Fifth Floor Common Room, Monday Morning

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So Jeff's flight wouldn't be leaving until tomorrow (that was the earliest he could get back to London, 1989) and Jeff's room was full of things that weren't Jeff's anymore. He couldn't really sleep well there, because there was supposed to be someone in the bed and there wasn't, and he couldn't sit in there, either, because Turtle might be there, and he didn't know what to say.

So Jeff was camping out in the common room, staring listlessly out in front of him, draped all over a chair. He had a hangover, but it meant little in the face of sheer, shell-shocked depression.

He lifted up the remote and turned the station to Beachview, but even women running around in bathing suits weren't helping.

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Jamie wandered into the room and spotted Jeff. He let out a wistful sigh. "Oh Jeff. Another person I shall miss," he said wistfully. "The way you smile. The way you laugh. How you can confuse me with your somewhat addled phrases. But mostly I'll miss... Hey. Girls running in slow motion."

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"Hi, Jamie," said Jeff. He didn't sound enthusiastic. Or like he was acknowledging anything Jamie had said at all. "It's Beachview."

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"Jeff? You seem down," Jamie said flopping on the couch. "And I say this only because there are boobs bouncing on the TV and you don't have a smile on your face."

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"I got dumped," he said.

And... didn't really say anything else.

The emo was strong in this one.

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Jamie gave him a sympathetic look.

"Do you need a hug?"

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Jeff seemed to think about that for a moment.

"Yeah," he said, finally. "All right."

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Jamie leaned over to give Jeff a hug. A manly kind of hug. There were back slaps.

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Jeff's return-hug wasn't manly at all. It was a lot more like a clinging, really, saved only from complete humiliation by the fact that he wasn't crying. Just clinging. A lot.

Cling, Jeffrey, cling.

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Jamie paused awkwardly for a moment or two.

Then gave another manly back pat.

And then another.

Hmm. This usually didn't last this long.

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Jeff wasn't really a manly body-builder superhero type. When he let go, it was after a great deal of that clinging. He nodded at Jamie. "Thanks," he said, briskly, and sank back into the couch.

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"No problem," Jamie said turning his attention back to the TV.

"Heh. Slow motion."

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"Heh. Breasts."

It was a companionable silence.

"I wonder how she carries them..."

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"You do know they're attached, right?" Jamie asked as he raised an eyebrow.

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"Of course," Jeff said, shooting him a weird look. "It'd be a bit odd if they weren't attached, wouldn't it?" Okay, Jeff hadn't really dwelled on it, but still.

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And then there was a pause as Jamie tried to think this through.

"Then why were you wondering how she would carry them?"

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"Look at the bathing suit," Jeff simply said. "I am."

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"I don't think it would take much to carry the swimsuit," Jamie said looking puzzled.

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"No, but it's not quite shaped for carriage material, you know?" Jeff said, philosophically, "I mean, it's a bit like, hi, have some floss for your nipples."

He paused.

"Nipples."

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"I thought that was the point," Jamie replied. "Or is this some kind of nipple hygiene technique?"

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"The string does fit into all nooks and crevices," Jeff said, keeping up the philosophical edge.

Well, besides the snickering.

He was almost distracted from his emo, there.

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"Think they also have nipple brushes?" Jamie asked as he tilted his head thoughtfully.

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"How else do they get quite so pert?" Jeff asked, tilting his head right along. "I mean, it must take effort, that sort of nipple control."

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"Maybe that's their super power," Jamie suggested now starting to tilt his head in the other direction.

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And Jeff's head? Tilting right along.

"The power to run on beaches in their swimsuits," Jeff said, solemnly, "And keep their nipples primed and ready for optimum efficiency at the same time."

Pause.

"I'm going to miss you," he added, briskly, and manfully. There would be no tears. "Do ninjas have porn? They seem like they would. You know. Sneaking in places all the time."

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"If they do?" Jamie replied just as briskly, "I promise to send it to you. For research of course."

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"Research in the name of man," Jeff said, nodding, although the really big speeches about men and mankind were really more Steve's territory.

So instead he held up his hand in the international sign for five me, and it will be a sworn oath for life.

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And Jamie responded by smacking Jeff's hand in the international response for I so swear!

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"You will be calling me, right?" Jeff asked him, once the moment has passed. "I don't know anyone else who properly appreciates bikini lines."

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"I will," Jamie promised. "If they have phones in ninja world."

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"I'll talk you through the new season," Jeff said, nodding at the screen. "Excellent running action."

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"You're a prince among men, Jeff," Jamie said seriously.

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"We are Fandom Men," said Jeff, seriously, with the kind of formality he'd totally stolen from Steve. "We must coach each other through the porn vagaries of the multiverse."

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"And we shall keep said porn so that all may appreciate it through the ages," Jamie agreed. "And perhaps one day we will have a great library. One that would be well lit and not have any bathrooms."

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"We should have bathrooms, though," Jeff said, philosophically, "Where else are you going to hide?"

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"A library of porn? Check out only," Jamie said making a face as he shook his head. "I think that's all for the best."