abaxcity

[gleans]

Are we done fucking me over for the next couple of months? I think the Kid has some catching up to do in the shit-end-of-the-stick department. I'm just saying. I've been through a lot in the last few weeks. Not to bitch, but do you have any idea how hard it is for me to not talk for a week? You're looking at the dude who is either singing or talking at any given time. You know I don't shut up.

... The fuck is that look for?

- G

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[sleeplessly]

You had better get some rest. I'm worried that your writer is going to push you too hard.

[gleans]

[ aghlksdhljflskd why you do dis ]

Um -- yeah, I -- am. -- I'm working on it.

[sleeplessly]

[ She looks vaguely amused, but here, have her reaching over to brush his hair out of his face. ] I hope you are. You have the tendency to overwork yourself even without your writer's help.

[ A beat, and then an offcolor joke: ] If you wind up in the hospital for exhaustion again, I'm going to have to haunt you something fierce, sweetheart.

[gleans]

[ HAVE A WEIRD LAUGH ]

No -- naw, that won't happen again. I'm fine. I'm good. Just. Woohoo, crazy city.

[sleeplessly]

I believe you. [ She's trying her best not to laugh at how handflappy he is, because she knows how he feels. ] I would really rather that you weren't in that city at all. But you do have good things there, don't you?

[gleans]

Yeah! I mean -- yeah, I do. It's not all bad. I've met some great people there.

[sleeplessly]

And you have part of your band as well. I hear Brad talking about you and Daphne all the time. He's where I get most of my information, you know. [ TIME FOR THE MOTHERLY CONCERN STARE ] He's been telling me about a lot of things.

[gleans]

[ 8| ] ... Oh yeah?

[sleeplessly]

Mmhm. [ Pause, and then a sigh. ] You know, I never thought I'd say this, but being the mother of a four year old is much less stressful than being the mother of a twenty-five year old. When you were four, dating was holding hands and pulling pigtails.

[gleans]

[ FACE IN HANDS. ] Oh god, can we please not talk about this?

[sleeplessly]

[ She's laughing. ] Honey, I'm not trying to embarrass you. I know that I am, but I'm not trying to.

I want you to do whatever makes you happy, okay? I just worry that this might not... be the best way to go about it. You don't even know his name. [ :\ ]

[gleans]

Seriously. I like -- I appreciate it. But. I can handle it.

[sleeplessly]

Okay, Galen. [ But she's giving you a Look. Don't talk to your mother that way, she's just concerned. ] Tell me some of the other good things that have happened to you, then. [ Find the bright sides. ]

[gleans]

[ 8( STAAAHP. Look, now he looks guilty. Aghghkdj ]

Uh -- I made some friends I wouldn't have otherwise? And I'm getting like -- archery lessons?

[sleeplessly]

[ SHE LOVES YOU GALEN it's okay ]

Archery lessons? [ O: ] From who?

[gleans]

Froooom a girl named Susan. And some elves. [ POKERFACE. ]

[sleeplessly]

... Elves.

[gleans]

Yep. Elves.

[sleeplessly]

Wood elves or Keebler? [ WHAT, she read LotR ]

[gleans]

Uh, one of them is Legolas, actually. Like, actually actually.

[sleeplessly]

Really? Oh, sweetheart, I've never been so jealous. [ LEGOLAS IS A DREAMBOAT she fans herself with her hand playfully ] Did you swoon when you first met? I would have.

[gleans]

[ A snort, and then a shrug that is pretty much a yes. ]

He's pretty much everything you imagined.

[sleeplessly]

Mmmm. [ Just give her a second to imagine that - sorry, Howardad. ] Well, good. You're lucky to have such good friends there, looking after you.

If I didn't know you wouldn't remember this later, I would ask you to give Legolas a kiss for me.

[gleans]

Okay, now you're trying to embarrass me.