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[Dirk waits patiently. He isn't sure if Dave would prefer him guarding up by the Magister or in this room, but he'll manage whichever. It's pretty easy to roll with it since he and Jake sometimes traded guard duty in the game.

Then there is a hand, and Dirk pauses. Almost takes it, and then doesn't. Not if Dave's expecting attacks. Comes closer?]

Okay?

It's easier to trust you're here to have my back if you're actually tangibly here to have my back.

[ i.e. contact. or at least being on the bed. if he drifts off those are both anchors that will reassure him of that, whereas otherwise: ]

I'll just keep wakin' up otherwise.

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Oh. Okay. Yeah.

[Dirk. Takes the hand? Hesitantly. And will do as his brother tells him.]

[ okay well did taking the hand involve like. actually getting on the bed. or is he just standing off to the side of the bed holding dave's hand like an idiot this is an important clarification because if dirk is being that brand of idiot dave will tug so dirk will topple.

if he however decided to use his whole genius intellect or something, though, dave will just turn to curl up on his side. hand holding point of contact only, still a little different than usual but his grip is firmer than it was the last time. ]

[lmao no he was a fucking idiot and was toppled in.]

Oh. Right.

[NOW HE FULLY GETS IT.]

Okay. Goodnight, Dave. I love you.

[ dirk why are you the brand of idiot willing to stand by a bed for however long holding someone's hand why are you this dumb but anyway the whole laying on his side thing will still happen because he prefers it to laying on his back. particularly when his back is to a wall if he lies on his side, which it is currently. that leaves dirk between him and the rest of the room now that dirk is at least a lying down moron. ]

Love you too. [ it will probably take. a while. for him to fall asleep. he won't exactly stop reacting in very small ways to time getting fucked with. mostly tensing up. but at least dirk probably will not distract him from attempting to zone out and after maybe half an hour or forty-five minutes he'll finally manage it? and then just. stay out for a good while since it has been. at least three days now since he managed actual sleep.

i'd say hopefully dirk doesn't find this boring but it's dirk and he's probably having a blast or something throws up hands ]

[And it was the happiest day of his life...

Yeah, no, Dirk doesn't mind. Like, that hand may eventually go a little numb but whatever. If a life of isolation prepared him for anything, it would be sitting alone with nothing to do but think. But this time someone is holding his hand. And that someone isn't a puppet. It's an improvement!

So yeah he has no problem just sticking through it idly planning projects mentally or whatever. Very still and quiet, and content as long as Dave is resting as best as he can. He's like this.]

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[ dave tends to specialize in cat naps but this one will probably last for a good six hours, sorry for your loss dirk. or, well. six hours forty two minutes fifty seven seconds. no nightmares for once on the basis he was finally more exhausted than strung out and dirk being around actually does tend to help with those.

but yeah that is. an amount of time and dirk's hand is probably numb when dave jerks awake. or rather just. wakes up. it's easier to tell when actually making contact since his muscles tense before relaxing as he takes stock of things. bed, tower, dirk's hand, right. ]

Sorry. [ he doesn't have to ask "how long was i out" ever because it's simply something he knows. ]

[He feels it immediately, of course, registers the shift and refocuses in an instant from his idle thoughts.]

It's okay. Headache?

[Direct question instead of asking how Dave is, in hopes of a minimally cagey answer.]

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It's fine.

[ still there but when it isn't compounded with a lack of sleep and when actual steps have been taken to stop it, it does happen to be better. how much dirk does or doesn't trust dave's claim of "fine" is up to him, and dave would not be able to blame him for taking him at his word or not, all things considered. ]

I regretted pretty much every life choice after we went through portal one, for the record.

[ AND YET, HE WENT THROUGH A SECOND ONE AFTER... ]

Just, like. I will be avoidin' it if it isn't important. [ it's possible he's attempting to be reassuring here ]

The implication is there was a portal two.

[HE SAID PORTAL ONE. Dave, why.]

