suitably_heroic | 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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"In our entire time knowing each other, tell me three times I've made a good decision like that," Cade said, cracking open one eye.

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suitably_heroic

Atton lifted his head up. Squinted.

"... I can't even think of one."

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shutupandkillsomething

"Me either," Cade admitted. "I was giving myself some room for being a better person than I am."

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suitably_heroic

"Yeah, that'll get you every time," Atton muttered, lifting his cup to take a big sip of his coffee. "Well, you crash on the couch, you get me wandering around at night. Deal with it."

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shutupandkillsomething

"It's still night?" Cade whined. "Whyyyy."

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suitably_heroic

"It's early morning," Atton told him. "I came in here a couple hours ago. You slept through most of it. Stop whining."

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shutupandkillsomething

"I will never stop whining. It's genetic," Cade told him.

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suitably_heroic

"There's like how many generations between you and Anakin now?" Atton asked.

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shutupandkillsomething

"Have you met Luke?" Cade grumbled.

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suitably_heroic

"Maybe?" Atton said, frowning at the Cade-lump on the couch. "There's too many of you."

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shutupandkillsomething

"Blond, short, and whiny," Cade said. "Normally in black."

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suitably_heroic

"Oh, the Mical clone," Atton said. "I think I distantly remember him?"

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shutupandkillsomething

"He's annoying," Cade said, closing his eyes. "Shows up in my dreams."

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suitably_heroic

Atton frowned, sitting back against the wall. "Yeah?" he said. "Why?"

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shutupandkillsomething

"What would a Force ghost bitch about?" Cade asked. "Living up to the family name, restarting the Jedi, fighting the Sith. Pass."

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suitably_heroic

"How long has he been doing that?"

Yeah, Atton knew Cade was blowing it off. He sounded kind of concerned anyway.

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shutupandkillsomething

"Years," Cade huffed. "Thus the death sticks. They shut him up."

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suitably_heroic

"Space," Atton muttered, rubbing at his face with one hand.

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shutupandkillsomething

"Don't judge my coping mechanisms," Cade said, flinging his arm over his eyes.

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"I'm not," Atton said. He was still eyeing Cade, or as much of him as he could see. "I'm judging him. He's kept going? All this time? Here I thought Anakin was bad, but at least that schutta is honest about the way he lashes out."

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shutupandkillsomething

"Well, he's off in Force ghost wherever," Cade said. "Guess he doesn't have anything else to do."

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suitably_heroic

Atton snorted. He sipped his coffee. "There was a time I would've killed to be haunted by a Force ghost," he said. "Uh. A specific one, not just any one. Now I think the dead should probably just leave us alone."

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shutupandkillsomething

"Name one member of my family who's ever done something that would be normal," Cade said.

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suitably_heroic

Atton held his cup out in front of him and stared at the wall.

"Look, I know the way we usually handle this is we blow this stuff off," he said. "But you know that doesn't make it okay, right?"