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[helpdesk_hero]

This is David Alleyne, I'm not available at the moment.
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[unkindled_madness]

I suppose it's good to know you have some sense of self-preservation after all.

[helpdesk_hero]

Not much, but some, yes.

[unkindled_madness]

If you should require a sword

you may contact me.

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[resurrxion]

Hey.
hope your decent i'm coming over.

[helpdesk_hero]

I'm extraordinary. And looking for fresh clothes. Give me twenty to grab a shower?

[resurrxion]

dude thats what decent MEANS
fine ok i'll make a pitstop to get coffee

[helpdesk_hero]

Doubting the quality of my coffee service here?

Thanks ahead of time if you do. I'll repay you for it. I know you need your funds for the clinic.

[resurrxion]

no its cool its covered
clinics gonna be up and badass real soon

[helpdesk_hero]

Glad to hear it. If you need tech support lmk. I can't imagine you would need access to AdapTech's work given you're there.

[resurrxion]

yeah im probably gonna need to take you up on that
if metas are trusting me with their care i gotta make sure their info is air tight
anyway
get clean and ill be there in 20

[helpdesk_hero]

As tight as I can manage while not being present. And after I might well tell the system to ignore me without some sort of password from you. Don't know if I can but it can try.

Already in the shower. Latest version of the glasses is waterproof.

[resurrxion]

ok well ill leave you to it

[ and 20 minutes later he's rolling up with some coffee orders. ]

[helpdesk_hero]

[And David, freshly washed and in knock around jeans and shirt opens the door to the colorful living room. He had come to understandings with Mina. Which means lots of color, but less chaotic.]

To what do I owe the pleasure of the visit? Tell me which room to set us up in.

[resurrxion]

Kitchen's cool.

[ ... man this place is weirdly bright for a david space. he offers out the drink and steps inside, shrugging off his hoodie and pulling off the enchanted disguise with it. ]

Sooo... I guess I'll cut right to the chase. [ he slips the bracelet in his pocket and takes a long sip of his coffee. ] ... People are super worried about you.

[helpdesk_hero]

[At least the kitchen is in more controlled and David like tones. Though he does miss their house. Desperately. So he guides Josh, sipping his coffee, and is about to point out how much he appreciates seeing the guy in his true gold when he is frozen on the spot.]

What?

[resurrxion]

[ yeah, that's about what he figured. ]

Don't "what" me, dude. [ gently, but firmly. ] Your reaction tells me pretty much everything. What's going on?

[helpdesk_hero]

[He supposes it will be useless to truly deny anything. Fuck. He had been trying to protect Josh from his stupid drama when Josh was actually trying to do something good. Something more important than dealing with David's special brand of BS.]

Tommy's here.

[resurrxion]

I saw.

[ and unfortunately, thanks to loki, knows exactly how david opted to handle that. ]

I heard you didn't really handle it well.

[helpdesk_hero]

Fucking Ikol.

[He knows where Josh heard that from and he is not amused.]

I handled it the best I could when I am with someone and I promised his brother, the god not to lead him on. I am doing the best I can with a bad situation, and almost ended up in a worse state than after Damian because of it.

[resurrxion]

Don't get pissy at him. I asked so I'd know if you tried to give me the brush-off.

[ he spins his coffee on the table. ]

Give me the full story. Start to finish.

[helpdesk_hero]

[Josh doesn't ask for anything small, does he?]

There's so much that's happened, Josh, more than you can imagine. I didn't... I didn't want my love life imploding, again to hurt you and mess up your life.

[resurrxion]

[ a beat. ]

David. You're my best friend, and I like, I say this with all the love I've got - but when your love life blows up, it's because you're making choices for the people around you because you want to protect them. And you're the only one that gets hurt when that happens.

[helpdesk_hero]

[If only that were true.]

Yes, because it's not remotely possible that the reason my love life blew up is because Tommy's here and I can't date two people at once, not without cheating and hurting them both and myself.

[resurrxion]

[ he thinks back to the farm that kavinsky has come from. Of Scott, Jean and Logan finally cutting the bullshit and letting love be love.

And, grudgingly despite himself, he thinks of the dreamer and how much he'd cared, and how he hadn't let himself admit to any of it until it got his friends murdered.

He sinks into the chair, ruffling his fingers through his hair. ]

Did you talk to them, David? About this?

[helpdesk_hero]

[If only it was as simple as he wanted it to be. But love wasn't simple, and the way his heart felt for Balthier... Could he honestly say he was a worthy person if he threw away a person who loved him and invested so much in him when Tommy hadn't even called him a 'boyfriend' yet?]

I told Tommy when he arrived, about me and Balthier. I had given Billy my word not to string him along. Balthier and I hadn't... We hadn't gotten that far in telling each other our lives. I made a mistake there. A huge one. For which I've been apologizing and making it up to him the best I can. But...

[but he still fears, even after all they'd shared, even after basically giving the guy the whole of his life story including Damian and Kavinsky and even old feelings for Josh and Laurie, that Balthier might one day walk away.]

But it's not easy. You get that. I'm not the same person here that I am there, Josh. David as Tommy knows him is like another person, someone who hasn't been through all we've been through and hasn't grown without him. Most of the things that form me as I am now were things that happened before he ever kissed me back home. I can't throw away who I am now, even if I love him. And I can't even tell him everything because Tommy? He's bad when something is possibly painful or stressful. We've spoken for maybe a grand total of thirty minutes since he's arrived. Because you cannot force a Speedster to sit there and listen and talk.