behemoth, meet the opposition

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Sadde doesn't seem quite able to focus on homework at the moment. He's fidgeting, and sometimes stares off into space for long periods of time before James has to snap him out of it.

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He sporfles. "Don't get me started on musicals or we'll be here all night!"

[thinkering]

"If I had my helmet on the bot would feed me something topical for that but I don't actually know that many musicals. So, what?"

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"So," he repeats, "now what?"

[thinkering]

"Uh, the Nazis all got away or I would have been engaging them instead of kissing you cute faces or no cute faces, the robot's running all necessary coordinative interference for aftermath and if it needs help my helmet will bleep... you should probably eat something again soon and drink more water, I guess... what do you mean now what?"

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Sadde is visibly pleased by the 'cute faces' part!

"I mean, what's... this?" He gestures between them. "Are we- what are we?"

[thinkering]

"Oh, you want a vocabulary conversation. Okay. Um. Preferences?"

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"Um. Not vocabulary; expectation. Is this a one time thing, is it a many times thing, how public is it, um?"

[thinkering]

"Oh. The don't cozy up to me at school thing still stands; shouldn't be hard, I don't think you ever actually looked at me twice. I imagine I will probably want to kiss you again in the future. Fraternization is not in fact forbidden even when one party is captain but I don't want to give any annoying people cause to be concerned that it's impacting our professionalism."

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"Well, I don't actually pay attention to people in public, much, and I was actually trying not to wonder too much so I just, you know, tried to not notice. I'm not sure what the 'not give annoying people concern' part entails."

[thinkering]

"Like, if Piggot thinks we're being distracted in the field or overprioritizing each other instead of distributing concern more equitably amongst teammates she might get it into her head that it was her business, and I'd sooner not have to go through anything to do with that."

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"Okay. And-" Pause. How to put this?

...directly and honestly. "And, um. Emotionally?"

[thinkering]

"Well, I'm not in love with you, but I like being around you very much and want to kiss you, which I was imagining to be enough to be getting on with?"

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"Oh, I don't mean- I mean, yeah, that's fine, but like. If you fall in love with me that's great, but I understand that's for later. I mean, are we closer than before? Can I ask you about more personal stuff? Can I bug you more often?"

[thinkering]

"Have you been sitting on personal questions you really want to ask me? ...Have you been refraining from bugging me?"

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"Yes to the first, kinda to the second."

[thinkering]

"Well, you can ask anything you want but I'm not promising a complete window into my everything at this time, and you may step up the bugging me until I tell you to back off."

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"Okaaaaaaayyyy!"

[thinkering]

Giggle.

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"...whaaat about. Um. Physically? I mean, will we always have to kiss with the, uh." He gestures at her. "Armor there?"

[thinkering]

"No. Do you want me to get more huggable right now or is this just a general question?"

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"This is most definitely not just a general question!"

[thinkering]

So she shrugs out of her armor, which comes off pretty easily once she has made it clear to it that it is to shoo. Under it is jeans and a t-shirt and socks.

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And a very pretty human being.

"Did you mean the part where the bed's a step too far?"

[thinkering]

"That was mostly verbal jousting without pausing to think about whether it would actually be or not."

[mrglam]

"Hmmm."

Pat pat pat the bed?