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"Gone fishing."

[ so don't leave messages to ruin the after fishing glow !!!

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How handsome.

[Does he mean the tiny happy dog? Does he mean Jaime, or more specifically, Jaime's beard finally come home from the war? All of it. All of the above. Jaime needs not worry. He knows his beard will blossom like a beautiful flowering plant blessed by the goddess of spring (or late puberty). Look, Will is all about dogs and not shaving his face, what do you want from him?]

Thanks for sharing. I hope to meet the both of you in person soon.

[mostly koromaru tho lbr]

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I may have had a few too many.

Like I wasn't going to follow through. I'm a woman of my word, but you're welcome anyway.

Oh, and this stays between us.

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All conversations with me are confidential unless they can be considered criminal threats.

[It's the biggest crock of shit but he has a job he can fall back on and by God he's gonna use it to his advantage the few times he can.]

If we did Thanksgiving this year, would you want to join us? Cat is invited as well, of course. Probably make some new friends.

[shuckit]

[ hold pls, googling this shit. arthurian legend that is.

and about ten minutes later: ]

this klunk is so weird. people are so weird.
should we watch some disney stuff before we go? will that make it less weird?

[shuckit]

[ that's fair, but he figures he'd ask. just in case. thomas would honestly take any scrap of information he could get at this point. ]

Okay. Yeah, makes sense. Sorry.

[ for the question and for... acting like a weirdo right now. ]

See you back home, I guess. Thanks, Will.

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welcome to the human race

[People have been weird forever, they will never not be weird. That's it, that's history.]

i've never gone i couldn't tell you
it's a theme park full of disney stuff catering to disney fans
who are mostly children
toddlers not children of your age
who told you about disney anyway?

[Does he find it kind of weird a non-Disney fan would want to go there? A little bit. Sort of. Could just be interest, doing the popular thing. Whatever. Hell if he's about to call Thomas weird though.]

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[He'd have to telepathically break into Will's head for that sort of confidential information, and it wouldn't be worth it. Not because of the reaction after, but because whatever Will might manage to hear or glean wouldn't be important.]

Nothing to be sorry about. You know your friend's favorite thing to eat, by any chance? Only feels proper to make sure his first dinner at the house is a good one.

[Good in the sense it's comforting. Something that will quickly make him realize this place is one he's welcome in, and not just because of Thomas. Be it lofty or crap, doesn't matter. The more people who look at their home as shelter where they can be fed, watered, clean up, rest, and not worry, the better. Makes them less inclined to piss to where they live and in turn keeps the structure and the rest of those in it safe. Food isn't just a motivator in Will's life. It's helpful with all sorts of manipulation, the good and the bad. The comforting and distressing.]

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Good to know.

[His admission doesn't really surprise her and Bela has no suspicions that he was bullshitting either.]

I would certainly consider it, yeah. Even though I don't exactly celebrate the holiday the invitation is appreciated. And I'd bring my cat along.

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Can't blame you there. It's less about the holiday and more of an excuse to have a big meal and either plenty of leftovers for the rest of the week or none because we've sent them to out to other people.

[And probably sneaked a few bits and bobs to animals under the table. Bela's cat can be one of them.]

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you love to hurt me

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do not
but now that i think about it
jeff might make motion of the ocean jokes
do we really want to risk that?

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i don't understand all this old
but anything that makes jeff unhappy
is romantic to me

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so bring home a lot of greasy pizza for dinner
is what you're telling me right now

[Foreplay: watching Jeff struggle with making himself a power salad, going out to get one of his own, or just giving in and eating some damn pizza like a normal man.]

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and eat it near his sit up zone

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absolutely ingenious
god i love you

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Might as well go all out with an occasion like that. Plenty of people around who appreciate home cooking.

[Or so she imagined anyway. Bela didn't know what everyone's preferences were.]

I never went to holiday dinners back home. Too busy with work.

[And she didn't have any friends.]

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Well if no major emergencies pop up to make going out a problem, you don't have work keeping you busy, and you'd like to appreciate home cooking yourself, you know where you're welcome to stop by. Like it enough, you could take home a few days' worth of leftovers.

[Their house already has a lot of people, okay. If he's going to do holiday dinner stuff, Will is going to go all out and make enough to feed a small army. Maybe he'll even invite Chilton and Raina! (Or so he thinks now.]

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Now that I think about it, I believe that not many people would want to shop on a holiday so I could always close the shop for a day. No excuse for me not coming to the dinner.

[A little socialising couldn't hurt.]

I could stay for a few hours.

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You may be better off closing the shop down. This is one holiday Americans can get a little...fanatical over, let's say. Mine will be shut down too.

[She might have, like, two or three customers. But she'll probably get a few stink-eyes because being open on Thanksgiving is just unpatriotic!!! Unless it's McDonald's or Walmart or whatever, then apparently it's okay because people need their fish fillets and hot apple pies and constant access to stuff they could wait a day for. Gosh.]

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I'm sure fanatical is an understatement. I do remember July 4th quite well this year.

So I'll close it for a day.

[Bela shouldn't really care much because a)she's British and b)those annoyed Americans could stuff it, but no point in wasting electricity in keeping her shop running for a day when no one will come to it.]

I can bring along wine.

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That would be great. We could always use more. And you'll score friends that way, I'd wager.

[Everybody likes the person with free food. The person bringing nice booze? Gotta be a complete asshole to not make bank socially-wise with that move, okay.]

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seriously? why's everyone klunking their pants about it, then?

walter white. the weird dude who was talking about being dead on the network a while bacl.

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[Of all names, that one hits Will like ring-a-ling-ling.]

childhood nostalgia
for those who had it as part of their childhood
or buying into the hype, could be a lot of reasons
weird's a polite way to put it

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Most likely.

Let me know beforehand if there's anything else you'll need.

[No harm in making a few friends in the process.]

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Can do.

You and kitty cat have a good evening, yeah?

[Take it easy, don't despise the hangover in the morning, dream of Jeff.]