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Chase, yawning, slouches down the stairs and takes a seat at the bar. "Just coffee and some toast, thanks."

The Bar obliges. Next to the toast, however, a small cupcake with a candle on it also materializes, with the number 27 written on it in frosting.

Chase blinks. It takes a few sips of coffee for this to register.

"Oh!" He grins, and bites into the cupcake. "Thanks, Bar."

Anyone want to come wish Chase a happy birthday?

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"Doing anything special?"

Of course, Tony remembers quite well what he did to celebrate his birthday this year...






...he'd rather would just remember that Jack was nice and bought him dinner some time later.

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It's probably a good thing that Chase doesn't remember that at all, or else the awkwardness would just eclipse the entire conversation.

"Not really. Probably just a nice dinner with Kim. I didn't have any plans."

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"Ah. Sounds good," he says, nodding. "I dunno. You kinda grow out of that birthday celebration when you get past...college. Or high school, even."

Again, not mentioning what he did this year. Nope. Didn't happen.

At the mention of Kim, Tony looks down a bit. "Ah, listen, Chase, about Kim..."

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About Kim. ...oh dear.

Chase tenses, barely-perceptibly. "Yeah?" he says, his voice carefully neutral.

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[OOC: *hugs* Don't worry! We can pick it up whenever you want.]

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He sighs. Chase's tension is visible enough for a man who already expected it. "Listen, I just wanted to say..." He pauses, slightly biting his lip as he considers his wording. "I just wanted to say how lucky you are that you have Kim. She's been a real good friend to me--and I don't mean sexually, I mean...she's been there for me, platonically, in a way nobody else has and I appreciate it. And you're lucky to be with someone like her."

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Chase considers this for a long moment.

"I know I am," he says quietly.

The knowledge of what Kim and Tony did is always going to hurt. But he'd pushed it aside for the sake of fixing things with Kim, and while he doesn't have the advantage of being in love with Tony to help the forgiveness along there, it wouldn't be fair if he didn't at least pretend to start putting it behind him.

"She's...she's special like that."