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[parodeity]

DAVE STRIDER

consider this your warning about stairs. itll just keep happening bro. im telling you man

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[A smirk.]

Well, yeah. But not everybody has the advantage of knowing that already?

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I...does that bother you?

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[He hesitates a little.]

Probably...not for the reasons you might think.

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For what reasons?

[ he has tried not to guess. ]

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[...]

Expectations, dude. I don't want to fall short. But I also can't pretend to be someone I'm not.

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I...know I'm alone in that, don't worry. [ a small one shouldered shrug, and he's still looming at the counter instead of john. ] Expectations are the last thing you have to worry about.

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Alone in what, exactly? [He's not going to force Dave to look at him but he's carefully watching him anyway. ]

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Bein' the other person.

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...explain that to me. Like. You don't want to be that person?

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John, I'm me. Have been for a while now. "Want " or "don't want" - the shit I would change has never been anythin' that could be changed and who cares about it?

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Yeah. I get it. [He downs the rest of his coffee anyway.] Uh. I know I kind of started it but can I tap out on this stuff for today? For a little while.

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It's chill to tap out on it permanently - don't worry about it. We have fact cards about how to care for those. I can grab them for you before you go.

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Cool, I do not want to tap out permanently though. But thanks. [He'll slide off of the counter then.]

I'll take them. I think I have time to drop these off at the dorm before my lab. When are you off tonight?

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Another two hours. I'll be back before you're out of class, probably?

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Okay, sweet. [There's another easygoing grin then.] I found my Back to the Future trilogy under my bed while I was looking for my glasses this morning and we're watching the first one when I get back. Deal?

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That is a super cliche thing to ask me to watch but luckily I adore Marty McFly, so I'm down. [ he's been going through a plastic box and pulls out two information cards on those plants to hand over. ] ...some concern about you thinking your glasses would be under your bed, also?

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Awesome. [He snaps up the cards and pockets them, picking up the plants in one hand.] And no, probably not. Sometimes they get knocked off of my desk, it's no big deal. You'll get used to it.

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Maybe? I've never really seen you without 'em that long, so you breaking or losing them would be weird...

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I have never broken or lost them, surprisingly. Temporarily lost, sure, but I kind of like being able to see. So I guess other me never lost them either? Good to know.

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[ a brief shrug. ]

Not that I know of...? But chronologically speakin' he could've done earlier.

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Can I ask you one more question?

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Shoot.

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How long did you and I know each other back then? When did we actually meet?

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The first time we ever spoke we must've been around ten or so?

[ he's guesstimating and also not answering "when did we first meet" because lab babies why ]

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[He pauses again.]

...we knew each other for a really long time then. Like before everything even started. I had no idea.