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Sure.

[Right after Dirk hugs him. It isn't at flashstep speed but it isn't clingy, he lets go after a moment. He just needed the hug.]

Is it cool if I go with you when you wake up from nightmares?

[...Like he's done it before sometimes but he's never asked and he tried not to do it too much because he didn't want to be clingy. But now he just. Wants to be there? Look what you did, Dave.

Also don't worry he's hopping into the ocean now so they can go get a sandwich. Honestly no person should be this relieved at being told their family is distressed about their death, but then, it's the telling part that has him hopeful.]

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[ dave flexes the fingers of his left hand before he takes a step towards the water. time to swim back, he guesses, so he has to put on the breathing apparatus shit. ]

I don't know. Sometimes, maybe. Usually I just like to chill alone or with Wiz.

[ this is weird? this is weird. be less happy about this, dirk. ]

[just get bodymods you weirdo.

Dirk's telepathy is at least as finely monotonous as his speech, so there's that.]

Okay. Cool.

Just let me know? You know I don't sleep much anyway.

[Because he wakes up every single time anyone in the family so much as goes for a glass of water. Roxy has done this to him.]

And I like your company.

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[ aren't the bodymods only eyes are there breathing body mods since when ]

Maybe.

[ he doesn't really do dream discussions with anyone but rose. ]

I might keep crashing with Kitkat on occasion for a bit. 'Till he tells me to fuck off, anyway.

[...I may have gotten the game info wrong. I may have totally wrongly assumed things that I read in the FAQ had been implemented. I may be choosing to blame Homestuck and claim that space-breathing applies to water??? YOU SAW NOTHING]

He simultaneously always and never tells you to fuck off.

[Always because Karkat, never because he doesn't mean it.]

[ hey look another project for dirk ]

Yeah so I mean until I decide not to ignore a demand I stop clinging to his walk pole or whatever the fuck term he used.

[ dave knows exactly what term was used but as usual he's casually pretending he doesn't know as much troll as he does. ]

Okay. Cool.

[He knows he's pushing it but he just can't not. So it comes out, and maybe Dirk's telepathic voice slips a little because there's this cloying fear and desperation despite the voice itself sounding chill—]

Is it okay if I still do the ironic tuck-in ritual?

[Because it's not ironic. Because Dirk liked having a family to hug and tell that he loves them.

Because Dirk is scared and feels like he has to ask about every single inch of progress they made towards being proper brothers for fear of having lost it.]

I'll stop by before I meet up with him. He genuinely gets secondhand embarrassment from that stuff.

[ but considering dave can't get karkat to so much as hold his hand in public (hasn't bothered to try because he knows karkat isn't into pda and he's fine with whatever his counterpart prefers) this is perhaps not shocking news. ]

I know.

I built you two a private room for a reason.

[He's not doing that well with emotional control right now so there's a little flicker of 'welp' on the telepathic front, which is exactly the word to describe how Dirk felt when he saw the two of them when swimming past the observatory.]

It's his room, not our room, imply that it's for the two of us and he'll have a conniption.

[ and/or a heart attack. also he will try to avoid dave which would be a fruitless endeavor but it's still a pain to bother with whenever karkat gets that embarrassed. ]

I also didn't tell him for a reason.

[Look Karkat may now hate him forever and never want anything to do with him ever again (dirk no) but Dirk still isn't going to mess with him about this.]

Ok. As long as you don't. He's actually a pretty sensitive dude and riling him up is ok but upsetting him isn't.

[ it's a fine line ]

I'm not going to hurt your boyfriend.

That is, not more than I already have.

[With the whole. All of this. Every bit of it.

Fuck he's such a destroyer class it hurts.]

Wait, what happened with Karkat?

[ did he miss dirk upsetting karkat?????? ]

[....

Dave.]

I played a not-insignificant role in sending his boyfriend ricochetting through time.

[ oh, okay. the subtle edge fades from his mental voice. ]

He kinda knew it was gonna happen as soon as we started talking.

[Dirk neither says nor thinks, He knew before that. Because if Karkat hasn't revealed his foreknowledge, then Dirk is not going to cause even more conflict and drama.]

Yeah. It still hurt him.

As an in-law, my credibility has taken a serious hit.

[ honestly, dave wouldn't be remotely angry with karkat, so.

oops???? ]

I doubt it's as dire as that.

[ or maybe it is. karkat holds grudges like dave tends not to. ]

[Dirk glances at Dave with a 'that's stupid' non-expression.

Dave is wrong. Karkat now hates Dirk forever, because he has realized that Dirk is an unforgivably unworthy person who doesn't deserve to be in Dave's life.

Dirk knows this as a #truefact.

Anyway he opens up the hatch for them both to step in. Home sweet base-shaped home.]

[ dave...doesn't argue the point like he might have beforehand. he's too tired to bother? he just goes inside, automatically heading into a specific route towards the kitchen timed specifically to avoid anyone. he doesn't have to think about it to find it. ]

[It unsettles Dirk a little. Not the lack of the argument, the route Dave takes. It's specific, and it doesn't take Dirk long to work out what that means.

He ends up becoming silent (which isn't abnormal for him) but there's also the most minute shift in his posture to a more carefully precise slouch.

He's used to Dave being the one who talks.]

[ usually dave chatters non-stop, so it's unsurprising dirk's used to it. he'd started talking a little more on the sandbar, but since lapsing into silence after dropping the "karkat probably doesn't hate you" thread of conversation he simply hasn't picked it back up again. honestly a lot of his conversations recently have been in alien screeching.

...he misses p diddy??? yeah.

at least everything in the kitchen is pretty much in the same spots, although it takes him a minute to get to the correct cabinet for what he wants. ]

[The more Dave doesn't talk, the more Dirk is unsettled. He has lived his whole life in silence and now he doesn't know what to do with Dave's. He ends up settling down in one of the kitchen seats and half-turning away from Dave.

He has to keep it together. He has to be patient and wait. It will take time.

But it still hurts.]

[ dave doesn't start up another conversation, but he does eventually start muttering to...himself. that isn't a thing he tends to pay attention to. it's hard to pick out what the fuck he's saying, but it's presumably related to the items he's pulling out in preparation for his Completely Winging It sandwich.

most of these items do not look like they would go well together.

no one would ever want to steal this sandwich. ]

[It's a little better. At least it isn't silence. Dirk folds his arms on the table, and slowly, he lets his head lower to rest. He watches Dave out of the corner of his eye.

He really missed hearing Dave mutter.]

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