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[confiscated]

A notebook, or paper. Then a pen and some pretzels.

[He shouldn't be so demanding, so:]

Thanks.

[calloused]

You realize that I might not be able to get you anything at all, let alone four separate things, right?
I don't know if you've noticed, but we're kind of on lockdown. Doubt the guards are going to roll out the red carpet for me when I show them my shopping list.

[confiscated]

oh come on, barely asked for anything at all there
you should've seen the list before revisions
but if you're not capable, that's fine. i can split it up
ask other people
all that jazz

[calloused]

Don't.

[ donnnnnnnn't do that. derek gets annoyed, again. he takes that as a threat, and it gives him a hollow, tired sort of anger right in the pit of his chest. he said he'd help, he doesn't need to be threatened. he's just.

venting. something. the fort's wearing him down. ]

If I can't do this for you, nobody can.
I'm just saying. Don't get your hopes up.

[confiscated]

more like don't let me down.

that seems to be a common theme around here
or so I'm finding it to be.

[calloused]

[ it takes a while for derek to get back to this. he's kicking his shoes on, getting ready to head out to the rest of the fort and figure out a way to steal what he needs to steal. he leaves his phone in his pocket until he's out the door, and when he reads tate's message, he - worries. ]

What do you mean?

[confiscated]

ah, you know
it's not like it's easy to make friends here
thought I was maybe getting to know someone but they've been bailing on me
so whatever. moving on

[calloused]

Oh.

[ derek's first impulse is to just say "shit happens" and leave it, maybe even to overreact and project too hard and give tate shit for getting attached to anyone at all, somewhere like this. he walks that impulse off. ]

You sure they're bailing on you? Might just be busy.
I mean, not that it matters. You've got me. The twenty-two year old man who gives you pretzels in exchange for blowjobs.
Feels like I've been getting to know you, and I'm categorically better than everyone else.

[confiscated]

yeah, but you're a dominant. it was kind of cool to have another unsigned sub around to bitch with

[Read: Tate thought he had an ally, and surprise. That ally pissed off.]

it's fine, they were a little bitch anyways
ur 22, huh? that's old as balls

[calloused]

If it helps, all the subs that I've met so far have been fucking awful.
No exceptions.

Far too old for you to keep trying to blow me.

[confiscated]

you meet a lot of them? you have to sign someone, right?
you must have them crawling all over u

[Ugh, Jesus. Gross.]

u make it sound like i'm desperate for your geriatric d

[calloused]

No.

[ could... be an answer to a couple of things there, but he doesn't clarify. ]

You are. Aren't you?
That's the impression you've been giving me, at least. Bet you dream about this GILF.

[confiscated]

totally using you as a sugar daddy, honestly
heard that works out pretty well.

I'll tell you whatever you wanna hear for those pretzels

[calloused]

Not working as well as it could be. There are better ways to keep me as your sugar daddy.
Like, I'd like you a lot more if you didn't try so hard to act cool.
You don't need to put walls up. You could just talk to me.

[ said the hypocrite, hypocritically. ]

Tell me something interesting about yourself.
Without flirting.

[confiscated]

why are you being so weird

[Why does this bother him in the same way their meeting at orientation bothered him - an unsettled feeling in his gut, like cold wire coiling up inside him. Tate doesn't have issues with things when they don't matter, when they're meant not to matter. But when you crack open the egg to see what you can get out, it feels real all of a sudden. But what's worse - that feeling, or what could be disappointment if he says the wrong thing and Derek considers him weak for it? Like he might be already. Trying so hard to be cool, is he?]

you're putting me on the spot, here
jerk move
I don't know what to say

[calloused]

I'm not being weird.
You said it was hard to make friends. I'm making friends.

Think harder.

[confiscated]

give me an angle to go from
like any decent person would

you sound like some boring ass teacher asking me to intro myself to the class and spoiler: I hated that shit

[calloused]

Must be pretty fucking boring if you can't think of a single interesting fact about yourself.

Maybe I don't want to be friends, after all.
Milquetoast motherfucker.

[confiscated]

[I'm dead. My girlfriend's dead. I haunted a house for seventeen years. I murdered fifteen kids, and four others. I spawned the antichrist to appease another ghost. I hate my mother. I died before hitclips existed. I heard Nirvana play live. I- ]

I like Kurt Cobain.

[calloused]

Okay.

[ wow, what a boring fact! tate is the boring, edgy teenager derek knew he was. thankfully, derek remembers what it was like to be young and not have anything interesting going for him, so. maybe this is all tate has fine. he'll work with it. ]

Favorite song? Album? Anything?

[confiscated]

hard to say a favorite
ironically the last thing I really liked wasn't nirvana
soundgarden, black hole sun
I liked superunknown in general

garbage, radiohead are good too
depends on what the mood is, y'know?
i like looking for more indie sources
more than anything they put on the radio

[calloused]

I don't really listen to the radio, either. I like what I like.

Guess I need to keep an eye out for some posters to hang up in your corner of the barracks. I'm sure there's some kind of Kurt Cobain equivalent in this universe.
Only, you know. Uncomfortably sexually provocative

[confiscated]

cobain already had plenty of uncomfortably sexually provocative things but, true

what about you? fave band, song, album?

[calloused]

That's classified.

[ bein' a dick again. ]

What do you want the notebook for? You an artist?

[confiscated]

dickface.

[A pause.]

no. I just like to write stuff down
notes. thoughts. whatever
my therapist used to say it was good getting stuff out in the open