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"Are they given away, or am I helping you hold them safe?"

Though he sighs sadly at the idea of moving away enough for the cake.

"I suppose I should have it and eat it too."

"A terrible predicament," Balthier agrees, loosening his hold so David can sit forward, one of his hands coming to skim the other's back lightly, just wanting to be close.

"What are you going to do with yourself when I've already cleaned the house and done the laundry and made dinner? Start sleeping properly?"

"Be horrified and chew my nails," he teases. But damn, he's trying to fathom that. He's never had a housemate who did those things.

"No chore wheel?"

"Alright, so task one, find you a less destructive nervous habit," he laughs.

Still, he gathers from that comment that he has misunderstood David's co-housing experience. "I presume that's a way of assigning chores? We certainly can talk division of labor. I've had that on ships, but it usually rotates on a wider crew. When it's just Fran and I, we fall into a rhythm of tasks each of us don't mind, and step in if the other is overburdened or something needs doing. I suppose I assumed we'd land on something closer to that."

"I don't actually do that," he grins. Though now he definitely has to explain something.

"Yeah, it is. Was the only way to get Josh and the others to do something. And even then they didn't do it."

But he likes the idea of just working with someone, building that easy rapport.

"I think we will too."

"Yes your nails are usually lovely," Balthier agrees. "Mmm now you can paint mine more often."

But his grip inadvertently tightens as David explains his former roommate situations. Balthier still has opinions on some of David's friends and their tendency to take David for granted, but he also knows David's tendency to give and give.

It's a moot point, because it doesn't need to be that here.

"We're already quite good at it when we have dinner parties or stay over for a longer stretch," he points out. "Mmm try your cake and then give me a bite."

Yes they are. And he smiles at getting to do Balthier's.

"You're going to have things in such beautiful metallics," he says before getting his forkful and popping it into his mouth.

"Divine," he moans."

"You always do a beautiful job," Balthier agrees, and he likes that this is something he'd never done before David. He's already humming appreciatively when David tries the cake, and now he's just beaming.

"Good," he says smugly. "Welcome home, love."

Yes he does. Because he cares. And because he was becoming more comfortable with the creative parts of himself.

But what catches him in that moment was the greeting. He smiles at Balthier with amazing warmth and love.

"I'm home at last."

[David is getting a book this year: Everyday Entertaining, a cookbook focused on recipes for hosting.

Sephiroth still has not learned about wrapping paper, the box is plain with a simple note identifying the sender.]

A younger Wiccan just fell out of the sky in Little Love. Working the Confluence, can’t get him out of clear of the system. - R.

Already here. Was GOING to try and deal with things and of course that's when they exploded.

If he wants fully out of the system, I can see about violating some very serious rules for him. Not that he couldn't rewrite it all himself.

- P.

That would’ve been Wiccan. He solo’ed a scorpion. When you say things like that, you know it makes people want to talk. I can’t text this many questions in between vines.

Of course he did. Magic, you know? But that's not quite what I meant.

You're welcome to call if you've got a headset. You know it will never distract me.

[ Rook calls, because obviously he has an headset, although if David’s prying into the signal something’s more scrambled than normal. He immediately continues the conversation without preamble. ]

Magic that drops a mech that size like tactile telekinesis but requires hyper focused incantations - in English - and you think he can rewrite the rules. He was talking about interdimensional parasites. He makes an impression.

[Sorry Tim, you're absolutely getting the synthesized Prodigy-voice out of this call. What do you expect when David's also currently fighting a giant mecha scorpion, hoping to get close enough to touch and disable it through conversation.]

Wiccan and the laws of reality don't always see eye to eye.

[Then a pause.]

No. Please tell me I heard that wrong. He did not imply he's from during the issues with Mother. That's not happening.

[ Really, it’s prudent to be using a generated voice. Tim is just pitching his low and avoiding the others. ]

Metahumans and “reality” often don’t.

He didn’t mention your mother. You need to find him before they interview him, though; he’s too candid. I even know what restaurant he was at before he got here. Happy Noodle ring any bells?

[Good thing you don't know he's a god, right?]

Not my mother. They've never met. Mother. Capital M. Interdimensional parasite that wants to eat him for his powers.

Have I told you lately how much I hate how time likes to fuck with me?

[ Tim can read behind the lines. ]

And she’s powerful enough to do it. Can hop dimensions. Shit. I liked it better when tonight was robots and plants.

[ The mic picks up an explosion and the sound of debris crashing. ]

Not in the past five minutes. I’ll try to find him again. I’ll make up some excuse if I get there before you do.

Honestly, if it comes to it, Mother's a massive problem for reasons you can't understand. But as I have noted before when Wiccan was last here, if he and Loki can't get out, and if America Chavez can't get in to get to Wiccan, then I doubt she can wander here freely either.

But in the case that she can, we'll prepare a briefing packet for everyone 21 and under. Trust me, it matters. I'm already preparing to compile it if I can just-

[There is a loud crunching sound because, well, he's brought a mech down. They can both be having really great fun here.]

I'll see if I can find him first. Hopefully he doesn't see me and decide to give me a temporal time out. I don't think he quite knows enough as of Happy Noodle for him to be after my head though.

[ If fighting Bionicles isn’t fun on some level, they’re in the wrong line of work. ]

For reasons I can’t understand, because you haven’t said. I’ll wait for the report. Don’t waste time binding it.

Why is everything complicated with your team? Why is he giving you a temporal time out and coming for your head?

[ And who is Tim supposed to be concerned about in this situation? Loyalties to people no longer here mean he cares more about their friends than the average citizen. He owes it to Bart and Loki to make sure David and Wiccan are okay. ]

[It's more the 'bionicles that turn things into bionicles' that annoys him. Also, he'd been TRYING to get his life together. But this was sort of an evasion tactic of his.]

More like because I don't actually know how old you are and if you're over a certain age no amount of briefing will stick.

Listen, I don't know. I'd say that mutants are better, but we're not. For them I think it has to do with the fact that they're all legacies, and you know the drama that comes with superheroing being a family business.

[God he's just giving the most put upon deep sigh here.]

Teenaged romance drama? It's not even relevant now. He ends up married to the guy. And what I did to him was way less bad than what Loki did, and you saw how he was with Loki. It's fine. I'm just hoping we're in the point before the year where I'm in the dog house.

I don’t know how old I am anymore. Is that going to be a problem?

[ He was 18, turned 19 and then 20 here.

And then he was 18, nearly 19 at home.

Before ending up right where he was when he was 20. Feeling no different than 20 or 18. ]

I’m not judging you, god. I don’t know what happened and don’t care as long as everyone’s okay and nobody’s sending anyone to the Phantom Zone. My house is all windows.

[ A grunt of pain and Tim’s voice gets a wheezy undercurrent. ]

Also: robots.

Maybe not. We'll see if you remember the briefing after I send it later.

[Of course David has to laugh. It's a lot more than just the phantom zone.]

I'm pretty sure Wiccan could just remove me from having ever existed. So yeah, let's hope it's good timing.

And yes, robots.

[He jumps off of the one he's on.]

Thanks for letting me know he's here. I'm going to have to figure out how to cope with that. He was so dramatic when he was that young.

Talking to you is so encouraging. We should do this more often.

[ It’s not as much sarcasm as you think. ]

He remove people from existence a lot? Really, I’m more worried about getting sucked into your drama because I gave him my number. The other one seemed okay. Friend of a friend is my friend. He kept an eye on me and Red when we shrank.

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