➹BEEPER

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"It had better be an emergency."
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i've never made a pie. i can put chunks of meat in a pan and watch them sizzle.

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[hexuality]

teamwork, then. i've watched my mum with her pies loads of times.

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i'm not sure the proposal still stands if you're only making half.

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[hexuality]

can't have a pie without the crust.

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now i'm sure you're hitting on me.

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[hexuality]

i'm trying to hang out with my friend.

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sorry.

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[hexuality]

unless you want me to be hitting on you. i told you i've never had to do the wooing.

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no. i mean. hanging out's good.

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[hexuality]

well when you put it that way.

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ginny.

i've just... gotten used to a certain way of relating to people. women. and it's hard to get back out, even when i should.

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[hexuality]

that's okay.

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[hexuality]

want me to call you?

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if it's what you'd rather do.

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[hexuality]

[Ring ring.

Because texting sucks.]

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[He's a fan of the written form, but he'll take her this way, too.]

Hi.

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[hexuality]

Look, if I said anything I shouldn't've, I'm sorry.

[Merlin, she's horrific at this.]

It's dinner, Chase, because I've been awful about the other times. It hasn't got to be any more complicated than that. Not even sure how to do complicated, anyway.

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[intheblanks]

You didn't say anything you shouldn't have. Uncomplicated dinner is fine.

[Oh if only he didn't know how to do complicated.]

It's great.

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[hexuality]

Great.

[A pause. Then, a little more gently,]

Hey. You alright?

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[intheblanks]

Of course. Look, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable.

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[hexuality]

I'm not, I promise. Just wanted to make sure. I mean—

[She doesn't want to throw around "friend" again and she doesn't want to throw in "concerned," either, though both are true. So she goes with - ]

I've known you the longest here. [ - which says a bit of both.] I know it doesn't feel like it to you, but whatever the case, I'm fond and I miss hanging out with you properly. That's all.

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[intheblanks]

[It doesn't really feel like it to him, no. However many little fragments of a history here he's collected.]

You've known me the longest, really? I don't think I've asked how long it's been.

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[hexuality]

[She has to pause to think how long, exactly. She hit four years in December.]

Definitely before I got to my first year here. [She breathes out a laugh.] I've been acquainted with other people from around then, but actually known? That's you. Would've been Amory if he hung around.

[He showed up barely a month after her. Odd that she kept track of these things, but what else can you do here?]

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I didn't realise.

[There's the squeak of an office chair as he sits, a slow exhalation.]

Sometimes, when I stop by [Building 12, he means, the apartment that never really belonged to him] ...it feels like other people are there.

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[hexuality]

[She shakes her head on her end, though he can't see her. Not his fault. The next thing has her smiling a little and it leaks into her voice a bit, but it's quiet.]

Still feels like that to me, too.