A Bar at Fell's Point | Baltimore, MD | Tuesday Evening

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Danny seemed to think that Diego and Steve couldn't spend any time together without burning something down, but he also encouraged them to go to Baltimore together alone, so if something did burn down whose fault was it really?

Nothing seemed to be on fire so far, they had beer and crabby fries (which was just french fries covered in crab dip). Look at them being adults and not starting fights. They were totally responsible.

"It's kind of cruel to make the bar area of this city the one place with cobblestone streets," Diego said, eyeing the wobbly girls in heels outside the window.

[Eating shit on the cobblestone at Fell's Point is a rite of passage for some of us. For one and NFB due to distance!]

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"I mean, he's not very good at that," Diego said. "Then again, he's competing against a android, so it's stiff competition."

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"She was made to be perfect at it," Steve said, "I'm assuming. My mom experience is...different."

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“No kidding,” Diego said. “Did she even apologize for all that or did she roll up expecting to be treated the same?”

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"The second one," Steve said, nodding. "Kinda pissy I'd be having any sort of feelings about it, too."

So many issues sharing emotions, Diego. Just. So. Many.

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"That seems about right," he said. "And then she moved in with you."

That was the weird part for him.

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"For security reasons," Steve said with a tiny little eyeroll.

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"How long did she stick around for?" he asked.

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"A few months, then she took a freighter to China and disappeared again."

As one does.

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"Yeah I can see why Danny doesn't like her," Diego said, taking another swig of beer.

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"Yeah," Steve admitted, "but she's my mom, so."

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Diego could never picture excusing his dad with a 'but he's my dad, so' but, whatever, it's not like he was in any position to pass judgement on how people dealt with their child abuse.

"This is much cheaper than therapy." Not that either of them needed it, clearly. Two healthy people.

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"And I'm sure there aren't crabby fries, either," Steve said, "so this is automatically better."

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"Good point," he said. "We can't tell Annie about those either. She's cut out any kind of enjoyable food until after the audition, and it'd be cruel to mention it to her."

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"Oooh, tough break for Annie," Steve said, making a sympathetic face. "We should get another order to make the supply go down and save her from temptation and stuff."

That's not how it worked. Steve was just hungry.

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"That is an excellent idea." So instead of getting in a bar fight they get drunk and throw up crab dip into the harbor. That's better, right?

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It was also pretty authentically Baltimore?

"See? I have good ideas! I mean, why run twice a day if it's not to eat fries and drink beer, right?"

[knife_bender]

Well, they also had to maintain those physiques and, in Diego's case, prepare for the impending apocalypse.

"Good point," Diego said. "And people said we couldn't be left alone."

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"Pfft," Steve scoffed. "We haven't started one bar fight. We're grown ups."