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[guppy_sandhu]

Save me from the bacteria!
[oom: Venting is good]

Guppy is sitting by the fire, dipping slabs of Dairy milk chocolate into his tea, then eating them whilst they're melty.

He's still looking tired, but much less frazzled than he has done the last couple of days. The chocolate is, naturally, entirely shareable.

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[the-h-star-r.livejournal.com]

"Heya Doc. You doin' okay?"

Homestar brings what's left of his food, the cherry limeade and about half of his potato bites, over with him.

"Need some potato bites?"

He gently shakes the box in offering.

[guppy_sandhu]

Although he's looking better physically, he still doesn't look very happy. He manages a smile for Homestar though.

"Hey Homestar. I'm fine, thanks."

He picks up a few and nibbles them. "How are you?"

[the-h-star-r.livejournal.com]

"Pretty good, but you look like your treads are worn. When was the last time you rotated your tires?"

Or napped, even.

[guppy_sandhu]

"As in slept?"

He has to think about it.

"At all, for about four hours last night. Properly, when I got concussed." he admits.

[the-h-star-r.livejournal.com]

"Wow. Rough."

Homestar thinks and takes a sip of his drink.

"Are you sure you don't need a vacation and a drink with umbrellas?"

[guppy_sandhu]

A small smile.

"I've already used up all my holiday for the year going to Cambodia."

[the-h-star-r.livejournal.com]

"But have you had the drink with umbrellas?"

Homestar is on the verge of writing the doctor a prescription. After all, it really is amazing how relaxing a drink with umbrellas can be.

[guppy_sandhu]

He shakes his head.

"They don't really go with tea."

[the-h-star-r.livejournal.com]

"Yeah they do. Isn't Tea Mecca a rainy place? You need to keep the handle of the cup dry."

But try telling Homestar that people in London don't always have their tea out in the rain.

[guppy_sandhu]

"...Tea Mecca?"

[the-h-star-r.livejournal.com]

"You know, that place where they all have tea at 4 o'clock. They even got that big clock that lets them know when to have tea. I think his name is Benjamin."

[guppy_sandhu]

"London?"

He grins, not convinced on that point but not wanting to disallusion Homestar.

[the-h-star-r.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that place. They could probably use some umbrellas on their teacups."

A pause.

"But yeah, usually the umbrella drinks are the fruity ones, like the types you drink out of a coconut. You need a coconut umbrella tea. That'll take care of everything."

He nods at his logic.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

There may be a hand reaching down from the rafters to steal his chocolate.

But surely, that hand couldn't be Atton's, because he would never try and steal anything.

Right?

[guppy_sandhu]

He wasn't expecting anything to come from above him.

So Atton's hand startles him out of deep thought, he yells, jumps and spills his tea all down his trousers (fortunately not scaulding hot any more).

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

It would be a lie if Atton tried to claim he wasn't even the tiniest bit amused by that.

The hand withdraws, replaced by an upside down head.
"Hope I didn't shock you too much?" He's taking chocolate even as he says it.

[guppy_sandhu]

He jumps back again as the head appears.

"Bloody hell Atton, all you had to do was ask."

He starts mopping up his trousers.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Atton looks confused for a moment, as if he's not entirely sure how asking would help, though it eventually dawns on him that he means not stealing.

"But then if y'said no, you'd've been on your guard for me stealin' them."

[guppy_sandhu]

"I wasn't going to say no." Guppy replies, wringing tea out.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"But I didn't know that."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Hense why asking is good." Guppy replies, sitting down squelchily.

"Please, help yourself."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"But then if y'had said no, y'would've been on your guard, and I didn't know if you'd say no or not."

Beat.

"And I already have. Helped myself, that is."

The observant eye may note that there is no chocolate left on the table.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Would stealing it have really been necessary?" Guppy asks tiredly, now tea and chocolateless.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

There is a long, solemn pause while Atton considers this.

"Yes."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Right."

Guppy gives up trying to understand it and rubs his forehead.

"What were you doing up there anyway?"