✖18. voice

[blackdogwithin]

[ there are a few beeps and clicks as someone fiddles with the forge, and then a maybe-familiarly bored voice: ]

What'd I miss?

[ he pauses, and then continues. ]

...I'm moving back in with Nill.

[ awkward silence. ]

Uh, thanks, I guess, if you... helped her. While I was gone.

[ once that's said, the broadcast ends as quickly as possible. ]

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[video]

[girl_unlocking]

[This face, Heine.]

Heine!

voice.

[blackdogwithin]

[ WHOA. suddenly, yelling. it's not like he didn't expect to see people like dawn, people that he knew and may have even, uh, liked, but - ]

...hey.

[ - feelings are so hard. ]

voice.

[girl_unlocking]

Hey? Hey?!

[ A click and a slam. This sound is the sound of feet on pavement.]

Where are you?

voice.

[blackdogwithin]

What the hell am I supposed to say?

[ he is, honestly, taken aback. he'd forgotten, but he can guess (kind of) the general kind of response Dawn wanted. ]

...outside the Clinic.

voice--->action?

[girl_unlocking]

[Her hufflaugh is muffled by a close brush with someone that doesn't sound all that happy to be brushed, but her feet are tamping out a pattern and she makes the turn in the clinic's direction. She hasn't run like this in a long while.

Not since Spike.

Alright, so maybe some of her anger is misplaced.]

action!

[blackdogwithin]

[ he's there as said, though admittedly, he'd been walking around and only stops wandering when he hears her running over the forge. he keeps pacing back and forth in front of the building - inactivity doesn't suit him.

he's waiting, though, and that's what counts. ]

action!

[girl_unlocking]

[And no sooner has she turned that corner? She's skidding to a halt because she doesn't want another collision - no, wait, maybe she does - because she's closing the distance to uh, kind of punch him in the arm.]

Hey.

action!

[blackdogwithin]

[ walking, walking - oof. ]

Hey.

[ what a big vocabulary you have, my dear! yeah. he rubs his arm and eyes her uncertainly, and maaaybe a little guiltily. ]

[girl_unlocking]

[Closing in for the hug before that hey is even out of your mouth, Heine. SHE IS NOT THINKING, OKAY.]

[blackdogwithin]

[ AUGH. he goes stock-still and flinches - well, as much as anyone can flinch when they're being hugged, that is.

he kind of lets it happen, and just stands there awkwardly. he doesn't hug back, but he pats her shoulder clumsily. (or it might be a swat. it's hard to tell.) ]

[girl_unlocking]

[Welp. Suddenly shoving backward and glaring at you!]

Hey?! That's it? Hey?

You left.

[blackdogwithin]

I - [ well, yeah. he did.

he opens his mouth to say something as he regains his balance, but... what can you say to that? ]

I didn't mean to.

[ dig a bigger hole for yourself, apparently. ]

[girl_unlocking]

I know, I know, I just---

[SOB. HUGGING AGAIN.]

[blackdogwithin]

[ kasdfjf. this hugging is not what he was prepared for. punching, anger, yeah, sure, but this - ]

Dawn.

[ he is so uncomfortable right now, but... ]

I - [ ... ] - do you want to... go somewhere?

[ he's trying to think of something. ]

[girl_unlocking]

Go somewhere? Oh, well sure, you big jerk, I'll just be on my---

[---way to completely misunterdtanding what you just said. And it's a huff-shove combo. She's taken three steps back toward the block when she suddenly does a slooooowturn.]

When you said you, you didn't mean just me, you meant the collective you, the inclusive you, right? As in us?

[blackdogwithin]

[ FACEPALM. normally, he would just shrug and leave it, but he's trying, ok. ]

Yeah. I wouldn't -

[ yeah, he would. ]

- that's what I meant.