[ is this gonna be awkward? this might be awkward. maybe cause it ties into the something they haven't actually addressed yet since she's been back. but maybe it doesn't have to be. maybe it's just a totally normal question. because they're still friends and this is a normal thing for friends. ]
hey so
i found some of your clothes in my closet i kind of forget they were there since i was away awhile
i wanted to make sure you knew in case you ever wanted them again but you can leave them there too it doesn't bother me either way
[ she can't say she didn't expect to get some variation of this text eventually, but she didn't really know what it would look like. or what it would say. she figured the gist of it would still boil down to overall awkwardness, and maybe there's no avoiding that even to some small degree.
but it also depends on how they handle it, right? it could be uncomfortable, but it doesn't have to be. ]
Oh, I don't want you to have to worry about holding onto them.
[ now, of course, she's glancing around her own room wondering if she's in possession of things that might need to be returned. ]
Maybe it's easier if I just grab them next time I'm over? I was going to drop off something for Kai's birthday next week.
And yours too, actually, but I'm not finished with it yet.
[ but as she sends it, she practically does the mental headsmack because honestly, dana, if it bothered her so much she would've said something about it. after a beat, she tosses her device down, watching it bounce those few extra inches across the mattress, and reflexively draws her knees up to her chest to wrap an arm around them.
of course, that pose completely breaks when the fluid chimes again with an incoming message and she snatches it up with an impossible speed to read the text on the screen. ]
I know.
Just
Call it a burst of artistic inspiration that I wanted to channel into doing something for you guys. For putting up with me in your basement every month, at the very least.
[ maybe she shouldn't have even mentioned it. cause it doesn't bother her, and now she really doesn't want dana to think that she's kicking her out via her clothes. because that's the last thing she wants. ]
it's never bothered either one of us though the credit goes more to kai for his magic doohickey walls
actually it's a good thing your clothes are still here the whole naked post transformation thing is ongoing and no one should force you to squeeze into kai's tight jeans you'd think he'd start getting some muscle in those bony limbs
Otherwise I think you'd be getting a lot more noise complaints.
[ sometimes, even in spite of kai's best efforts to soothe her by reading whatever harry potter they're on, she still gets a little... antsy. but she'd rather howl a little too loud and long than run the risk of getting out and hurting someone, or worse. she's never had an accident that bad, and she's not sure she'd be able to forgive herself if she ever did. ]
That's true. I sacrificed a lot of my favorite cardigans before I remembered to get undressed first.
[ is it more awkward or less that somehow the conversation has steered around to this? ]
Okay, so maybe it makes more sense for me to keep whatever's there with you. If there's a chance it amounts to a full outfit.
Oh, totally. [ on that they both agree. ] I'm just not sure I share your ability to pull them off.
[ because addy's that continuous kind of cool that she herself only wishes she were. and that factor has only risen exponentially since she came back. ]
I was planning on going there to donate all of these Titanic dresses, actually. Since I guarantee I will never re-wear these ever unless I suddenly lose my memory and all sense of self again. So... two birds, one stone?
well i definitely don't share your same doubts you'll great in anything
besides one thing you learn in the apocalypse is that anyone is capable of pulling off almost whatever
[ if she's developed any kind of confidence in regards to her attire, it's because of a desperation not to fall to total feral survivor status like some people seem to end up in when the world ends. ]
sounds like a plan
though i didn't get any of my titanic leftovers which is almost disappointing considering i was kind of into continuing the whole early century newsie boy look
I'm not so sure I could pull off the leather right away but maybe I could work up to it. Isn't there some rule about incorporating one different piece at a time?
That makes sense. I guess you have to make the most of what you'd have around. Day to night to day again.
[ and the only clothes she'd carried over with her from home, aside from that famous red bikini, had been covered in blood. no way she's wearing those again. ]
Well, if you want to look through the steamtrunk and see if anything's worth keeping, be my guest. It's really just a lot of silk and lace. And very poofy skirts.
