Outside the MCA, Tuesday Afternoon

[myownface]

It had been a week since he'd gotten home, and Sparkle had barely even managed to function since then. Atton had taken off somewhere again, presumably to give him space. Maybe to have some for himself. Hell if he knew. Hell if he knew much of anything, except that gravity was weird here now and apparently something Fandom-fucked-up had happened

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[rebelseekspizza]

Dante... had walked out of a class full of issues, into a Hyacinthe full of issues, all while trying to avoid his own issues. Frankly, he was starting to think his original plan - to hole up in his dorm room with Anders and a stack of pizzas for the week - had been the better one.

But fuck it. He was gonna keep on walking.

"Yo, Sparkle," he called, as he noticed a familiar figure up ahead. "Smoke break?"

[rebelseekspizza]

Wouldn't be the first time someone got snot all over Dante. And last time, it'd been Ringo slobbering on him after telling Kathy she was in love with her, so-- no way to beat that.

"It's what you've got," Dante said.

He was kind of jealous of it, in a way.

"So, I dunno. Scream into the wind. Be un-fucking-dignified," he said. "I don't know about anyone else, but... I've heard worse."

[myownface]

Sparkle exhaled, and then just kind of turned a sidelong glance at Dante before closing his eyes and flopping back against the wall.

"Fuck," he muttered. "I'm tired, you know? It's been a really long time since I felt this fucking tired."

Flat. That was what it was. Like somebody had let the air out of him all over again, and he was just this empty thing sitting deflated on the floor.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Yeah."

Dante took another drag off his cigarette, and mentally amended his plans for the evening: he was gonna, like, walk Anders through all the stupid cat videos the guy had missed being locked up in a tower. Felt like the day for it.

"Sounds like it's time to crash out for a while," he said, offering Sparkle another sidelong look full of sympathy. "You know. Be stupid normal. Do stupid normal things. Don't get your ass kicked for like, a month."

[myownface]

"Getting stoned while watching Sesame Street is totally on the bucket list," Sparkle admitted. "And, like, living on Zoodles. Not the zucchini pasta stuff. The canned animal-shaped noodles. I don't think they even exist in America."

This was not stopping Sparkle from deciding that he needed a lifetime supply of them.

[rebelseekspizza]

"There's animal-shaped noodles in a can?" Dante said, blinking. "Man, where has this shit been all my life?"

His was the expression of someone desperately trying to sound uplifting.

[myownface]

"Canada," Sparkle replied, giving Dante - and his attempts at being uplifting - a little twitch of a grin. "They've been in Canada."

Land of wonder and maple syrup and Zoodles.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Fucking Canada," Dante sighed. "Shoulda known."

He tried to give Sparkle a little nudge with his shoulder. "Get a shit ton of those," he advised. "Shack up with a bunch of bear noodles."

[myownface]

Sparkle actually gave a little snort, swaying a bit at the nudge.

"You know just how I like it, man," he replied, leaning to return the nudge. "Just me and the bears."

... Sparkle was so not into bears.

[rebelseekspizza]

"You need at least three," Dante said, grinning. "'Cause you know, one's gonna be too hot and one's gonna be too cold..."

He was going to push this stupid joke to the limit, damn it.

[myownface]

Sparkle was going to cling to that joke, so that worked out neatly.

"That's a lot of work to find the one that's just right," he mused.

[rebelseekspizza]

"But you always get back what you put into it," Dante said, waggling his eyebrows.

[myownface]

"Goldilocks did get to try out all three beds," Sparkle mused, smirking.

Okay, he'd needed this. Apparently living in a ball in his room didn't give him things like human interaction. Who knew?

[rebelseekspizza]

"And even if one's too big and the other's too small, a bed is still a bed," Dante said sagely, wagging the index finger of wisdom in the air.

[myownface]

All of this because of Zoodles.

Not bad.

"You speak only the truth," Sparkle agreed, gravely. "Sooner or later, you'll find the one that's just right."

And then presumably get mauled by bears.

[rebelseekspizza]

"And then you better noodle off and spork it good," Dante said.

How he got these things out of his mouth, god only knew.