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[torchbearer]

I feel like admitting that will get me into trouble.

[reneger]

but i want you to

[torchbearer]

so I should do what you want?

[reneger]

on occasion
it might even work out in your favor

[torchbearer]

those don't seem like good odds.

[reneger]

if i don't know what you like, how am i supposed to make sure i'm giving it to you?

[torchbearer]

you're fine the way you are. I like you.

[reneger]

( it's worse, because that's--it's what jason wants to hear. i like you, you're fine how you are - acceptance, not you can't be like this or the dozens of bullshit insults jason... doesn't mind getting from most people but isn't what he's want to hear from the people he does care for.

hard to follow up on, too, because how the hell does one respond to i like yous. thanks? fuck you too? )

k

( close enough. )

[torchbearer]

[ what an incredible telling response. kyle wasn't being pithy, but maybe he should have thought that through. ]

you really want to give me what I want?

[reneger]

( he hates texts because they're not unhackable. but the amount of people he knows who can just as easily place bugs wherever and listen in that way also makes talking out loud not a safe option either. jason'll have to make sure to--send shit no one wants to read later. discourage snoopy robins. )

i want to be a good partner
i'm betting that's somewhere in the description of what's expected

[torchbearer]

[ hm. ]

We could hit up a gallery sometime.

[reneger]

we can
i owe you a date, too

[torchbearer]

let's do it then.

[reneger]

thursday
dinner first

[torchbearer]

you're buying.

[reneger]

i'm cooking

[torchbearer]

works for me.

[reneger]

steak, fish, or pasta?

[torchbearer]

steak.

[reneger]

be home by 5

[torchbearer]

u got it.

[reneger]

if you're late i'll eat your share

townhouse.

[avatarfortruth]

[ Each of the upper floors has a balcony, with doors opening out onto the night air. Diana lands lightly on the uppermost one, thinking of Bruce's text – that Kyle had taken the top floor.

She comes to the French door and raps gently on the glass. ]

Kyle?

[torchbearer]

[ kyle had been sitting on his bed, looking at nothing. ion was swallowing him up and he didn't have the fortitude to stop it. he doesn't really see why he should. no one really needs kyle. ion was better for everyone. he can still keep his distance from god-like power and let himself slip away.

he shakes himself out of it when diana arrives, flicking the door open carelessly from a distance with his powers. ]

Diana.

[avatarfortruth]

Kyle.

[ She's through the door in an instant and beside him on the bed in the next heartbeat, her arms around him, holding him tight in a warm embrace. ]

Bruce told me.