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you deserve
better

The lights flicker on and you find yourself standing inside a vintage-looking subway car.

It both feels and sounds like it's in motion, but the only thing that can be seen outside the windows is pitch black darkness.

It also feels like there's somebody else in the car with you. There are three small cases in the front, middle, and back of the car that hold a small vial.

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He did? Was it during that Performance with the crowns?

[ shakes his head. ]

No, even longer. During the first performance Dixie had.

Huh...

How did he act around you afterwards?

To be honest, we never we talked about it?

He doesn't seem different around me. But his whole break down just before that was about how he didn't like his engagement and how he wanted to be kissing you. Details might be slightly foggy now, but it was a lot.

Sounds like it worked out eventually?

-Hold on, what?

[ wheezes ]

It was, like, two cycles ago and I was also like not sober because Dixie.

He was worried about how him wanting to kiss you during the performance would ruin everything and make you and Hyacinth hate him? And how people were worried about how he was handling family matters and engagement because kissing and he didn't know how to handle any of it. Because he realized how he felt about you and stuff.

...

I spent all that time trying to seduce him, for what...

... What?

I've been trying to get him to date me forever, and he was already aware of his feelings for so long? ...Tch.

[ snorts ]

Honestly, I'm impressed by your amount of rizz.

[...There's a twinge of something, not quite negative but at the very least uncertain.]

I'm just that charming, I guess!

I mean you are, but that's not what you're thinking.

[...Ah.]

Just a unique quirk of my other self, I suppose you could say.

Explain, please.

[Thinking on it.]

Well, my original was created to wipe out humanity... but since he was the only one created for that purpose, he had to get allies somehow. And since his best method of replacing humanity was through spreading his own genes...

... yeah, I'm not letting you continue that train of thought. That's not why people love you.

It's alright, it's alright! It's not like I knew about any of that for most of my life, either. Not even part of my dating life, even.

It's not when I can guess what you were getting at. [ directly, but not unkindly. ] but you're right, none of this had any direct effect on us until recently. They love you for you.

Yeah. It's just hard not to remember it, put like that.

Then, please try to forget I said it.

I'll try! But it's not as if it's your fault or anything, either.

Then instead of that - can I amend to say, I'm really happy for you?

Thanks. ...I'm really happy about it, too.

What about you? Are things going well for you, too?

[ inclines his head in a quiet - well, yeah, you deserve it that goes unsaid before he huffs a laugh. ]

Going well in what way?

Mm, in general. With relationships and such?

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