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[therushingsky]

"Heyyyy, you've reached the head office of the Atlas Corporation, leave a message and your number, and one of our people will get back to you."

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[worstweasley]

Lark wants to talk to you about your demotion. He says there's a recovery process you go through.

How are you feeling?

[therushingsky]

Lark? As in "next warden I get assigned, if you try and talk to me I'll kill you" Lark?

[Rhys doesn't have a problem with the guy, but that's the only conversation he can recall having with the guy.]

Why does he want to talk to me?

[worstweasley]

He sympathized when you were brought into the hospital. And he helped calm me down.

I don't know. I suppose he wants to teach coping mechanisms; he's been here the longest.

[therushingsky]

I didn't know you guys knew each other.

[God it's weird being an inmate. Suddenly everyone has opinions about you. Including, apparently, total strangers.]

I'm happy to hang out with the guy, but I think I'm coping okay...

[worstweasley]

We didn't actually. Not well. I'd like for that to change.

[skeptical look!]

You're still sleeping outside?

[therushingsky]

Aw! You made a new friend?

And no. I'm staying with Flint for a bit.

[until he can get de-liced, which he is telling Hux about never.]

And me and Quentin are working on the cabin situation...

[worstweasley]

Don't frame it like that.

Good. And in the meantime, you can have my cabin. I'm considering moving into Bodhi's.

[therushingsky]

Holy shit. That's great-- I mean, I didn't know things were that serious with you two?

[this is the wrong phrasing. He knew things were that serious, he just didn't know that they were officially in a relationship and not just intensely codependent.]

[worstweasley]

It happened recently. He kissed me.

[pause, still digesting how he feels about that]

We discussed our private lives and our issues with intimacy and it was decided we should...make things more official.

[so. uh. he has a boyfriend now??? despite being asexual? what is life]

[therushingsky]

Aw! Hux, that's awesome news. You deserve to be with someone as good for you as he is.

[A pause, then, completely innocently:]

Is this your first relationship? I mean, this kind of relationship?

[worstweasley]

Funnily enough, he doesn't think he deserves me. So maybe that's a poor sign of things to come.

[A small nod]

Yes. Of course.

[therushingsky]

Probably something you want to work on.

[Rhys allows]

But I think-- Knowing that you care about each other is probably the biggest hurdle you could get over, and you guys have cleared it. Everything else-- you'll get there.

[worstweasley]

I've been trying. He seems perpetually doomed to think less of himself.