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[forgingfires]

"Do you really think just...spending enough time will help?" He asked, idly picking at his shirt.

[castaside]

"I really do." He kisses Red on the head, sticky mess and all. "It always helps me. Even now."

[forgingfires]

"I'm a drunk mess," he said, but leans into the affection all the same.

[castaside]

Another quick kiss, then. "I said what I said. And it takes a special kind of affection to be happy just being with you while you moon over someone else."

[forgingfires]

"You could moon over your people. We bonded over you trying to not moon over Wukong," he said. Bitching about your ex while still being super into your ex.

[castaside]

"I'm not especially in the mood to talk about Wukong, and you're not in a place to hear about him." And while Macaque could talk about how hard he's crushing on Wash, then it could come out that Macaque is more comfortable talking to Wash and that ends nowhere good.

[forgingfires]

And then there's MK, which may just getting him crying again. "Could talk about your kids. Cole. You seemed friendly with the Soldier," he said.

[castaside]

"Things are odd with Cole, the pillar thing really messed with me. And Wash... friendly is one way to put it."

And his kids he's not sure what to say about. He loves them, he'd die a thousand times for them, they're perfect, no notes.

[forgingfires]

"Hmm...too drunk for...pillar," Red Son muttered. "Friendly one way? He's not territorial over the kids, is he?"

[castaside]

Mmkay, then.

"Friendly as in we went on a date, and I hope there's more. He's a proponent of taking things slow. Not my specialty, but it's fun."

[forgingfires]

Red Son would be for pillar talk, but his brain is a hot mess of potentially not helpful to potentially harmful when he's like this.

"Ooooh, so there is an option for mooning," he said.

[castaside]

"Hey, you asked. Dodging would only make it more obvious."

[forgingfires]

"It was a very dodgy first response," he said. "And a new experience. You deserve it, they're fun even when they're lowkey terrifying."

[castaside]

"Nothing terrifying about it, thankfully. It's just nice. And strangely easy."

[forgingfires]

"Oh? The taking it easy, or just being with him?" Red Son asked.

[castaside]

"Just being with him is what I meant. I'm certainly fine with hard-fought relationships when they're worth it," MK and Wukong are proof enough of that, "but it's nice to not feel like I'm swimming upstream. It's like how things happened with you, that kind of easy."

[forgingfires]

He hummed and nodded his head against his chest. "That's good to hear. You deserve easier relationships," he said. Macaque deserves to have all the good things.

[castaside]

"Mm. The one thing I have to adjust to is that without all the physical stuff, or at least without most of it, I'm getting a lot less reinforcement than I'm used to. It'll be good for me to learn to open my mouth and ask if things are okay, I guess."

[forgingfires]

"It is a pretty good habit to develop," Red Son said. "Hopefully he is responsive when you ask things?" He IS giving the affirmation Macaque looks for them, right? The fact things are easier, he would hope so.

[castaside]

"He is. I just don't want to pester about it too much. You know how that new stage is, when you're trying hard not to be annoying."

[forgingfires]

"Its hard to imagine you annoying," Red Son said, hand wondering to his neck. Working through the fur there. "But good. If he doesn't treat you right, he would get a very stern and mildly threatening lecture."

[castaside]

Macaque shakes his head. "Would never happen. If he was ever an asshole to me, he'd apologize." Ask him how he knows.

[forgingfires]

"You're quite confident," Red Son said, surprised. "Usually you're more....more resigned to being treated poorly. Have to insist you do otherwise."

[castaside]

"He knows that he can be an ass sometimes, and so we discussed it. He's been so clear that not even I could doubt it." And the flowers were a nice touch.

[forgingfires]

"...wow. Clear communication," he said. How novel. He's been trying to be better at it with Saya's influence and because clearly MK needed it and Macaque seemed benefited from it, but he had his shortfalls.