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[tanvirus]

[The voice that comes from the comm is probably relatively familiar. Maybe. It's young. And it's not at all hoarse like listeners are probably expecting. And there's the faintest hint of a slightly off accent. But the profanity? Oh yeah. All that's the same.]

What the fuck?!

[Oh my. Did his voice crack on that last word? Yes. Yes, it

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[halfa_heart]

[Tan's isn't the only voice that sounds strained. Herz's sounds like it's on the verge of cracking the entire reply.]

I--I understand you can't really, uh--

You--

You can't--can't really help him wanting to huhh--to--to help you, but please don't do anything dumb. He's, you know, he's--he's having a bad time.

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[youngvirus]

[Wait, who--

Hang on, hang on, he knows that stutter, he really does.

He flips the comm over to video, will Herz respond in kind?]

Herz?!

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[halfa_heart]

[...OKAY. NOT FAIR. This body is significantly less capable of ignoring the hormones your very pretty self is stirring up.]

...Y--

Yes.

[Crack.

He coughs, clears his throat.

...attempts to drop his voice to it's previous decimal. And fails.]

Hi.

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[youngvirus]

[Do you see this grin, Herz? Do you? Oh god, look at him, Herz. He is so happy to hear from you. Look how happy he is. His younger self is apparently much more willing to admit he missed Herz than his older self is.]

Hi!

[He didn't miss that crack.]

You got younger, too? Lemme see!

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[halfa_heart]

Uhh--

No.

No, I--I-I don't--

I--I don't think so.

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[youngvirus]

[Aw. Disappointed face. He wanted to see what a younger Herz looks like.]

Lame.

[Wait.]

Not that I think you're lame or anything!

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[halfa_heart]

[...this is weird.

This is weird, why is he being nice? Nice to Link, Herz understands. Nice to Herz?

He's 17. It's the peak of his social exclusion. Even if the 'rational' part of him that's had time here to mature and make plenty of friends knows better, everything else very strongly wants this attention.

Especially because Tan is so fucking attractive.]

...wh--

...w-what're you doing?

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[youngvirus]

[He's moving around the room now, picking up clothing and looking at it critically. Yep. He's only wearing boxers. Nothing else fits! Not that he's not trying to find pants that won't fall off him anyway.

This shirt would be good if the sleeves weren't too long. Toss!

...Seems he doesn't realize he forgot to switch back to audio.]

Uh. Talking to you?

[There's a definite "duh" tone to his voice.]

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[halfa_heart]

Tan!

[Second crack of the evening, way to go!]

I--I-I-I--

I--I-I--I Don't--

I don't want to--to watch you

Your amateur porn tape! If--i-if you wanna, you--y-you--you know, talk, don't--

Stop that!

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[youngvirus]

Wha--

[NOW HE NOTICES. Have a brief shot of Tanvir flailing at the comm until it switches back over to audio]

Sorry! Oh fuck! Sorry!

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[halfa_heart]

It--

I-It's okay.

...Thank you.

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[youngvirus]

Sorry, I didn't think it was st--

[Wham!]

...Ow.

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[halfa_heart]

Whoa, what--wh-w-what'd you do?

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[youngvirus]

Fell over.

[This body doesn't have as much training and therefore isn't as graceful as he usually is. That's gonna bruise.]

Oooooow, fuck.

[Wait.]

I'm fine! I just. Whacked my arm!

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[halfa_heart]

...klutz.

[Yes. This happens to be unfairly endearing.

God, he's such a sap.]

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[youngvirus]

[Now he sounds offended. His voice goes up half an octave.]

I am not!