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Tweak says, "let's garnet!"

_touchless_ (_touchless_) wrote in tensor,
@ 2011-02-15 17:26:00

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kevin_ford, santo_vacarro

Santo (backdated to Saturday early AM in their room)
Kevin was lying there in the first faint light of a wintery dawn, eyes still shut and grinning like an idiot as he tried to process the fact that he wasn't just back in the same time zone with Josh, he was in the same damn building. And, oh yeah, they'd spent the entire afternoon and evening and part of the night together yesterday and they'd probably be able to spend pretty much the whole damned day together today.

As soon as he managed to not be an asshole to his roommate. Who he'd definitely been a total asshole to yesterday. Which was kind of not okay, and he definitely felt bad for, given he'd pretty much run in, dropped his stuff on what he'd assumed was his bed, said 'hi' and 'bye' almost in one breath and bolted back out the door to find Josh. He'd talked with the guy a little bit - and rock dude, how seriously cool was that? - when he'd come back in, significantly after curfew and lucky not to have been caught, but he'd been giddy and wiped and had crashed pretty quick. So now it was probably well past time to try to convince the guy he wasn't a complete douche.

Really.

As soon as he stopped lying there grinning like a loon. Yep. He totally had this whole not being an asshole thing covered. He kicked off his sheets and rolled out of bed, tugging his gloves and sleeves back into place out of habit as he did so.

"So. Hey." He smiled a bit sheepishly and waved at the guy. "I promise I'm not usually a total douche?"

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rockem_sockem
2011-02-21 06:41 am UTC (link)

"Nah, I'm cool with snakes. Way I figure it, they can't hurt me and I probably make a good heat source once I'm warmed up, right?" And no way was he admitting that he'd had a thing about snakes when he was a kid. It was all well in the past. Yup.

"It's staying in a tank, right? Cause, you know, if it slithered into my bed I might have words, but in a tank, I'm cool."

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	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 06:43 am UTC (link)
	"No. I mean, yeah, he totally lives in a tank. I get him out sometimes, but he's never escaped from it. He's nice and slow, y'know? Don't have to worry about him jumping at me and getting ashed." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 07:03 am UTC (link)
	"Well that's good to know. I'm fine with a snake then. If you had a rat we'd have to talk. Hate those damn things," Santo muttered. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 07:08 am UTC (link)
	Kevin laughed. "Aw, I kind of like them, but-" He shrugged again. "Really not a good pet choice with my powers. I used to have a turtle but he got too big for his aquarium, so he lives in my folks' yard now and Midas got the tank." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 07:11 am UTC (link)
	"I'm totally down with turtles too," Santo told him. "They're tough. I like that in a reptile." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 07:43 am UTC (link)
	"Oh yeah, turtles are totally badass," Kevin agreed. "And slow. Slow is very important." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 02:38 pm UTC (link)
	"You know those huge tortoises? I heard they can live for like, a hundred years or something. Isn't that cool? Maybe it's cause they're so slow. Taking their time, relaxing. That's the way to live!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	"I dunno, man. Seems like just creeping around eating lettuce would get awfully boring pretty quick," Kevin pointed out. Not that he wouldn't love to be able to eat lettuce, but that was beside the point. "Not sure if I'd really want a hundred years or more of that." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	"I think it'd be relaxing," Santo said. "But then, I'm made of rock, so maybe I move a bit slower in general." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 08:29 pm UTC (link)
	"So maybe we need to get you a really big heat lamp and just set you up in here?" Kevin suggested, smile widening to a grin again. "You and Midas can toast and bond." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 08:33 pm UTC (link)
	"That would be awesome. You know, it's weird. I can tell when stuff is warm and cold and the cold doesn't really bug me, but oh man, I like being warm." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-21 08:51 pm UTC (link)
	Kevin considered that for a moment, head cocked slightly to one side. "So...do you feel other things, then? Like, just touching things? Or, y'know, tell me if it's none of my business," he added quickly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-21 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	"Sort of," Santo said, running his hand over the edge of his bookshelf. "I feel like, pressure. Some things I get, some things I don't. But like, if I bump into someone, I know it even if they move away. And my mom always gives me the biggest hug when I go home and I definitely feel that. So, that's cool." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-22 02:22 am UTC (link)
	Kevin reached for the piece of quartz Santo had been handling earlier, picking up and running his gloved fingers over it. "That helps a lot, doesn't it? Your mom, I mean." He put the quartz back and smiled over at Santo. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-22 02:26 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah," Santo said, smiling at Kevin. "It does. My mom's awesome. You should meet her." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-22 03:28 am UTC (link)
	"That'd be cool. Moms are the best, right?" He wasn't even remotely ashamed of being something of a Momma's boy, his parents were awesome. "Even when I first manifested and they didn't know how bad it might be, or if my powers might flare out or something, my mom still insisted on hugging me goodbye before they brought me here." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-22 03:38 am UTC (link)
	"See, that's awesome. My mom built me a new bed at home," Santo told him. "When they were still all trying to make it okay for me at home." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-22 04:56 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, it really is. Moms are kind of the best that way," Kevin answered. "So do you go home in the summers and on holidays or is that too hard, what with the space and all?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-22 05:03 am UTC (link)
	"I go for holidays and some weekends," Santo said, shrugging. "I spend most of the summer here." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_touchless_
2011-02-22 05:11 am UTC (link)

"It's cool you're close enough to go for weekends, at least," Kevin offered. At least he assumed he was close. Santo so far wasn't coming off as one of the almost terrifyingly rich kids you found in the system who thought flying to meet their parents for a weekend in the South of France was no big deal. "I got stuck in SF all summer last year for extra training. It kind of sucked."

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	rockem_sockem 2011-02-22 05:39 am UTC (link)
	"Oh man, yeah," Santo agreed. "Man, you should visit my folks with me some time. If, you know, you want to? They're in New York City." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_touchless_ 2011-02-22 05:43 am UTC (link)
	"Seriously?" Kevin flashed him a quick, bright grin. "I wouldn't want to impose, though," he added quick on its heels, though. He'd gotten a couple of invites to visit friends over the years, but they'd always been revoked when parents found out about his powers. It just seemed like too much of a risk, or an imposition, and it wasn't like he could blame them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rockem_sockem 2011-02-22 06:13 am UTC (link)
	"It wouldn't be any imposition," Santo promised. "My folks are great. My mom always says I should bring my friends home and we've got a guest room. I bet we could get you some synthetic sheets and stuff. It'll be fun." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_touchless_
2011-02-22 06:52 am UTC (link)

"I could, um, bring sheets? If it happens?" No reason Santo's folks should spend money on something like that, when he knew pretty much no one liked synthetic sheets. He'd tried to talk Josh out of them years ago when he'd gone pretty much all synthetic in solidarity, since he didn't really see any reason they both had to suffer. "Which would be cool, but totally no big deal if it doesn't."

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	rockem_sockem 2011-02-22 01:31 pm UTC (link)
	Santo looked at him. "We'll figure it out and it's totally happening. Cause I said so. Hell, we could even bring some of mine back. My bed here's about the same size and I guarantee my sheets can stand up to your powers." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)