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this is just like that hallmark movie we watched.

can you stop quoting that horrible hallmark movie?

i am never watching a movie with you again.

come kiss me under the mistletoe.

i didn't realize it was going to be this cold. maybe i should go grab my jacket.

how do you plan on celebrating the new year?

have you ever made a snow angel?

well, don't you look festive!

i already bought your present this year.

could you help me hang this? i can't reach.

maybe we should turn the lights down low.

i'm really not a fan of the colder months.

i might need your help this year.

will you stay up with me to watch the ball drop?

that's not how we celebrate where i'm from.

i'll teach you all the family traditions.

we're getting everyone together for a big dinner!

how much time did you take off from work?

you sound congested. are you coming down with something?

that's the worst snowman i have ever seen.

i'm making hot cocoa. you want one?

i think we just lost power.

oh no. you are not getting me sick.

that's the ugliest sweater i have ever seen.

there's nothing to celebrate.

your singing is atrocious.

make that your new year's resolution.

come sit with me? it's nice and warm over here.

how does the song go? the weather outside is frightful...

the holidays were never very happy for me.

can we just plan for a night in? just the two of us?

i don't do well at parties.

are you expecting a white christmas this year?

behavior like that will put you on santa's naughty list.

if you put on another hallmark christmas movie, i will scream.

this is the season for giving, you know.

i could use some help scraping all this snow off my car.

the last time we went out for a walk in weather like this, you pushed me into a snowbank.

i still haven't forgiven you for hitting me in the head with a snowball.

it's supposed to get even colder tonight.

want to snuggle up by the fire with me?

this holiday means a lot to me.

i'd love to celebrate with you this year.

don't worry. i'll make all the food.

i'm having company over tonight.

your hands are freezing! let me warm them up.

i prefer sinatra's christmas songs, personally.

do you celebrate anything this time of year?

did your family have any holiday traditions growing up?

do you put up a real tree or a fake one?

we're going to my favorite chinese restaurant. it's basically tradition at this point.

i guess this means we're snowed in.

we should share a bed. you know. for warmth.

if you start getting cold, you could come sit by me.

personally, i understand where scrooge is coming from.

what's your favorite movie to watch this time of year?

we're going to cook one of my favorite meals.

the house smells incredible.

what are you doing new year's eve?

would you celebrate it? with me?

if the polar express showed up at your doorstep, would you hop on?

it's starting to snow.

while i finish this up, would you light the fire?

tell me about your holiday traditions.

is this colder than you're used to?

you didn't have to get me anything.

i thought we weren't exchanging gifts this year.

- friendly neighborhood disaster reporting for duty !

❝ They're the Elementals and I'm what you may classify as a mage who uses sorcery to put a stop to matters when they becomes a cosmic threat. But these beings, they weren't just cosmic, they weren't your regular element bending avatars you see, they were made up of the very thing the Earth is if not more. ❞ He paused, his eyes narrowing ever so slightly while an audible sigh would accompany it as if he was trying to exaggerate a very convincing dramatic effect to his tone. This is what happens when you try to be a mage but you're just a fraud with tech that can make illusion look like reality. ❝ Handling them one at a time was easy but they had this power of fusing together and becoming a hivemind that controls all four elements... it's not something I can handle and hence I'm here today after my homeworld in my very own dimension got destroyed. ❞

all are lyrics from the album, the dark (2023) by the band CAMINO. songs are in order.

look who's showing up right now.

thought you had it all worked out.

let me guess, you miss me, you're sorry?

too bad, it's too little, too late.

don't make me say i told you so.

don't make me say the only words i owe you.

i don't wanna be right this time.

you're not gonna fool me twice.

a part of me still thinks you're there.

why am i still hoping you'll call?

what am i missing you for?

it's not like you're missing me.

i go home with distractions.

it's no secret we suck together.

i tell myself that it's for the better.

you're beautiful when you're lying.

keep twisting the knife in.

do what you do, tear me apart.

i can't turn you down to save my life.

i only feel this alive when you're making it hard to breathe.

you'll still be the death of me.

i can't fight you.

i know it's gonna blow up in my face.

if i didn't go near you, my life would be so much clearer.

i've been a little careless with my actions.

i've been a little passive with my passions.

i'm in a place where i'm just gonna let it happen.

you got a way of using my feelings.

you make me think it's always my fault.

i gave everything, gave you everything.

it's not me, it's you.

pack up your baggage and go.

i know i got my share of issues.

i know my love comes with a lot.

apparently, i'm not as hopeless as you thought.

we keep on having all the same stale conversations.

they say we're perfect for each other.

my mama loves you, and all my friends do.

they're all dropping heart emojis in the comments.

from the outside, all of the stars align.

i keep on trying and trying to make it make sense.

i don't understand a word that you say.

i'm on saturn, you're not even in the milky way.

perfect on paper but just not on the same page.

aren't you so tired of trying to fake a connection?

i know that i should be jealous.

it just makes me want you even more.

you're saying all you need to say with your eyes.

whenever you're ready, i'm taking you home.

look at the hearts that you're breaking.

you got the whole room in love with you.

they won't get to see you like i'll see you later.

i know i'll see that dress on the floor.

they get to analyze your every move and fantasize.

you're the reason that i am afraid of the dark.

wide awake, i see shadows of you in my arms.

i think i might have messed up.

somehow you make me say stuff that i never have.

somehow, it kinda feels like home.

i stayed until the morning, usually i go.

lighten up and live a little.

now you've got me in the middle.

i'm in and out of my mind.

i'm feeling for the first time.

got good at being apathetic.

i've said the word, but never meant it.

i thought all my damage was permanent.

i feel like i got wasted.

i can't sleep with someone else.

can't bring myself to let somebody in.

every day is just the same day on repeat.

you're still here when she wears off.

it's a different symptom every day.

stoned off you, now i'm stone-cold sober.

i could find my way to you, even if ihad my eyes closed.

it felt like armageddon, just you me and nobody else.

