forgot my meat tenderizer this time.
but spit also works, don't knock spit.

1/however many tags it takes for sebastian to process his feelings

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I would never knock spit.