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[secondnature]

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[competing]

Oh come on, [ this brought to you around a mouthful of slim jim, ] you guys got plenty of food here! Don't be stingy.

[secondnature]

All we have is junk food. Is that what you want to eat right now?

[If Keith knew more about how fatty foods are bad for the skin, he'd say that here.

But he doesn't.]

[competing]

[ and lance, likewise, opts not to mention the kind of food he really wants to eat right now instead. ]

Yeah, about that, did you guys seriously just live off of Slim Jims and Cup o' Noodles? [ not judging but... also kind of judging. ]

[secondnature]

We also have a stack of frozen pizza in the freezer.

[It's gross, but ... well. Shiro getting sick basically threw any sense of decency and trying to be adults out the window.]

[competing]

...I just got really sad inside.

[ he sighs, reaching into a cabinet to scoop out a bag of frosted cookies, which he then takes over to the couch before plopping himself down in the middle of it. ]

Please tell me you're not gonna live like this when I go. I may actually cry inside.

[secondnature]

We're gonna have to change it up. Everyone bought all the frozen food out of the stores, and they're not being restocked.

[True suffering shall be known.]

[competing]

[ lance is currently making a pink hippo trot down the back of the couch and into his mouth, the 90s were such a great time ]

What do you have? I can write down some basic recipes for you.

[ even you should be able to follow directions, right keith...




nevermind, aang will. ]

[secondnature]

I know basic recipes, but I barely have the time, and, again, a lot of the basic stuff is sold out, too.

[He can follow basic directions! He lived alone for a long time before the Garrison and then after, Lance. Remember!!]

[competing]

[ yeah, but did you live well................... ]

...Don't not take care of yourself over this.

[ first sonia, now you, keith? c'mooon. ]

[secondnature]

I can't fight if I don't eat. Don't worry. Besides, some of this is for Aang, too.

... The stuff without meat, anyway. [He doesn't sleep well enough, but he does eat, at least.]

[competing]

I guess that's something.

[ it's not the world's most comforting answer, but it'll have to do, he supposes. he chomps down on an alligator and giraffe.

then proceeds to make a face. ]

Eating this right after that Slim Jim was a mistake.

[ yet he's still stuffing another handful into his mouth... ]

[secondnature]

Why do I get the feeling that you're going to sit here and eat all of our food and then leave to get more? You've gotta stay in shape.

[For ... after he's cured. So he can fight.]

[competing]

Why, you won't find me attractive as a total couch potato and slob?

[ luckily, that's rhetorical, but now he's just licking the icing off his fingers gross. ]

It'll take more than a couple of crackers to take me down, anyway. I got great metabolism.

[ that totally isn't gonna get hecked up by this cannibal virus, nope. ]

[secondnature]

I dunno if you've noticed—but you just made it so that no one else could eat those cookies.

So, thanks, I guess. [It doesn't occur to Keith that Lance could probably deserve some cookies right now.]

[competing]

Relax, I'm doing you guys a favor. This stuff's terrible for you.

[ ...he says. around a mouthful of pastel-colored zoo. ]

[secondnature]

You're not doing us any favors.

[Though he supposes it'll just get thrown out anyway now.]

[competing]

Well what else am I gonna do??

[ have some indignant crumbs all over your couch!!

sure, he knows what he should do right now... but he's definitely trying to stall. for obvious reasons. ]

[secondnature]

I don't know. But I didn't think you'd proceed to eat all of our food.

But if you want anything else, get a bag and just take it with you. [Problem solving with Keith: he hasn't realized that Lance is stalling.]

[competing]

Why, so you can complain about me eating you out of house and home some more?

[ he pouts down at the bag of cookies, only realizing now it's more than halfway empty. geez, did he just inhale this? ]

[secondnature]

It's not like anything I'm saying really matters to you right now! [Giving him permission should give him leeway to do exactly that. At least. And stop the argument.]

[competing]

[ he looks up, genuinely flabbergasted. ]

Where the heck'd you get that idea?

[secondnature]

You keep eating! [It might occur to Keith later that this is just how things happen.]

[competing]

—you want me to eat you instead?!

[secondnature]

How is that what you leapt to?! [He's so baffled.] Go find your own food!

[competing]

[ lance pauses for a moment, but then suddenly gets up on his feet, tossing the bag of cookies aside. ]

Fine, [ he says, voice low, already starting towards the door. ] Didn't think simple sympathy would be so hard for you to get, but maybe you're right — maybe it was a mistake to expect anything from you.