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"Dude," said Stein, "that button was not supposed to do that."
"Actually," said Brainy, gritting his teeth, "it was. I was working on the holographic representation of somewhere cold."
"Huh. Is there anywhere warm in here? Or, like, an exit? Cuz I'm freezing my junk off."
Brainy sighed. That wasn't a mental image he'd needed. Since Victor had moved in, Stein had been wearing more clothing to bed, and Brainy was mortified to realize that he missed seeing Stein's bare chest. He was carefully trying not to analyize this feeling in any way, shape, or form, and Stein talking about his junk didn't help. "There's a cabin," he said finally. "We can go there until I figure out how to get rid of the hologram."
"A cabin? Dude, we already live in a cabin. Couldn't it be something cooler? Like a fortress."
"The cabin has a hot tub," said Brainy. This was also not a good place to go. Stein might use the hot tub to revitalize his junk and--Brainy began reciting pi in his head. Three point one four one five Stein's junk. Sprock it.
"Seriously? Score! So where is it?"
"It should be...north east."
"...what way are we facing? The whole place looks the same, bro. Snow, snow, and more snow."
"Yes," said Brainy, sighing. "Just follow my lead."
He didn't actually know where he was going, but he had to start somewhere.
"Dude, you awake?"
Stein sounded concerned. This was strange. Brainy felt cold and unnatural and very very...exposed.
He opened his eyes to see Stein hovering. "Score! You totally, like, passed out."
"What?"
"It was seriously cold and I guess your forcefield wasn't warm enough, cuz you, like, fell over. But I got us to the cabin. Then I, uh, had to take off your clothes."
"..."
"Cuz they were cold and I heard they'd make you colder! But we had this blanket that was warm so I used that. I thought you couldn't go in the hot tub til you were awake and stuff."
"..."
"What? Dude, it's not like I had first aid."
"No, Stein, that was...surprisingly competent."
"Don't hurt yourself complimenting me, dude."
Brainy sat up. He felt a little wobbly, but mostly unharmed. Considering Stein had been the only one there to take care of him, he would have thought he'd be hypothermic by now. He got up, wanting to look around the cabin, but found himself unsteady and falling.
Stein caught him. Which was just embarrassing.
"Bro, you gotta stay down til you're feeling better. You were so cold you were, like, turquoise."
"Turquoise."
"Yeah."
"That doesn't sound healthy."
"Nah, it was pretty scary."
Brainy became aware he was naked and coughed. "Are my clothes dry?"
Stein, apparently remembering he found naked men unsavory, abruptly shoved Brainy to an upright position and went to look.
"N-Nah, dude, not yet. Maybe you should hit the hot tub first."
Brainy tried not to think about that. "And what will you be doing?"
"Uh," said Chase. "I dunno. Looking for a way out?"
"It's a hologram."
"Seems pretty real."
"It's a very realistic hologram."
"Like Star Trek?"
"I don't know."
"We need to get you watching TV. Guess I'll hit the tub too."
Brainy was not thinking about any of this.
"It doesn't work?" asked Stein. He was still wearing his boxers, but other than that he was naked, and Brainy was having trouble not noticing this. Why did he have to have a fetish for blondes? He knew he couldn't be attracted to Stein for his brains; Stein barely had brains. "Dude, lame!"
"Yes," said Brainy, sighing.
"Dude," said Stein, sounding concerned. "Are your teeth chattering?"
Brainy blinked. He paused to assess. "Yes. It must be colder here than I thought..."
"Shit," muttered Stein. "We gotta warm you up, dude."
"Yes," agreed Brainy. "We could--"
Stein walled him. This made sense, Brainy thought, for the second before Stein started kissing him. Brainy would have thought that was good for sharing body-heat, if he had been thinking. But thinking, like other things, had suddenly become very hard.
"See," said Stein after about five minutes, "we're sharing body-heat."
"Yes," said Brainy.
"Sharing is caring," added Stein.
"Yes."
"Caring is gay."
"So is this."
"Yeah."
Stein seemed to have come to terms with things being gay.
Or at least bi-curious.