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[littletonoidea]

"This is the audio log of Communications Officer Doug Eiffel of the-- previously of the U.S.S Hephaestus, leave a message and I'll see if I can bear to drag myself away from whatever utterly engaging task I must be doing to not notice my comms--"

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[deuceoftears]

"....indeed. Shall I valet, sir?" Jedao asks, covering up most of his amusement with a silly fancy accent.

[littletonoidea]

"Thank you, Jeeves, that will be all," he says in a pompous twit-y English accent, but he's not making any actual moves to dismiss Jedao. He just finds the right hole for his arm and pulls his shirt on properly. No more hair for Jedao to ogle, not that Eiffel noticed.

He's still a little uneven when he gets to his feet, and he's forgotten to properly lace one shoe, but he's good. "Alright, so. Do we have any real grub yet?"

[deuceoftears]

"Some. Here."

It is one of the sandwich boxes, but it's being re-used; Jedao filled it with some bacon and hash browns from the cafeteria, still reasonably warm, plus a wrinkly olive-green orange.

[littletonoidea]

Just the sight of the lunchbox is enough to get a happy little grin out of Eiffel, but when he takes it and opens it his eyes light up.

"You got me bacon!" He actually sounds kind of touched, and he's immediately pulling a piece out to crunch on, adding with his mouth half full, "God, I could kiss you."

[deuceoftears]

"Not with food in your mouth, you're not," Jedao says dryly, which isn't that incriminating, right?

[littletonoidea]

No look clearly this is just banter, why would it be any deeper than that?

"What, you haven't been missing my bacon-berry kisses?" Okay that was a stretch, especially since Jedao absolutely won't know that one, but he's still grinning. "Besides, shouldn't you be saving them for Gonou?"

[deuceoftears]

Jedao makes a hilariously revolted face at the thought of a kiss contaminated by two different foods, regardless of the reference, reflexively scrunching his face up; it's possibly even funnier just how fast the expression melts into a dopey smitten smile at the mention of Gonou.

"I'll always have enough kisses for him," Jedao says, like an idiot.

[littletonoidea]

The first face makes Eiffel snicker victoriously, but the second makes him grin right back, soft and sincerely pleased.

"We should get moving before the docs start charging rent, my hospital bill's already turning into a blood debt," he says dryly, leading the way out of the infirmary, "But I wanna hear aaaaall about you and Gonou sitting in a tree. You look like Cupid kicked your ass."

[deuceoftears]

"....trees don't look comfortable to sit in," Jedao announces dubiously, getting the door for him. Not that he has any experience with trees, besides the crabapples and the island with dinosaurs.

[littletonoidea]

"No, it- it's a stupid kids' jump-rope song," he explains, but he's still grinning cheekily, and he recites in the basic bouncing meter: "Jedao and Gonou sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage."

[deuceoftears]

"That seems like an unlikely progression for us," Jedao muses wryly.

[littletonoidea]

"Hey, no one said it was clever, alright? Kids are mean, they'd use it to put the class losers together and make everyone tease 'em."

Says victim of said teasing. Even at six years old everyone agreed he was the bum deal.

[deuceoftears]

"I'd have defended you," Jedao says, although since he was never a child, he's not really sure where the confidence comes from. "But why would that be a bad thing?"

[littletonoidea]

"No, see, me saying it about you guys is ironic, cos I think you're being freakin' adorable," he corrects.

[deuceoftears]

"I get that. But why would kids think it was mean?"

He's never actually met anyone younger than Nat or Kyoko in his life.