▸ v ✘ phone ◂

[xuffasch]

| phone ➞ entirely unfiltered |

( Damian is between stages 4 and 5 for the purposes of this post, though the nature of his secrets his making him panic a bit. However, compelled to blurt things out as he is, he's still trying to protect the big secrets. It's not going terribly well. )Honestly, I don’t know why I ever bother talking to you people,

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[Phone]

[notasidedick]

Damian. You're home right? We're meeting up. Asap. I don't care where exactly, but somewhere we can talk.

[He sounds a little worried. Okay. Really worried. Worried that Damian thinks he treats him as just an obligation.

Worried that he's outing himself as a Communist despite the fact he somehow contradicted himself while outing himself out. That would be almost laughable if he wasn't so worried.]

[xuffasch]

( he wasn't even going to answer but he asked a direct question, dammit! )

I'm at my assigned house. Which is clearly how I'm using the phone.

[notasidedick]

[Wow rude. Trying to ignore people.]

I'm coming over then and we're going to go find somewhere to talk.

[xuffasch]

...you don't have to.

[ACTION??? >:T]

[notasidedick]

Did I said I had to? I want to.

I'll be there in five minutes. [Speaking of five minutes. Knock. Knock.]

action!

[xuffasch]

( opening the door like half an inch. )

Go away, Grayson.

[notasidedick]

I'm not going to go away. Do you really think I treat you as just an obligation? You're definitely more then that to me you know.

[xuffasch]

( still not letting you inside. welp. )

Shut up. None of that was even--it doesn't matt--I just said it so I wouldn't blurt out something more important!

[notasidedick]

[Fine. He'll just stand in your doorway.]

Is that the truth? Or are you lying to me? I think it's more important to you then you're letting on.

[xuffasch]

It's called evasion, Grayson I--

So what if it was important?

[notasidedick]

If it's important to you then we should talk about it. You're important to me.

[xuffasch]

People just say things like that because it's convenient.

[notasidedick]

This isn't because it's convenient.

[He's getting a little impatient.] I'm being honest.

[xuffasch]

( he doesn't respond, since he can't think of anything truthful that he'd be willing to say. after a moment, though, the door swings all the way open. )

[notasidedick]

[He doesn't walk in or anything, but crouches down a little so he's a bit more at Damian's height.]

What makes you think I just see you as an obligation. [He won't touch the other subjects for now. It probably wouldn't end well if he mentioned Bruce or Alfred.

He'll worry about the whole Communist thing in a bit.]

[xuffasch]

...I'm not stupid, you know. I hear everything you all say.