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[bestever]

Fucking-- Fuck! The goddam closet? What does a guy have to do to get a little respect around here?

[a few seconds of wordless, irritable grunting.] Okay, fine. Fine!

Either there's something really wrong with my internal clock, or somebody has some fucking explaining to do. Mostly about what the hell happened while I was pulled. [wait, right. that might not have context.] Deactivated. Uninstalled. Whatever!

[the next pause is short, there's a quiet shuffle and a slightly louder grunt that mean that he's crossing his arms and huffing irritably. in other words, the default church response to anything.]

I'm waiting, Private Tucker.

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[glitterateur]

[Thinking. Thinkiiiing.]

.....Tucker put you in a closet?

permavoice;

[bestever]

No, Wash put me in a closet. Tucker just put me back, I guess. The jerk.

[glitterateur]

So how come you're not yelling at Wash?

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[ursawhiner]

At least it's better than a laser face?

permavoice;

[bestever]

... I'm sorry, what part of laser face sounds like a drawback to you?

[ursawhiner]

The part where you're only a face!

permavoice;

[worstever]

Wait, Tucker did what?

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[bestever]

Oh, sure! Play dumb! Like this wasn't your fucking idea!

[worstever]

What? You lost me.

permavoice

[bestsword]

[Christ, he figured Epsilon would eventually come back, and somewhere in the back of his mind he knew he'd be blamed but.

Yeah he wasn't ready.]

I didn't do anything!

ayep;

[bestever]

Oh, tell it to the judge, jerkoff!

[bestsword]

Why would I have done that in the middle of a paintball fight?! We got our asses kicked!

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[glitchinthesystem]

Pfft, you? Respect? Those are two words that don't go together at all. Sounds like you deserve the closet.

[ Hi, Epsilon, he thinks you're Alpha.

They don't like each other much. ]

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[bestever]

Oh, fuck you! It's none of your business, so butt out, why don'tcha! [normally that level of babyface would earn a slightly gentler response, but. church is Very Displeased at the moment.]

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[glitchinthesystem]

Pfft, fuck you first, dickhead. I thought I'd be free of the fucking annoyance you brought into my life so forgive me if I don't make this a bit of my business.

Or don't, I don't really care.

[ As to what annoyance he's referring to, well, THIS GUY SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IT OBVIOUSLY.

Also he is totally not baby faced, he is an adult. A sixteen year old, mature, adult.]

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[buildsfriends]

[thud thuD THUD THUD THUD

THROWS OPEN THE CLOSET DOOR]

CHURCH!

I MISSED YOU SO MUCH! [REACHES FOR]

permaction;

[bestever]

[ugh, okay. church's first instinct was to do the equivalent here of turning on the radio and screaming his displeasure until the situation changed itself, as it always is. but even the potent combination of stubbornness and distractibility can't keep him sitting on the closet floor forever, and he's actually grateful when he hears heavy footsteps in his sleeping unit.]

It's about fuckin' time! What the hell's the big idea here, anyw--

[until he sees that it's caboose, and caboose isn't supposed to know that he's here at all, forget about back, that's the whole reason his shell was sitting tucked away in storage, and ooooh god oh god he fucked this up. he fucked this up. he fucked this up so bad, he's is so much goddam trouble--]

[and then he doesn't really have the brainpower to think about how much he fucked up, because being picked up like a ragdoll by the team rookie is always not only embarrassing, but dangerous. his voice kicks up a few octaves.]

CaBOOSE! Little squeeze! Little squeezes if you want to give hugs! Be careful!

[buildsfriends]

Oh right. [more gentle squeezes, ones that don't make his frame creak ominously. he can't help himself, he's just- he's so happy to see church! church went on that mission and now he's not around as often, and caboose had a fight with tucker because tucker was being mean (and is still being mean) so he went up to his house to be by himself but he missed church SO MUCH while he was gone, because church has been angry but makes hot chocolate the right way and reads to him and doesn't leave as much, but he's still always angry and-

CRACK. oops.

caboose lets go of the door handle he'd been gripping and the door smacks against the wall before sliding down, completely off its hinges. oops. still getting used to doors with handles. that are attached to walls. why can't we just have sliding doors everywhere? or no doors at all? then he doesn't have to remember where the keys are.]

Did you miss me too? I know you did, it's okay. Tucker is still being stupid but I will work on him for you, because he respects my opinion so he'll have to listen sooner or later.

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[failureisntachoice]

Are you really bitching about respect? After the bullshit you pulled earlier?

And your first mistake was trusting Tucker with anything.

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[bestever]

Oh, what's your problem now? [what the fuck did alpha do while he was away??? epsilon was ACTUALLY just about to say something about how tucker isn't completely useless, before he remembered that maybe that's specific to... later. ness.] I didn't have much of a choice!

permavoice;

[fuckai]

Holy fucking shit it took you long enough. [alpha that's rude]

We're switching. You can deal with the Heropa shit show.

[please for the love of god don't make him deal with caboose on his own for any longer]

permavoice;

[bestever]

Oh, my god, I am so fucking insanely not in the mood for your bullshit right now. Am I ever? Absolutely not. But I fucking refuse to deal with this today.

So fuck. Off.

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[glitchinthesystem]

[ Look to the audio, look to the other audio.

Look the audio, look to the other audio...

comm says two different people...oh god. ]

Oh Fuck it's true. There IS two of you.

[cupio]

[ She ... doesn't know how to deal with this. ]

Congratulations?

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[bestever]

[church's actual superpower: being offended by anything.] The fuck? I'm not pregnant. Plus, the guy who was gave birth ages ago. So...