Ooooooh. [Long, drawn-out, and that very annoying tone of someone who's just realised they can make a point and take the moral high ground.] So what you're saying is it's okay for you to lie and sneak around behind your friends' backs and keep doing the same thing you've been doing for four thousand years, but when it's me, we have to do something about it.
[Hypocrisy, anyone.]
Unless there's another handsome stranger you've been -- [Yeah no he can't even finish the sentence.] Whoever it was at the Welcome Center.
[It's Raine. Of course she's been giving out homework. It would go without saying, even at the best of times, but in light of Zelos's perspective of the meeting in the Welcome Centre ... Kratos had so hoped Zelos wouldn't see him there.
[Homework is the preferable subject, here.]
Yes, she's given me homework. I'm to find ways to make my days different. Talk to new people. Spend at least one meal with her a week.
[There is still laughter in Zelos's voice.] Great! You can tell her you talked to someone new. Tell her you've made a special friend. She'll definitely give you full marks for that!
[Yeah, Zelos won't let this one go easily.]
So you really don't have anywhere to live? That's sad. I guess I'm winning.
[... Kratos, do you do this on purpose? Yes, it's fortunate Zelos wasn't standing where Devin was, thank you very much. Stop putting images like that in his head. They kill every mood ever.
Also, it loses all meaning when you concede without a fight.
Zelos isn't audibly grumbling shut up.]
Good. Don't forget that. [Brightening a bit:] You know what? If sleeping's part of your homework, come do it at my house. I have a sofa. I can tell Raine you're being a good student.
[Kratos will need a key, won't he. There's no Sebastian here. This is going to end up being a lot more trouble than it's worth, and it isn't worth a whole lot to begin with.]
I'm serious, though -- talk to Devin. Either something magical happens, or you'll avoid breaking his heart later on.
We were having a conversation. There were no whispered sweet nothings involved. And I highly doubt I'm capable of delivering that kind of heartbreak to someone like him.
[And he definitely doesn't want something magical to happen.]
[There's a short pause with no broadcast because Zelos is busy trying to pretend he's not laughing his head off.]
Fine, suit yourself. Don't say I didn't warn you. My house is up in Sky Sector --
[And Zelos, against better judgement and at least one instinct, gives Kratos the address. The whole point of having an address is to be able to give it to people. Damn it if Zelos doesn't miss having a mansion in the city so large people used it as a landmark.]
[He'll be sure not to use it until someone points out to him that he isn't sleeping. Not if it means going there will have Zelos asking about Devin every time.]
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[Pause.]
You're talking about Devin.
[Look at him, catching up.]
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[Hypocrisy, anyone.]
Unless there's another handsome stranger you've been -- [Yeah no he can't even finish the sentence.] Whoever it was at the Welcome Center.
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[That is: he's trying to make his days different. It doesn't always work, but he's trying, and reporting back during their weekly meals.]
Devin. That wasn't flirting.
[Where did Zelos get that idea.]
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[It's Zelos's turn to sound bemused. He's not going to get homework, is he? He's been eating and sleeping. ... Mostly.]
I don't know what angels call it when someone snuggles up next to them and whispers sweet nothings into their ear, but down here, we call it flirting.
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[Homework is the preferable subject, here.]
Yes, she's given me homework. I'm to find ways to make my days different. Talk to new people. Spend at least one meal with her a week.
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[Yeah, Zelos won't let this one go easily.]
So you really don't have anywhere to live? That's sad. I guess I'm winning.
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[Very. Flat.]
I wasn't aware we were engaging in a contest.
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[With a grin:] You might want to let Devin know about that. 'Cause from where I was standing, he definitely had other ideas.
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[He sighs.]
If it makes you feel better to believe so, by all means; you're better than me.
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Also, it loses all meaning when you concede without a fight.
Zelos isn't audibly grumbling shut up.]
Good. Don't forget that. [Brightening a bit:] You know what? If sleeping's part of your homework, come do it at my house. I have a sofa. I can tell Raine you're being a good student.
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... Sleeping isn't part of the homework.
[They hadn't discussed it.]
Why?
[He's not talking about sleeping and homework.]
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[Zelos knows, on some level, what the question actually asked; but since he doesn't have an answer, bullshitting it is.]
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Search me. Do you want the sofa or not?
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Alright.
[This is very strange.]
No doubt Raine would want me to try and start sleeping again, at any rate.
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[Kratos will need a key, won't he. There's no Sebastian here. This is going to end up being a lot more trouble than it's worth, and it isn't worth a whole lot to begin with.]
I'm serious, though -- talk to Devin. Either something magical happens, or you'll avoid breaking his heart later on.
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We were having a conversation. There were no whispered sweet nothings involved. And I highly doubt I'm capable of delivering that kind of heartbreak to someone like him.
[And he definitely doesn't want something magical to happen.]
Where is your house?
[Maybe the subject change will work this time.]
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Fine, suit yourself. Don't say I didn't warn you. My house is up in Sky Sector --
[And Zelos, against better judgement and at least one instinct, gives Kratos the address. The whole point of having an address is to be able to give it to people. Damn it if Zelos doesn't miss having a mansion in the city so large people used it as a landmark.]
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Very well.
[He'll be sure not to use it until someone points out to him that he isn't sleeping. Not if it means going there will have Zelos asking about Devin every time.]
Is there anything else?
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Uhhh... nope. That was it. I'm sure I interrupted something too exciting for words, so don't let me stop you from getting back to it.
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[Feed: off.]