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oldironsides... how do you tell if it's recorded? Piece of alternate universe crap, you're lucky I don't rewire you into a double-ended vibra--
BEEEEEEEP
oldironsides... how do you tell if it's recorded? Piece of alternate universe crap, you're lucky I don't rewire you into a double-ended vibra--
BEEEEEEEP
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-10 06:11 am (UTC)Yeah, fifth month.
This is the part where I ask when yours is, and ask that you remind me every month til it comes. And then a few days before.
[And probably the day of, followed by a haughty reminder the day after.]
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-10 06:16 am (UTC)[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-10 06:19 am (UTC)D'you know why? Or were birthdays just not a big thing there?
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-10 06:25 am (UTC)I'm a mage, Tony. They weren't... Celebration's not exactly encouraged for us. We're more biddable if we don't have some special day. And after a while, days blur together. Especially when your view of the sun is through a narrow window twenty feet up.
It fell sometime when it was warm. That's all I've got.
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-10 06:39 am (UTC)[Why would he have a day like that, living that sort of life?]
Alright, okay... so we can guess summer, or late spring, like me. Early fall.
You could always just pick your own day? And we'll do a thing. Make up for time lost to towers.
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-10 06:46 am (UTC)[It's clearly something that's not occurred to him before.]
Can I actually do that? I mean, it's not going to be the right one, probably, for obvious reasons.
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-10 06:58 am (UTC)[He laughs, tickled by the hesitance.]
Doesn't matter if it's the right one or not. Pick a day that's special to you for some reason. That'll work.
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-10 07:05 am (UTC)June. June... 23rd, then. If that's not too close to yours. Or in the way of anything else.
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-10 07:19 am (UTC)June 23rd it is, then. What's the reason for that day specifically?
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-10 07:33 am (UTC)[But his voice is clearly teasing.]
I'd been here about a month, and I spoke with someone else who had... company. Of a sort. Though his wasn't blue. It was the first time I've met someone else who had anything similar, and it was when I realized, beyond the obvious, that I was here.
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-10 08:36 pm (UTC)[There's a pause, some hammering in the background.]
Actually, okay, yeah. I can see how it might be these days. You really don't wanna go home, do you?
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-11 01:20 am (UTC)[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-11 07:52 am (UTC)So. What do you want for your birthday?
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-11 08:19 am (UTC)[Right. You got something on birthdays. He hadn't been thinking that far ahead. There's a bit of smile in his voice when he answers.]
You get a cake, don't you? I'd... I'd like a cake.
[It's a stupid want, he knows it, but he can't actually remember getting a cake.]
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-11 09:43 pm (UTC)[Mental note: ask Buffy and/or Caroline about cakes, preferably not on the same day you need it. They might get cranky.
Especially Buffy.]
You get presents, too. Stuff you want. And a wish when you huff out the cake candles. Dunno how good those wishes are, but eh.
[Every one counts.]
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-12 05:15 am (UTC)[There's a pause; he's looking around.]
I've got everything I need. And vambraces on top of that.
[All he wants is something he can't ask - for the Door to not take more of those he cares about.]
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-13 09:47 am (UTC)You like 'em, then? They fit alright... don't need adjustments?
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-13 09:50 am (UTC)They fit very well, and I'm not the only one that likes them. And that's a first.
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-14 06:17 am (UTC)[He wants to think there's an unspoken message there, so yeah, going with that. Mission accomplished?]
Anyway... we'll do something for your birthday, and you're getting more than cake. Cake's a standard. I'll figure out something you don't know you want yet.
[Voice]
Date: 2013-01-14 06:42 am (UTC)You don't have to. But... thank you. That you're even thinking about it.