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hey so
i found some of your clothes in my closet
i kind of forget they were there since i was away awhile
i wanted to make sure you knew in case you ever wanted them again
but you can leave them there too
it doesn't bother me either way
[ yeah, it's weird. she made it weird. ]
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but it also depends on how they handle it, right? it could be uncomfortable, but it doesn't have to be. ]
Oh, I don't want you to have to worry about holding onto them.
[ now, of course, she's glancing around her own room wondering if she's in possession of things that might need to be returned. ]
Maybe it's easier if I just grab them next time I'm over? I was going to drop off something for Kai's birthday next week.
And yours too, actually, but I'm not finished with it yet.
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i got plenty of closet space and you're still here all the time anyway
i just wanted you to know where they were
[ in her closet. smelling like her and her clothes.
the rest of the text surprises her though. maybe because birthday celebrations haven't really been a thing for her in a pretty long time. ]
you really didn't have to you know
not that i'm gonna say no either of course
but mine is still a few weeks away
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[ but as she sends it, she practically does the mental headsmack because honestly, dana, if it bothered her so much she would've said something about it. after a beat, she tosses her device down, watching it bounce those few extra inches across the mattress, and reflexively draws her knees up to her chest to wrap an arm around them.
of course, that pose completely breaks when the fluid chimes again with an incoming message and she snatches it up with an impossible speed to read the text on the screen. ]
I know.
Just
Call it a burst of artistic inspiration that I wanted to channel into doing something for you guys.
For putting up with me in your basement every month, at the very least.
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it's never bothered either one of us
though the credit goes more to kai for his magic doohickey walls
actually it's a good thing your clothes are still here
the whole naked post transformation thing is ongoing and no one should force you to squeeze into kai's tight jeans
you'd think he'd start getting some muscle in those bony limbs
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[ sometimes, even in spite of kai's best efforts to soothe her by reading whatever harry potter they're on, she still gets a little... antsy. but she'd rather howl a little too loud and long than run the risk of getting out and hurting someone, or worse. she's never had an accident that bad, and she's not sure she'd be able to forgive herself if she ever did. ]
That's true. I sacrificed a lot of my favorite cardigans before I remembered to get undressed first.
[ is it more awkward or less that somehow the conversation has steered around to this? ]
Okay, so maybe it makes more sense for me to keep whatever's there with you. If there's a chance it amounts to a full outfit.
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i think i'm a more fashionable alternative than whatever kai's got
[ how did this go from "your clothes are here" to "feel free to wear mine". it's fine. it's normal. ]
alternatively we could do a duo thrift shopping trip together sometime too
just add on to the clothing piles all together
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[ because addy's that continuous kind of cool that she herself only wishes she were. and that factor has only risen exponentially since she came back. ]
I was planning on going there to donate all of these Titanic dresses, actually. Since I guarantee I will never re-wear these ever unless I suddenly lose my memory and all sense of self again.
So... two birds, one stone?
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you'll great in anything
besides one thing you learn in the apocalypse is that anyone is capable of pulling off almost whatever
[ if she's developed any kind of confidence in regards to her attire, it's because of a desperation not to fall to total feral survivor status like some people seem to end up in when the world ends. ]
sounds like a plan
though i didn't get any of my titanic leftovers which is almost disappointing considering i was kind of into continuing the whole early century newsie boy look
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That makes sense. I guess you have to make the most of what you'd have around. Day to night to day again.
[ and the only clothes she'd carried over with her from home, aside from that famous red bikini, had been covered in blood. no way she's wearing those again. ]
Well, if you want to look through the steamtrunk and see if anything's worth keeping, be my guest. It's really just a lot of silk and lace. And very poofy skirts.
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[ this coming from the girl who's run around in the apocalypse in leather, knitwear, and leggings all at once. ]
we could always tear things up and stitch them back up to see what we could come up with
it could be a fun little art project
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My sewing's a little rusty, but maybe I can look at it as some kind of fabric mosaic. [ even she knows how nerdy that sounded. ]
The colors are really nice. One of them would at least make a decent skirt.
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if not, we'll just make a badass quilt for kai
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