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[teds_up]

Who: teds_up and bro_codebreaker.
What: Ted being incredibly melodramatic.
When: Shortly after the return, which is to say, Ted slept for half a day before going straight to
Where: the Nines.
Rating: PG for Parental Guidance, seriously, why would you subject your kid to this kind of emo

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[bro_codebreaker]

Barney had been laying low, for the most part, aside from making his requisite appearances at the WildKat, waiting for Tamaki's invite to his inauguaral Host Club session. Mostly, it was because it was hard to keep up that Awesome Facade when someone was out there risking life and limb for reasons that he didn't really understand, because he didn't really know them as well as he should.

Like, say, a certain best friend.

So when said certain best friend came rushing through the door, looking like he'd just survived all four Dakota Smith movies (yes, even the one with the Fridge Incident that was just kind of plain stupid), Barney nearly choked on the drag he'd just taken off his cigar.

"Ted!" He covered up his concern with a deprecating snicker. "You look like you just tried out for a redneck rugby team."

[teds_up]

"Huh?" Ted reacts a bit slowly, looking up at Barney with a gaze that didn't seem very focused. "Oh, hey Barney."

Barney.

Ted kind of stares at the man for a moment. Fuck. Ted could have died out there. He could have died out there, and.. where would Barney be? What would have happened back home? Would he have just disappeared and never returned, leaving the rest of his friends to hang in a sorrowful uncertainty?

But Barney-- Barney would have known he had died. Things between them had just... come to a grinding slow pace ever since Ted's discovery of Barney's loss, all because Ted was fretting over the fact he wanted so much to be the best friend that Barney had lost and--

--suddenly he's got his arms wrapped around Barney when he was fairly certain he was just in the doorway a second ago.

Oh, the fuck did it matter? Ted just never thought he could be so ridiculously happy and relieved to see Barney.

[bro_codebreaker]

"... Ted?" Barney's extremely confused by this sudden and human-velcro display of affection. He's also extremely concerned about the state of his suit - Ted's kind of a dirtball, after all. He wriggles free, squinting in equal parts confusion and well, ew, vocally flailing at him the entire time. "Ted, Ted, Ted, Ted, TED!"

Once he's free, he brushes off his jacket, smooths out any wrinkles, and tilts his head at him. "Ted. That wasn't a compliment."

Seriously, what up with that. This ... wasn't how he was used to Ted acting. He thought he might've finally had this whole loss thing kicked, and figured the guy out - but it was becoming very, very rapidly clear that he hadn't.

[teds_up]

"Huh?" Oh, suddenly he wasn't attached to Barney anymore. w e l p. "Oh, yeah, right