✧ — peach iced tea.

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[oversea]

[ it's fine... they still have [redacted] time until they have to graduate so they can figure it out later probably. they should probably focus on the various other problems that are in front of them and haven't even touched yet.

he finally moves the camera back to show his face. ]

Really?

[transmit]

[ why does thorns look and sound so doubtful.

he pans his camera back to also stare at him blankly. ]

Are you trying to fight me? We were supposed to go to sleep.

[oversea]

You don't seem very restful...

[ maybe they should try not talking? ]

[transmit]

[ they are so hopeless. ]

What do you normally think about before bed…? Walk me through.

[oversea]

... I don't think about what I normally think about.

[ lately it has just been elysium? due to the crazy ass circumstance of them dating then immediately getting separated right after?

thorns is not admitting to this. ]

[transmit]

It has been pretty crazy recently.

[ meanwhile, elysium's just thinking about how much work they've both had to catch up to. he does not think he takes up much of thorns' mental real estate, if at all, when he has unobstructed access to his lab… ]

I guess we just sit here.

[ this is so hard for someone like elysium who at any given time is thinking about a million different things ]

[oversea]

[ well unfortunately going to the lab now is full of drama because people have formed teams on who they support for the scien vs thorns debacle. thorns doesn't even know how they found out about that. life is hell. ]

Close your eyes.

[transmit]

[ WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CEASEFIRE

every new installment to this saga elysium will get closer and closer to committing actual m*rder (financial and reputational ruin) (he is not going to do this) (probably) ]

But that's the world without you……

[ … ]

You first.

[oversea]

On the count of three?

[ why it this embarrassing all of a sudden? this is yet another reminder that they have not kissed yet. they really are never going to kiss at this rate. ]

[transmit]

[ oh.

this is pure.

he looks away and clears his throat, a little embarrassed. then he looks back at the camera and nods. ]

One.

[oversea]

Two. Three.

[ thorns will




close his eyes. ]

[transmit]

[ elysium also


closes his eyes!

… almost a minute passes before he says anything. ]

Are you asleep yet?

[oversea]

How fast do you think I fall asleep?

[ he is so silly.

he wants to peek but he doesn't want to get caught peeking. ]

[transmit]

Some people are like that…

[ he also wants to peek………… but he can't destroy thorns' trust like this.

… ]

I was looking at shelters around our place earlier. Wanna look with me when I'm back?

[ he thinks having a pet will be good for thorns specifically, ]

[oversea]

[ oh... he really got attached to the idea of having a pet, huh. ]

We can. Still want a cat?

[transmit]

A dog won't betray us.

[ he says this so fast. ]

… I don't know. I just thought we could see what's there.

[oversea]

[ one cat leaves elysium and he is scarred for life.... ]

... that works. We can check it out.

[ this seems... domestic? ]

[transmit]

[ he mentally assigned the cat as thorns-adjacent that's why the betrayal stung more. he will literally never recover from this. ]

Do you have a preference?

[ the upside to a dog is that it will also force thorns out whenever elysium is gone, but he does not say this. ]

[oversea]

Not until we see them. I've never had a pet.

[ so he has no preference...

... ]

You can name it.

[transmit]

[ imagine they get there and one of them just explodes from allergies

hmmm. ]

It has to look like a Thorn.

[ this is the best way to get over that one cat, yes. ]

[oversea]

We are not making it after me.

[ he is drawing a line here... this is not a jr situation. ]

[transmit]

[ okay.

he grumbles… ]

You name it then…

[oversea]

We'll pick a name when we see it.

[ so they don't get stuck with something really unfortunate on accident.

wow. adopting pets together? like a real couple. never mind that platonic friends can do this too. ]

[transmit]

I guess…

[ who would've thought closing your eyes would actually help? his mind drifts, wandering into the thought that maybe this is another thing he's forcing onto thorns…… but a creature feels like it'll do them good, and it's something they'll be able to care for together?

they eat, they hang out, and they share bits of each other's world—or rather, elysium occasionally joins thorns in his, but that isn't the same as having something they can call theirs. given that, maybe a dog would be better? they could teach it tricks, take it on walks—…

this is how he ends up falling asleep first, despite wanting so bad to be the last. snzzzz ]

[oversea]

[ ...

when elysium stops talking, thorns finally peeks. this whole experience has been strange, and often filled with moments of wondering if maybe they rushed into dating considering the confession happened during questionable circumstances.

but then there's this, and thorns thinks that maybe they did it right after all. he snaps a screenshot on his phone and then feels like a giant weirdo after.



zzzzz ]