You think you can eat and drink a little more right now? Enough to cut off a food headache before it happens.

[Those are things and people get those things, and Dirk believes 'fine' as meaning 'not as bad as before' instead of 'all better.']

Didn't I say we went through two?

[ look. AT LEAST they mutually decided "let's. stop going through portals." after portal two. at least the time players weren't dumb enough to keep trying after portal two. ]

...A what now. [ they might be things people get but they are things dave has probably trained himself to ignore or which he has never given much thought to? ]

[Dirk thinks back.]

Maybe. I sort of blanked in horror at one.

[Because Dave, why. Anyway—]

The headaches that people get if they haven't eaten enough. Low blood sugar and muscle tension are the root causes. Since these guys are still warping spacetime, you're still going to be getting pain from them regularly. The best way to mitigate that is to treat the effects of that pain that would increase the headaches.

[Dave he got SO MANY HEADACHES living on his own]

[ he actually has to think about this for a few minutes? and well. childhood of having to hoard food and a following time period of never quite seeming to buy that food is there for him to eat. ]

Oh. Huh.

[ "bro is gay" "maybe dave has ptsd" "not eating might have actual negative effects???" ]

Well, anyway, we went through a second portal because we weren't sure I didn't fuck up tracking them the first time. I lost the timestop when we went through, couldn't focus.

[what idiots]

That is not super surprising.

[The loss of focus. Also Dave has crackers in his sylladex Dave gave him, but Dirk also brings out a pre-sliced apple? That he just had there in his sylladex all night for this moment? He is the manlusus, it's him.]

Given the size of them, we could keep them out of the tower if we adjusted the Magister's tank to be a series of sections just too small for them to get into. Areas stacked together with connecting sections so they've got plenty of volume and ways to play around, but none of it is big enough for the jackass aliens.

[ it's a very good idea actually but he still isn't entirely comfortable having someone else messing around with any part of the layout of the tower. so dave goes quiet and still, but there's another factor here: the magister. if those things start being less than creepy or even if they just keep being creepy, he has to prioritize the safety and comfort of the fishchild and co over any feelings dave himself might have. ]

All right. [ he drops dirk's hand to take the apple in automatic "i am being handed a thing to eat" mode. apples are easier than crackers, kind of. ] How long will that take?

[At least he is eating the apples.]

A couple days, maybe? Depends on how confident you are from when we built the tank the first time.

[Joke's on Dave, Dirk was assuming Dave would be doing it himself?]

[ DIRK, YOU SAID "WE" ]

Not enough, you're suggestin' an entirely new layout.

[ he would if it weren't a potential safety issue for Someone Not Him? ]

['We' as in 'our team'?]

Not if I set up the plans for you?

[You know, guaranteeing that Dave is still actually the one doing it.]

You're not helpin'?

[ okay well. he can. work with that probably he just needs to loop out enough labor to make it go fast. a few days in that scenario would be underselling it. same thing he did for the tower, basically. ]

I guess that would be faster.

Do you want me to?

[He can, and he doesn't have any objections. He has, however, been operating on the assumption that Dave wants Dirk out of his tower ASAP.]

I don't know.

[ it is a fair assumption, since dave wants dirk gone because he wants dirk to stay and he doesn't want to want dirk to stay. none of that makes actual sense so sharing it feels stupid, and also selfish, and also stupid. ]

It's faster all around if I just handle it in house, so that's probably safest for the Magister.

[ the less real time it takes to convert things, the less he has to worry about Whatever happening. ]

If that's your call, sure. You can ask me to check out the work at any time to be sure it's stable?

[Minimal suffering for Dave with maximum security is what he's hoping for here? He is Trying.]

Yeah, that'd be best.

[ he is halfway through the apple. ]

I'll do that whenever you get plans. Um. Sorry for wasting almost seven hours of your day?

[ he already apologized for that but ]

Nah. It was nice.

[laying in the dark and silence losing all feeling in his hand was nice? yes]

Plans'll just take about thirty minutes.

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