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[parodeity]

DAVE STRIDER | RED | #E00707
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[parodeity]

So, it isn't impossible someone will get their laptop dropped in here someday?

[windeity]

Okay well. If that happens we will just have to...I don't know. I guess decide if they want to stay or if they want to move. You moved right away, remember?

[parodeity]

Well, yeah. I couldn't...I moved, yeah. But if they don't want to?

[ it's a thing to worry about, apparently. ]

[windeity]

[A shrug.] Then we talk to them about what's best for all three of us and if we cannot come to an agreement we figure it out from there. The houses only fit three people anyway.

[parodeity]

We could fit four. [ if it was the Right four. ]

[windeity]

We could. [He pauses for a moment.] ...Jake and Dirk showed up. That means there is still a chance Rose and Jade will. And when they do, they can live here. They can share a room and we can share a room and we'll make it work.

[parodeity]

[ that weird little lip quirk. ] I wouldn't mind that.

[ sharing a room or the girls...? he doesn't specify. ]

[windeity]

[A brighter grin. It apparently doesn't matter which Dave means and he works on building a base and padding for the floor of their fort.] I bet they wouldn't either. It would be nice to have all four of us in the same place for longer than a few minutes. And the rooms are big enough anyway, but we'd probably have to get more beds unless someone slept on the floor. That would be the only problem.

[parodeity]

I don't mind the floor. [ or just not sleeping.............. ]

[windeity]

No way. That sounds uncomfortable, that would be a last resort. I bet we could drag the mattresses into the same room if we tried. Borrow them from another empty house and set them up. That would work.

[parodeity]

It's not like I use it all that much. [ flippantly. he decaptchalogues the pillows. ]

[windeity]

[With the structure built he uses the extra pillows to reinforce the walls and make the floor soft.] Yeah, I figured. But I am just saying. Nobody should permanently sleep on the floor.

[Despite that being what they're doing now.] Here, drape this blanket over the top right there and we should be good.

[parodeity]

Got it. [ he drapes the blanket as directed and then slips inside. dave seems restless again but whatever. ] So the laptops are because...?

[windeity]

[He follows Dave into the blanket fort, dropping the "door" closed and grabbing his laptop out of his 'dex. Opening it lights up the fort a little and John sits on the ground next to him, shoulder pressing briefly against Dave's shoulder. He's curious if it's a contact thing.]

Well...we cannot stream a movie because they don't exist here, but I thought we could improvise! We can draw stuff in paint and make up a movie that way.

[parodeity]

[ john, stop doing science experiments on your best friend. pressing briefly against dave gets him to tense but there's no pause to chill back out when it's just a brief thing. he's sitting cross legged and hunched over, and he doesn't drag out his laptop immediately. ]

Sure. Don't think we need two for that, dude.

[windeity]

[Well. He's going to keep leaning then since it's comfortable and also they can both reach the laptop this way. Shoulder to shoulder, he's leaning against Dave comfortably as he opens paint.]

The second one's for extra light and an extra screen for the really big scenes, dummy. Unless you want it to be darker?

[parodeity]

It's probably more comfortable for you with more light. [ he's never actually told john he prefers it darker, has he? so he decaptchalogues the second laptop and hands it over after unlocking it with his password.

he tenses as john leans into him but he doesn't shove him off. the tension fades a little but he doesn't unbend to what he had a little while ago in the living room, just accepting the contact as accidental and temporary. ]

[windeity]

[He doesn't move away, adjusting the brightness on the screens before he angles one for light and picks a color for MSPaint.]

It's a little better, yeah. If you get tired though we can turn off the second laptop later. What movie do you want to watch? [Watch, because while his art is not that great, he's going to do his best.]

[parodeity]

[ dave gets no less tense but no more tense. ]

Armageddon.

[windeity]

[He grins a little and starts to draw the opening scene from Armageddon but in paint.]

Why that one?

[parodeity]

Because you absolutely still know the script by heart. [ he shifts away from the contact before john can and moves onto his stomach instead, crossing his arms in front of him to rest his chin on them. ]

[windeity]

[He stays at Dave's side as he draws.] Did you even see that one?

[parodeity]

Once, years ago. [ he remembers the broad strokes but not much else. ]

[windeity]

Okay. So...it starts with this huge meteor shower that destroys a space shuttle. [He starts to draw a bunch of meteors and several of them crashing into the ground.] NASA realizes that the meteors were from an asteroid belt and the asteroid itself, "Dottie" is the one who fucked it up. The problem is that the asteroid's on its way to collide with the earth in 18 days and that would wipe out all of humanity. Like the dinosaurs.

[...he draws a shitty stegosaurus.] But, NASA comes up with this really good plan to try and split the asteroid in two so it flies past the earth. [He also draws what looks like a handsaw.]

[parodeity]

This already sounds scientifically improbable.