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The Park, 10am Saturday-early afternoon

Yesterday's weather had worried Willow, but ~~according to the weather report~~ Saturday was warmer and so far snow-free.

Willow got to the Park early so she could set up. She cleared a space for dancing, set up music and some food that she'd brought along, then waited for others to show up.

[ooc: OCD ~~a-coming~~ Up! All are welcome. 'tis very informal in nature. And this only takes up a small part of the Park, so plenty of room for others to do Parky things without being crowded.]

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"Why would I laugh?"

He'd been laughed at too many times, seen jeering, mocking faces too many times to even think of doing something like that. And besides, what could he mock about Teddy?

Teddy was handsome, had a boyfriend and a life and friends. What was there to mock?

His flaily attempts at dancing?

Teddy nudged him. "Because it's funny? I don't really mind, friends are allowed to do that kind of stuff, really."

"Just because I'm allowed doesn't mean I will," he said. He'd gotten too much laughter from those who very much weren't 'friends' to really find the idea appealing.

"Wait until you see me dance," Teddy replied. "Then you'll know. Heck, I'll probably be laughing at myself."

"That's one thing, but I won't laugh until you do."

"And I promise the same," Teddy replied seriously.

"Did I tell you about Andrew?" he said, changing the subject suddenly.

And a good subject change it was indeed. "No," Teddy said, grinning a little. "Who's Andrew?"

"He's in one of my classes," he explained, "and he came to the bookshop the other day. He asked if he could bring me out to a few places next Friday after work."

He looked... sort of proud of having accomplished social interaction without Teddy or class being involved.

"Like, a date?" Oh this was too adorable.

"Friday," he said again.

"'Play miniature golf, go dancing, catch a movie, sing some karaoke'," he quoted, sounding even a little like Andrew as he repeated the words, "that's what he mentioned."

Rolling his eyes, Teddy bumped him -- gently -- with his shoulder. "I meant if it was meant as a friend like me and you or like I'm with my boyfriend kind of thing."

"He mentioned a boyfriend," he admitted. "Neil. He said that he'd had to go home. But he didn't mention wanting to have me as a boyfriend."

What did that have to do with anything? And how had Teddy known that Andrew'd had a boyfriend?

...well, Teddy had been here before. It was just another case of Liir being ignorant, something he was used to.

No, it was mostly because Liir was attractive and... well, yes this was Fandom. land of boykissy and glitter.

"Most people don't say that right up front. And would you be upset if he was interested in you like that?"

There was a long pause.

"You're not kidding, are you?"

Because before Teddy had said anything about it, the thought was so far out of the realm for him that it hadn't even reached his toes, let alone his head.

Teddy turned to give him a look. "Should I be?"

"Why would anyone be interested in me?"

He had no education, no parents, no name, no skills, no talents, no outstanding features or qualities, no title, no anything. Though--

Oh no.

"Unless he took that Thropp seriously."

And he swore vehemently.

Oh, that just made Teddy even more confused. "Thropp? What does that have to do with it?"

"Not that he should, considering," he said, thinking too fast to speak, "we're not in Oz, after all, and Munchkinland is in a sorry state with the secessionist movement crumbled at all a-a-and I thought I'd heard on the street, what with Nessarose and what Shell'd said on the walk--"

He shook it all off after a moment, calming himself so he'd stop stuttering.

"Elphaba was-- the Witch was Thropp Third Descending, technically. Not that she was about to take the place. Or ever wanted to go back to Munchkinland. It's a leading family, the leading family really."

What did this have to do with anything? Absolutely nothing, unless you had a mind that worked like Liir's.

...

Teddy blinked.

"Does he know that stuff?"

"I don't know," he said, looking rather distraught. "He didn't seem to, but how should I know?"

Well, Teddy would get the same if he thought someone was flirting with him just because of what his real name was too.

"You could ask him on Friday?" He suggested.

More a fake one, to Liir's mind. Even if it was his real name.

"But that doesn't make any sense," he said. "He's from, or I think he's from, here. This world. Or one like it. What would he care about Munchkinland?"

"There, nothing to worry about with that," Teddy said, nodding encouragingly.

"So almost certainly not," he continued.

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