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[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.

[calloused]

Still like you better than most people, if it helps.

[ sad, empty. seen one corpse, seen them all. this is getting heavier than derek's capable of dealing with, right now, so he quickly diverts his focus. ]

I like poetry. And classic lit. Anything I can dissect and analyze.
If I can read a book or a play from the 17th century, form long and critical opinions about what it represents and then argue with people on the internet about how wrong their own long and critical opinions are, then...
I'll probably like that book or play.

[confiscated]

guess if I ever get bored enough here, we can fight via shakespeare
or middleton and dekker if we want to get
what'd you call me? "hipster"?

[calloused]

Villain, I have done thy mother.

You don't know what a hipster is?

[confiscated]

Mine mother does all, a fool such as yourself was used.

I don't get a lot of - new slang, okay? Call me retro or whatever.
I haven't been exposed to a lot of it. But I can tell when an insult's an insult.

[calloused]

I feel kind of bad for your mom?

But - okay.
I'm in the same boat, I guess.
It was 2011, when I came here. Spent the past few years before that doing my own thing. Didn't watch a lot of TV. Kind of fell out of step with slang.
Just counting down the days until someone says something that makes me feel like an old man.
Aside from, you know, "you have a geriatric dick".

[confiscated]

Don't, she's a bit of a cocksucker. Canon to her story.

you're from 2011 too? that's kind of relieving.
I lived in LA but it was kind of quiet my whole life
there was just a different vibe when I was in school

[calloused]

[ well we don't have time to unpack all that. derek decides not to join in on calling tate's mom a cocksucker. ]

Same year, same state.
Probably lived an hour away from you. If that.
Seems bizarre that we're meeting here when we were already so close.

[ a pause. ]

You don't recognize my last name at all?
"Hale".

[confiscated]

small world right

[Tate hesitates for a moment because - is he supposed to recognize this name? He hasn't exactly been keeping up with news outside the house. You'd think the gossip would filter in if anything exceptional had happened, so. He raises his brows but finds this prompts him to have his own question to ask in return.]

no. you know westfield high at all?

[calloused]

Yeah, of course I do.

[ jk, of course he doesn't. he's relieved, to know that the hale name isn't familiar to tate, but. could just be one of those things - maybe tate heard about the fire, but never bothered committing the details to memory. can't assume tate won't just suddenly put two and two together a few weeks from now when the name suddenly clicks. ]

No, I'm just fucking with you.
That your school? Your lacrosse team go to state, or something?

[confiscated]

[Tate didn't appreciate that - he hesitated, briefly, but relaxes with mixed feelings when Derek says the name doesn't ring a bell. It feels like it'd be something most of LA still remembers almost twenty years on, but maybe not. It has been a while and... well, he doesn't know the Hale family name either.]

wouldn't know, I got kicked out
I ran track though, when I was on a team

[calloused]

Oh yeah? Track's cool. I liked track.

[ he's not sure if he can ask about tate being kicked out, so... he'll break the ice a bit more, circle back to it. ]

I was the captain of my basketball team.
Would've been friends.

[confiscated]

you of all people willingly played a team sport?
and they elected you captain?

[calloused]

Go fuck yourself?
I didn't call you out on how unrealistic it was that you stopped hiding in the corners of the library long enough to run track.

Why were you expelled?

[confiscated]

at least it was more in character for me to play a solo sport

Nice dodge, but we're staying where we are. How'd you get to be captain?
ur telling me ur actually good at basketball?

[calloused]

I feel like you're the one dodging.

[ DOESN'T ANSWER OUT OF SPITE ]

[confiscated]

Well I don't want to talk about that, so.

[calloused]

[ fair enough. ]

You brought it up.

I liked basketball. Wanted to play professionally, for a while. Didn't really see it through.
I left school at sixteen, never really went back. Haven't played since. Might suck at it now.
You have anyone from home here with you?

[confiscated]

just wanted to know if u knew the school

but no, nobody's here. that I know of, anyway
you?

[calloused]

[ derek hesitates. he could say no, keep his privacy, cement those walls between them that he's supposedly trying to break down. he's pretty burned when it comes to sharing too much information about himself - fucked him up at home, already kind of fucked him over here - but.

not like this is a secret worth lying about. ]

Yeah.
He's a dick, though.

[ which is kind of a shitty thing to say about his almost-friend who he genuinely-mostly-sorta-likes, but that's where we are. ]

[confiscated]

lucky you.

[Hm. Didn't predict this feeling.]

he a dom too?

[calloused]

No.

Sub. Stiles. Little older than you.
Specky kid. Too many moles. Weird nose.
Loud. No friends.

[confiscated]

sounds almost like you don't dislike him as much as you let on.
he contracted?

[calloused]

Weird way to interpret "too many moles", but okay.

You'd have to ask him, not me.

[confiscated]

figured it was easy to assume since you know about all his excessive moles