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[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

[calloused]

Makes sense.

If I can't get you a notebook but you still need an outlet, you can always talk to me.
I'm not good at talking. Or listening. But.
I'm here. If you ever need a sounding board.

[confiscated]

did you just hear the word therapist and decide you have to fill in
because you're not nearly enough of a douchebag to replace my prev therapist

but duly noted, I guess

[calloused]

No. I couldn't offer anything like that.
Just a shoulder.

[ he needs to be better at learning how to support people. for his betas, for stiles, now that they're contracted. he needs to do more for people than snap and get angry and push them, especially now that he has nothing but the fear of the unknown keeping him in place. he doesn't have to rush to teach people how to survive, even if he's lucky enough to form another pack while he's here - he just has to... be a leader.

and he can do that. but having someone like tate to help him practice what he needs to practice will only make things easier. ]

Why was your last therapist a douchebag?

[confiscated]

I mean, he wasn't 100% a douchebag but his levels tended to vary
guess it didn't help I was kind of dating his daughter and he hated that
but the dude had his own demons and I don't think he kept that shit in check

[calloused]

Dating your therapist's daughter seems like one of the worst decisions you could make.
Hope it was worth it.

I like late 90s stuff, by the way. Early-mid 2000s.
That's the music I grew up with. Mostly stopped keeping up with new releases after 2005.
Lost interest.

[confiscated]

listen, it was a weird situation but we clicked.

hm. guess you're passable, then. I stay kind of old school.
I like vinyl more than anything else. hated using violet's ipod
old tech is good. new shit can fuck off.

[calloused]

Wouldn't have pegged you as a hipster.
Makes a certain kind of sense, don't get me wrong. Just.
Had you pegged as the kind of guy who carried an ipod filled with Slipknot around with you everywhere you went.
You seem like the kind of kid who would stay online until 3am looking up pictures of dead bodies.

[confiscated]

I love how fondly you think of me. jackass.

I did like to read about cold cases, back at school. might've given the librarian the same impression for all I know. but mostly I just like poetry, classics, some decent fiction. don't need to oogle dead bodies. you see one, you've seen them all. it's just sad? empty.