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ill tell him later in person

Is there a reason you're not going to him in person now?
Aside from being an asshole.

im going to talk to him now in person
later

Rose is right. The game gave you time powers to punish the rest of us.
You should talk to him now, without looping. We can talk when you're done if you still want to.
What have you eaten or drank in the last hour relative to your personal continuity?

i need to talk to you first
hes going to want to know how this goes anyway
and if we put this off were not going to talk about it for a while
and or i will unpsych myself up whichever comes first

water and apples i said im at the farm why would i not be eating apples

All right. I'll be there soon.

Because you're a fucking idiot.

i didnt starve myself in two hours

It wasn't two hours.

[Don't be full of shit? Dirk has his shades on so he can head over to the farm while also calling out Dave. Thanks, hands-free communication.]

it was exactly as long as it needed to be

It makes your argument about not starving within the span of two hours a specious one.
Like the vast majority of your arguments.

dont tell me youre going to complain until i tell you what two hours equals too

I would let you get away with simply assuring me that you took care of yourself, in the sense of finding proper shelter, eating and drinking a healthy amount, and looking after your illness.
By now I've worked out that any claim that you did so would be cleverly worded but ultimately obvious bullshit.

did you know its possible to answer a question with like one word
i dont know if anyone told you

No.

im taking that a no to wanting to know how long two hours is btw

It isn't.

[What's that? It's your brother, out of the tunnel that he built specifically for you. He takes his shades off (fair is fair) and he really just looks mostly tired. Better, because expressing his hatred for Kaufman is always a good way to spend a few hours. But tired.]

But I'm considering that something we can deal with later.

[ i mean, at least dave is over his being sick now so he looks semi better but mostly super neutral? he is just lying under one of the apple trees kind of staring up at the dome although he tilts his head towards dirk when he approaches. ]

That'd be best or you're just gonna get mad again.

[Okay. He can tell this is going to be tough from the start. He walks over to Dave, and then he sits down beside him, crossed legs, hands resting in his lap. He counts time in his head.]

I'm sorry for how I dealt with that. I shouldn't have threatened Cal's death or insisted on doing this as a necessity. I'll try not to pull that shit again.

Nah, it's not your fault.

[ since it was dave who reacted badly to dream cal and froze up at the mention of not-dream cal ]

Rose said I should copy-paste what I said to her to you.

That sounds absurd.

[He lifts his wrist.]

My communicator is ready for it any time.

I'm not actually gonna copy-paste it.

[ mostly because he occasionally gets too honest with rose when he isn't spouting complete bullshit at her and getting it in return.

but also because he kept using the word hellpuppet ]

- I'm actually not sure if I should even explain it now because I don't think I should talk to you about shit that went down with Bro any more? So instead I will sum up and say I don't want you to cut yourself to pieces for me. Which I already more or less said but whatever.

[There's a little lurch in his stomach. He tries not to let it overwhelm him.

He closes his eyes. Despite everything, he speaks calmly.]

I know you remember asking me not to go away. You asked me not to shut you out.

Please don't do that to me.

I'm not.

[ or maybe he is a little, but it's for a good cause? all he had to do was get a handle on how he'd managed shit with other people, and if he just doesn't tell dirk about bro things, dirk won't kill himself trying to do the opposite of those things. ]

I'm right here? I just don't think we should talk about that anymore. [ because he was right when he told dirk it was too heavy to tell to anyone else. dave was just wrong when he didn't consider that it was also too heavy to expect dirk to deal with, too. ]

And I don't think you should destroy Cal. [ would never ask him to do it, because the sword was different, and cal is...dave can deal. he's dealt with way worse. he made certain not to come back until he could say that really calmly, because it seemed like the only plan that might even halfway work. ]

[His eyes open. Dirk doesn't look away from Dave.]

"Don't go away, even if it's in your own head." I don't have an eidetic memory because I'm not a bullshit detective character post-2005, but I think that was the approximate phrasing.

But I definitely remember, "Please stop, you're scaring the fuck out of me."

[Don't go away. Don't cut me off. Don't lock me out. Dave made demand after demand, and Dirk opened up his heart to him, he tried, he did everything he could. He worked and he fought and he put himself out there. He isn't going to let that become one-sided, and he isn't going to let it fall apart.]

Please. Stop.

No. [ he doesn't raise his voice like he did at some point in the cal fight earlier before he stomped off, but it's emphatic. ] This time, it's not you who did the Bro thing, okay? And I refuse to keep doing it. So we can't - we can't talk about it because even if it's shit I need to learn to deal with you'll try to take it all on you and I'm not going to cause that, okay?

[ if he were going to copy paste what he said to rose it'd be

the whole
cutting himself to pieces just because of me thing
ive done that before rose
it hurts and it doesnt help anyone
its not a thing i want to fucking cause

because that's what he used to do when bro expressed any slight displeasure with any aspect of dave and maybe he should have just done what she said and pasted that exact sentiment. why is rose always right. ]

It's just on this one thing. I'm not doing it on anything else. Swear to god.

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