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[thenewnormal]

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[drmcsexy]

... Okay you have to know I didn't send that to you.

Also thank you. Ridiculously, huh?

[thenewnormal]

Do I have to know that, though? Because it's something you would absolutely do.

...don't let it go to your head. Either of them.

[drmcsexy]

I think you know a little better than that.
Yeah, I would send it to someone I'm intimate with, that's true.

I never thought you felt that way. That's all.

[thenewnormal]

No. We're not doing this conversation. Not unless you want me to point out the number of times you've hit on me. Like at the Christmas party. Just accept it and move on, Kyle.

[ Because if flirting with Kyle to take his mind off of his real love life was going to help, it didn't need to become another part of his love life conversation. It was just flirting. There was no real harm, right? ]

[drmcsexy]

[ There's so many things he could say in that moment, comments to make about the Christmas party, about the way Alex had shot that down, and so many other things, but he lets that go. ]

Then I'm glad I could fuel fantasies without meaning to. You can keep the video.

[thenewnormal]

Kyle Valenti, accidentally causing fantasies since middle school.

[drmcsexy]

I tried intentionally on Valentine's day. You missed the jeans I wore. They were kind of... extreme.

[thenewnormal]

Now that's just mean, giving me that image. ...I could be mean, too. There's a photo that's been going around to a few people that was only meant for one person.

[drmcsexy]

Not my fault I wore jeans that were practically painted on. Next time maybe it will be painted on pants.

Alexander Manes! Are you sending out nudes?

[thenewnormal]

With or without a patch? I.e., you gonna paint your dick, Kyle?

Correction: I sent out one nude to one person.

[ He's very carefully not lying and saying that it was to Bass. ]

Which then got sent to Tim, Alec, and some guy I don't even know. Of course they also got

[ Whoops. Didn't mean to send that. Didn't mean to hit the send button instead of the delete button either. ]

[drmcsexy]

In this town, why not without?

They also got what, Manes? Come on. You've come this far.

[thenewnormal]

Oh, hell. It's not like you haven't seen it anyway.

[ A picture of Alex in a bed, artlessly sprawled over the covers, only the barest of glimpses of the end of his right leg below the knee. There's no expression on his face, not happy, but not sad, either. Just there, looking like an invitation.

And then, minutes later, as he's been wrestling with whether he's going to send it, a song, raw with emotion long suppressed. It talks about hurting and healing and maybe starting a new chapter. And then the music fades. ]

[drmcsexy]

It's been a long time, he knows. Over a year. It feels like a million lifetimes, if he's honest.

It's the song though that makes him stop, sitting there in his cell and listening to it.

I'm sorry you wrote that song for one person and they sent it to others.

You look hot though.

[ It's easier to make that comment than any of the others he might have. ]

[thenewnormal]

Yeah, well. He didn't even know it was for him at first. Unless you think it was for Bass, too.

Thank you for that. Not all of us can have your abs, but I like to think I try.

[drmcsexy]

It was either for one tall cowboy or an angry one. I was only wrong once.

Why do you say that like you don't know you're hot? You always have been.

[thenewnormal]

Jesus. That's right. You were the first one to clue in on the fact that I was interested in anyone, let alone figure out it was Guerin. Even Maria didn't realize who it was, only that there was someone.

History.

[drmcsexy]

Wait, how is it history? Hot then. Hot now. That's just how life is.

[thenewnormal]

[ What he's not going to say is how his self-esteem took a hit in middle school when he actually made a move and was rejected. Hard. ]

Being the gay kid in Roswell, even if I wasn't out, it wasn't exactly the best pickings.

[ Until Michael, but that was a whole other can of worms. ]

[drmcsexy]

You were still hot.

And don't tell me you weren't a sought after hottie in the military. If you were, they were all blind and stupid.

[thenewnormal]

We were all closeted and stupid, you mean.

[drmcsexy]

Tell me you weren't around hot guys in the military and you were celibate?

Do not be me in med school.

[thenewnormal]

All right, I won't tell you. And that has to be a lie. There was no sneaking off in closets or something?

[drmcsexy]

I'm not saying I wasn't having any sex in college but I worked my ass off to graduate when I did. So between working out, and classes and then residency? There wasn't a lot.

[thenewnormal]

And I was overseas a good chunk of the time and when I wasn't, I wasn't exactly out to the Air Force in general. I mean, there aren't rules against it anymore, but...

[ His dad. And people like him. ]

[drmcsexy]

But people suck. Fuck them. It's one thing about this place, much as it sucks for most.