mykidisthebest | SPECIAL DISASTER OVERFLOW POST

[pokes Yue's nose with his handcuffed hand]

Don't make me say it, I ain't good at this shit. I knew ya'd freak out about the detective side job so I didn't tell ya. Before the amnesia and after. I made up all kinda of excuses in my head but the truth is just that I didn't want ya to be worryin' to get upset about it.

Was that... it...?

Well... I can't say it's not true... especially before the immortality reveal. I would've worried a ton.

But what I said earlier is still true. If it's something that makes you happy, you don't have to stop, or change...

Especially not for my sake.

Edited 2025-04-05 06:56 (UTC)

But.

More importantly...

You're the coolest person I know.

...Yer such a pain in the ass...

[which is just Lea speak for "Thanks that means a lot," probably]

Ya know why I don't wanna be yer bodyguard, don't ya?

'Cause I'm a pain in the ass...

Well, yeah, there's that. But ya also get in yer head a lot. I don't ever want ya thinkin' that I'm there because yer payin' me. If I'm with ya it's because I wanna be.

[the face of someone who has already spent approximately half of his life in his own head about it but for different reasons anyway]

[giving him a slightly judging look like he suspected as much]

I figured whether or not I said anythin' ya'd get in yer head about it, but since we're bein' open and all, it felt worth sayin'.

I thought if I paid you it would at least make all the trouble worth something...

That's why I wasn't ever gonna take it. I know for a fact that's what I was thinkin' even before all my memories fell out of my head.

...

[just lets out a deep sigh. his free hand goes to mess with Lea's hair, pushing it all towards the front of his head so it covers his eyes]

[well fine. burrows his face into Yue's shoulder and just lays there]

[when he does that, the hair messing relents and turns into soft, idle scritches instead. Yue absolutely does this to woof Lea sometimes.]

... I'll give you one more.

Yeah? Generous of ya.

[he doesn't bother lifting his head, so his voice is a bit muffled]

[that's fine, Yue is just staring up at the ceiling again]

I don't... hate what happened.

I hate how it happened. The things he said, the way other unrelated people ended up getting dragged into it, having to make my parents come and clean up the mess for me, the way I felt during all of that period... All of it was ass.

But the ultimate outcome? Me losing that job and needing to move into a completely different field?

I think that was probably fine.

[...peeks up at him]

If ya didn't like what ya were doin' then there's nothin' wrong with a career change. Ya still oughta smack Booker once in the head and tell him not to mess with people's lives so easily. It'll help ya put the past behind ya, so ya ain't dwellin' on it.

It's not that that I didn't—

[wait, no, this is more important]

—No. If I hit him he'll enjoy it.

Oh, so he's that kinda guy, huh.

Well it does't really matter if he enjoys it, just as long as yer satisfied. If him gettin' a kick out of it wouldn't make ya happy, then just do somethin' he won't like.

I'm already doing that. Just gonna do my best to continue to ignore him as hard as I can.

...Is that satisfyin'? Are ya sure ya don't want me to punch him?

Don't punch him. I don't want any more unrelated parties involved.

[tugs on the handcuff for emphasis]

[GRUMBLES LOUDLY INTO HIS SHOULDER]

Fine, fine. I won't do anythin' to him. I know it's somethin' ya should settle yerself.

[the grumbling makes him laugh and he reaches up to mess his hair again]

It's been settled for a while. It's just annoying having to live so close to him now, but I'll deal.

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