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[fierybluebird]

[For Marco he sounds a little tired. And while the chocobo chicks go unseen, you can hear them making sounds in the background, of wherever Marco is hiding out.]

I know this is a touchy subject. [Because he doesn't even want to talk about it, but it has to get done, sooner rather than later.] But if at all possible, can anyone tell me about the

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[dontcallmegol]

{Ah, so you're with the chicks again eh? Battle tactics, Marco? Should he be concerned you're interested in war?}

... {Pops. Shit is this really about what happened to Discedo?}

Are you doing alright bro?

[fierybluebird]

[It's so not about what happened in Discedo. He really doesn't care. Pfft.]

Ah yeah... Remember you said I was a little on edge lately?

[dontcallmegol]

Yeah, and scarce.

What's up?

[fierybluebird]

I need to talk to you... in person.

Sorry about avoiding it, eh.

[dontcallmegol]

... alright. {Yep, still kind of worried here.}

You uhm, wanna do this someplace other than the apartment?

[fierybluebird]

Apartment's fine... but then maybe somewhere we can burn stuff, eh. Someplace private.

[Sadly, if you know what the first part of this discussion is, there's no way to phrase it that doesn't sound dirty... even if for once he's being super serious and not joking around.]

You know I've always got your back, right?

[dontcallmegol]

Well, we could always go to the warehouse. {He's kind of wondering if there will be a need to blow something up after you've talked to him, so maybe the apartment isn't the best.}

Yeah. Of course and I've got yours. No matter what. {You are seriously worrying him here bro. Lewd thoughts have no room.}

[fierybluebird]

All right... good. I'll meet you at the apartment... and then we can go over there.

[Shows up soon enough, he was over in the school with Japan. Of course it's storming so he looks wet and tries to shake out of the fiery feathers. Never a good feeling to have them rained on.]

Yo. [He has a rucksack/backpack with baby chocobos peeking out with him. He can't leave them alone in the storm after all.]

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[dontcallmegol]

{He's watching the storm when Marco arrives, to which he's looking the other over and frowning a bit.}

Maybe we should wait out the storm for a bit. {Walking over to pet the little birdies getting a chorus of happy Warking and cooing.}

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[fierybluebird]

Works for me. [Awww the birdies love him. So Marco's going to hand over the bag of them and relax on the couch. Really, he's only partially relaxing, he's actually digging through to where he keeps a journal and his stash of Japan's drawings.]

Okay. You told me you wanted to know things, however painful or uncomfortable. So there's... 3 big things I've been hold back... sorry. Last chance to say you'd rather not know, eh.

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[dontcallmegol]

{He takes the satchel of chocobos and sets it down on the floor in case they wanna get out and run around a bit, stretch their legs and what not. He doesn't know much about them so he doesn't know if they're old enough to even do that yet, but at least they'll be comfy. His brows furrowed slightly as he watches Marco, taking in his words.}

Go on. Just leave the worst of the three for when we're outside somewhere. {Ya know, just in case. Marco was hiding these things for a reason, there was a good chance things would piss him off.}

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[fierybluebird]

Well... one of them has to come after the other. So those two we'll just... take outside. [Deep breath and hands him a sort of manila envelope thing.]

This is the first.

It's not so bad... you'll probably laugh. Or punch me. [Shrugs.] I lied when I said burned all the stuff from Japan. Kind of a big lie. If you want to burn it, I'll understand.

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[dontcallmegol]

... {He takes the folder and opens it as Marco speaks, only seeing it's contents when he admits he didn't burn everything. His eyes widen as he grows a few shades of red and shoves the pictures back in.}

Wh-why do you have these?

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[fierybluebird]

I couldn't burn them. Not while they have... [It seems to weird to say "you" even though that's true.] What they have.

[Kind of a little embarrassed now and just not looking Ace in the eyes.]

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[dontcallmegol]

You-- {He is probably not understanding this the way Marco is trying to convey. Sure they joked around about being together but, he didn't honestly think-- I mean, the way this looks Marco-- He swallowed raggedly. He wasn't sure how to handle this. His brother kept porn of him.

He turned his gaze away and held the folder out for him to take. He wouldn't burn them and part of him was a little flattered but man, this was confusing and awkward. He wasn't sure what to say.}

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[fierybluebird]

[Takes and just... hides away again. Gosh and now Ace knows where he keeps things too.]

Questions? [So awkward. So very awkward.] It won'd wind up on comm if that's what you're worried about. And I probably should have told you beforehand... but I couldn't think of a good way to say it... and it had seemed kind of irrelevant. And weird. [Mostly weird.]