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Chilly Boulder Ice Cream Shoppe; Saturday Evening.

While Chad knew that Teddy would be stuck in detention for most of the day, he had still ~~handwavily~~ called his boyfriend up and left a message about maybe meeting him for ice cream, his treat, later in the day. The reason had a lot to do with just that Chad was worried and just wanted to do something with Teddy, maybe something that would make him feel better if something really was still bothering, but the reason he'd given in the message was "just because." So he went to Chilly Boulder without even knowing it Teddy'd be able to make it or not. If he did, good. If not, well...Chad could still get some ice cream, right?

[[ Chad's there to meet the fake boyfriend, of course, but post is open for all your ice-creamy needs ~~not dirty~~ ~~questionmark~~ ]]

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There was ice cream and boyfriend. Like Teddy was going to miss it!

He opened the door, peering into the shop and grinning as Chad was quite possibly the easiest person to see ever.

"Hey!"

Why, yes, that was a small grin as Chad turned his head from where he was observing the options to where Teddy had come in. "You made it," he observed.

So he had doubts. Shut up; it'd been a really, really weird last week and change.

"I was promised an ice cream date," Teddy replied seriously, moving to get a quick kiss. "Both of which I would never miss."

"I'll have to remember that," Chad said, but it was mostly mumbled, as he was too busy returning that kiss. "Detention wasn't too bad, was it?"

"Boring," Teddy said, making a face. "Too much running. I hate when my name pops up on that announcement. I think they just call names to mess with people."

Chad was quiet for a moment as if he wasn't quite sure if he should ask, but, eventually, he did. "...so it was just lottery, then?"

"Duh," Teddy replied, looking over the flavours.

Feeling rather glad of the fact that it didn't show very obviously when Chad blushed, he felt awkward and stupid for worrying that maybe it had been. He didn't say anything, trying to make it look like he, too, had just gone back to considering what he wanted to get.

Leaning against Chad a little, Teddy peered up at him. The hair got in the way, but he'd been around him too long not to notice a few things.

"What'd you think? I got in trouble?"

"...No," Chad said, slowly; he would have shifted if it weren't for the fact that Teddy was leaning on him. And, because he found he couldn't exactly be untruthful to Teddy, he continued. "Well...maybe. It crossed my mind. There could have...been....a misunderstanding, or something."

Teddy nodded, looking over the flavours carefully. He wasn't avoiding looking up at him right now at all.

"So, you talked to Liir, huh?"

There was a moment before Chad said anything.

"We should get our ice cream first. Sit down."

He nodded quietly, looking at the sherbet now.

When did Chad get to be the one good at this stuff? Pointing it out to the server, he ordered a cup of it. Sherbet wasn't good on a cone.

Chad, meanwhile, wondered if they still had that jalepeno ice cream and, lucky him, with a slight glance aside to see the response that Teddy was likely to have, they did.

And then he decided to just go with a strawberry milkshake. "C'mon," he started moving, taking a sip. "Over here work?"

Jalepeno. Ew.

Teddy nodded again, eating a spoonful of his sherbet. "Sure," He said, following Chad to their seats.

Unfortunately, that seemed even less of a reaction that Chad had expected, which he figured helped him set his perspective on the whole issue right where he dreaded it would be, somewhere in the Really Not Good area. He carefully slid into the booth, stretching out his legs a bit so he didn't hit his knees on the table.

"...So?" he asked, patiently, but still expectantly.

"The memory?" Teddy asked quietly, focusing on his sherbet.

"Yeah," Chad nodded, his voice particularly grunting in quality. "I mean...You were upset. Liir was upset." Chad was upset, but that seemed a minor detail. "You don't...have to tell me if you don't want to, Teddy, I just...want to know what's up..."

Teddy nodded, swallowing.

"I--" He took a deep breath. "He saw my mother die."

This left Chad quiet again for a moment before asking, "This was last Friday? Before you came into the store?"

