Mistletoe - it's on your head!

[andcontrarywise]

*You're walking along, doing you're business... enjoying the season, or getting decapitated or however you deal with December, and then you have a hat.

It's a lovely, well made top hat that seems to fit perfectly.

The hatband is a wreath of mistletoe.

You're welcome.*

((I was told to make a mistletoe post, okay.))

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[needsahandjob]

I knew I shouldn't have bothered today.

[mind_over_metal]

Perhaps the mistletoe will fall off afterward and we'll all get hats out of it?

...no, you're right, it's still terrible.

[needsahandjob]

I'm not that desperate for a hat.

[mind_over_metal]

I'd say God help the man who does, but he's the one getting help already, so that would be hardly fair.

Where were you off to before being waylaid?

[needsahandjob]

Nowhere in particular.

[mind_over_metal]

How about that, the same place as me.

...Julian, I know it must be extremely annoying for me to state the obvious, but you haven't been doing very well since we last had an opportunity to really speak. After... this, shall we...?

[needsahandjob]

Shall we what? Decide to go our separate ways?

[mind_over_metal]

Talk. Or do whatever it takes to try to figure out some way to start helping you, because I have been failing miserably so far.

[needsahandjob]

Oh, I'm this month's charity case. I'm not going to off myself, your job's done, now we can pretend that we've been helpful.

[the problem with leaning in to make your point is ... Mistletoe]

[mind_over_metal]

You're far from the first person to have ever accused me of charity, so you're going to have to try a lot harder than that to put me off.

*god, our faces are close right now and this is awkward.

...right. I'm the adult here. I should not let my student be in the position of being the one forced to kiss me. reaches up one hand to steady Julian's face and goes in for a quick kiss.*

[needsahandjob]

[Charles can now strike off "kissing severely depressed teenaged boys wearing stupid hats" from his bucket list! Win for Charles!]

The thing with charity is that it's based in guilt and pity.

[mind_over_metal]

I promise you that it's not the latter, and I'm really hoping to avoid the former.

...let's go somewhere a bit less out in the open.

[needsahandjob]

Fine, whatever. Where are we having this stupid talk?

[mind_over_metal]

Library? It's generally pretty quiet in there, and it seems like a disproportionate number of people have gotten caught outside today.

[needsahandjob]

Want a ride?

[mind_over_metal]

I won't refuse it. This snow, lovely as it is, is... tiring.