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[onlyeverdoubted]

I'm just going to assume this is Hux, what do you need?

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[onlyeverdoubted]

It wasn't until you stuck your vertices in.

[tetractys]

DID YOU NOT WANT TO BE DATING?

[onlyeverdoubted]

[Kriff.]

I didn't want complicated.

[tetractys]

AAAAAH.

[Now, this is actually bad in a way he can relate to! He wouldn't want someone complicating his relationship.]

WELL, SHOOT, I'M SORRY. CAN I FIX IT?

[onlyeverdoubted]

[Bodhi realizes he's been out of line. The agitation just needs somewhere to land. Bill may have been a catalyst, but frankly it was Hux who kept countering Bodhi's attempts to pretend nothing had happened. Not talking requires the full participation of all involved. It wouldn't have happened then, but it probably would have happened eventually.

He sighs and shakes his head.]

You... didn't really do anything. It's not a bad thing, it's just... It's something instead of... not... something.

[tetractys]

AAH.

THE OBSERVER EFFECT, HUH?

[yall just a couple electrons over there]

[onlyeverdoubted]

[He doesn't know what that means specifically but it's evocative enough.]

There was a system in place, is all.

[tetractys]

YEAH, THAT'S HOW IT HAPPENS...

YOU THINK IT'S GONNA BE OKAY?

[onlyeverdoubted]

[The silence goes on entirely too long. Because the yes is there, and he's surprised to find it, and he certainly doesn't trust it.]

Probably. For the record though. There... we weren't--

[He hates the word dating, apparently. It doesn't seem to capture anything he might mean.]

At the time. So. The conversation happened after.

[tetractys]

[Actual worry over, Bill resumes being a dick and cackles.]

OH BOY! ALL THANKS TO ME, HUUUH.

[onlyeverdoubted]

...I got the impression he was going to bring it up anyway.

[So many shades of annoying. It just usually doesn't get to him. It seems Bill has found a chink in the armor of not having the energy to care.]

[tetractys]

SURE, SURE, SURE. MAYBE.

SO HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN NOT-DATING?

[onlyeverdoubted]

I don't know, I've known him a little longer than a year?

[He is now playing dumb, but only sort of, because he doesn't know what point to start being cagey about. Not the part where they just discussed books, certainly, or the fight that didn't last, or even the weeks and months after of carefully trying to figure out the next bit. Sometime past there.]

[tetractys]

AWWWWWW.

[TOO BAD, this tiny nugget of information will be added to the COLLECTIVE.]

LOOK, I ACTUALLY CAME TO SAY THAT YOU SEEM REALLY HAPPY WITH HIM. I'VE NEVER SEEN YOU LIKE THAT. I'M GLAD - YOU KNOW - I'M GLAD AT LEAST ONE THING HERE ISN'T TERRIBLE.

[onlyeverdoubted]

[Force, there aren't a lot of loops like the "Bill is being nice" loop. He reacts badly to everyone being nice. Bill is just a layer of weird on top of that.]

He's... good to me.

[tetractys]

NEAT!

HEY, SO SINCE YOU HAVE THE INSIDER INFORMATION, DOES HE HAVE ANY KIND OF SENSE OF HUMOR WHATSOEVER OR ...?

[onlyeverdoubted]

[Okay, better.]

He had to work on it a bit, but he's there.

[It occurs to him suddenly that, given Bill's premise, the news that Hux laughs at all Bodhi's jokes might not be all the convincing.]

[tetractys]

YOU EVER THINK ITS KINDA EXHAUSTING THAT THIS PLACE IS PREMISED ON TELLING TOTALLY UNWILLING ADULTS HOW TO LIVE THEIR LIVES?

...

I'M GLAD HE'S NOT A STIFF!

[onlyeverdoubted]

I've been exhausted since I got here.

[There's the Bodhi Bill knows. The one you have to worry about faintly.]

[tetractys]

THAT'S THE FIRST THING PEOPLE NOTICE ABOUT YOU!

[onlyeverdoubted]

I suppose that should bother me but it's fair and accurate.