[ sousei & jae-ha make mistakes ]

[alttitude]

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[disilluded]

I've already told you no.

[...]

Go to sleep.

[God!!]

[alttitude]

I'm too awake for that.

[Easily.]

What were you doing, if you weren't working?

[disilluded]

I was thinking.

It was likely still more productive than your drinking.

[alttitude]

Alone? By yourself? I doubt it. At least I was able to help people get a few laughs in tonight.

[He's so confident about it.]

What were you thinking about?

[disilluded]

How peaceful it was before you returned.

[Not really but

still]

[alttitude]

[he's going to try to put his head on sousei's lap for that]

You need more of an imagination.

[disilluded]

[He just slides over on the bed so Jae-ha can't.

Honestly.]

I do not need anything of the sort.

Would you stop moving around?

[alttitude]

[ah.

thwarted.

anyway - ]

I just want to be closer to you, you killjoy.

[disilluded]

... Why.

[Flatly!!]

You should be over that by now.

[alttitude]

I wonder why...

[No, he knows why.]

I suppose it's just warmer that way. [His gaze flicks to the ceiling.] 'I want to rely on you, so you should let me lean on you'.... sort of thing?

[disilluded]

[... That was a lot more emotional a response than he was expecting. It was serious, without any teasing, and Sousei hesitates briefly.]

... That is truly how you feel?

[alttitude]

That depends, are you going to make me say it again?

[That said, he yawns. He's not actually expecting anything of it. There's an explanation on his lips - 'my companions back home were a rather touchy bunch' - but it doesn't make it past his lips.

This is fine too.]

[disilluded]

No. But I do want to know if those are your sincere feelings.

[Because he's...contemplative about it. If Jae-ha isn't actually poking fun at him and it is sincerely a "leaning on him" thing...

Then it's much like the Kumous, who were always a touchy bunch, and never with any bad intentions at all.]

[alttitude]

[ . . . well.

Jae-ha waves a hand.]

You're not very good at saying how you feel about people, you should at least let me lean on you.

[A shrug.]

But then you'd just say 'don't tell me what to do' and I'll think it's unfortunately attractive.

[he didn't need to keep talking]

[disilluded]

... I did not need to know that much.

[Thanks.

That said...]

If that is how you feel, then fine. You may lean on me if you are so insistent on it. [Oh...........]

[alttitude]

[ . . . ]

I may what?

[oh he's definitely drunk and imagining this]

[disilluded]

Do not make me repeat myself.

[He'll!! Take it back!!]

[alttitude]

[ . . . okay, he won't.

but then he's going to scoot over again and move to lay his head in sousei's lap

squinting as he does

dubious

tense like he's ready to be thrown off]

[disilluded]

[Sousei just.

Looks away.

But he's not shoving Jae-ha off?

So like. There u go.]

[alttitude]

[ . . . . . this is so dumb.

but jae-ha just continues to ponder whether it's real or not for another second

before laughing

and reaching up to touch sousei's face to get his attention]

Hey.

Tell me something you find beautiful.

[disilluded]

Don't touch me.

[Oh.

Sousei is still Sousei.

But that aside.]

Something beautiful... I suppose to me, beautiful things are what work in proper order, as they are supposed to.

[alttitude]

I'm already touching you.

[just saying.

but anyway he's going to chill out now that he's distracted, apparently comfortable with his head in sousei's lap and looking up at him]

.... that's very abstract. Can't you say something simpler? Like a sunset? A waterfall?

[disilluded]

No.

[Sousei just shakes his head at that, huffing out a faint breath.

A beat, and:]

... Though I do suppose the sun shining on Lake Biwa was very beautiful.

[And symbolic.]

[alttitude]

[he's so lame.

Jae-ha thinks about that for a second and tries to remember what lakes he's seen.]

... what's around your lake? Trees? A village? Other plants?

[disilluded]

[He's very lame]

... Why does that matter to you? What are you angling for here?