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[senior_citizen]

because Sabra AUs are fun and games until someone loses an eye

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[midgardener]

[ she has a package wrapped up in butcher paper! ]


I'm not going to keep you.

[senior_citizen]

[ ohhhh god gravitating to that package ]

I ... didn't really think you would but ...

[midgardener]

What would you do? If you were seeing someone you love just coming out of that place.


Listen, no one can tells you what to do now. Least of all me but. I'll help you, if you need it.

[senior_citizen]

[ he opens his mouth to say something - and then stops short. very quietly. ]

"Love"?

[midgardener]

[ . . . ]


I have a team here.

[senior_citizen]

[ I heard "love" okay ]

The ones not from Sabra?

[midgardener]

That's right.


[ TEAM MEANS LOVE OK. holds out the package. ]


Sorry, I couldn't find steak, but I got you a beef shank.

[senior_citizen]

[ god that smell is driving him crazy. he takes it with trembling hands. ]

That's ... no, that's fine. It's still meat.

[midgardener]

I'll move you back to my room?

[senior_citizen]

[ n-nods ]

It's gonna be messy.

[midgardener]

An empty one then!


[ grab and poof! she turns her back as soon as they're in there, though, already heading for the door ]



Well, I'll give you a minute.

[senior_citizen]

[ wow that teleporting is disorienting. ]

-- Wait. It's not dangerous for you if I'm eating. I don't change the same way as the others.

[midgardener]

[ pauses, turning back around ]


Got a special deal, huh?

[senior_citizen]

Yeah. Since I was dead and all.

[ though it's still messy. hes just kind of. holding it up to his mouth and taking big bites out of the raw meat. ]

[midgardener]

[ she's just. not looking away. it's fine. that's beef. it's OK. this is fine this is fine thisisfinethisisfinethisisfinethisisfine ]

[senior_citizen]

[ toootally cool. nevermind that meat is meat and he's still getting awful red from it splattering everywhere... ]

[midgardener]

[ HAHA THE SOUND OF MEAT PULLING APART, SEEING BONE ITS FINE ITS GOING TO BE OVER SOON ]

[senior_citizen]

[ at least. at least he eats very quickly. though that's probably unsettling too, seeing all that flesh disappear so rapidly into such a tiny frame. ]

[midgardener]

[ she's silent for a long, long moment, then hands him a clean rag ]

[senior_citizen]

[ sssets the bone back down, then takes the rag ]

... Thank you. I feel a lot better.

[midgardener]

We're team mates.

[senior_citizen]

...

[ cleaning himself up ... ]

The me who has these dog tags?

[midgardener]

[ she pulls out her own from under her dress ]

[senior_citizen]

[ compares them, seeing the salamander ]

Did ... did I forget ...

[midgardener]

I don't think so. I think you're different.