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[msthing]

Mun, a hand touch...is just a hand touch. Don't look too much into it. For both our sakes.

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[gammas]

I am doing no such thing! [ SO INNOCENTLY..... ] I am just giving her some solid advice.

[langsyne]

( LOOK AT HOW MUCH HE (DOESN'T) BELIEVE YOU )

Aren't she and Johnny a thing? ( or whatever you kids call it these days. ) What if he comes back soon? They'll totally be back soon.

[gammas]

Scott, you have no way of knowing that and you know it. [ FROWNS AT... ]

And what if they stop being a thing and she totally has feelings for you, huh?

[msthing]

Jen!

[ Would like to go get swallowed up by a blackhole now, please. ]

[gammas]

I'm just saying -- !!

[msthing]

Gahhh!! It's all just --- really personal and really complicated!

[gammas]

Yeah, well, I had no idea... Guess that shows what happens when I butt my nose into things like this....

[msthing]

Look. Scott is really nice, and I like him, but with everything's that happened, trying to figure it all out right now, especially after everything -- it's just not a good time.

[ Especially after what Future Johnny said and how he treated her like she was just another one of his ex-girlfriends. That'd really hurt. ]

[gammas]

Sorry, hun. I just thought -- you know --

[msthing]

It's okay. You just want us to be happy.

[ Need a middle ground here. ]

So. When all this is over and things are under control, maybe we can talk about Scott as more than a friend. But right now, I really need him as my friend. Nothing complicated in the middle.

[gammas]

Yeah, I get it. That was completely and totally my b. As the kids say, I guess.

Scott, at least, needs... something. I don't know if the FF's doing it for him... to make him happy, I mean.

[msthing]

But that's for him to figure out. We can help him, but it's ultimately up to him.

[ It wouldn't be fair to make Scott's decisions for him. ]

[gammas]

You're full of some pretty sweet advice yourself, aren't you, Darla?

[msthing]

I just want what's best for the team right now. And we still have to get back our one kid who left because our big kid got mad at him.

[gammas]

[ rubbing the side of her face ]

We'll get Alex back. If there's one thing I can promise, it's that.

[msthing]

I really hope so, Jen, because he had that look in his eyes that most kids get when they're about to do something really dangerous.

[gammas]

And knowing everything that's happened so far....

There's no, "I really hope so". We're going to find him and we're going to bring him home before anything horrible can happen.

[langsyne]

I do too.

( mostly because if he lets himself believe that they're not coming back, he will probably start to fall apart. but anyway. )

And—I don't know. She's young and has her whole life ahead of her and I'm a fourty-year-old ex-con who's lost his entire reason for living.

[gammas]

You deserve someone nice.

[langsyne]

So does Darla.

And what about you? Didn't you go on a date with that Wyatt Wingleg guy?

( to solution to not talking about one's self is clearly to awkwardly switch the topic instead. and mess up names. )

[gammas]

Wyatt Wingfoot. And uh, yeah, I did. [ SHE ADORES HIM SO MUCH SIGHS A LOT ]

I have plenty of guys in my life. And especially him. Obviously, I'm not the person you guys need to worry about.

[langsyne]

( CONGRATULATIONS WHEN'S THE WEDDING )

And I'm an adult and you guys don't need to worry about me either.

[gammas]

[ NEVER BECAUSE THAT DIDN'T WORK OUT THE FIRST TIME ]

You know we're going to do it anyways, buddy. We're teammates.

[langsyne]

( THAT'S WHAT SECOND CHANCES ARE FOR RIGHT? )

Yeah, I know. ( he's sighing, but there's a smile on his face. ) Doesn't mean I have to like it.