Necessity had seen him speak in vague terms, careful not to overstep. He had watched footage of hundreds of variant Parkers, spread across different worlds and timelines, carrying with them the same moniker that he had tried to emulate. Knew details that no other Spider was privy to.

Yet somehow, this moment, this meeting with the man that had started it all, always unfolded in the fashion, never ceasing to see Miguel be somewhat at a loss for words.

"Ah... right. Yeah, let's go with that." Ticking the box in terms of creative quips, he shifted his weight from one foot to the other, trying to settle as he leaned in with; "I'm Spider-Man, too, actually." Give or take a few decades in between, as well as a new coat of paint.

You sure you don't see what you hear?

Nothing can happen in this town that I don't hear about it.

Where you been this time?

Everything people ought to know they just don't want to hear.

I often wondered what happened to [him/her/them]

They say the day you die, your name is written on a cloud.

Every time I look at the sky, I think of all the places I've never been.

You've been a lot of places, haven't you?

You'd be amazed by the way people talk about you.

Where'd you come from? And what did you do?

Everyone sure missed you, [name], but not as much as I have.

You don't like to make mistakes, do you?

How did you happen to find me, [name]?

Well, you put it that way, what can I do?

There is a big house on a hill. You won't miss it.

Are you gonna stand for it, with a man who won't even come to the door?

You told me once I'd have to tell you sometime.

Now, the first thing I wanna get off my chest: My name isn't [name], it's [name].

The story, some of it is gonna hurt you.

They called themselves detectives.

He didn't come to see us because he was too high-powered a character.

You wait for me to talk. I like that.

I never found out much listening to myself.

Should I ask why you didn't call the law?

When you see [him/her/them], you'll understand better.

Find [him/her/them], [name]. Bring [him/her/them] back.

I know a lot of smart guys and a few honest ones, and you're both.

May I ask you a few questions?

More harm might come to [him/her/them] if you didn't.

If I don't talk, I think. It's too late in life for me to start thinking.

Nothing in the world is any good unless you can share it.

I've been sitting here for three hours.

You're gonna make every guy you meet a little bit curious.

That's not what I mean. You don't ask questions.

You don't even ask me what my name is.

That isn't the way to play. There's a way to lose more slowly.

Tell me why you're so hard to please.

I could have run away last night.

I didn't know anything, except how much I hated [him/her/them]. But I didn't take anything.

What was left of the day went away like a pack of cigarettes you smoked.

I don't know what we were waiting for. Maybe we thought the world would end.

Pack in the morning, meet me at the hotel if you can make it.

I've been afraid of half the things I ever did.

You wanna just shut the door and forget it?

I just wondered who might be following whom.

You should have told me, I would have played it differently.

I don't like playing games when I'm the fall guy.

Let's go down to the bar. You can cool off while we try to impress each other.

I told you, I don't like to spend your money.

It was dark when I was getting there.

Remember? You used to have a good memory. Whatever happened to it?

I shot [him/her/them], I'm not sorry about that.

Pay me off and i'll be quiet, but use cash.

You wouldn't have killed him. You would've beaten him up and thrown him out.

As I said once that whatever had happened was done.

I've got to. I'm tired of running. I gotta clean this up some way.

You liked me because you could use me. You could use me because I was smart.

I always remember what any person did for me.

You know, I don't think you can trust anybody.

You can't help anything you do, even murder.

I was always afraid of him and afraid of what I'd done.

I couldn't live that way anymore. I couldn't stand it.

I've wondered about you and prayed you'd understand.

You can call for me at 8 and look around.

Do you always go around leaving your fingerprints on a girl's shoulder?

Buddy, you look like you're in trouble.

For a man who appears to be clever, you act like an idiot.

Drive around the block and stop right here.

Did you send your friend up there to find [name] dead?

What was there to give me a motive? I wouldn't kill a guy for a drink.

They said they'd find the body and tell the police I killed him.

We don't have to be against each other now.

You ought to have killed me for what I did.

You see, I only buried him.

I think you'd better stay where you are for a while.

I know what you're going to say, and I don't wanna hear it.

Didn't you hear what I said? [Name] is dead.

Well, let's get down to business. Start all over again, right?

I'm not framing anyone!

Did it take much persuasion to make you say I killed [name]?

I took you back when you came back whimpering and crawling. I should have kicked your teeth in.

You're gonna take the bait and play along. You're gonna make every exact move I tell you.

I don't know why I let you come back into my life.

You can't make deals with a dead man, [name].

You have nothing on me, but I'd make a fine witness for the prosecution.

Don't you see? You've only me to make deals with now.

They'll always be looking for us. They won't stop till we die.