Suite 138: Ed is sick!

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Steph's curled up on the couch, wearing pyjama pants, socks and a t-shirt that definitely doesn't belong to her, and watching Star Wars again.

No, she's not missing Billy at all. It's just ...

She's just ...

It's boring without him here, okay!

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Steph has the courtesy to blush. "Maybe."

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"Fine, if you let me have private time with Roy."

EQUIVELANT TRADE.

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- "NO."

Ew ew ew ew ew.

"He's OLD. And he tried to BURN MY HEAD OFF the other day!"

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Ed crosses his arms.

"You guys have got to get over this."

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"Do not."

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"You do, cuz I say so."

So there.

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"HE TRIED TO BURN MY HEAD OFF."

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"Explain."

[alwaysroomforhope]

"I went down to talk to him," Steph says patiently, "because I wanted to see if he knew how to make you go see a doctor. And he said he didn't. And was ... less than helpful. So I told him he was useless, and walked away. And THEN HE TRIED TO BURN MY HEAD OFF."










"... he missed."

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"Do you think it's possible," Ed says, "That he missed on purpose?"

His face is a little blank.

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"I think it's probable, actually," Steph says, folding her arms grimly. "Doesn't matter. He threatened me."

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"And how many times have you threatened him?" Ed points out.

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"Not with fire! I told him I'd cell him if he tried that again, but I didn't even threaten him before it!"

She's pretty sure she didn't, anyway.

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"I see."

Completely flat voice.

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Hey, this is not fair. Why is she coming off the bad guy here? Who got attacked?

She glares. "He shot fire at me," she reminds Ed, pointedly. "FIRE."

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Who said she was coming off as the bad guy?

"I heard you the first time," he says. "And I'll deal with it."

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"You better," Steph mutters, subsiding. "Stupid brat. - er, not you. Him."

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"But maybe you'd better learn to be less hostile, too."

Nobody ever said he thought she was innocent.

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"Hey, I'm not the bad guy here. I didn't try to burn him. I was trying to cooperate. To get you to go see a doctor." She makes a face at him.

She's TOTALLY INNOCENT. NO RLY.

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"You know," Ed says, "You say nothing but he's a bad guy. I'll talk to him and he'll go on about how you're in the wrong. Do you think that's fair to me?"

Just a point, yaknow.

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"..." says Steph, because she actually honestly hadn't considered that aspect at all.




"...I'm sorry. I'll shut up now."

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Except Ed doesn't really want apologies. He wants things to work out somehow.

There can be a difference.

"I just don't get why you guys can't even try to get along."

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"We tried!"

Steph feels like she did her part by even asking him for help in the first place. He rejected it. Not her fault!

... okay, probably her fault.

"He just ... gets on my nerves."

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"Why? Any specific reasons?"

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"Apart from the bit where he's thirty and he shoots fire at me?"

She shrugs.

"We just ... don't get along."