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[originallutece]

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[callbacks]

i mean not that little me would have known the difference
but as a changed man whose palates been introduced to the wonderful world of CUISINE i gotta say
thanks and it was delicious

[originallutece]

Now who's lying? "Pretty good" is one thing; "delicious" is quite another.

[callbacks]

you made it for ME
the best seasoning of all

[originallutece]

Ahh. I'll remind you of that next time I happen to cook for you, shall I?

I have to know, though: why on earth did you think you needed a slide in order to get married?

[callbacks]

oh my god
i dont know
its some kid thing??
you get kid married under the slide at the playground and everyone throws wood chips at you and hollers or something
i mustve seen other kids do it and absorbed it into my cultural understanding

[originallutece]

Yet another point in favor of being privately tutored when I was a child. I did miss the socialization, but not if it came with that.

[callbacks]

you didnt go out to play with other kids ever?

[originallutece]

Good lord, no. Given my intellect, I matured far faster than my peers, and thus didn't care much for other children. Add to the fact my mother was particularly overprotective of me when I was a child, and one can see why I spent most my childhood alone.

Although it is thanks to her I knew how to follow you up that tree. I used to climb them to hide when I wanted a spare hour or two to myself.

[callbacks]

[That's just about the loneliest thing he ever heard, and he's from half a humanity of four. Dave starts to type something, but then. Well.

She did him the courtesy of not asking, after all.]

youd be surprised how many kids neglected that vital part of their education
without our extensive climbing shit practice my crew would have definitely been constantly dead all the time

[originallutece]

And here I only ever used them when I wanted to read physics books without someone disapproving. Clearly my education must have been lacking. Certainly I wasn't half as good as you.

[callbacks]

no see then for you its clearly a
what do you call it
like integrated learning maybe?
where the junk you practice in one subject feeds the rest
physical science supported by physical education hot damn

[originallutece]

Truly, I was a wunderkind.

[. . .]

You can ask, you know. If you'd like. God only knows Robert and I have asked you far too much about your past and powers.

[callbacks]

nah
im a fountain of oversharing so its pretty likely everything ive told you wouldve come out unprompted anyway like a geyser of poorly edited syfy channel bullshit
so i never felt like you two were prying into personal shit
believe me if you ever hit on a topic i didnt want to get into youd know it on account of id have bailed faster than an upper class good looking white guy in prison
so its fine
im pretty staunchly anti-digging into peoples histories if its not something they want to bring up on their own

[originallutece]

[She laughs despite herself, because there's something utterly delightful about the way he phrases things. He is right, though: Robert had certainly experienced that firsthand, hadn't he, when he'd tried to offer sympathy.]

Fair enough.

[Does she want to tell him? Mm, perhaps. Certainly the memories are fresh in her mind, but she's also not seventeen anymore. There's a far vaster age gap between them, and what Rosie Lutece the teenager had felt comfortable sharing, Dr. Lutece the adult hesitates on. But finally:]

I was the only heir. She didn't want to risk my getting damaged in any way.

[callbacks]

alright
i get ya

[And then he adds, maybe because he's engaged to one Meridiana Everett, or maybe because of the girls he knew before her:]

ladies have it tough
im glad you found your own way off the shelf

[originallutece]

In one way or another, yes.

[Another thought occurs to her, and she adds:]

Are you two going to get married soon?

[callbacks]

pplll;;
what
what??
idk i mean we JUST got engaged?

[originallutece]

It's hardly an impertinent question, not when you two already have rings. Although I suppose if you've only just gotten engaged, not for a year or so.

[callbacks]

right yeah
dont people usually stay engaged for a while before they get married
i proposed on christmas so its not weird to still not know dates yet and shit

[originallutece]

You're asking the wrong person: I'm still not engaged. But no, I don't think it's particularly strange. It's only April.

Truth be told, it's not as if you two need follow convention. You could wait another two months or another two years; it's not as if anyone is going to disapprove of you two either way.

[callbacks]

pfft fuck if i know anything about convention anyway
i just


i dont know
maybe it IS something we should be planning already??
but having our wedding here just feels kinda............

[originallutece]

Wrong?

[callbacks]

our family isnt here
and
yeah it doesnt feel right to make it officially official in a place that feels so
temporary
like proposing i can do a thousand times and it still feels special and important but marriage is
i dunno
its something else
but i dont want to make her wait too long for my ceremonially slow ass either

[originallutece]

[Hmm. There's a bit of a pause before the next text.]

You know her far better than I. But I will say that given what I know of her, and a few of the things that have occurred to her, and our time period in general . . . there's a security to marriage that being engaged doesn't bring.

Which doesn't mean you ought to. Certainly not if you don't feel inclined to here and now. She loves you; she's hardly going to be displeased because you waited because you weren't comfortable.

[callbacks]

i know
but

madam lutece i barely know how to be a real person let alone someone who can provide that kind of secure and stable future
but for her i
you know
i want to be