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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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[windeity]

This sounds bad but I would probably kill a man if you asked me to. That sounds really bad, so think of something less bad and I could probably be coerced into saying yes. [His hand slides back into Dave's hair again to work over his scalp gently.] Steal you whatever you want, go wherever you want...I have accepted that I am pretty hopeless when it comes to you and me.

[parodeity]

So like if I asked you to punch someone you would? [ he's not going to ask that. he sounds vaguely amused at the idea though. ] Are you like my henchboy.

[windeity]

Mmhm. [A kiss to the tip of his ear.] Sure, something like that. I have done enough punching in the city to get a feel for it.

[parodeity]

Hm. So what would you do if I were in a coma sleepless in seattle style or something?

[windeity]

...have you ever even seen Sleepless in Seattle?

[parodeity]

I forget the movie I want. While you were sleeping? Sleep is in the title. There's a whole coma thing. Look.

[windeity]

It's While You Were Sleeping, yeah. Sleepless in Seattle is the one where the guy's kid gets him to talk about his dead wife on talk radio and everyone tries to date him but then the lady who's engaged falls for him instead. Anyway if you were in a coma obviously I'd wait for you to come back to me.

[parodeity]

What if I had amnesia and forgot we ever met?

[windeity]

[...his grip tightens a little.] I'd try to get to know you all over again. Help you remember who you really are if you ever wanted, but at the same time I'd just try to re-meet you.

...sometimes I think even if your mind forgets things you don't forget how you feel about them.

[parodeity]

Would you try to get me to fall in love again? [ he's curious, okay. ]

[windeity]

[A very long pause because...like...he still thinks Dave's forgotten everything about the app so this question almost feels a little too close to him. Nevertheless Dave does remember him and loves him, so it's stupid to worry.]

I would hope that maybe you would give me a chance and I would do everything I could to try and prove we were supposed to be together. Yes, I would try, even if maybe you wanted something else.

[parodeity]

[ dave is a terrible boyfriend and should like

CLARIFY THAT????

instead he just kind of laughs. ]

Somethin' else like what?

[windeity]

[DAVE IS THE WORST BOYFRIEND...]

I don't know! If you didn't remember me there's no absolute guaranteeing you'd fall in love the same way and with me. Someone else might get to you first.

[parodeity]

I'd ask why you'd let them but we're both so demonstrably bad at actually hanging onto things that matter that the answer is like, self-evident.

[windeity]

I wouldn't. Let them, really, but it's more about you and your choices. You already know I'd give you everything in the world as long as I could, and if I couldn't I'd figure out a way how.

You being happy means a lot to me. [Which is why he let all of last month just go on its own.]

[parodeity]

Yeah, I mean, that's what I mean. If you told me right now you were dumping me to go date, idk, pick a random name from a hat, I'd kind of go "yeah okay, sounds legit" and just try to be your best friend again. I don't think I would actually stop you, and vice versa same story. It's the kind of people we are?

[windeity]

Does it ever worry you that I might do something like that? [Like. He doesn't want to or anything and he doesn't want Dave to go anywhere, but it doesn't hurt to ask.]

[parodeity]

Yes. [ but he doesn't specify which part worries him. ]

[windeity]

I do love you. Like. More than anyone. I can't even think of anyone I would date besides you even if I wanted to.

[parodeity]

I love you too. That wasn't the part that worried me.

[windeity]

Then what was?

[parodeity]

How easy it would be to break.

[windeity]

...[He just pulls him closer.] Explain to me?

[parodeity]

Why'd your last relationship break up, babe? Or mine, for that matter.

[windeity]

Because girls suck?