Another nod.

"She-- I-- She was killed before I came here."

"And y'haven't really ever talked to anyone about it, have you?"

"I don't like to talk about it," Teddy replied quietly. "It-- it was my fault."

"You don't have to," Chad said, still slowly, but quicker than anything else since they'd ventured into this territory. "I mean, I just..." He felt a slight twisting in his chest, almost feeling like he wished he hadn't brought it up. Technically, though, he didn't. He was just talking about detention, and Teddy... He was just so...confused, hair brushed out of his eyes just enough to glance at the coin necklace that, until recently, hung around his own neck. He turned away, looking toward the wall, stretching out slightly in the booth.

Teddy'd acted like this sort of thing never happened. Parents died because of the stupid things their children did all the time. He should know. But he couldn't imagine Teddy doing anything as stupid as what Chad had done...

His finger picked idly at something on the wall. "I almost punched him," was all he could think to say. "Just wanted to knock him out for upsetting you like that..."

Teddy grabbed Chad's hand, rubbing his knuckles. "It wasn't on purpose."

"I know," Chad said. That was why he didn't, after all. Otherwise, Liir'd probably had spent at least the first part of the week in the clinic. "He's really upset, too, though. Might want to try to talk to him. Thinks you're mad at him..."

"I'm..." He sighed. "I don't know what I am."

He kissed Chad's hand gently, looking down. "Thank you."

That finally seemed to bring Chad's attention back to Teddy, away from the wall, and he kept it there, despite realizing how hard it was seeing traces of the chain around Teddy's collar. Perhaps it was better this way; he looked at Teddy more than he looked at himself, after all, so it stayed a good reminder. The reminder felt a little....different now, though. How in the hell could it have been any of Teddy's fault? If anything, it probably had something to do with....with who he was, that whole war thing happening back home for him, things...entirely out of his hands...

"For what?"

"Being you?" Because that was pretty much enough to keep him calm about this whole thing.

Oh. That.

"No problem..."

Chad took a quiet sip of his milkshake.

"You know, if you do want to talk about it, though..."

He knew he was there for him, right?

Especially for something like this...

Teddy nodded. "I will. I just--" he sighed. "It still hurts, you know?"

"Yeah," Chad had to clear his throat a little to say that. You'd think that with a milkshake, you wouldn't get a dry throat, but there he was. He couldn't help wondering how old Teddy was when it happened. "I know..."

"I want to talk about it with you. It's hard, though."

In that breaking way. It was easier to forget.

"Teddy." Chad's voice was a little firmer this time. "I know. I said it's okay if you don't want to...or can't...and I meant it."

Leaning over the table, Teddy put a hand on the side of Chad's face and kissed him. "Like I said, thank you for being you."

Chad, really, kind of had to smile at that, leaning his forehead against Teddy's. "You're staying with me tonight," he decided.

"Is that an order?" Teddy asked playfully, running his thumb over Chad's cheekbone.

"Yeah," Chad said, stealing a quick kiss. 'But it'd be nice if you decided that you wanted to, anyway..."

"Well..." Teddy kissed him back. "Can we bring some ice cream back with us?"

How was that even a question?

"Duh."

Pause.

"Besides, Katara would kill us if we didn't bring any back for her. And if she's not there...."

He shrugged. "More for us."

"Count me in," Teddy said, one last kiss before pulling back to eat his sherbet. "We can watch that new Deceased Difficult movie."

Yeah, because mindless violent action films was totally what the two of them needed to pour their attentions into right now. But, since Chad couldn't exactly follow that whole thing up with suggesting they watch Carnivorous Kingdom instead, the answer was a definitive, "Sure."

Smiling slightly as he worked on the sherbet, Teddy glanced up. "Thanks."

"S'what I'm here for," Chad muttered back, grinning slightly. He shifted his stretched out leg under the table to nudge Teddy's foot with his. "Love you."

The smile grew larger. "Love you too."

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