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[nobasisinfact]

I don't -

[This was something he'd been actively trying not to think about, but now with the arrival of Alex's tape it seemed like it would never go away again. The fact that so many people had been running his life behind the scenes wasn't something he felt anyone would want to have brought up repeatedly, especially by the person they were with.

Richard looked away, frowning as he tried to force the conversation through. Maybe if he got this over with they could put it behind them. At least for the remainder of their time here.]

I don't think Warren wants to interfere with me directly. Whatever he's planning, he needs me to give whatever it is he thinks I have willingly. You take away the likelihood of that happening.

[Or more erases it. Not that Richard's particularly fond of the idea of giving up his blood or DNA or whatever for Warren's Apocalyptic demonic delusions.]

[11calls]

Of course I do.

[Alex just grinned up at him, and she kissed him softly for just a minute, before she added, in the way that only Alex could:]

I'm too damn stubborn to let you do anything like that to yourself. It's where my being insufferable works in your favor.

[A beat.]

Speaking of things that are annoying. Did you get a cat?

[nobasisinfact]

[Cat, he remembers seeing one around the house every now and again. He'd thought Alex was the one that brought it in. After all, she'd gotten a dog.]

I thought it was yours.

[11calls]

[That makes Alex frown and she just shook her head.]

I'm not really a cat person.

[The insinuation here is: but you are.]

[nobasisinfact]

[He caught that insinuation.]

Simon?

[Doubtful, but it would either be Simon or Stan.]

[11calls]

Possibly. I mean we can ask him.

[A beat.]

Should we pick up cat food now? And like litter and all the stuff that goes with cats?

[nobasisinfact]

I suppose so.

[He frowns, another animal in the house. How annoying.]

[11calls]

[Alex just laughs and shakes her head before she buries it into his chest.]

We just keep collecting things, don't we?

[nobasisinfact]

I blame you.

[He wraps his arms around her, holding her close.]

[11calls]

Hey, you can blame me for a lot of things, but a cat definitely isn't one of them.

[She just looked up at him with a smile.]

Besides, you like Apo. So I'm getting bonus points for that even if you keep bribing him for his love.

[nobasisinfact]

I haven't bribed him once.

[11calls]

[Alex just gives him her best 'I am so on to you' look.]

Oh, your clumsiness only comes out in the kitchen when he's around, huh?

[nobasisinfact]

He's very good at jumping onto the counters.

[11calls]

He's getting too fat to jump on counters. He's going on a diet otherwise he's going to start rolling places.

[Why ya lying, Richard?]

[nobasisinfact]

Perhaps you should feed him better food.

[Not that the dog isn't spoiled by Richard already.]

[11calls]

I'm pretty sure he eats better than I do when left to my own devices.

[Alex, you eat coffee, pastries and easy mac. It's not hard to do that.]

[nobasisinfact]

A cockroach eats better than you do when left on your own.

[How she managed to live this long is a miracle. If those existed.]

[11calls]

Hey, that's not true. I eat at least on the level of like... A Kindergartener. At the very least!

[She uses Seamless, Richard. She has meals sometimes.]

[nobasisinfact]

A kindergartner left alone for long periods of time.

[11calls]

Hey, I order food too. Like sushi or pizza or Italian. It's not cooking but I do try to eat at least one real meal a day back home.

[Even if lately it had been at his house when she showed up to debrief him on the day's weirdness..]

[nobasisinfact]

[He crosses his arms over his chest, smirking slightly.]

You should learn to cook.

[11calls]

Weren't you the one who banned me from the kitchen after I burnt toast three days in a row?

[Yep, there goes that brow.]

[nobasisinfact]

[She gets a brow back. Two can play at the brow game.]

I said you should learn to cook, not learn to cook in my father's house.

[11calls]

Oh? I thought it was our house now, my love.

[She sounds amused as hell.]

So where are you proposing to teach me to cook?

[nobasisinfact]

[He's still not used to calling it their house. At the question, however, the other brow raises.]

When do you want out relationship to end?

[Teaching her to cook would 100% end in a fight.]