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Chloe and Adam dancing placeholder lalalala!

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[teh_data_fork]

It is very, very rare that Adam gets to dance with anyone he's not related to.

He attempts to rationalize all of this with it's just Chloe, come on...

"You can stop acting like I'm going to laugh at you," he says flatly, putting one hand lightly on her waist. "How can I laugh at you if I'm dancing too?"

[teh_data_fork]

"You cried with happiness at Ryan's funeral?" He narrows his eyes. "Jeez, Chloe, he wasn't that bad a boss."

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Chloe sputters. "I didn't cry at his funeral! I said 'except, not like at Ryan's funeral.'" Chloe pushes away from Adam and heads away back toward the main bar muttering at the ground as she does.

"You never listened to me. Not ONCE. And you haven't changed. RYAN changed. I CHANGED. JACK, GOD, even Jack changed. Everyone's grown up BUT YOU."

[teh_data_fork]

He stares after her in mute shock at how quickly he'd managed to fuck that up.

"Chloe, come on!" He tags after her, annoyed. "So I misunderstood you, okay? Jesus, I've been trying. You can't say I haven't changed at all. Just because I don't talk to anyone else around here but that Castle guy and sometimes Tony..."

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She whips back around, a pensive look on her face. "You talk to Tony?"

[teh_data_fork]

"Uh..." He blinks, caught off-guard. "Only a few times...not really that often, but like sometimes. ...Why?"

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"He doesn't ever talk to me. And I was invited. How come you weren't invited?"

[teh_data_fork]

He sighs. "I don't know, Chloe. I just wasn't. I didn't ask him why."

He had found it a little rude that Tony and Lee had been discussing the wedding right in front of him, but he hadn't complained.

"I don't talk to him that often. Just slightly more often than I talk to most other people around here."

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"I don't talk to Chase here either. Not that I'm complaining, it makes sense that I wouldn't see him as much. Hanging out with Kim and Angela takes up most of his time now. I wonder if he and Kim might have a wedding here in the bar?"

[teh_data_fork]

"Yeah, speaking of weddings I'd never get invited to." He rolls his eyes.

"Angela's the little baby?"

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"Yes. And if you wanted to go, I could ask him." Chloe smiles a little and shrugs.

"Unless you hate him."

[teh_data_fork]

"Why do you keep acting like I hate everybody?" He throws up his hands.

"I don't hate people, Chloe. Not people I work with. I mean, terrorists, yeah, but you act like I don't have anything better to do than just...spew bile at people. I don't hate people. It's not even worth the effort to dislike people around here anymore."

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Chloe rubs the bridge of her nose.

"I guess I'm not a comedian. I was JOKING. I KNOW you don't hate anyone. You're too good for such a low-brow emotion as HATE."

[teh_data_fork]

"Where the hell did that come from? What does being 'too good for it' have to do with anything?"

He checks the god, don't you ever make sense that rises to his lips and realizes that saying it wouldn't be anything more than going through the motions, because he doesn't mean it anymore.

...maybe just a little.

He tangles a hand in his hair, frustrated. "It's so fucking sad that you're the only person I ever want to talk to around here and I can't even talk to you without it always turning into this!"

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"You think it's fun for me to always have EVERY FUCKING CONVERSATION I've EVER HAD end up in a fight? I think- know, I KNOW- of ONE conversation during which I didn't once think 'boy this person is a horrendous idiot.' I don't socialize like normal people. I'm NOT LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE."

[teh_data_fork]

"Nobody who works for CTU is! Ever! We don't do normal around here!" He's giving himself a headache and now his hair is a mess. He clenches his fists, helplessly inarticulate.

"So you're smarter than everyone else! We get that! God, I'm sorry for being too dumb to be worth your time, Chloe!"