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There were other people in the apartment building.

People that didn't socialize, or throw coffee gigs, or emo at their sekrit crushes. People that weren't busy with babies -- well, actually, this person was sometime busy with babies. But only rarely, when the gyno couldn't be arsed to play pediatrician on the side, too

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[kokiriboy]

Flashing lightbulbs call for investigation, and it doesn't take Link long to track down something odder than usual in the apartment building.

"What are you doing?" Link asks, not exactly politely, from the doorway.

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House's look at Link can be summed up in Oh, god, a kid.

"Big people work," he replies, sitting on the tiled floor of a kitchen with computer parts strewn over it. (Lack of static for the win.)

[kokiriboy]

"Uh-huh," Link nods and comes inside, sidling up against a counter to watch House fiddle with whatever the heck he was fiddling with.

"But really, what're you doing?" Link asks again, blithely as he can manage.

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"I told you," he says as he continues to workk, not bothering to look at Link. "Big toys for big boys. Gotta have a badass system if I'm gonna gank newbs in the battlegrounds."

...what? You don't think he knows about MMORPGS?

[kokiriboy]

"Are you a robot?" Link crouches and examines House thoughtfully. He just learned about robots, and being a twelve year old boy finds them immensely interesting.

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"Huh?" House doesn't understand where that segue came from. He blinks at the boy for a minute, and then says, "No. Are you an elf?"

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"No. Elves are stupid." Link snaps, lowering himself onto his knees.

"Why do you want to gank a newb? What is a newb, anyway?"

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"And so are robots," House replies, as he picks up a component and starts to bolt it in. He still doesn't look up. "And I want to gank a newb because they're newbs. Newbs are also totally dumb and deserve ganking."

He should have tried this line on a kid that'd understand it. Oh well, his wit's lost and he hates reusing lines.

[kokiriboy]

"Robots aren't dumb," Link protests "Robots are great. I have a book with robots in it, and they were throwing cars. Anything that can throw a car is cool."

Link smiles brightly, satisfied with his deductions.

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"Whatever. Robots are so yesterday," House replies, as he works the screwdriver. "Find something cooler. Like nanites."

[kokiriboy]

"Nanites can't throw cars," Link guesses. He's not gonna admit he doesn't know what they are. That'd be mature.

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"Nanites can consume whole worlds. That's so much better then throwing a car!" House can totally match his maturity level.

[kokiriboy]

"But will it explode? Where's the fire gonna come from?" Link raises an excellent point.

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"Exploding is overrated," House says. "And messy. You have to clean up after." And then he puts another part in the computer case, seats it, and bolts it in.

[kokiriboy]

"Not always. And really, what are those?" Link's attention returns to the computer parts.

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"I told you. Big boy toys." He blinks, and then looks up, finally. "Why don't you go find someone more intersting to bother? Simon, maybe?"