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Around Atton's New York, All Day Tuesday

So, Cade was still here. And... damned lucky that Dane had the patience of a saint (or at least a guy with crappy coping methods and a history of poor boundary-setting), or he probably would've been out on his ass by now. Hell, Jack had thought about throwing him out on his ass a few times now. The crossing the streams was just kind of weird.

And Cade could be kind of a jackass.

(But he'd also missed the guy and having him here was a good reminder of their misspent youth and space he really was getting old, wasn't he?)

Anyway.

It was show day. And Jack-slash-Atton hadn't slept a wink last night, so he'd just be on the floor of the living room, where he'd been for the last couple of hours. Ugh.

[[ for that guy and some ocd ]]

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"Sure," Cade said. "Will we be walking towards tacos?"

Cade had developed an obsession.

"How are you still hungry?" Jack asked, waving vaguely in Dane's general direction before turning around to go grab... sure, let's call that his shirt.

Cade was just going to go shirtless. In March. Choices were being made.

"I'm always hungry for tacos," he told him.

"The jokes I could make," Jack said, pulling the shirt over his head. Ah, Meshuggah. Good enough. "Sure, why not."

He nodded towards the exit. "After you, oh Mr. Eager To Freeze To Death."

"My abs are a gift I'm sharing with your city," Cade told him.

"I hate to break it to you, but people see more interesting things on the Subway every hour on the hour," Jack told him. He pushed open the door to let Cade through.

Cold air immediately rushed towards them.

"I could make a spectacle of myself on the subway, I just choose not to," Cade said.

"I appreciate it!" Jack said, faux-perkily, and stepped out onto the street. "Really, really appreciate it."

"Think of it as the encore to your show," Cade said.

"Not really the vibe I was going for," Jack said. He stole a glance towards Cade, and added, "You have an okay time besides the, uh, happy audience?"

"Sure," Cade said. "I have seen live music aside from what's inside cantinas in forever."

"Good," Jack said, nodding maybe a few times too many. "Great."

"You don't actually care what I think, do you?" Cade asked, curious.

"Mostly not." Not as much as he'd cared about Summer's opinion, anyway. "... But maybe, you know. A little."

What with Cade being the only representative of his misspent youth that a) was still around and b) he didn't have some kind of weird will-they-won't-they-oh-I-guess-they-won't situation with.

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Cade gave him two mostly not sarcastic thumbs up. "Killin' it, buddy."

"I knew you were an asshole, but I'd forgotten just how much of an asshole you really are," Jack said.

But he was laughing, so.

Cade beamed like he'd been complimented. "Thank you, thank you."

Jack rolled his eyes. "Remind me to keep you away from the Central Park Zoo."

"I'd pick something much more portable than a camel," Cade promised.

"I don't know if I want a portable Earth animal being shot at by Hutts," Jack retorted. "I feel like that could get me in trouble."

"You have lost all joy in your life," Cade told him.

"Yeah, that's me," Jack said, grinning. "Completely joyless. But free."

"You'd have more joy with a stolen Earth animal."

Cade Skywalker: Life Coach.

"I have a lot of joy with my record collection and my partner, who hates pets as much as I do," Jack pointed out. Logically.

"Your records will never hug you back," Cade said airily, ignoring how wild animals would also not hug you back.

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