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hoardsrealestate

[ The notion of these things making noise still throws him a bit, but he has gotten some hint of this at least once, even though he's largely allowed Bodhi to do the heavy lifting. ]

Is the gymnasium really a place for an egg? How are you carrying it around?

From:

all_hart

I've got one of the carriers Ben gave out. And I keep it out of the way of equipment. I'm not bringing it on the treadmills or anything.

From:

hoardsrealestate

You sound rather at ease with the whole thing.

From:

all_hart

[He shrugs.]

It's weird, sure, but it's not the weirdest thing that's happened. I can deal with an egg for a week or two, which is how long I assume it'll last.

From:

hoardsrealestate

[ Freeza closes his eyes and just focuses on his voice. The devices are good enough quality that it's almost like talking in the same room. ]

Is it because you had children before?

From:

all_hart

Maybe? I'm a little rusty, but I've dealt with crying babies before. And this one doesn't even need to be diapered regularly.

From:

hoardsrealestate

I don't think it's something I would want to fuss over, even if I were able.

[ He very rarely sounds uncertain without trying to disguise it as disinterest, and he's not doing a good job of it. ]

From:

all_hart

They do say your first is your hardest. Even if it is a weird egg.

From:

hoardsrealestate

I've never really given much thought to having children. Or eggs, I suppose. I suppose when my father was still around the subject might come up, but now? Especially when I go home? Where do you even make room for that?

...I also just. Don't know how you think about doing that knowing you're going to have to carry on worrying about someone else for so much of your life from then on.

From:

all_hart

It's a gamble, to say the least. But it's... usually it's worth it. To see your kids grow up. To watch them become people. All that shit.

From:

hoardsrealestate

You are a detective. Surely you make enemies back home. Aren't you just giving them another tender place to insert a bullet?

From:

all_hart

Yeah, dangerous criminals could hurt them. But Maggie could defend herself and the girls. And... some risks are worth taking.

From:

hoardsrealestate

[ A thoughtful sound. ]

I have no real context, outside of it just being something that's expected, eventually. How do you know when it's time?

[ How long did your parents pressure you to give them grandchildren before you capitulated, Marty. ]

From:

all_hart

Maggie and I had been married for a couple of years, our careers were steady. It felt right.

[Oh, all four grandparents had tried. But he and Maggie were too stubborn to just give in.]

From:

hoardsrealestate

[ A 'hm' but it's clear something just isn't connecting for him. ]

This flood is ridiculous, and I'm not even taking part in it.

[ He probably wouldn't normally be thinking this hard about it, but eggs are probably more adjacent to this topic for him than they are for humans.

He's been in the presence of the egg that Bodhi Rook is taking care of. Once. That was long enough for him to decide he would be camping out in his cabin even if he weren't sick. ]

From:

all_hart

Yeah, it is. It really is.

[He's got kind of joint custody, but it's still weird. It's an egg. It shouldn't be making noise.]

From:

hoardsrealestate

[ Yes also that. ]

I know this must be awkward to talk about, but half our conversations feel that way, so I'm honestly never completely certain.

From:

all_hart

This is far from the most awkward conversation we've had, it's fine.

From:

hoardsrealestate

Send the egg to your Inmate for the night and I'll make it even more awkward.

From:

all_hart

I'll hand it right over to him.

[That should not cheer him up as much as it does.]

Edited Date: 2020-09-20 03:41 am (UTC)

From:

hoardsrealestate

[ Freeza would probably not look into making a career of that. He doesn't say certain words easily, only really driven to it in the heat of the moment and feeling a fool when it happens. But he knows how to tell his partner he needs him. He knows how to coax more words out of him, how to praise and at least try to reciprocate when he gets what he wants.

This would have been better in person. Where he could kiss him. Be held. And not have to conclude everything by his own manipulation? But hearing him was enough, and he came out of it at little surprised at himself, but satisfied -- one could hear that in his breathing, that he was breathing, and the little tremble in it. He might even have some minutes left before he comes down far enough to stop being outwardly sentimental. ]

It's cold here without you.

From:

all_hart

[Marty's not prone to phone, or communicator, sex either. He likes being with his partners, where he can touch them. Sure, a bit of dirty talk or flirting is fun to set the mood, to spice things up, but not as the main event.

But it had been good. Freeza had known just what to say to wring gasps of pleasure out of him and send him over the edge. He takes a couple of minutes to get his breathing back to regular before he can talk, too.]

I miss you, too.

From:

hoardsrealestate

[ You can practically hear him making a face. ]

Though that will suffice -- however different it was.

[ The closest he will venture toward asking if he did that correctly. Or if that was even a correct thing to do. Maybe that's why he went ahead with it -- it seemed transgressive, in its own way.

A little chuckle. ]