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Hey, Jake and me were thinking about ways to catch one of these to look at and we were wondering if we could borrow you for timestopping them.

[ ummmmmmmmmmmmm. ]

funny story

[...]

We've been separated for maybe two hours.
What did you do.

who said i did anything
i didnt say i did anything
youre taking a very suspicious tone here im not sure i deserve it

also sorry
you werent the source of my migraine but i assumed you were
that was unfair of me

[long pause]

Two things.
One, it wasn't that unfair under the circumstances.
Two, that denial was Vantas-worthy.
What did you do?

figured out how those fuckers are moving around so fast
made a mutually ill informed decision to investigate
maybe made myself worse off but its fine

[ he is literally lying on the ground next to the magister's tank trying to pretend he doesn't have a worse migraine and isn't nauseous. and wincing every time one of the warpers warps around. this is stupid. ]

Use specifics or examples, or tell me who did it.
I'm also going to know what you mean by 'worse.'

[HOORAY. MORE CHANCES FOR DIRK TO WORRY. HOW NICE.]

it was them
doing their shit
that was making me feel ill
theyre messing with time
space too i guess but i dunno if jade is doing okay or not
i could text her
but her font is really bright green
there are timespace portal things
we froze shit and then went through one
and that was unpleasant
then we went through another one which was equally unpleasant
and also homura felt the need to set off a grenade dramatically
and also tried to insist we kill everything once we decided the portals were a terrible idea
but i think i talked her out of it

anyway my new plan is to die how has your two hours been
do you plan to try to catch one of the things today

[ he did not specify what he meant by "worse". ]

You know how your tower has rules?
Is one of the rules that I can't come over there to look after your idiot self after you make stupid mistakes that make you feel awful?
Because if that is a rule, then I'm going to ask whether the rule applies to Rose and send her.
Or your mother.
If Homura's like this too I'll grab her and bring her back to medbay for treatment.

no shes fine
her time shit works different from mine
its like
a power she has
not a thing she is
i dont think she tracks time like i do and she didnt feel any of the twisted up distorted shit
until we were right next to the portals
and then after we went through

i think going through them didnt help my attunement issues
its not like lifethreatening
its just inconvenient

[ dave literally spent a week or so with a fever and dirk only found out when dave touched him? so actually no one can blame dirk for his concern. sorry dirk ]

did you need to catch one today

No, I didn't.
I'm coming to see you now.
If that's okay?

[PLEASE]

ok cool because i dont want to go near another portal right now and i think they come with them
because
thats how theyre doing whatever theyre doing
can you tell whoever needs to know that shit i cant be fucked to disseminate the info

its my choice
?

I will disseminate.

Yes, it's your choice.
My goal is to take care of you. Causing you more misery would not be taking care of you.
So. It's your choice.

song didnt do shit to them either
btw
thats all i got
beyond the portals seeming to just dump you in random as fuck places
unsure if they can control them or if theyre just crazy ass jumping all over the place
if you go through one i am not going through with you love or no love
probably
shit no id probably still insist on it

1 time slumber party rule retraction
i cant think straight

[ however there is a possibility he can sleep it off if he can just. ignore the weird time shit. and if he has someone around who can bodycheck weird timeshit aliens.

maybe.

dave really hopes. ]

Song thing doesn't surprise me. They're more manufactured than living organism, from what I can tell.
You would. You're stupid like that.

Okay, I'm coming over with supplies now.
If you're ready.

well maybe dont go through one and force me to get sick
your call

i dont know supplies sounds intense
but im not moving from my spot so w/e
oh theres no door though
windows

You are lucky Annabeth hasn't killed you.
Be there asap.

[Supplies is intense because he is packing food and water and medicine before flying to look after his dumbass brother.]

[ annabeth is more likely to kill dave over his actually regular tower watch reports than his modifications to design. someday she will complain about these reports to dirk.

dave doesn't bother to send a response mostly because he will. just stay put sprawled on the floor next to the magister's tank, shades in his sylladex and arms crossed over his eyes like this will maybe help. he should maybe move away from the tank since the things only appear in water but the magister is the only other living thing, plus the rabbitrays, in the tower.

which is completely finished sans doors. he hasn't gotten locks on the windows yet, so that's easy enough. things are pretty sparse and dark inside, though dave's shit is mostly organized if a little unkept. he's at the top floor right now which is...where...the windows are.

there are no windows on lower floors because he wanted to make it very hard to get into the tower. ]

[The window is unlocked. Dirk sees this, and also the darkness. He gives one knock, as dull as he can manage it.]

Can I let myself in?

[Look.

He doesn't want Dave moving. But he also doesn't want to make Dave uncomfortable in one of the only safe spaces he managed to grab.]

Yeah.

[ dave also does not want to move, so. DIRK IS ON HIS OWN HERE because moving would require opening his eyes again and he recently decided to stop doing that. as in just after he stopped texting.

he's irrationally annoyed that anyone outside of himself and homura is messing with time, but more rationally it's just the dumbass time sensitivity that happens to currently be an issue. on the bright side, it's distracted him from everything else?

so anyway dave is lying on the floor dirk shouldn't be surprised ]

[Dirk comes in. He makes sure to make not much noise, but just a sufficient amount that Dave can pick up where he's moving. He sees his mess of a brother laying on the ground in the dark. He sits down next to him.]

Warm cloth over your forehead and on your eyes and a warm towel or heater on your back and neck. You need to move away from the tank to somewhere soft. We'll muffle noise and light with some sheets or something.

[Or. The closet would work. Dirk is not suggesting that Dave sit in the closet though.]

Bed's down a level.

[ though he makes no attempt to move just yet, and the magister is likely hovering as near the edge of the glass as he can get towards dave. oops. ]

Uh, bathroom's the one under that?

[ it's a tower. things are kind of spread out. also dave has not actually been using his bed like a reasonable person would do. ]

[Oh yeah. Dirk has to give the Magister a fist bump? He does this duty.]

Okay. Are you comfortable with me carrying you down to your bed?

[There's the touching thing on one hand. On the other, Dave is dying.]

I'm not dyin' or anythin'.

[ he just wishes he were it is an entirely different topic and dave forces himself to removes his arms from over his eyes and rolls up to his feet in an actually smooth motion. he looks okay if you ignore the still bloodshot eyes and the way they aren't entirely focused, which would be impossible to track if he had been wearing his shades.

he's normally okay at pretending not to be sick, or at least has practice, so he doesn't even waver. ]

Be back later, little dude.

[ to the magister, with a tap on the glass. dave hasn't fully set up tunnels yet or anything. ]

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