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1. "You know you're kind of the only person here who listens to what I have to say, right?" She pauses. The diner's full. She hasn't touched her sweet potato fries, she realizes. He seems to like them enough for her and she ends up pushing the plate to him. He looks at her when she speaks, trying to manage speaking around a mouth full of food and still, somehow, trying to remain smooth."--- at least finish chewing." He was more like a big kid than a monster hunter, which made it harder to not grin when she was parenting him."D'you want any dessert? I got it this time --""You're the only person who listens to what I have to say --- well, besides Mabel.""Was this your way of unintentionally putting me in a sisterly zone?""--No, no, I -- uh, did you -- not .. want to be in that .. zone?"".... D'you want any dessert?"".... yesplease, apple pie."2. It's night.He's out.And it's not in the way normal college kids are and it sits heavy in her gut like a ton of knives.There's a knock on her door that's weak through the wood and a banged up Dipper on the other side.Her chest is tight.The knives twist."Get in here, what were you do-- nevermind, I don't want to know."When he's passed out, she kisses the birthmark.She buys him hashbrowns and never speaks of it again.3. "Have I told you lately that I love you?"     "Goodnight, Pinetree."

1. She doesn't. She thinks she might have come close one night, in the gnawing teeth of the dark when he was feeding and like the girl she was, it died at the blood. It stopped past her lips.2. She tried.It's more of a grunt and a large shoulder rolling towards her when he's particularly difficult to clean up (straddling him in the breakfast nook and forcibly cleaning his face didn't make her morning grumpiness any better), and a pack of baby wipes that fell with a hard smack on the tile.She isn't sure why she bothered.3. "You're lucky I think you're cute. You'd be more trouble if you weren't." Be careful is behind her teeth, You're an idiot rattles in her brain.She calls it more than enough.

"----- Um."             don't make a comment on the idea that a robot's asking you something, just            ..... just answer the question.       "Dinosaurs." She wore her raptor pajamas until they rivaled the holes that grew in moth-struck clothing.