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[cassieology]

hello my little sibs!! i'm afraid i have some bad news o(╥﹏╥)o

as u know our dearest oska is typically invisible to the bad guys!! this usually works out super well and in fact it still does but ... BUT (∩︵∩)

OK so

remember those slug people you brought back from your last mission?? the people with slugs in their heads i guess that is more accurate and sensitive. we managed to save a lot of them (▰˘◡˘▰) and that's good!! but then, before we finished, some of them got out!! and that's bad. they just slipped right out of our hands, like slippery fish

or ... slimy slugs ◔_◔

so they got free before their heads got fixed and THEN THEY WENT ON A RAMPAGE ヾ(ﾟдﾟ)ﾉ

long story short: cloaking devices disabled from the inside!! reinforcements called!! chaos!! madness!! lots of fighting for like,, the past week

(seriously it's been sooo bad lmao)

and, well, we need help! initially we shut it all down so that these nasty zymandis slugs couldn't call for more fucking backup AND so we could give the other teams a proper warning (like this one, lol) before we let you in again

so get your knives out or your spells or your swords or whatever cool thing you have in your armory bc it's time to kick some ass ᕙ(⇀‸↼)ᕗ

(mostly robot ass)

(but still)

we'll call you in soon, so finish up with all those cute kitties and get ready to roll out!!

CASSIE, OVER (►.◄)

Comments

[moneyballer]

wait, how do u kno

[asher THINK before you send any stupid texts-]

did i sleep with u 2?

[screams loudly]

[catphishing]

[Gross.......]

No, but you've got plenty intimate with my couch.

[moneyballer]

wait so i started dry humpin ur couch

[how could that possibly be your idea of the most rational interpretation of that sentence-]

how drunk was i

[catphishing]

What? No.

[He hopes...]

You just passed out on it a bunch of times.

[moneyballer]

[...There's an odd little chill down the back of his spine, as though there's something missing from this little equation.

Surely, that's just because Asher hasn't actually lived through it yet.

Right?]

oh

[What does one say, when the circumstances are still largely unknown?]

thanks

[For letting him into your home more than once.

He knows that he is not the most pleasant house guest, especially when inebriated.]

[catphishing]

You're welcome.

[It's not like he was the one who let him, but somehow he gets the idea it might be better not to point that out to Asher now. Their friendship is tentative enough without bringing up the resentment Oliver had felt at the time.]

[moneyballer]

[And that is why Oliver's behavior is both confusing and unpleasant. Somehow, Asher seems to find himself the target of Oliver's bitterness, that and the older man's desperation to cling to something familiar.

It is a weight he is still not quite sure about bearing, but at the very least, he will try.]

is that how i get 2 kno ya?

[He has yet to discover that Oliver was once Connor's boyfriend.]

[catphishing]

Kind of. It helped.

We got off to a bad start so it took a while, but I learned a lot about you when we hung out in my apartment.

[moneyballer]

[Learned a lot.

Like, what kind of things?]

how bad are we talkin

[catphishing]

[He doesn't answer immediately. He isn't sure how to our how much he wants to give away. Definitely not the specifics. Not where anyone could see it.]

The guy I was seeing told you some very private stuff. When you introduced yourself you came out with some stuff that made you seem really clueless about it.

[moneyballer]

Oh shit.

[Whatever it was, it sounds like it was pretty awful.]

I'm sorry, man.

[catphishing]

It's OK.
I bet you can think of lots of times where I've been a jackass to you.

[moneyballer]

[He definitely can, but for now he keeps his mouth shut.]

I dunno what he told me, though.

[Meaning that this time, the situation is under Oliver's control.

That he can share if and when he needs to, or not at all.]

[catphishing]

Something he shouldn't have told anyone. It had nothing to do with any of you.

Honestly I was way more mad at him than you. You don't have to worry about it now. You didn't even do it.

[moneyballer]

And you should've been.

That's the worst, y'know? When somebody you love betrays your trust like that?

Did he apologize for it or what?

[#y i k e s]

[catphishing]

No kidding.

He said he was sorry.

[It didn't change the fact Connor had told a bunch of virtual strangers something he didn't want to tell anyone. They'd all known after that and Oliver has just had to deal with it.]

[moneyballer]

Well.

[Emotion doesn't communicate well over text.]

How do you feel about it?

[Are you still mad?]

You still seein' that guy?

Back home, I mean.

[catphishing]

It doesn't matter. He did it. How I feel doesn't change that.

[This is a hard conversation to hold publicly. There are a lot of things he doesn't want people to know. Maybe if this were one on one he'd be a little more forthcoming. It's hard to say.]

We stayed together after that, but he moved out eventually. For unrelated reasons. Right before I came here.

[moneyballer]

[A hard conversation to hold publicly, and yet Oliver chooses to tell him about it anyway. This is not a private set of messages being exchanged between them both, which is why it's surprising that they're even talking about this kind of thing in the first place.

Each and every person, regardless of time or place or birthright, has their own struggles to come to terms with. Asher had suspected as much of this confusing man, someone who seemed kind and sweet to everyone but himself, although perhaps it's because of what was mentioned here.

Maybe Asher had really been in the wrong, and while it wasn't his fault, it is hard to learn to be kind to people who have hurt you in the worst of ways, and even harder to do so when for some reason, you still care about them.]

Look on the bright side, G.

[At least he isn't around to hurt you anymore, whichever of their classmates it might be.

Enough time has passed for him to connect the dots, however. Only one other person he knows is strictly into dudes who like other dudes, and was dating someone good with technology.]

Mr. Heartbreaker isn't here to push you around anymore. So you're free, dawg.

Might as well drink to that.

[catphishing]

LOL, right. This is probably the best place to get over your ex.🥂

[There are a bunch of nice guys here, and what are the odds of Connor ending up here? It's the perfect opportunity.]

[moneyballer]

AYYYYYYY

now that's what i'm talkin about! and who knows my man?

maybe you'll even end up with an alien or sum shieeeet

[no no no, please stop talking-]

i bet the sex would b outta this world

[catphishing]

Please don't.

[moneyballer]

👽 🍆 💦

[catphishing]

[Wow.

No.

Bye.]