IT R UR BIRFDAY

[powerisyours]

[ the lab is clean, the table's set, the dogs are securely out of the way, and the candle on a small cake sitting on the counter's lit. all that's missing is the birthday girl, and this dude's watching the door like a hawk, drumming his fingers on the tabletop impatiently

because cake

and also birthday!!! ]

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[ridestherider]

[I'm going to overheat and it's going to be your fault.]

Yes, definitely those too.

[powerisyours]

[ and now he's his normal self again ]

He does have about a decade on me. It's to be expected.

[ridestherider]

Mm, he's closer to my age. I forgot that somehow.

[powerisyours]

Twenty-eight, I think.

[ridestherider]

And I'm technically 25 now.

[powerisyours]

I'm--

[ counts on his fingers ]

I'll be twenty.

[ridestherider]

Barely an adult where I'm from! You'd finally be able to vote.

[powerisyours]

Well, as it was, I'm technically too young to get a motorcycle license, but when you're me, they make a few exceptions.

[ridestherider]

You're not Meng Zhu in my world, at least not that I know of.

[powerisyours]

Well, no, but I have ways of getting what I want.

[ridestherider]

You can't just freeze everyone.

[Joking, of course.]

[powerisyours]

Ways of literally forcing them to do as I say.

[ridestherider]

Not exactly on the moral high ground are you?

[powerisyours]

I said I had ways. Not necessarily that I'd use them. One even less so than the other.

[ridestherider]

The card you won't play is a card you don't have.

[powerisyours]

I never said I wouldn't, simply that I'm not likely to. I certainly would if the situation called for it.

[ridestherider]

So you're an opportunist.

[powerisyours]

[ a little grin ]

I never said I wasn't.

[ridestherider]

You also never said you were.

[powerisyours]

I do like the opportunity of sleeping with you.

[ridestherider]

You know if you keep saying that kind of thing with no other context, one of these days, someone is going to completely misunderstand our whole relationship.

... not that they haven't already.

[powerisyours]

We understand what it is. That's all that's important.

[ridestherider]

Well, when I have counselors making awkward assumptions about you and Ting Yu at the same time ...

[powerisyours]

[ tilting his head curiously ]

Oh? Who said what?

[ridestherider]

Cindy seems to think Ting Yu and I are having a "love affair," for one thing.