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Basilisk Campfire; Wednesday Evening.

So Chad'd spent the day painting the walls of Empire red...and pink and yellow and rainbow, playing with Melody's pussycats, and then doing the cheerleading thing. This explained why, as Chad settled around the cabin's campfire with his guitar, he was playing the manliness metal and rock he could manage on just a bass.

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After getting off of work, Teddy headed back to the cabin and was confused to find Chad there.

"Don't you have work?"

Chad grinned a little as he finished a Claypool riff, strummed it out to a slow close, and then looked over toward Teddy. "Nope."

Making his way over to where Chad was sitting, Teddy looked down at him with amusement. "Did you get fired?"

"Nope," Chad answered. "Got a new boss. She's remodeling the place." He held up his hand, splattered with yellow and green and blue, before taking his guitar and setting it aside.

Teddy looked at the colors. "Is she turning it into a kindergarten?" He asked, settling down into Chad's lap now that the guitar was gone. There was at least a weeks worth of cuddling to make up for.

Oh, hello. There was a Ted in his lap, and that was rather nice. He wrapped his arms around the other boy and nuzzled into his neck a little. "One wall's entirely rainbow and there was talk of a glitter carpet."

He missed this. Japan had been... not really something he wanted to do again and there had been almost no PDA there.

"So it is a kindergarten?"

Hey. There was ~~handwavey~~ clinic sex, though.

Chad hadn't really thought of it like that, but, when it was put in those lights....He nodded, with a slight grunt. And slightly more nuzzling. "With kittens, too."

Which was nice but... Some of Chad's friends were just not people Teddy wanted to meet ever again.

Teddy chuckled and gave him a kiss. "And I'm sure you'll make it all stoic and manly while working there."

Chad nodded, very seriously, as if it was a task of the utmost importance and he would take it onto his broad shoulders with pride and perseverance. And stoicism. And then definitely kissed Teddy back, good and firm, because...yeah.

Teddy reluctantly pulled back and went back to leaning against Chad's broad chest. "How are your classes so far?"

"I like 'em," Chad said, nuzzling into Ted's hair. "Jus' one more to go on Friday. Yours?"

Nuzzling was always good. "One tomorrow. Building a better fighter, looks like fun." He paused for a moment. "I got asked to help out the teacher for the arts and crafts class."

"Yeah?" Chad asked. "Think you will? Help, that is?"

"Of course!" Teddy nearly facepalmed at that reaction. "You remember that guy I told you about, the one who got assassinated back home?"

"...Yeah?" Chad answered slowly, feeling it a strange jump in topic, but whatever. Maybe Teddy was just trying to streamline conversations.

"Well... that's the new art teacher."

"..."

"...wait, what?"

"Alternate reality, I think."

"So...this guy who supposedly was assassinated where you're from is not actually assassinated and is teaching arts'n'crafts here?"

"I think?" Teddy shrugged. "I didn't get to talk to him about it much."

Chad grunted a little. "Weird. Keep an eye on him, though..."

In his experience, when assassinated people came back from the dead, it was never a good thing...

"You don't understand, he didn't die, but the one from my reality did."

That one took a while for Chad to wrap his mind around. He did a little more nuzzling in the meantime, until he sorted through it. "So, like...It would be if the Chad Nova knows died, but he died, and since he's not me, I'm not dead, and it wouldn't be weird if I was teaching Nova arts and crafts, because I'm not the same me."

It actually made sense to him. Really.

At least that sentence made sense to someone.

"Uh, exactly. And, I mean, he's Captain America! How cool is it that he asked me to help!"

Teddy needed to learn that fanboyish bouncing while cuddling Chad was a bad thing.

Chad shifted a little. Yes. Very bad. In a good sort of way.

Well, Chad would just have to hold Teddy in a little closer, then, to keep the bouncing down, right?

"Very cool?" he guessed, because he didn't really know for sure. But it certainly seemed to be suggesting that answer.

"Very cool," Teddy confirmed.

"Awesome," Chad said, and glomped Teddy a bit, because very cool things called for massive cuddling.

Katara was wandering around camp when she heard familiar guitar playing. "Chad! Hi!" She said bouncing up to him.

"Best Roommate Ever!" Chad couldn't have asked for a better surprise than that. He actually smiled at her, and played something to match it real quick. "S'up?"

"You're back!" She grinned more, stating the obvious and went to give him a hug. "You have a really nice little brother, I haven't met my little sib yet, and there's a really mean teacher in town."

"Oof!" Chad grinned a little as he put more emphasis into the impact of the hug than there really was and shifted his guitar over so he could return it, although with just one arm. One arm was still pretty good of a hug from Chad, though. "Yeah, John told me you an' Molly talked to him for me. You guys rock. Your little sib's name? Maybe I've ran into 'em?" Then he frowned. "Mean teacher?"

"Thanks. We were happy to help," she said with a smile. And totally didn't mention she thought Chad's little brother was cute. Her smile probably showed that though. "My little sib is Keladry of Mindelan. She signed in, they said. I just can't find her."

She frowned. "He came into the post office and told me I was weak and that waterbending was just tricks and then he wanted to fight. I am really, really glad I'm not in his class."

Chad's frown deepened. "Your waterbending is awesome," he said. "Don't let mean teachers tell you otherwise. What does he teach? Want me to kick his ass for you?"

"Said he was teaching fighting," Katara said. "So maybe he was just practicing his syllabus or something." She shook her head. "No. I'm going to freeze him to a wall sometime. It'll be better."

Chad grinned, and then the grin sort of just went into a happy smile, because he didn't like fighting anyway. He was glad Katara had it under control. "When you do, lemme know, 'cause I gotta see that."

"Yeah, I will," she said, smirking. "Then I'll take pictures."

"Awesome." That plan? Totally got a thumbs up.

"So how was Japan?" Katara asked. "Did you guys have fun? Did Teddy like it?"

"It was...okay," Chad said, truthfully. "Seeing everyone was great, but they...didn't all take to Teddy too well. And there was this...think..."

"...this thing?" she asked, studying him carefully. "And they should have liked Teddy! Unless he got all overtouchy again. ...did he?"

"Naw, not overtouchy, but..." Chad realized that talking about the Hollows that attacked would be easier than talking about this. "Um, us...being together isn't really...all that culturally acceptable in Japan. Everyone was cool with it, I mean, but...was weird for 'em. I kinda understand. But then the Hollows attacked anyway, an' I had to spend the last day or two in the clinic..."

Not that he minded. It was the only time he hadn't actually escaped Kurosaki Clinic before he was done. Having Teddy as a nurse sort of change his perspective on being bedridden.

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