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A bar in Baltimore | Friday Night

Diego was a pretty simple guy. He didn't require anyone to go all out for a bachelor party, which was why he was fairly confident Luther could pull it off without it being a complete disaster.

There was a bar. There was karaoke at said bar, and the added benefit of there being arcade games at said bar. Perfect way to get a bunch of dudes hammered the night before a good chunk of them had to leave on a trip overseas.

[For the dudes who better get off their ass and sing. ~~Hold for some OCD~~ We're good to go!]

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Well now Steven was thrilled twice over. First that it was true, second that Luther didn't seem to mind being asked about it.

"Did you? What was it like? Four years? That's wild, that is." Belatedly Steven remembered his manners. "Sorry. I'm Steven. With a V. Only I sort of work with the god of the moon is all. Suppose you could call it a professional interest?"

Not that Konshu paid him and Marc for anything.

"Luther...with a U." Smooth. "It was pretty cool. Kind of lonely. You get used to the no gravity thing so when you come back to Earth you're dropping plates by accident for the first week or so."

Was this the kind of information you wanted, Steven?

If the way Steven helped himself to a seat beside Luther was any indication, yes, yes it was. "All by yourself then? That must've been hard. Your brother mentioned letters? My mum used to - "

Oh right. Maybe she hadn't.

Steven cleared his throat. "Anyway, I know how helpful those can be. Is it lovely up there? Seems as though it must be lovely."

"I did used to send stuff to my dad, yeah. At the time I thought it was useful." This time it was his turn to clear his throat, because that had all been a lie.

"But the moon can be lovely," Luther continued. "Quiet, peaceful. It never stopped being surreal to look at the Earth and know literally everyone you've ever met is down there."

"Mental," Steven said, but he meant that as a good thing. "Never thought about it that way. I imagine it was hard being away from family all those years."

Steven really did have such an optimistic view of family considering his own.

"Uh, well..." How to put this? "My siblings and I were estranged then, so it had been just me and my dad when I left. And then it turned out my dad sent me to the moon to get me out of his face."

...

"So to answer your question, no, it wasn't that hard being away from my family."

"Oh," Steven said. He looked regretful he'd mentioned it. Here he'd been trying not to bother Luther. "Sorry. That must've been hard. I know what it's like. Sort of. Losing contact."

"Sucks, doesn't it?" Luther said lightly. He gestured around the room. "But it all worked out in the end."

Steven relaxed when it seemed Luther wasn't too bothered. "It does, doesn't it? Had someone I didn't know existed until a few months ago. Now can't imagine being without him."

Even if they didn't share a body, in fact.

Luther was choosing to believe that was an adorable metaphor.

"That's actually really sweet."

"We didn't get along at first," Steven said, since maybe it would help Luther see he wasn't the only one who had dealt with tension before understanding. "But it worked out in the end, just as you say. Came to understand each other. Like how he seems like a twat but underneath it all he's not so bad."

"You basically just described the majority of my brothers." And they would say the same about him! "Hopefully you discovered all that with less drama than we did."

"We did die," Steven said. "But your brother told me about what happened to your world so I think you've us beat there."

"Uh, well, dying and then coming back to life is pretty impressive." Unless you were Klaus, that is. "So we'll call it even."

Imagine the notes they could compare after ~~a season~~ some future opportunity provided such a thing!

"Brings you together though, doesn't it?" Steven said. "Extremes? Even if you don't have a goddess telling you you've got to share your secrets. Or I suppose I shouldn't assume you didn't, sorry."

Stranger things had happened after all.

"Uh, never met any gods or goddesses, no," Luther said. "Our dad raised us to be atheists so didn't know that was a thing until two seconds ago."

"Didn't have proof they were real until this past Spring myself," Steven said. Sure there was the guy with the hammer back on his world but it seemed such a fine line between god or powerful alien with him. Besides, he wasn't a pantheon Steven had much interest in anyway. "Egyptian gods, to be fair. Don't know about the others."

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