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From:

biocomposer

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I haven't slept with anyone else. Would you prefer not to be?

From:

therushingsky

Yeah, neither have I.

I guess-- I don't know. I guess I never really thought about it until recently.

[but right now-- yeah. Kinda thinking about it.]

I feel like-- I'm not great at getting a read on how you actually feel about me. Which is fine, it just-- it means I have to ask...

From:

biocomposer

I...

I struggle to articulate how I feel about...anything. I mean. I'm not certain how you feel about me either.

From:

therushingsky

Oh, I basically still have a big weird crush on you.

[Same one he's had since they met.]

I want to be around you, I want to impress you, I love how close you are with Gortys, I love how much you believe in your work, I think you're-- just, crazy hot...

And I'm okay with this being-- I don't know, a little bit one sided? It just means that, sometimes maybe I feel a bit--

Lonely's the wrong word. Not lonely-- uh... Needy's probably closer.

From:

biocomposer

I didn't realise that.

I apologise.

If you'd like me to be more...demonstrative, I can certainly try.

From:

therushingsky

Don't apologise. You haven't done anything wrong. Your last relationship was with like-- an entire house full of robots, and I'm technically not even one robot, so I get that it's a-- a whole different thing.

[Pause.]

I just--

I guess I have been-- I don't know. I met someone super intense and full on and emotional this month, and-- I had a mixed reaction to him, but-- part of it was definitely attraction.

And I told him to screw off because I had a super hot boyfriend, and then I realised that-- I don't actually... know if I do.

From:

biocomposer

...I suppose I didn't recognise the importance of a label.

If you would like us to be boyfriends then we can be boyfriends.

...Was this the same person who killed you?

From:

therushingsky

[Rude of you to know, but...]

Yeah.

But I still kind of wanna sleep with him.

And it's not-- okay, yeah, I kind of do want to be boyfriends, but it's okay if we're not, I just want to know that.

From:

biocomposer

[look if he knows anything about you it's that you would get a hard-on for your own murderer]

We can be boyfriends. And we can be non-exclusive if that's what you need.

From:

therushingsky

["I've been demoted and now I'm sad and have a laundry list of bad decisions to make."]

Do you--

Are you okay with this? Do you--

[Why does this still feel like trying to read tealeaves?]

Do you think you're going to be unhappy, or uncomfortable, if we do this?

[It's as direct a question as Rhys can think of to ask. Is Elijah sucking up his feelings because he thinks it's good for Rhys, or does he genuinely not care?]

From:

biocomposer

I would expect the arrangement to be mutual, not that I exactly have a line of potential lovers waiting outside my cabin. But no. I wouldn't be unhappy.

From:

therushingsky

Then, yeah. I'd like that.

Should we have-- I feel like we should make ground rules?

Like, the obvious ones are condoms, testing--

How much do you want to share about this? Like, do we tell each other everything, or do you want to just keep it totally separate?

From:

biocomposer

I think those are reasonable grounds rules. I'd like...

[Hm.]

I'd like to know that something has happened, but not the details.

From:

therushingsky

Do you want names or- better not knowing?

And I figure-- veto rule. If someone from home, or whatever, shows up and it's a hard no right from the off, then we just communicate that, yeah?

From:

biocomposer

Yes to names, and yes to a veto. Although I can't imagine anyone from my home I'd discourage you from...engaging with.

From:

therushingsky

Maybe that one's more for me. Kind of a predator alert system.

I guess it's also-- if there's anyone on board right now you really don't want me to go with?

From:

biocomposer

Right now? No. I - haven't really been in the business of making enemies.

From:

therushingsky

Well, if that changes, just keep me posted, okay?

I don't think any of my enemies would treat you bad if you took them to bed.

From:

biocomposer

...Who exactly are your enemies, on board?

From:

therushingsky

Fives.

[Without missing a beat.]

Not super hot on Ford Pines right now, but that's more of a bro code thing.

From:

biocomposer

...Hm.

What do you have against Fives?

From:

therushingsky

He's an asshole.

When I was Hux's warden he kinda-- I don't remember the exact phrasing, but he sent a pretty loud message to me about exactly what he thought should happen to my inmate.

And that if I didn't keep him in line then someone else would.