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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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[ don't drop him and go ride on the thing!! not that he'd argue if john did. but he's not getting off on his own right now. ] You didn't have to say it, I just know how you operate. And yeah, it is. Though less...free bouncing.

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[LET HIM LIVE but no he's not as prone to giving in to his more whimsical urges when he's still toting Dave around, so there's that. He's just walking closer to it to kind of nudge it with his hand.]

I refuse to believe I am that predictable. And even if I am, shut up. [A smirk.] This is so...weird. Seeing all of this. And knowing it's ours? That is the part that baffles me.

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[ unfortunately, dave chooses this moment to drop off of john's back and onto his feet, because he wants to walk around to see john's face. ]

Good baffle or bad baffle?

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[He appears thoughtful and calm at least which is an improvement from where they were before.]

Good baffle, I think. I wanted a house with you and then one just kind of showed up? Think about it.

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So... [ so... ] ...we're doing this?

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...[A nod.] Where making this happen. [A grin. Even in this lifetime he'll reference SBaHJ apparently.] I think we should look at the rest of the upstairs and make sure everything is in tact but...it would seem dumb not to. You know?

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[ dave cracks a fleeting grin, although it's probably more about the reference than it isn't. ] So...okay. We have to decide what we're doing space wise anyway.

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If I remember the layout right, upstairs are the two bedrooms and one bathroom, plus the balcony which you already saw. Downstairs is the living room, the kitchen, the laundry room, and the study. So we have a lot of ground to cover?

[A beat.] Your turntables will have room. And we could maybe turn the closet in my old bedroom into a home studio? [A dark room.]

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Isn't the closet kinda important? [ he has no idea where the fuck they're sleeping since he'll just agree to any room layout john wants but ] But that sounds...cool. Lead the way to room numero dos. Or uno??

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I don't know. I assume we have a couple of them so we can check? [Shrug. But he's taking Dave's hand and dragging him toward the house even while shooting a longing look at the pogo ride.] I think in this case it's numero dos and my old bedroom was numero uno. If we are going in order.

I hope you're okay with stairs in the house, too, since that is a thing. I think when I was envisioning where we were moving I thought everything would be on one floor.

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Yeah, but wouldn't a closet in the bedroom be important? [ "the", so at least he's...tentatively assuming they're still agreed on the rooming scenario not changing up. he just has no idea which bedroom john plans to move them into. ]

I don't mind stairs. Way less than I had back in the day. [ THE STRIDERS HAD A LOT OF STAIRS ] Just don't fall down them. Or you know exactly what I'll do.

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I definitely know what you'll do if I fall down stairs. [Back into the house they go. This leads them through the laundry room where there's definitely a washer and dryer sitting there. It also brings them through the kitchen to go back to the living room.]

We have two bedrooms so unless you think we need two closets? [...well actually.] Unless we use the other closet for storage and stuff. And there are cabinets all over that stuff can be stored in so that part is taken care of.

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Which bedroom? [ john, please explain more or better. ]

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...we can look at the second bedroom and decide which one we want to stay in. Sound good? [He's already hauling him upstairs and down the little hall toward the second room. On the other hand, he doesn't immediately open the door.]

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Need me to open it? [ asked fairly quietly. ]

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No. No, I can do it, it's just. [He doesn't have words exactly. Daddy issues, yes, but not words. Eventually though he sets his jaw and he straightens up, using his free hand to open the door

and stare into the empty bedroom.

It's what he remembers from some memories, a bed, a dresser, a closet. The hat rack in the corner. The tie rack on the wall. It's...quiet and empty and he doesn't immediately step into the room yet but gestures for Dave to look.]

This is it.

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Huh.

[ ..........this decor sure is Serious. ]

Very pipe-chic. [ it's a weak joke but he squeezes john's hand and shoots him an assessing look. ]

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[An equally weak laugh, at least.] Yeah. He uh. Always had those from what I remember.

[Give him a second and a hat and a pipe will drop from his sylladex into his free hand. He glances at the hat rack and the pipe rack and finds they probably fit right in.] For as weird and clownish as the house is, Dad was apparently minimalistic.

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[ dave eyes the new items, but doesn't immediately comment on them. ]

I can admire that in a guy. It'd be nice if the entire place were decorated more, like. Not clown-y. But I understand that was probably well-meant?

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[He'll slowly pull out of Dave's grip to walk forward, carefully setting the hat on the hat rack and the pipe in the pipe rack. That's maybe better.]

...Rose told me that it was probable that my dad thought I was really into clowns because of stuff I was apparently doing in my subconscious or whatever. Drawing all over my stuff. So he got into the clown thing because he thought I was into clowns? I don't know.

This also explains a lot about why Nannasprite looked the way she did though.

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...We don't have to change a thing about this room if you don't want, y'know.

[ or not until some far off day when john does want to. it's not a huge deal. ]

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Then...what? We'd leave it as an empty put-together room? [He's not sure what he wants to do with it, truthfully, but he's just kind of staring at the bed and the blank space in the room itself. It's too empty and too white and too weird to stay in for long but...it's also strangely comforting in a weird kind of way.]

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If you want. [ dave shrugs. ] It's your house, babe.

[ his life, dave means. there are memories and things here that no one else has a right to decide what to do about. dave won't try, and doesn't want to. ]

It's not like we need two bedrooms, so it's not seriously in the way or anything.

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Can I think about it? Like after we move everything in...I want to think about it a little before we do anything with it.

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[ well. he walks back over to john and just puts a hand to either side of john's face so john looks at him. dave's not trying to kiss him or anything, just. a glance over the tops of his shades. ]

Dude. If you want to spend the rest of your life thinking about it, that's fine with me. We can do nothing with it forever, or we can do something with it someday if you think of a thing you want to do - but what you don't have to do is decide now or like...at any point of time before you're genuinely ready to. It's not a big deal. Seriously.